Can you promote in r/businessowners?
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The short answer
Be transparent, provide context/goals when soliciting feedback, include links/codes in-thread, avoid reposting and anything that looks like spam or surveys.
What works here
- Post your business name and link
- Ask for feedback with context and goals
- Promote small businesses (respect rules)
- Share resources and tools relevant to business owners
What gets posts removed
- Posting surveys or asking for form responses
- Low-effort, repetitive, or clearly promotional spam
- Reposting the same promotion before a week has passed
- Rude/offensive language or shady/solicitous behavior
Where this comes from
View the current official rules on RedditSidebar promotes posting company name/link
Sidebar explicitly says you can post your website/company name and link for promotion as long as rules are respected.
Rule: Ask for feedback the right way
If requesting opinions on your product/website you must post with context, goals, and what feedback you want — implies promotional posts are allowed if informative.
Rule: No spam / No low-effort or AI spam
Spam and low-effort/AI-generated spam posts are prohibited — founders should avoid blatant promotional or repetitive posts.
Rule: Surveys banned
Any type of survey forms are not allowed and will be removed — do not solicit survey completions.
Sidebar: Honest business practices
Subreddit warns against shady solicitation and will report scams — be transparent and honest.
Official rules of r/businessowners
- 01Stay on topic
- 02No Reposts allowed
- 03No low-effort or AI spam posts
- 04Be respectful and professional
- 05Ask for feedback the right way
- 06Any type of survey forms are not allowed
Based on the community’s official rules, analyzed June 30, 2026. Rules change; the official rules page is always the source of truth.
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