Does Your Online Audience Understand Your Social Media Business Description?

​If your business is on Facebook or any social media site, your business description is very important. 

I should know. I modify and update both my own and my wife’s business online persona regularly, and I would never say they are perfect! (Links in sidebar)

Businesses shouldn’t be afraid to amend and/or totally rewrite their online persona. They should seriously consider every aspect and word-choice of their business description, or they will fail to entice new clients, and may even put-off regular clients. 

Because it’s difficult, sometimes embarrassing, to give a positive review on a place if their online presence is 2nd-rate and shabby. 

It’s like driving a dirt or a bitumen road into a small town for the first time: The initial view can determine if we swerve back to the highway OR if we want to see what else you have on offer. Yes, a ‘Cars’-movie analogy!

So last week I was advised of a food-outlet (seriously vague to avoid trolling) on Kangaroo Island where tourists and local can do lunch. So, as I always do, I checked out if they had both a facebook page and a website. They have a Facebook page – which is often enough.

Oh, wow. Their name makes no sense to me (but may be based on location), so I moved onto their description. 

Bigger Wow. So I politely (via Facebook Message texts) advised them of the major grammatical and unfortunate spelling mistakes.

Their response: “It’s a low priority, we have bigger things to worry about.”

That’s crazy speak! Are your café menu’s written with the same spelling errors? Do you speak like a five-year-old to your customers, investors, and bank manager? I am guessing not. So why screw up the one place you have the biggest presence?!

If anyone is going to have a web presence – particularly upon social media – your business decription needs to read as you want to be perceived and renowned. 

So now I am having problems taking this business seriously. I’d like to have a professional social media person talk with them, just to advise them. Yet I fear they won’t listen to them either. 

It’s a real shame when small businesses fail to see how social media presence can increase their profit margin OR wipe them from online existence. 

Never ignore your online audience. They are both your advisers (via either compliments or complaints) and customers (when they want something, they go hunting online first).

I am going to ask a few SME’s I know for their opinion, and if they’d help. I’ll let you know if this gets resolved.