Whether you have questions about how to start or grow a business, are looking for career advice, trying to find customers for your startup, or trying to learn copywriting skills to become a better marketer, Reddit has pre-established communities of people who have self-identified as the groups you need. Below are 29 of the best subreddit communities for different types of business owners, investors, and working professionals.

1. r/SmallBusiness

r/SmallBusiness is a place for questions about starting, owning, and growing a small business.

2. r/EntrepreneurRideAlong

r/EntrepreneurRideAlong is a place for entrepreneurs to ask questions and share tactics on how to validate business ideas, acquire customers, and grow companies.

3. r/SweatyStartup

The r/SweatyStartup subreddit is for hard-working small business entrepreneurs. Unlike r/Entrepreneur, you won’t find many dropshippers, social media marketers, crypto investors, or other “passive income” seekers here.

4. r/Startups

This community is for people building or trying to build fast-growing, Silicon Valley style startups.

5. r/OnlyFansAdvice

If you’ve ever been curious about the business side of running a profitable OnlyFans account, you’ll find the answers in r/OnlyFansAdvice. This subreddit only allows verified OF content creators to post or comment. That means the quality of the posts and comments is very relevant to and focused on business, marketing, finance, and operations questions for OF creator businesses. A similar subreddit that is still high-quality but is open to non-verified creator posts is r/CreatorsAdvice.

6. r/Advertising

This community describes itself as “Ground Zero for ad creators, students, copywriters, affiliates, and anyone else who is finely honing their reverse banner blindness for professional reasons.” Don’t try to advertise directly within the community itself though or you will be banned.

7. r/AskManagers

r/AskManagers is a high-quality subreddit for business managers of all industries to ask questions and give advice about how to deal with management problems and become a better manager.

8. r/Consulting

This subreddit has existed since 2009, has new posts every day, has over 210,000 members, and is focused on questions and discussions relevant to consultants.

9. r/IndieBiz

The r/IndieBiz community is for hustlers and entrepreneurs. Self-promotion is allowed as long as it is useful and relevant to others.

10. r/private_equity

This subreddit is a place to share news and discuss topics relevant to the private equity industry. You are not allowed to sell your services or fundraise in the community, but you can link your own informational blog articles so long as they are high-quality & relevant to private equity professionals.

11. r/Electricians

This community has over 330,000 members and is very active. Members are professional electricians or other people doing electrical work.

12. r/HVAC

r/HVAC is a community for HVAC professionals that currently has 121,000 members.

13. r/Plumbing

r/Plumbing is a place to ask plumbing questions and give plumbing advice. The community’s 181,000 members include many landlords, professional and aspiring plumbers, professional handymen, property managers, and home owners.

14. r/Truckers

r/Truckers is a community of over 150,000 professional truckers. Self-promotion is not allowed.

15. r/Construction

This community describes itself as “a place for professionals to discuss the construction industry. Anybody working in this field is welcome! Carpentry, concrete, steel, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, landscaping, equipment operators, etc.”

16. r/ConstructionFails

This niche subreddit of 22,500 members is for sharing pictures and videos of ‘construction fails’. The content niche means that most members are construction professionals.

17. r/Retail

This subreddit is a place to discuss the inner workings and trends of retail businesses. Members include retail business owners, managers, and employees.

18. r/Nursing

r/Nursing is a community of over 400,000 nurses and care providers.

19. r/LawyerTalk

r/LawyerTalk is “a place for lawyers to talk about lawyer things” including firm culture, amusing anecdotes, and the legal world.

20. r/Bookkeeping

r/Bookkeeping is a place for questions about bookkeeping. There are usually at least a few posts per day, and the posts are very relevant to bookkeeping.

21. r/Accounting

If you are an accounting professional (e.g. a CPA, bookkeeper, auditor, accounting entrepreneur, Big 4 employee, etc) or aspiring accounting professional, then r/Accounting is the subreddit for you.

22. r/CFO

r/CFO is a small community of just over 1000 members who serve as CFOs or other finance industry professionals. Self-promotion is allowed.

23. r/Sales

This community is a place to learn about sales, lead generation, prospecting, and closing. However, it frowns upon self-promotion so be subtle if you try to sell anything to other members or you’ll get yourself permanently banned.

24. r/SalesTechnology

r/SalesTechnology is a place for sales professionals to discuss CRMs, lead gen & lead nurturing tools, calling systems, proposal and presentation systems, sales engagement tracking & optimization software, and other technology to help you sell more.

25. r/SaaS

r/SaaS is a place to discuss and share useful links relevant to SaaS businesses and online business owners.

26. r/RealEstate

r/RealEstate is a discussion forum for real estate investors, landlords, home buyers, mortgage professionals, and other real estate professionals.

27. r/Landlord

The r/Landlord subreddit self-describes as “a community for landlords to come together to discuss anything landlord related. News, ideas, blog posts, websites, resources, etc. which can help a landlord are welcomed.”

28. r/RealEstateInvesting

This subreddit is similar to r/Landlord but with an audience skewed towards less seasoned real estate investors and more people trying to learn about how to start real estate investing.

29. r/Finance

This community is for sharing & discussing links related to finance and economic news as well as financial careers. The community currently has 1.7 million members with many working in finance.

30. r/AdvancedEntrepreneur

This community is supposed to be a place for established entrepreneurs to discuss strategies and tactics to take their businesses to the next level. In reality, there is enough of that to make the community valuable, but there are also plenty of upstarts who are in the early research phase of starting a company.

31. r/Entrepreneur

The r/Entrepreneur subreddit is a general forum for discussing side hustles, small businesses, venture-backed startups, and any other forms of money-making. The subreddit is NOT friendly to self-promotion, however, so you should look elsewhere if you are trying to promote your blog or consulting business.

32. r/DeFi

r/DeFi is a place to discuss, ask questions, and share links (within reason) related to DeFi (decentralized finance on blockchains).

33. r/DataScience

This community of 847,000 members describes itself as “a place for data science practitioners and professionals to discuss and debate data science career questions.”

34. r/MachineLearning

This subreddit is for machine learning engineers, researchers, and power users. The community currently has 2.6 million members.

35. r/Investing

The r/Investing subreddit is a place to discuss investment strategies. However, the moderators do NOT tolerate any self-promotion. You can’t even post a blog article that does a deep dive into a novel investment strategy.

36. r/investing_discussion

This community is more smaller, less policed version of r/Investing.

37. r/Stocks

r/Stocks is a place for discussing stock market investing and stock analyses, but self-promotion is not allowed.

38. r/StockMarket

r/StockMarket is a community of 2.6 million stock traders and investors. This community does not allow any self-promotion.

39. r/Options

r/Options is a community of almost a million members dedicated to discussing options trading fundamentals and strategies.

40. r/ValueInvesting

r/ValueInvesting is a community of almost 200,000 members dedicated to discussing value investing topics and strategies. Self-promotion of blog articles is allowed as long as the articles are highly useful and relevant to value investing.

41. r/Dividends

This community is for dividend portfolio investors. Posts include simple stock and ETF analyses, questions asking about tools and strategies for dividend investing, portfolio reviews, and other topics.

42. r/Portfolios

r/Portfolios is a community of about 25,000 members. The forum sees about 1 post per day with post topics asking about specific securities, investment strategies, 401k plans, and IRAs.

43. r/Bogleheads

r/Bogleheads describes itself as a “passive indexing community for long-term lazy investors.” The subreddit currently has 222,000 members.

44. r/Traders

r/Traders is the opposite of r/Bogleheads. It is a community of 111,000 active traders (some professional and some amateur).

45. r/EducatedInvesting

r/EducatedInvesting is a forum for deep dives on particular stocks.

46. r/TaxPros

This subreddit describes itself as “a community for Redditors who are tax professionals to discuss professional development, firm procedures, news, policy, software, AICPA/IRS changes, news/updates about law relating to any tax – U.S. and International, Federal, State, or local.” The community currently has over 58,000 members. Self-promotion isn’t explicitly banned in the rules, but the members are smart professionals so if you post something that seems promotional rather than useful, it will probably be downvoted and you might also be banned.

47. r/Tax

r/Tax is “Reddit’s home for tax geeks and taxpayers! News, discussion, policy, and law relating to any tax – U.S. and International, Federal, State, or local.” The community has 174,000 members. Self-promotion is not allowed.

48. r/YouTubers

r/YouTubers is a community of over 700k existing and aspiring YouTube creators. Self-promotion is not allowed.

49. r/Blogging

r/Blogging is a community of 117,000 bloggers and aspiring bloggers. Self-promotion is not allowed.

50. r/SEO

This subreddit of over 200,000 members is dedicated to SEO news, tips, and case studies.

51. r/GrowthHacking

r/GrowthHacking is a community of over 30,000 startup founders who are trying to grow their startups.

52. r/WebHosting

r/WebHosting is a community that has existed since 2008 and has over 84,000 members. The community describes itself as “a place to discuss everything related to web and cloud hosting. From shared hosting to bare metal servers, and everything in between. Post reviews of your current and past hosts, post questions to the community regarding your needs, or simply offer help to your fellow redditors.”

53. r/Wordpress

This community of 178,000 members is for discussing WordPress software.

54. r/web_design

r/web_design is a community of over 730,000 professional and amateur website designers.

55. r/WebDev

r/WebDev is a community of 1.5 million web developers discussing web developer things.

56. r/Quant

This niche community of 36,000 people is for discussions, resources, and research related to quantitative finance.

57. r/FinTech

“We are a community of fintech enthusiasts bubbling up new tools, technologies and platforms in various industries, including (but not necessarily limited to) banking, payments, insurance, investing, and lending.”

Self-promotion is allowed as long as the thing you have created is of value to the community and you mention that you created it at the beginning of the Reddit post.

58. r/Banking

This community is for discussing commercial and investment banking. Many members work at banks.

59. r/Excel

This community of over 600,000 members is for discussing excel and spreadsheet questions.

60. r/Marketing

r/Marketing is a subreddit with 465,000 members interested in marketing and advertising. The subreddit description is the following:

“For marketing communications + advertising industry professionals to discuss and ask questions related to marketing strategy, media planning, digital, social, search, campaigns, data science, email, user experience, content, copywriting, segmentation, attribution, data visualization, testing, optimization, and martech. Get advice, ask questions, or discuss any marketing-related topics. Our diverse /r/marketing community includes brands, businesses, agencies, vendors, and students.”

61. r/MarketingAutomation

This subreddit is for open discussion about tools and strategies for marketing automation and email marketing.

62. r/HubSpot

This subreddit is for discussing HubSpot (CRM and marketing automation) software questions.

63. r/Business_Ideas

r/Business_Ideas is a place to share and discuss business ideas.

64. r/BusinessAnalysis

r/BusinessAnalysis is a place to discuss “how to” and career questions of business analyst jobs. The community has over 38,000 members.

65. r/BusinessIntelligence

This community of 123,000 members is dedicated to discussions on business intelligence. That includes processes for utilizing organizational data, technology, analytics, and the knowledge of subject matter experts to create data-driven decisions via dashboards, reports, alerts, and ad-hoc analysis. Do not post here as if this was a generic “business” subreddit unless you want to get banned.

66. r/Visualization

r/Visualization is a place to share and discuss data visualization. Many members of r/BusinessIntelligence are also members of r/Visualization. r/Visualization has over 87,000 members.

67. r/PersonalFinance

This massive subreddit has over 17 million members and is dedicated to discussions of retirement accounts, investments, budgeting, saving, credit, and other personal finance topics.

68. r/LegalAdvice

r/LegalAdvice is a community of 2.3 million members asking simple legal questions and explaining legal concepts.

69. r/HomeImprovement

This subreddit has over 4 million members and is a great place for landlords, property managers, and home owners to ask questions about home improvement projects.

70. r/HomeAutomation

r/HomeAutomation is a subreddit focused on automating your home, housework or household activity (sensors, switches, cameras, locks, etc). It is a great resource for landlords, property managers, Airbnb hosts, and home owners.

71. r/FinancialCareers

This subreddit has over 620,000 members who are financial professionals or are interested in a finance career.

72. r/FinancialIndependence

r/FinancialIndependence is a subreddit dedicated to helping its 1.8 million members achieve financial independence and retire early.

73. r/WallStreetBetsNew

r/WallStreetBetsNew has 819,000 members who left to rebuild a new subreddit after the original Wall Street Bets subreddit was inundated with over 10 million new-to-reddit people during the GME stock squeeze. Like the origianl Wall Street Bets before it became mainstream, this new subreddit is dedicated towards calculated but risky strategies to win in the stock market.

74. r/SysAdmin

This subreddit has 772,000 members, many of whom are professional system administrators.

75. r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk

This is a community of 715,000 members who work or have worked on the front line at hotels, hostels, and other hospitality businesses. The subreddit itself is a place to post and discuss stories (usually funny or infuriating ones) from those hospitality workers.

76. r/TalesFromYourServer

This community of 520,000 members is similar to r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk but it is for restaurant servers rather than hospitality workers. It can be a useful place for restaurant owners and managers to study when they are deciding how to manager and motivate their employees.

77. r/WorkOnline

r/WorkOnline is a “place to talk about making an income online. This includes random jobs, online employers, sites that pay you and ways to monetize websites.” The community currently has 489,000 members.

78. r/Ecommerce

r/Ecommerce is a community of 261,000 entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs interested in ecommerce. Topics include ecommerce marketing, seo, products, checkout, conversions, etc.

79. r/FreelanceWriters

This is a subreddit of 115,000 freelance writers to discuss every facet of freelance writing.

80. r/Copywriting

This subreddit is a community of over 120,000 copywriters and aspiring copywriters. It is a great place to learn how to sell stuff.

81. r/AdPorn

r/AdPorn currently has 467,000 members and gets around 8,000 visits per week. Members share and discuss high-quality advertisements.

82. r/AdspaceMarket

r/AdspaceMarket is a community of 3,200 members interested in buying and selling digital ad space on niche websites.