Posting photographs of your most recent vacation or sharing videos of slaughter are not the only things that you can do with your social media platform. If you let your wits take over, you can actually become a big business mogul with the help Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and a whole lot more. Yes, it's 2016, but there are still skeptics out there who can never appreciate the uses of social media for business. Here are 5 of the biggest social media benefits for business for all the doubting Thomas that you know:

1. You can start your business with just one click. Nowadays, people take to their social media platform to create their businesses. As you may have noticed, a lot of shops are rooted to Instagram. They post a picture along with details of the products and links, and voila, the world gets to see it.

2. Social media allow you to connect with people. Hence, gaining followers that can turn into customers. Word of the mouth is the key. You don't have to travel the world to meet up with people to sell your products, unless you find that convenient then go ahead because that is not prohibited. But long story short, social media connects people. You get to create meaningful relationship with your customers. 

3. You receive feedback instantaneously. Straight from the customer's perspective, they can easily let you know what they think about your products with just one comment or private message away.

4. Social media is one way to do your business research. Most especially when you're only starting off, observing and browsing will help you improve your ventures. You can check out business accounts just like yours, or those that have gone big. You don't need to imitate their ways, but creating your own from meshing ideas together is pure genius.

5. Through social media, you can actually learn about what people want to see. Just late last year, Twitter has added a fun feature; Surveys. You can create your own, put in options, and wait for people's clicks for votes. In that way, you will be able to determine what's hot and not for people, and you may want to start from there.