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Use These Emojis for Your Next Business Post

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Published on September 18, 2025

When posting on popular social media platforms, emojis are a simple addition that can instantly emphasise emotion, make text stand out, and even help you build your brand personality.

But it’s hard to find suitable emojis for specific uses unless you know exactly what you want. For those that need a little inspiration, I’ve compiled a list of emojis commonly used by different business types. Using this list, along with our emoji tips for businesses, you’re all set for success!

🤔 How do I use these emojis?

Simply highlight the emoji you want to use and paste it into your social post. I recommend bookmarking this page for future reference. These emojis are unicode, meaning they’re globally recognized and work across all social media platforms and websites.

General Business Emojis

For financial businesses or posts relating to professional learnings, updates, or achievements, I recommend using these emojis:

📈/ 📉 – Increase/decrease graph

📊 – Bar chart

💼 – Briefcase

💲 – Dollar sign

📞 – Phone

✉️ – Email

📅 – Calendar

⏰ – Alarm

📍 – Location pin

💰 – Money bag

✅ – Tick

❌ – Cross

Health and Fitness

Here are the emojis most commonly used by health and fitness professionals, such as personal trainers, athleisure brands, and sporting shops:

Activities

💪🏼 – Arm muscle

🤸🏼 – Gymnast cartwheeling

⛹🏼 – Basketball player

🏋🏼 – Person lifting weights

🏂🏼 – Person snowboarding

🏄🏼 – Person surfing

🤾🏼‍♀️ – Woman throwing ball

🏃🏼‍♂️/🏃🏼‍♀️– Man/woman running

Equipment

🏈– Rugby ball

🏐– Volleyball

🎾– Tennis racket

🏏– Cricket bat

🏓– Ping pong bat

🏑– Hockey stick

👟– Running sneaker

Achievements

🥇,🥈,🥉– First, second, and third place medals

🏅– Sports medal

🏆– Trophy

🥳 – Person celebrating

Rest and Recovery

🚿/🛁– Shower/bath

🔋/🪫– Full/low battery

😴– Sleep

Runna's LinkedIn poll asking what's motivating their followers to run this September. Each option has an emoji next to it — Runna uses fitness emojis in all post types, including polls. Source: Runna on LinkedIn

Top Tip 💡 Consider using multiple emojis together to change their meaning. For example, 🏃🏼‍♀️💨 draws attention to the speed of the person running.

Services

Whether you’re a salon owner, electrician, or a cleaner, there are plenty of emojis for you to use. Here are my top options:

Hair and Beauty

💈 – Barber pole

🪮 – Comb

✂️ – Scissors

💇🏼‍♀️/💇🏼 – Woman/man getting hair cut

💅🏼 – Nails being painted

💄 – Lipstick

💆🏼/💆🏼‍♀️ – Man/woman getting a head massage

Cleaning Services

🫧 – Bubbles

🧽 – Sponge

🧹 – Broom

💧/💦 – Water drop/splashes

✨ – Sparkles

Trade Services

👷🏼 – Construction worker

🏗️ – Construction work

🚧 – Barrier

⚡ – lighting bolt

🔌 – Plug socket

💡 – Lightbulb

🧑🏼‍🔧 – Mechanic

🪠 – Plunger

🔨 – Hammer

🔧 – Wrench

🪛 – Screwdriver

Ecommerce

Emojis are also an effective way to get your posts noticed and so attract customers to your online store, and alert them of upcoming sales and product drops.

General Ecommerce

🛒 – Shopping cart

🛍️ – Shopping bags

🚚 – Delivery truck

📦 – Delivery package

Sales and Product Drops

🆕 – New

🚨 – Alert

📢 – Megaphone

💥 – Boom

Good To Know 💭 Appealing to a younger target audience? Check out our article for more ways to attract gen Z to your online store.

Hospitality

There are plenty of emojis that represent elements of hospitality. Use these emojis to highlight what you can offer to potential customers:

Hotels

🏨 – Hotel

🛎️ – Bell

🛏️ – Bed

🗓️ – Calendar

Food and Beverage

🧑🏼‍🍳 – Chef

🍽️ – Plate and cutlery

🍳 – Fried egg in a pan

🍚 – Bowl of rice

🍣 – Sushi

🥠 – Fortune cookie

🍪 – Cookie

🍔 – Burger

🍟 – Fries

🍕 – Pizza

🍝 – Pasta

🥐 – Croissant

🍰 – Cake

☕ – Coffee

🫖 – Tea

🧋 – Iced coffee

Crumbl's linkedIn post with cookie, present, and cake emojis — Crumbl uses the cookie emoji consistently across its social posts, which it is now recognised for. Source: Crumbl on LinkedIn

Using Emojis Correctly

These business emojis are the perfect way to spice up your boring LinkedIn posts or accompany your social media trends. Save this page for your next post and have fun!

Before you get started, a quick word of warning: while the emojis I’ve included in this article are generally safe, online dialect changes rapidly. To avoid any mishaps, it’s important that you fully understand the current contextual meanings behind any emojis you plan to use.

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Annie Angus Writer

Annie Angus is a Writer for Website Builder Expert with a passion for shaping jargon-heavy research into digestible content. She has previously researched and written about industries ranging from tech to fashion, and now, after testing our top website builders such as Wix and Squarespace, she is enthusiastic to share her findings with our readers. With first-hand experience in utilizing social media and online marketplaces to grow a small handmade clothing business, Annie understands the priorities and concerns held by SME owners, and knows precisely what they look for in a website builder. She combines this unique perspective with her knowledge of website builders to produce engaging content spanning all areas of the small business journey, from creating a strong website to growing and maintaining an audience.