Are You Using A Facebook Profile For Your Business?

 

Do you have a personal facebook profile with a business name?

Are you using a personal Facebook profile to promote your business? You might want to change your tactics, and the sooner the better.

 

 

 

On August 1, Facebook released an updated regulatory filing indicating that there are more than 83 Million fake and duplicate accounts, making up nearly 9 percent of its monthly user base. These 83 Million accounts consist of…

• Duplicate Accounts,
• Misclassified Accounts and
• Undesirable Accounts

You may ask, how does this affect me?  Well, Facebook is on the hunt and has already started deleting facebook profiles that don’t represent real people, or is owned by someone with more than one account.

If you have a personal profile listed as business name, then this comes under “misclassified accounts”.

This is direct from the Facebook Help Center:  “Maintaining a personal account for anything other than an individual person is a violation of Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. If you don’t convert your noncompliant account to a Page, you risk permanently losing access to the account and all of its content.”

So you have 2 choices:

1. You can do nothing and sooner or later Facebook will find your business profile and delete it – you will loose everything;  or

2.  You can transfer the profile to a business page and convert all the friends on that profile to likers.

 

If you decide to go with the obvious choice and change over to a business page here is what you need to do:

1.      Download your profile information.  When you transfer to a Page the only things that will go with it are the username, profile picture and your current friends/subscribers will be converted to likers.  Your posts and photo’s wont be transferred so it is a good idea to download the information so that you can use it in the future if required.  To download the information go the the account menu at the top of the page; click account settings; then “download a copy of your facebook data” and “Start my Archive”.

 2.      Appoint a new admin to any groups or Pages you manage that are attached to this profile.  Once you convert and are a page you are unable to be an admin as a page, safe to buy xanax online therefore your Admin rights will be lost to groups and pages.  Either attach them to your “legit” personal profile and preferably have a 2^nd admin on those groups and/or pages.  This is vital because if you don’t do it then those groups/pages will then have no admin and no way for you to access them.

3.      Change your profile name and address.  This may not be necessary, but if you have another “correct” page for your business then name them the same, with the same address, so that you can then merge the 2 pages together.  You do this via account settings.

4.      Convert the profile to a page.  Go here to convert or migrate your profile to a page.  You will need to select categories, etc to set up the page.  Your username will remain the same.

5.      Merge Duplicate Pages.  If you already had an existing page for your business, you can merge the 2 together.  You only have the option to merge the page with the fewer likes into the page with the most likes.  So you will keep the likers from the page with the fewer likes but all other content will be lost when it is merged.

To merge the pages:

• Go to the Page with the most likes. This will be the one you’ll keep;
• Click Edit Page at the top of the page;
• Select Update Info;
• From the left sidebar, select Resources.
• Click “Merge Duplicate Pages” link. This link will only appear if you admin two Pages with similar names.
• Pages will be shown that you admin that qualify to be merged. Select the Page you wish to merge. If you’re merging Pages with a location, they must have the same address information.

So there you go.

If you are using a facebook profile for your business, I highly recommend that you do this straight away.  It would be such a shame for you to lose all the hard work you have put into promoting your business through Facebook.  Once Facebook deletes it you will have to start all over again!!