I would really like to hear you speaking more. I'm going to search for more of your videos. I am interested into telephone system and I'd be curious to hear your point of view. If you want I can give you a really serious company which makes intelligent telephones so to say.
This is a great post. The advantages of a fan page are so clear! I think a lot of businesses are setting up personal pages and then making a fan page attached to that personal page. But that's also risky, even if you don't friend a lot of people from the personal page, because that page could still be deleted, and any related fan pages would go with it. I didn't know that you could make a fan page separate from a personal account. That is really important info!
Do you have to have a personal account to create a fan page? I attempted to setup a fan page for the company I work for, but when I signed up a personal account was automatically created. I only want a fan page, without any connection to a personal account but when I tried to deactivate the personal account, the fan page disappeared.
I look forward to hearing back from you. I guess what I need to know is if I have to have a personal account attached to a business fan page, or can the fan page be created and maintained without being attached to some type of personal account?
Great question! No, you don't have to have a personal page to create a fan page (even though Facebook will ask you to create a personal page at every step during the Fan Page registration). Sign out of Facebook and click on "advertising" at the bottom of http://www.facebook.com and go through all the steps without creating a new account. You will have to create an email for that Fan Page, use one that isn't associated with any personal Facebook account. Hopefully this helps :)
I'm totally dealing with this right now. We started with a group page before fan pages were widely used and now we have to start all over with a fan page. Any tips on how to get our group members to become fans?
Also, what applications do you recommend to create better fan pages?
Hey Gillian, great to hear you are making the switch over to a fan page. How many friends do you have on your page?
In regards to applications, in my mind I think what Facebook offers in regards to features is all you need. If you find any really cool apps for a fan page, post them here for sure.
I totally agree. I frequently click "Report this Person" at the bottom of business Facebook profiles that are on personal profiles just because I get tired of being requested by them. If you are serious about representing your business and brand on Facebook, you should have done enough research to learn the advantages of a fan page and create one.
Yea, good points. I'm almost at the point to "Report this Person", but I think I will just send them a link to this blog post. I have to make sure I don't piss off everyone I know.... hahaha
I was also told by @kelly_hansen from facebook that you can only have 5,000 friends on a personal profile. What really sucks is they can't transfer your friends to a fan page. Just start from the very beginning doing the right thing... it's much easier.
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