Are you trying to keep Facebook Business separate from personal?

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I have read a lot of people state that they don't want to mix their business efforts with their personal life on facebook. It is my opinion that you may want to stay away from facebook altogether as it relates to your business if this is your intention.

Facebook needs social interaction to be beneficial. If you don't interact as a person, you will have a hard time getting anything from facebook

First of all

Don't confuse these three ways to reach others on fb.

  • Facebook Personal Profile
  • Facebook Business Page
  • Facebook Groups

While there are some exceptions, fb profiles create fb pages. Fb groups are a different product and topic for another discussion.

It is recommended by Kyle that you join facebook as a person ( this is your personal profile). Whether you choose to use your given name or a nick name, it is your choice at the beginning. Keep in mind. it can sometimes be difficult to change your name. It is highly suggested that you do not create a complete fake name or use your business name when setting up a personal profile account.

It should not come to a surprise to you that Kyle and Carson are not biological brothers with the last name WA. Whether they have other accounts for personal use or not, it is not my concern. I know them as Kyle and Carson.

Facebook states that you can not operate 2 personal profiles on the website, so it is very discouraged to have 2 accounts that you switch back and forth. People of course do it, but they are in violation of fb T & C and could lose everything at any time. Trust ME! I have seen people lose a lot of work and valuable pages due to not following this rule.

Personal Profile then Business Page

Create you personal profile then create a page about business. You need to at least like the page that you created. If you try to build a facebook page and think you can make it successful without every revealing your ownership of the page, I think you will be disappointed.

I posted training earlier this year on how I use the pages and tools to increase reach and exposur e for my message and messages from my clients.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/increase-facebook-reach-and-traffic

Is facebook the secret of your success? OF COURSE NOT, it can help generate traffic and conversions.

Best of Luck to you!

Bo the Webguy

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Great advice! :) Thanks

So maybe FB personal and G+ business?

Facebook also says you can't do business from a personal profile page, but many do. I have friends who were shut down because of this. So your advice to make a business page is very good. I know there is a way to turn your profile into a business page, but it limits you in some actions.

Yes.. that is correct. personal profiles should not be set-up for the sole purpose of promoting business. interacting with friends and other facebook people will keep you from being banned.. only posting business from 1 or 2 pages will get your account banned eventually

Thanks for this, going to check out your training.

You are welcome

I have 2 personel FB pages, both the same name, I didnot want to bother my familie and friend with all those make-your-own-website-adds, so now and then I send out a message to them

Did you use a different email address for each of them? I would be afraid of Facebook shutting them down.

Yes I used another email address for the second

Best of Luck to you

I think what many would like to avoid is having the immediate family sharing personal info on their business accounts. that was my concern so I just created two accounts. I use Shawn Martin for family and immediate close friends and I use my Shawn Lee Martin account for all my business on line. I manage all my business pages with this account.
I still interact like crazy between the Shawn lee Martin page and all the business pages, but I have no family members friended on this account, so grandma will not be telling her little peaches ( I am now 55, lol) how much she misses him. :)

Crossing my fingers you never get slapped Shawn. It is ugly when facebook hits you violation or policy

I hear ya, I was thinking of shutting down the personal one as I do not use it but once a week at most. I have been thinking about doing it for a long time now, maybe I just needed a bit of a shove from Bo The Web Guy, lol. Thanks Bo

Thanks very much for this, I'm going to check out your training too.

You are welcome

I have a personal page and a business page. The business page is doing pretty well because I post everyday, if possible. I learned these tricks from my 20 something kids! I do use my personal name as author on my articles - maybe that was a bad idea to start with. So, now some of my business readers are requesting to be a friend on my personal page. My intention was always to keep them separate. Real friends & family on my personal page only. I have simply been ignoring the requests. Not sure what else I can do at this point.

Personal page or personal profile? It gets really difficult and confusing to understand when profiles are referred to as pages.. they should be profiles or accounts.

I have a Bo Gilbert Profile
I have a Bo the Webguy Internet Marketing Page

as well as about 30 more facebook business pages for other projects

I guess it would technically be Personal Profile and Business Page. 30 - I can barely keep up with 2 business pages! How did you get more hours in a day than me???

I wish I could manage everything every day.. squeaky wheel. I don't have a real J-O-B so I do what I can when I can.. Paying the bills.. waiting for the magic gadget system that comes along to make me rich quick.. until then I will earn slowly.

Myself I had never used facebook to my advantage and I am actually
not in favor with FB as a social media. I hear daily constant horror stories about relationships being broken up by FB. Even though it is an important part of the WA training I stay away from mixing business and personal. It is just my choice.
Thank you for your comment I truly appreciate your input
Ken

I understand. My business is deeply reliant on fb. I am not the traditional affiliate business like many here.

Thanks for this information. It seems a lot of people have this issue. Im going to check out your training.

Great - Let me know if you have questions. I will try to get back to you quickly

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