A Social Media Dilemma What Was I Thinking
My tactic for Facebook was to have pages for each of my websites off my personal profile Facebook site. It does not work!
I am 'faced' with a social media dilemma - what was I thinking!
- and before I launch off to do this I am hoping for wisdom and guidance from the Wealthy Affiliate community.
My planned approach is to have a profile in the name of my website.
But now I am thinking - do I set up one business profile and run the different websites off that?
With Instagram and Pinterest, I have set up accounts in the name of my website.
Twitter and Google+ are in my name.
How do I keep this simple?
I am perched at the end of my chair, waiting with bated breath for your opinion.
Don't delay - please leave a comment today!
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I am trying to keep business and personal separate. The way things go these days it is easy to offend someone if they see to much of your personal profile. It would be terrible to lose a sale because of your religious beliefs or political choices. My advice is keep it separate as much as possible.
I have not. But, from what I have read, that is more of a workflow for teams. I only read about it on a cursory level, however. So, I am not sure of all the benefits.
Best Regards,
Jim
I can only support what Lauren and Jim have said. You have to have a personal page to create a business page on Facebook.
This is interesting.. so basically, we are not able to have a page on FB for our business that we post from etc, as though we are the page, and hide our personal profile from everyone? We can't separate business and personal on FB?
Hey Heather,
When you create a Facebook page, it is treated as a separate entity. It won't appear in your main timeline unless you post it there. The FB page is almost like another user, although limitd. You can post as that page and you can like and share as that page, with restrictions. But, it has to be created from your main profile which is associated with you, the person.
Best Regards,
Jim
Thanks Jim. But would the public viewing that page also be able to associate it with my personal profile, or not? Because I don't want them to. I don't want to be 'wide open' like that.
Hey Heather, I have never had any of my FB friends ask to stop selling them due to my FB pages. I don't think it's a problem. I believe (anyone please correct me if I'm wrong) that FB keeps the pages as separate. I suppose if someone looked hard enough they can find that your page is associated with you. But, I wouldn't worry about that too much. If you create a group however, that is different and your friends do see that.
Another cog in the wheel is the new announcement from FB that they are going to put less emphasis on pages that appear in the news feed as a result from advertising them (no, your friends won't necessary see that unless they are part of the group you are targeting). Some people have declared the end of pages because of this. But, I believe it's not going to be so dire. At the end of the day, FB has shareholders it has to answer to. It can't bite the hand that feeds them for too long. Of course, that is just my opinion. But, money talks, BS walks, as they say.
Best Regards,
Jim
Jim have you used Facebook Business Manager?
Also to get friends on the Page they have to be in the personal profile set up. Is there a way round this?
Hey Tania,
I responded to your other comment that I have not used it. I believe it's meant for businesses who have teams working together. I am unsure of the other benefits.
As for getting friends on a page, I am not familiar with a workaround. I usually don't target friends into my pages because of the implications they may think I'm trying to sell them.
Best Regards,
Jim
Thanks. I guess it's not so much my friends knowing about it that bothers me, since I hope a lot of them will support the idea and give me some sales. It's the general public. I don't want unsolicited requests and things from people. Friends get to know me, that's why they have the privileged position of personal friends. The public gets to know 'me' as far as my brand, you know what I mean?
I post content from other businesses/people related to my niche and tag them them in the post. The business owners I tag get alerted and will sometimes like/share/comment. I intersperse my website into my posting schedule, as well.
I have used FB ads to drive traffic to my pages. When people like and follow your page, they will be alerted to your updates. Of course, they need to continue with engagement over time. Otherwise, they drop out of the loop due to a lack of engagement.
Best Regards,
Jim
Sincerely appreciate your help with this. I tend to have preconceived ideas and then try and make them work for me.
I think I need to go through my settings and it may sort issues out.
You won't get unsolicited requests unless you somehow put them there from your page. Of course, paid advertising is part of the FB environment so if you use that for your pages, it's an acceptable form of getting the word out, especially since you are using your page which is dedicated to your brand.
I haven't received too much unsolicited requests on my pages. When it happens once in a while, I either delete the page or report it to FB. I suppose it could happen though.
Oh Tania. I have been through this. I didn't to create a personal profile on Facebook just so I could set up business profiles. It still irritates me but just in case I ever build a massive audience on FB I'm sticking to their rules. I don't enjoy the complexity of Facebook. Much prefer Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter.
I am thinking it is a matter of settings and knowing how to set up the pages and run them. Still hoping to work out a way forward as FB is important part of social media.
What a helpful post and what a lot of helpful comments. I will soon be facing a similar problem...
~Isabella
Well I'm pleased you wrote this post as I have wondered the same thing so I loo forward to reading the replies too.
I'm just curious about why the dedicated pages off your personal profile on FB is not working?
~mark
Hi Mark, they work but the fire d's come through onto personal profile so it is not possible to keep personal seperate from business.
For Facebook, it is against terms of service to setup a profile for a company. They want all business info to be tied to people. Yes people still do it but Facebook can technically shut down any accounts that break policies at anytime. You are setup the correct way with one FB personal and multiple pages. FB business manager helps with management as spurway mentions below. You can have Twitter profiles in company names. https://m.facebook.com/help/201994686510247
Thanks for this, I just want to keep my personal profile seperate to business, I will link them up if that is necessary.
I would like to get this right as it is important to have it set up and not have issues like being shut down.
Thanks for the link I will check it out.
You are correct, Kim. I was told by Facebook that I needed to merge a business profile that I created a while back into my main account. They probably will catch up with people who don't follow this rule. I don't know if they have changed the rules and will simply ban those other accounts or if they will continue to do what they did for me.
Everyone should also be aware the LinkedIn only allows one account/profile (which is extremely frustrating when you have multiple businesses, etc.). From what I have read, they will ban all your accounts if you violate this.
Best Regards,
Jim
There is really no public correlation between you and business pages unless you want it to be. The personal profile simply maps the person as the admin of the page.
But you mention below that "fire d's" come to your personal profile? Not sure what that is?
Otherwise, if you always post as the "page", then no one ever knows who the real people behind the page. You do have the option to post as yourself on pages but once again, this doesn't really say you are the owner of that page unless you specifically tell your page fans you are. Keep your personal profile content private so page fans can't see any of your personal details.
I have the social media in the name of my websites. It is much easier to handle that. Also, Facebook has a business manager where you can manage different profiles and accounts.
My advice do not mix private with business, keep that separate.
Yes, or if the niche is similar than combine it, Login on facebook with facebook.business manager there you can manage each profile very easy
https://business.facebook.com/
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FB asks for a different telephone number for each new page you want to set up. I don't know if its still the same. But after sometime when maybe they gain some trust in you, they cease asking for a telephone number and setting up another page is easy..
Yes, setting up a Page is easy, keeping it separate from my Personal profile is the dilemma.