How to Set Up a Facebook Business Page

After spending quiet a while trying to figure out how to add a facebook business page without having it linked to your personal profile I thought other newbie’s might also find this blog of some use...

If you found this easy then stop reading. For those of you that want to create your own business profile then here are the basics.

1) Your business has to be linked to a name

I thought I could just have a business page with nothing to do with me on a personal level. Apparently not! Business profiles are 'PAGES' within a person’s profile. This means that you will need to create a new 'Person' profile first (unless you want the business page to be part of your current personal profile).

So, you first need to set up either a made up persons name or your own as a new user to facebook. Only now can you add a business page within the assigned profile.

2) Adding your profile page

Before completing these next steps, make sure you are logged into your new profile.

Next visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

If this link fails then type 'facebook business page' into google.

You will be asked to complete a series of forms to get your business page up and running.

3) Finding your new page.

Remember that you log in through your fake or company person profile to get access to your business page.

To view your new page, log in to your account and in the top right hand box; search your exact business (page) name.

You should see it appear (within your fake or person profile) account.

From here you can edit the info section, add pictures or insert your blog.

4) Check your profile page and become a fan!

Log out of your newly set up account.

Log in using your personal account (if you have one) and search two aspects:

4.1) Search your fake or person specific name via the email address you used to set up the account. You will see that there are no details (unless you add them) and that all details are blocked.

4.2) Search your business page name (so in my case it is Black Sheep Solutions Ltd)

Here you can become a fan or simply see the page as others do.

5) Tell your friends and colleagues

As you will not have any friends in your new profile / business page, a good place to start, once your personal profile is a FAN, is to use the 'suggest to friends' text link in the top left hand corner of your own personal profile page.

If there is a better way, please do let me know.

For more details on marketing for SME's please visit http://www.blacksheepthinking.co.uk/

Good Luck