Mastering Facebook (NOT!) - Page 3 - Virtual Assistant Forums

SarahNeher · #31 (**permalink**) 05-06-2009

Originally Posted by Essential Office Solutions

I started my FB page for family and friends and as was said you cannot have a separate account for your business -- so I have decided not to use FB for my business.

Loving my family and friends I do not see that they would be posting items that would reflect positively on my business. I have been using Twitter and find it much easier to navigate and you don't have to deal with all those snowballs and stuff that are soooo annoying!

If anyone knows how to limit viewing of your friends so that you can keep your family/friends separate from business I would be interested in understanding how to do and use FB in the end.

You may not get to have separate accounts, but you CAN make a different page for your business. At the bottom left corner of your Facebook page there is a little "F". If you click on this "F" you can create business pages that are completely separate from your personal page. On the business page you don't have to include family members if you don't want to. It's very simple to set up and you can invite whomever you want to be "fans" of your business page. Hope that helps!

KimberlyDeaconVA · #32 (**permalink**) 05-07-2009

I am on FB and twitter, they are not so bad once you get the hang of it. It was a little annoying at first.

virtualWebConcepts · #33 (**permalink**) 05-08-2009

Oh that is great to know, I have my FB page but was wondering how to set up the business side of it. Thanks!

virtualWebConcepts · #34 (**permalink**) 05-08-2009

Just created my FB page for the business - so easy, thanks for the tips!!

TargetStars · #35 (**permalink**) 05-09-2009

Originally Posted by bluegreenoffice

What sort of "tweets" do you guys include on Twitter regarding your Virtual Administration businesses? I'd love to find out how Twitter can help my business.

Colleen

I tweet about our newsletters or blog posts. However, you have to make sure you do this in moderation. People don't want to just read about your business. Therefore, you need to make sure the information that you tweet about is relevant to your business. For example, my business is geared towards helping those who need marketing. Therefore, you will see me tweet a lot about marketing related information. Hope this helps!

Essential Office Solutions · #36 (**permalink**) 05-09-2009

Originally Posted by SarahNeher

You may not get to have separate accounts, but you CAN make a different page for your business. At the bottom left corner of your Facebook page there is a little "F". If you click on this "F" you can create business pages that are completely separate from your personal page. On the business page you don't have to include family members if you don't want to. It's very simple to set up and you can invite whomever you want to be "fans" of your business page. Hope that helps!

I clicked on the FB toolbar icon -- what application do you use? There are pages of them and none I see are called Fan Pages or Business?

Essential Office Solutions · #37 (**permalink**) 05-09-2009

Originally Posted by Essential Office Solutions

I clicked on the FB toolbar icon -- what application do you use? There are pages of them and none I see are called Fan Pages or Business?

Ok, I figured out how to create it -- but now how do I see it on my home page or profile. It is published but I have to keep going back to the edit-create site to see it. FB is frustrating!

Kanody · #38 (**permalink**) 05-09-2009

If you go to your info tab, at the bottom of the page will be all of the pages you are a fan of and it should be in that list

virtualWebConcepts · #39 (**permalink**) 05-10-2009

After you list your business in a group then it should show up on the right hand side as well under your profile and if you invite your friends to it then it will also show who is a member. It is showing up under my profile.

#40 (**permalink**) 05-10-2009

Hi everyone,

I had a page on Facebook and figured it out personally before setting up my business page.

I worked first on my personal settings to ensure that my personal information wasn't accessible to the whole world. I've created a business page which is accessible to anyone, but doesn't list all of my personal information. It took me a while, but I think I have it now.

Twitter scares me - and I think I'm pretty tech savvy. I just don't get the point.

My next goal is to post on myspace.

Nicola

brandyellen · #41 (**permalink**) 05-10-2009

I have been on Facebook for a while and I am still trying to figure it all out! I am so used to MySpace .... but feel Facebook is a great place for business type networking.

I keep plugging away at it though! I love fan pages, those are a great way to get the word out about your business along with a Facebook ad.

Brandy

Kanody · #42 (**permalink**) 05-10-2009

I like the fan pages as well but it doesn't let you add request random people, only your friends....

brandyellen · #43 (**permalink**) 05-10-2009

Originally Posted by Kanody

I like the fan pages as well but it doesn't let you add request random people, only your friends....

yes but you can run an ad, or ask that your friends ad their friends, and so on :-) That's how I have about 60 followers on my fan page :-)

It's not "a lot" but it's a good start, have you tried that?

Brandy

Kanody · #44 (**permalink**) 05-11-2009

I have a couple of fan pages for some businesses that I work for and the # of fans are low, around 50. But one of the businesses I actually created a profile for and it has 400 friends and is a much better marketing tool even tho I know I risk the chance of them shutting it down for being a business....