Well, my problem with my personal page and my business is...if I go to a website or someone's VA blog (not a fb page) and I want to "like" or share something. It "likes" it as Caroline Mills and not LC Mills, Inc. How can I keep it as using LC Mills, Inc.?

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L. Caroline Mills of LC Mills, Inc.
www.lcmillsinc.com

Caroline, you just need to change your settings. Login to FB and click on Account at the top right. In the dropdown list, it will give you the option to Use Facebook as Page. Click on that and it will open up a window with a list of all pages you admin. Click on the one you want and you are good to go! Remember----you will need to change it back if you want to use FB as your personal profile.

Gladys

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Gladys Strickland
GS Business Resources

Businesses may set up their page as a personal profile but they are violating Terms of Use on Facebook and risk having their account suspended. Personal profiles are for individuals only; Fan pages are specifically for businesses (or artists/public figures); many don't realize this until it's too late. Also, setting up a "pet" as a profile may violate Terms of Use too. Another underutilized option on Facebook is to create a "Group" page that anyone can join.

Gladys- Thanks so much. I'll try set it up and try it out asap. It's been driving me crazy. LOL!

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L. Caroline Mills of LC Mills, Inc.
www.lcmillsinc.com

Gladys,

I think I did for a client and it was added to her personal profile as soon as she logs in. You didn't get a chance to change your settings to the FB business page.

I'll have to try it again to see if FB changed the way it's done now.

Well, I finally just gave up. I went ahead and added friends and everything. So I now have a personal profile and my business page as well. Separate but equal...LOL! If that's what FB wants...well that's what they got.

I figure FB is free marketing in a sense so why not tell people what I do and just share my business page a couple times a week or so. I only had 6 likes the other day now I have 12. I think I made a good decision for myself anyway.

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L. Caroline Mills of LC Mills, Inc.
www.lcmillsinc.com

I actually have a Personal page (which with Google+ I'm considering deleting) and a "professional" personal account that I use for networking and that account admins my business page. That allows me to keep my personal account for only friends and family (and locked down with privacy settings) and still gives me the ability to network and interact beyond what the businesses page allows.

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Stacey Harris
On Demand Virtual Assistant

I had my personal account, and it started to get loaded up with business requests, thanks to my dad promoting me from Costa Rica. I decided to leave that one as business and create another account as personal. I created a page through my business account and gave admin right to my personal account. That way I can manage the page from both accounts. You can definitely create more pages, I have. And admin pages for your customers, but the first page you make will be the one you can actually switch as your Facebook profile if you wanted to. Hope this helps!

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Viviana Robles
www.ocvassistant.com

Originally Posted by VA Simple Services

From my own experience, it is really difficult to build up fans if you're not building relationships on your personal profile first and then inviting them to like your page. Facebook is not making it very easy to invite people to like your page anymore so you have to be very creative.

This is very true. Since I keep two Facebook accounts, I am able to build relationships through my business account without getting too personal as I do with my family and close friends on the other one.

Most of my fans have come from my invitations, from people I add as friends or people who request my friendship. A description on the info part (you select what you want people to see at first glance) helps people decide if they want to request your friendship or not, or if they want to accept your request.

The rest of the fans will come when promoting your page through your website and other places. Personally, it helps a lot to have two Facebook accounts.

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Viviana Robles
www.ocvassistant.com

You'll notice that the pictures at the top of your personal page keep changing. If you can design some picture graphics, for example a businesswoman on the phone with the words "Free Consultation", you can tag them so they appear in the order you want and they remain static. When someone clicks on the graphic it opens in a new window with "Call me for a free half hour consultation" or whatever blurb is appropriate to the graphic, along with all your contact info and the URL of your business page, underneath.

This will get you some people clicking through to take a look at your business page. The wording on the graphic has to be some sort of call to action to entice people to click on it.

Hope that helps.

Lynne

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The Wordpro Wizard
www.wordprowizard.com

I understand why people choose to have two Facebook accounts and the desire to keep the professional separate from the personal. Keep in mind though that this is against Facebook's terms of service and this is why they offer business pages. The risk here is that if Facebook discovers you have two accounts they can shut down both accounts and you lose everything. This has been known to happen. I haven't heard of it happening frequently but just understand that the risk is there that you can lose both accounts (and any pages that you have associated with them) by having two accounts.

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Kimberly
Facebook Marketing Magic!

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I understand why people choose to have two Facebook accounts and the desire to keep the professional separate from the personal. Keep in mind though that this is against Facebook's terms of service and this is why they offer business pages. The risk here is that if Facebook discovers you have two accounts they can shut down both accounts and you lose everything. This has been known to happen. I haven't heard of it happening frequently but just understand that the risk is there that you can lose both accounts (and any pages that you have associated with them) by having two accounts.

On this same note, you may want to check out this article on 'Why you should have more than one Administrator to your Facebook Fan Page'

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Ruth M Callejas, Lead Consult Admin & More
Taking Care Of The 'To Do' List, So You Can Take Care Of Business

Great article! Thanks! I'll be adding a second admin. Sound good.

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L. Caroline Mills of LC Mills, Inc.
www.lcmillsinc.com