Want to set up a business presence on Facebook but don’t want to have a personal presence? No problem! A little known feature of Facebook is the ability to create business accounts. However if you already have a personal account, keep in mind that you cannot create a separate business account. However if you would like to avoid setting up a personal account and would like to keep things professional, you can take a few steps to get things configured.
From the business account you will be able to manage Facebook advertising campaigns as well as Facebook Pages. In order to get your business account set up, all you’ll need to do is create a Facebook Ad or create a Facebook Page. After you’ve created the page or advertisement, Facebook will ask you to enter your login information or the option to select “I do not have a Facebook account”. At that point all you need to do is enter your business email address and date of birth.
That’s it! Now you have a business account on Facebook. One thing that you should keep in mind is that if you have a personal account and go through this process, there is a very good chance Facebook will shut down both accounts. In other words: don’t create multiple accounts. I have received multiple emails from people that don’t want to set up personal accounts though so for those individuals that have not explored Facebook, you can proceed to set up a business account.
While I think advertising on Facebook or creating a page doesn’t make much sense without thoroughly understanding how Facebook works, the company has at least provided the option for those that don’t want a personal account.
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Great little tip. I think a lot of people struggle with Facebook because of the difficulty of being able to separate your personal and professional life. I actually wrote something on my blog awhile back about how its almost like an identity crisis. The Facebook Identity Crisis.
Comment by Phil Stricker — June 9, 2009 @ 12:08 pm
The challenge with doing this is: that Facebook Pages that are not linked to an FB profile are not searchable by search engines and this is clearly stated in their docs re: Pages.
Comment by Annie Infinite — June 9, 2009 @ 2:14 pm
Great post, Nick. I too get asked about this all the time and know lots of peeps who just go ahead and set up two personal profiles without realizing it's actually against the TOS. Changing/removing Admins is tricky too – if an assistant/hire sets up a business profile it gets tied to that personal profile, so it's important to set up Pages properly.
Comment by Mari Smith — June 9, 2009 @ 5:52 pm
Agree that it's good to know you can't do both (biz and personal), but it's been my impression that a biz acct is weak and of marginal value because use options are limited. Your thoughts?
Comment by JD in Napa — June 9, 2009 @ 7:13 pm
Facebook has come up with this brilliant idea of creating business accounts, without a personal one. This sounds like it would make it easy for the business users and increase them to create accounts rapidly.It's going to be easier managing one account than two.But i have a question what if users want to maintain both a personal and a business identity?What will they do?
Comment by ayesha — June 10, 2009 @ 5:27 am
I'm assuming that the problem arises where there are 2 user "accounts" with the same email address?
For eg, I have a personal facebook account, which I intend to use for all my personal FB interaction for the rest of the foreseeable.
However, I might also want to set up some FB pages etc for my current main employer, or even for some of my small-business customers.
I (but more importantly: they) don't want those connected or "owned" by my personal account, as they don't actually belong to me.
Likewise, my own part-time "small business" may one day grow into a bigger project which I may sell off and would want that therefore to have it's own contained self on facebook.
I'd be interested to know if these fall into the category of likely to be shut down by FB.
Comment by Daryl Griffiths — June 10, 2009 @ 8:34 am
Nick,
Great tip. I get asked this question all the time, now I have a good answer.
Comment by Lorne — June 10, 2009 @ 9:46 am
Hello,
Great article, thank you for the information.
I’m wondering if I have a personal account and then I set up a page for my business, and I’m signed on as my self is there a way that the business can join a group under the business name? I have not found a way to make this happen.
Comment by Ed Frebowitz — June 11, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
I opened an account..I thought it was a business account…but I'm thinking not…so then I added a page for my business…but I don't see how you can connect the two together..is there a way…or is this a totally different account now? I'm so confused…should I delete both and start over?
Comment by Robin — June 13, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
Thanks for the post. I am a bit surprised more users haven't complained about this limitation of Facebook. A fundamental rule of business is to keep your business and personal lives separate and this is even more true for small business owners. I followed FB's rules in setting up my business page through my personal account but it makes updating the corporate pages a real pain because all of the utilities that help update FB are linked to my personal account. The only option is to have either a business account OR a personal account? That is stoopid.
I like FB for personal reasons and my friends/customers like being able to be a fan of my company through facebook so they can stay connected. Why can't we do both? Just allow a separate login for the business account. If they are going to shut down accounts for people who establish separate accounts for business and personal (using different email addresses) then they should also start shutting down ALL of the accounts for people who work for companies with corporate profiles. That would be the only fair way to do it.
Comment by Christian Kennel — June 14, 2009 @ 11:50 am
These posts are so on the mark. I set up a personal profile then added the business page… My question is how does someone coming to my personal page even know that the business exists. When I log in… I am always going to the upper right search box and and having to search my business. Also is there a way that someone could find my business without having to first go to my personal page?
Comment by Joe Casper — June 23, 2009 @ 2:41 am
I set up a business account but people can still add me as friends, not just as fans. Is there a way to fiz that?
Comment by Gail Forest — June 25, 2009 @ 12:53 pm
Hi, I’m having a nightmare. Have a personal profile and had 3 attempts at setting up a business one. Have used 3 out of my 4 business emails so one left not to botch up. My problem is that it is fine setting up a business page, then when I come to edit my profile it asks for a personal name, won’t allow me to use the company name, so I enter my name and that is what shows up on the page title. Am I missing something? Please help anyone,
Rachel
Comment by Rachel — July 2, 2009 @ 5:39 am
I have a personal facebook account and want to switch that account over to a business account without changing the email address.
Comment by Cathy — July 5, 2009 @ 5:32 pm
Several days ago, our IT guy created a fan page on behalf of the organization I work for. We successfully created a fan page under his email though he does not have a FB personal account. After several days and subsequently reviewing your online documentation, we quickly realized the benefits of converting the business page to a personal page.
He followed the steps on the FB help site, logged into the business page, chose to convert to a personal page, entered my first and last name, and he was immediately forwarded to what appeared to be a personal page that was entirely blank. Per FB online documentation, this was not what he was expecting. I have a FB personal page already and when he did the conversion I grabbed a user name and as soon as I did that I came to the blank page as well.
The original business page still exists and was titled “Flight For Life Transportation System” but I cannot edit/update/add photos/make comments as an administrator even though I am the administrator of the site.
The intent was to convert that business fan page into an personal account for better interaction with our fans (for instance, being able to reply to comments, etc.)
Currently, when I attempt to login with the credentials that formerly got me to the business fan page I am redirected to a blank personal page. I believe he followed all of FB instructions accurately, so I am not sure what went wrong. We have 1137+ followers and as of now are unable to edit/post, etc. without access to the business page (ideally now linked to the personal account that was created through your account conversion).
Can anyone offer me any help? I have emailed FB 4 times and have gotten NO response at all.
Thanks!
Comment by tammy chatman — July 15, 2009 @ 8:11 pm
We developed a business page on FB and are unable to create a username for the account and we are unable to locate an operational link that takes our new fans to the Wall page rather than our professional profiles. We've deleted, started over, used different cell numbers for verification and we've had no success. We have emailed FB regarding the issue and have not heard back but we realize now others are experiencing the same issue. We love FB and want to continue using it however, it shouldn't be this difficult for business's. Can someone please contact us or better yet hold a webinar discussing these steps and other matters people are having problems with, I'm sure you'll have many participating. Help please!
Comment by Angella — July 21, 2009 @ 7:24 am
I love the webinar idea! I'm also glad that I'm not the only one super frustrated right now. I posted a video on what I thought was my business page, but it posted to my personal page. I added my business through my personal page. I'm doing something wrong and don't know what it is! Maybe I need to get a new email address, but can you have two email addresses on one combined personal/business account.
Comment by Susan — July 21, 2009 @ 12:27 pm
Thanks for the read. I hope Facebooks makes it easier to separate personal and business accounts in the future. I disabled my personal account, which I was only really using to promote my website. I'm not a big fan of wasting time on social network sites unless I'm looking for productive links or adding links to them. As far as the one line exchanges of "what are you doing?" I can live without those.
Comment by Lou Kemler — July 21, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
Thank you I've just created my business account, very useful article.
Best regards,
Comment by Anselmo — July 22, 2009 @ 6:07 am
I too am BEYOND frustrated with Facebook. We set up a business page, we do not want a personal page, JUST a business presence. We thought we were all set – the page is there. However, it's not searchable. Cannot get a username – that feature just hangs up, and EVERY SINGLE time we log in, it tried to get us to create a personal profile. FORGET trying to reach a human being or help personnel at Facebook – I'm convinced they simply do not exist. This is disappointing to say the least.
Comment by PruVerani — July 29, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
Personal and business. I have two separate groups of individuals, I really don't want my work group to have access to my other group of friends. Is there a way to set up two pages, one for each?
Casey
Comment by Casey Coven — August 9, 2009 @ 7:01 am
I want to setup a facebook page for my client. However i am confused. which is better,
-creating page using personal Account.
-Creating page using bussiness Id.
please help me …….
Comment by Mero — August 13, 2009 @ 12:45 am
my issue is, there are several facebook pages I have already created with my personal account. but now it's time for the client to hold the reigns. They need to manage it with a business account, not a personal account. so wondering how to create a business account in a different order to what's outlined above.
Comment by Jamie — August 17, 2009 @ 8:53 am
I created my business page but in some features it ask me to create a personal account.How do I get rid of that?
Comment by Alicia — August 20, 2009 @ 3:21 pm
If we want to set up a personal account for the owner of our company so that we can create a searchable business page, can we set the privacy settings of the personal account so that the owner’s name isn’t searchable . . . only the business? He doesn’t want to add friends to a personal account.
Comment by lsw — August 24, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
I see a lot of the same questions I have about setting up a business account on Facebook but no answers. Does anyone have answers to these questions?
Comment by Greg — August 28, 2009 @ 8:43 am
I don't see the logic in this. What happens when a person that creates a business page quit the company or get fired? What if I have a personal account and want to add a business page but due to time constraints I would like my assistant to manage the business part. Would my assistant then get access to all my personal info/login etc as well?
For instance, who's the person behind CNN's facebook page? Is it Ted Turner himself? I hope he doesn't have a personal account too, they might cancel both.
To me it seems like the only way around this is to hire a person that will stay with your company forever and who's first name is not info because FB will not approve that as an email address.
Comment by daniel — August 29, 2009 @ 7:37 am
I have to agree. I have a personal account with a business page attached. I have a hard time locating the business page, as it doesn't show up under my personal Pages, as you would think it would. I really want my personal and business life very separate. I don't want my having access to my very personal information that I would share with my family and friends. They don't need to know my religious and political beliefs, or what I read etc… This could potentially be bad for a business, as you just cannot make all of the people happy. So to have a business page, I just cannot post any personal info on my personal page! I don't want people to have my last name either. I write under a partial name, as I write murder mystery games and I really don't want someone who might not be all there to have access to all my personal information, including last name. I just find this poorly implemented and feel like we should be able to have our personal and business information very separate. The friends and links I would post for my business are just very different from what I would post for my personal facebook profile.
Comment by Mary Ferrin — September 1, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
creating a page is all well and good but you cant put apps on like video etc without it asking you to fill in your profile and once you do this it changes the page into a personal account, then you cant change it back…very anoying!!
Comment by martin — September 21, 2009 @ 3:51 am
does anyone know if facebook really deletes accounts? our business set up a regular account (not knowing the difference) and we now have many friends of the business. is it ok to set it up as a regular account? how would they know if you even have multiple accounts? email, IP? has anyone even heard a story of them deleting business accounts?
Comment by anonymous — September 22, 2009 @ 9:19 pm
I am also really frustrated with the way Facebook encourages businesses and then doesn’t support them. I originally setup a separate personal account for work so that I could set up a group for our my company. I used my work email so that any announcements I sent would receive replies to my work inbox. This was great until I learned that I couldn’t support a separate account for business.
So I moved the group’s admin to my personal account and deleted the work account. Now, I can no longer send out announcements because I do not want replies to my personal email account. And I have to clearly state that group members should not email the admin because I would receive those in my personal account as well.
I want my work COMPLETELY separate from my personal. A Facebook Page won’t solve the problem as it would still be tied to my personal account without the ability for me to separate myself even if I no longer worked for the company.
Why can’t a company have its own account so that admins could rotate based on who has that position at the company? Those of us who want to enjoy FB personally shouldn’t have to use our personal accounts for our companies.
Comment by Susan — September 27, 2009 @ 10:33 pm
I am equally frustrated. I didn't know anything about social networking, so I was told by my boss to find out everything I could about it. In my attempts to learn, I set up a personal facebook account and connected to a lot of family and friends. Now that I have some idea what I need to do, FB is not allowing me to set up a profile for the business. If I can't set up a business account, I have wasted hours of my employers time. That upsets me a lot. There has to be a way around this problem. Any ideas?
Comment by Kathy — October 9, 2009 @ 1:31 pm
I am fustrated by FB lack of clear explanation regarding the business and personal. Just simply put two column table to illustrate the difference and steps to sign up. By doing this, it will greatly reduce their work load by less policing work on user with one person two account check. For users, we can straight away put our effort on content.
I used one email and is struggling to migrate from personal to business.
Just found out from some FB user that I create a business page and email their sales-support@facebook.com and requested them to remove my personal profile.
Btw, it is so difficult to get their contact number or email, they are truly ‘face on book’. Many people rated Facebook worth billions, I begining to lower my rating for them. I hope people at FB read this comment and do something about it.
I pray that they are able to help me.
Comment by David Leon — October 19, 2009 @ 5:20 am
I created a facebook business acount then somehow when I was filling out the settings informaton the account switched to a personal one owned by the business admin set up for the business acount. Now the only way I can get into change the business account page and its features is to search for the business name and then — very very very confusing and frustrating
Comment by Chris — October 25, 2009 @ 7:22 pm
We have created a “Personal” facebook page recently before we knew about the Business Facebook. Yes, should have done more research….. but is there a way to convert a personal facebook to be business, without having to upload all our information back into the page?
Comment by John bales — October 27, 2009 @ 4:40 pm
I have a personal account and want to set up a business page. Where are the directions on how to do this
Thank you
Comment by Nona Wilgus — November 4, 2009 @ 11:41 am
Really straightforward advice which I've followed. But I seem to have got a really long URL! How do I shorten/change it to facebook.com/lonesomepine? Otherwise, I have got a long and unwieldy facebook account name??
Comment by Joanna — November 8, 2009 @ 10:19 pm
the person who fixed my computer has all my infro. and now i’m having trouble excessing my information. And its all important. I am a beginner on the computer with no expericeince and i feel they all getting over on me.
Comment by winifred b — November 18, 2009 @ 1:00 am
I have a personal acct and also admin for a fanpage. I want to delete my personal acct, how can I do this and still access the fanpage to admin? thanks
Comment by donna persico — November 20, 2009 @ 9:33 am
my girlfriend set up a buisness account without realising she couldunt have a personal one aswell now she cant access her personal one all what can she do please help thankyou
Comment by martin macdonald — November 25, 2009 @ 1:15 pm
This is exactly what I wanted to do. I know a facebook account is necessary for my business, but I'm really funny about my personal privacy. Thank you so much.
Comment by Bev — December 1, 2009 @ 9:39 am
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Comment by Yara Khoury — December 1, 2009 @ 12:38 pm
I thought getting a business url like facebook.com/xyz would be quick and easy.
Instead its f…ing nightmare.
How the hell do you do this???
Comment by Facebook Really Suck — December 4, 2009 @ 9:22 am
It's obvious Facebook staffers gave absolutely NO thought on how users would set up Business Pages. It's a complete disaster that makes no sense. I just deactivated the account and gave up. Don't have time to waste on poorly planned junk like this. Grrrrrrrrrrr
Comment by WalterSD — December 5, 2009 @ 4:55 pm
Facebook is a joke and if they keep up this poor planning and lack of insight into their their customer base, will be going the way of MySpace. I agree with all of these negative comments. Combining your personal with business is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. I guess it’s the nerds at Facebook who have nothing but business in their lives that made up this rule. stupid. Where is the Facebook replacement already???
Comment by john — December 10, 2009 @ 3:40 am
Hi All,
I left the name "Anonymous4Obvious" because I took a chance and created 2 accounts. I am knowingly breaking Facebook's rules and TOS, but this is their fault! Like many of you, I did not want to have my personal info linked to my business in any way. This is an obvious flaw in Facebook. I tried several times to create a biz page, like Jay Z, or Chad Ochocinco, where there was an option for users to become a fan, as well as have the option to have a username extention (ie: Facebook.com/JayZ), like on a personal account. I cannot figure out how they did that for the love of GOD. And Facebook will not respond to any of my emails…. So, I took a chance and I created a separate Facebook (personal) account for my business/website, so I could add the username (mysite.com/username) simply for promotion and SEO purposes. I used an alias as my name, with my business/website title cleverly nestled in. (ex. First Name-John, Last Name-Website) I hate that I had to go thru all this just to get a Facebook page set up how I wanted, and I hope Facebook is reading this. All those rich jamokes have to do is, allow a business account or page to have a separate extension (ie facebook.com/mysite) and be separate from a personal page.
Comment by Anonymous4Obvious — December 27, 2009 @ 5:13 am
you cannot get a "name" url for your business page until you have at least 25 fans =)
I am also frustrated- I hate that I have to search for my business page in order to 'edit' or update it. I also wish that it wasn't linked to my personal account- because I would love to post business related comments/posts from my BUSINESS NAME and not have it show up as from my personal account- that frustrates me soo much. What better way to network with other businesses than to be able to do this?
Comment by andrea — January 9, 2010 @ 10:01 am
By accident i set up another personal account when i tried opening up my biz account. I then found out about them shutting down accounts.
When i log in with the email address that i used to set up the biz account. all it does is bring me to my second personal account. HOW DO I log in under the business? I cannot figure out how to log in under the biz account in order to add posts and stuff. This is extremely frustrating. any help would be great. also. how do you delete an account? I created another personal account on accident, and now I am worried all will get shut down. this jsut seems ridiculous. it was an accident! haha. please help
Comment by charlie — January 10, 2010 @ 6:01 am
Lots of the same questions with no answer, where do we turn?
Comment by Vikie — January 20, 2010 @ 2:06 pm
I have a personal account, and would like to have an account for my business, without clients being able to access my personal profile. How can I do this?
Can somebody help?
Comment by David Ball — January 20, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Businesses can be individuals (ie a Sole Trader), but in the case of a Limited Company it is not a "person", but a legal entity. Therefore there should be no problem if a Business Facebook account was created at "generic" email account like info @ vpntelevision.com.
Comment by Jason Wright — January 27, 2010 @ 9:40 am
The challenge with this is that if you bypass the option to set up a business account when you're done creating the Fan Page – there doesn't seem to be a way to GO BACK and create a business account later. The only option seems to be to create a personal profile. Such a shame there's no clear information on how to access this option AFTER THE FACT.
Comment by Trish — January 28, 2010 @ 12:10 pm
I AM HORRIFIED to see the LACK OF INFORMATION BY FACEBOOK TO ITS USERS!!!. We are all left to "FEND FOR OURSELVES", asking each other, going to forums, searching google, etc. to find our HOW FACEBOOKS WORKS!. This is really appalling. I like facebook but still needs a lot of improvements if they really want to sell the site one day for millions of dollars. Maybe with that in mind, they will start to put more effort in explaining the users HOW IT REALLY WORKS!. I honestly thing that FB has one of the WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE records!!!.
I see that if you are on facebook to PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS, better to stick to just 1 kind of page, the BUSINESS PAGE and DO NOT create a personal page under any circumstance.
Thanks for the article and all the replys. I am learning with all of you guys. Monica.
Comment by Monica — January 30, 2010 @ 1:29 pm
HI EVERYONE!
I have gone through the trouble of spending 2 hours READING ALL THE POSTS ABOVE and analyzing some questions. I also created a PERSONAL A/C first and a BIZ A/C after that. Now, like many of you, DO NOT KNOW HOW TO ACCESSS MY BIZ A/C, FC has not implemented any link or anything in my personal page where I can go and access my biz a/c. This is totally annoying!. How can people in charge of FB be so foolish???.
After reading all your replies and suggestions, I have decided to ERASE BOTH A/Cs. I read in another article that you could close your a/cs on FB but SHOULD NOT TRY TO LOG FOR 2 WEEKS!, otherwise, you would cancel your petition of cancelling your a/cs. Type in google: "HOW TO CLOSE ACCOUNT ON FACEBOOK".
I will try to create a BIZ A/C or BIZ PAGE. Do not want to do anthing with personal a/cs. Good luck to everyone!. Monica.
Comment by Monica — January 30, 2010 @ 1:42 pm
I am just starting out in this arena (social media) and do not have an account of any kind and would like to start. I must say, after reading all these comments regarding starting a Biz fb account–I’m totally confused and don’t know where to begin! Any help out there?
Comment by Anthony — February 4, 2010 @ 3:01 pm
I agree with most comments. It is extremely confusing setting up a business/fan page.
Comment by Rob — February 7, 2010 @ 3:26 am
How do you promote your website at FB? Do you open a personal account or better a business account?
Comment by nobi — February 8, 2010 @ 9:49 am
I just started with this facebook thing today, and I am not sure, wether or not I signed up for personal or business. I would like to be able to connect with family and friends and still have a link to my real estate business and our listings. This email address and web site is for my business. Please let me know where I stand with it. Would it be better to just use my personal email address with a link to my business, if at all possible. Robert
Comment by Robert Gavin — February 10, 2010 @ 1:30 pm
Hi all,
I also have read almost every post above and have the exact same issues. Additionally, has anyone else had the issue with regards to the "type" of email address used for the creation of a business FB account?
I have tried repeatedly only to find that FB will not allow my business email address (apparently it's not valid) because it begins with the generic word "info@…"
Now in their unacceptable HELP area, it states that they reject email addresses with such generic words (ie. info) as they generally apply, or are used by businesses or companies… but isnt that what I am trying to create FB??? A business profile/account/page etc!!!
I think I will just try MySpace instead… anyone else comming?
Comment by Zee Jay — February 19, 2010 @ 1:25 am
Well, they canceled our personal account.
I didn't know better and set one up for our staff – because I didn't want to use my personal account for it. I had no idea of the business or whatever stuff. So, then after I basically set up an account for our staff, I created a group and a fan page later – once I realized what that was.
Now our staff account (which was set up like a person for us to all share) is deleted. And, we have lost ALL admin ability for any of our groups or fan pages. And, because we set it up wrong to begin with all our volunteers "friended" the staff account – and that was were most of our people were. So, now we have a minimal following on a fan & group page that we can no longer administer.
Very annoying.
Comment by Amy P — February 19, 2010 @ 5:58 pm
This mess is SO frustrating. I went in and created a business fan page separately from my personal profile account because I wanted them separated and they should be. I didn't realize at the time that 1)you're not supposed to do that, 2) certain customizable apps are not available this was, and most importantly 3) it's not searchable through search engines this way. WHAT? That's part of the reason to have it, in my opinion. Haven't to go through your personal profile account to get to your business page to edit, etc., is ridiculous!
Comment by JeanW — February 22, 2010 @ 5:32 pm
Not only this. I didn't have a Facebook account. So I created first a personal one. It's only afterwards that I figured out that you can't have both a personal and a business account. SO, I deactivated my personal one to create a business one. What does it says, THIS ACCOUNT EXIST ALREADY??! What?! You can only REACTIVATE your account and NOT make a business account out of it. So if you made a mistake by FIRST making a personal one and afterwards, wanting to delete it, and change to a Business Account -> NO GO!
I've send a mail to facebook to fix that, I'm not happy at all with this. Yeah people are saying, why don't you take another hotmail account. Yeah, common', how many account do I need to make in this internet business…
Comment by Gio — March 1, 2010 @ 5:13 am
Does anybody know if you can delete a personal page and keep your business page if they were set up under the same email account? I did not realize you could set up a separate business page and would like to get rid of my personal page but keep my business page and not lose my fans in the process. If anyone can help me out I would greatly appreciate it!
Comment by ashley — March 8, 2010 @ 7:59 am
please help. need to fiqure out how i can get my fan page fixed. I intital setup a profile page for business need to just set it up a a fan page only. current http://www.facebook.com/abccakeshop is a profile page but want to use this as our fan page url. cannot figure how to work this out. also need help building fans? thanks paul
Comment by Paul Bendinskas — March 12, 2010 @ 10:17 am
I'm glad I'm not the only one that confused and having trouble with this. I don't understand the logic they are using her with the business page have to be a Fan page of your personal page, especially the way FB has played fast and loose in the past with our personal information. But, everyone says you have to have a facebook presence for your business. So, I don't know what to do?
I too, need help in figuring out how to build a page that works.
Comment by Jaynemarie Crawford — March 15, 2010 @ 8:12 am
I need your help. How can I close the personal account and stay with the fan account?
It is important to receive an answer from Facebook technical people and not from the users. Since I need a solution right away.
Thnak you,
Laly
Comment by Laly — March 15, 2010 @ 2:41 pm
Same questions worded differently with no answers. Must be Facebook doesn't read these, comment or care. They would rather leave us all out here in cyberspace wondering…
Comment by Jeannette — March 15, 2010 @ 3:52 pm
WOW, I guess no one has noticed that this is a bunch of questions with no answers!! Here are some answers. It IS against the rules of facebook to create a business page IF you currently have a personal page. If you do it by creating another personal page and get caught, they can shut down your business page and that would suck for you to start over and lose your fans. You CAN however set up a business page IF and only IF you do not have a personal page, I have never done it, but google “How To Create A Business Account On Facebook Without A Personal One” for instructions. For good instructions on creating your business page attached to your personal page, go to youtube.com and search “how to create a business page” there are several good ones on there. TIP***when creating your name think hard on this as it cannot be changed..people will find you through searches by this name, so don’t forget “feywords” and “geographical location”. Also, as info, I often go to youtube.com for answers to questions, because, as you see, NO ONE IS ANSWERING ANY OF YOUR QUESTION ON HERE!!!!! Next…after you have created your business page off of your personal profile page, go to facebook.com/username. Here you will create a shortened URL for your business account which you can put on your business cards or promotional material. AFTER YOU DO THIS, FANS CAN GO DIRECTLY TO YOUR BUSINESS PAGE BYPASSING YOUR PERSONAL PAGE. Pay attention here…when you get to facebook.com/username, You want to go to “SET USERNAME FOR PAGES” when you hit the arrow, your business name will show up. You can only do this ONE time, so make sure it is a name you want to stick with!!!! The problem I have with this system is, if you sell the company or someone who set it up quits, you can’t switch the business page to another personal page as far as I know, but I don’t work for facebook, so I could be wrong and I’m sure I will hear about it if I am. If you are the administrator for your business page, when you log in, you will always be taken to your personal page first and then you search above for your business page. That is all I have for now. If you need clarification on this, you can contact me at kaf414@aol.com or on TWITTER at Charlottespa. I hope this will help a little, I have spent hours learning all this mostly by my mistakes I’ve made!!
Comment by Karen — March 21, 2010 @ 8:59 am
HI Karen
I don't think you have this correct. It clearly states that organisations cannot have an account under the name of their organisation. You seem to be suggesting that we use a personal account and link this to business pages – problem is we are either creating a 'fake' personal account for a fictional person or we use a real personal account. The problem for companies is if we use a real person to set up an account then what happens when the employee who set up the personal account leave. We definately can't set up a personal account for a fake person.
Can I start a profile for my business, band or organisation?
Facebook Profiles are meant to represent a single individual. Organisations of any type are not permitted to maintain an account under the name of their organisation. We have created Facebook Pages to allow organisations to have a presence on Facebook. These Pages are distinct presences, separate from user profiles, and optimised for an organisation's needs to communicate, distribute information/content, engage their fans and capture new audiences virally through their fans' recommendations to their friends. Facebook Pages are designed to be a media rich, valuable presence for any artist, business or brand.
If you create a profile for your business, your account may be disabled for violating our Terms of Use. If you have questions about how to best leverage your Facebook Page, please check out our Insiders' Guide or FAQ.
Comment by Kevan — April 12, 2010 @ 11:35 pm
This is all a bit confusing but here is where I am so far along with my understanding
Facebook FAQ http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=904#!/help/?fa… says that you can You can create and manage a Facebook Page for your organization from your personal account.
This isn't a good idea for most companies as we don't want to link our facebook page to a personal profile – examples of reasons are here http://riajournal.com/ria/index.php/2009/06/17/wh...
We cannot set up a 'fake' personal profile for a fictional person to use – so we should set up a business account and create a business page.
This is what I did. I set up one business account and have 3 pages (one each for three seperate websites). The problem is that it's easy to accidentally click on Create a Profile
- you should not do this for a business page according to facebook as it's against their terms of use and you can have your account deleted.
Kevan
Comment by Kevan — April 13, 2010 @ 12:25 am
Facebook is for idiots. As old and overwrought as Myspace is, at least is lets you set up multiple band accounts without its cookies digging into your entire computer and my distant cousin's mother surveilling me online.
Facebook looks better, but the orwellian nature of its setup makes me hate it very deeply. Who is Facebook to tell me I only get one identity when I manage 6 bands and have 3 different businesses? Facebook can lick tehmselves. I hope that website dies a quick and horrible death.
Comment by Mal Quat — April 13, 2010 @ 1:35 am
Could you please tell me what good having a business account is when people can't find it on any of the web search engines? I have a personal account but need to set up a business or organization account (what's the difference??) as this is one of my targets this year in readiness for graduation/leaving students and also new students starting with us next year. The business account shouldn't be linked to my personal account at all; I will be the administrator for the account for the account, for now. What if I leave, what happens then? How do you move it from one personal account to another???? Also, what is the difference between setting up a business account or setting up a facebook ad? Answers needed urgently please.
Comment by Debbie — April 13, 2010 @ 3:45 am
I have a personal account and wanted to create a page for my father's business that I'm helping out with. I wanted to create a business page but didn't want it connected to my personal page, so I made a personal page for the business, but then I had two pages for the business and really only only wanted one, especially not one with a wall full of everyone's nonsense.
So I was confused and had the same questions a lot of you seem to have, but after reading through Facebook's business account FAQ (found here: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=721 ) I discovered it's actually not so complex.
So, here, in a nutshell is what you need to know.
The misconception I had is that my personal page would be publicly associated with the business page – this was wrong. Every business page needs at least one administrator. The admin is private, and more than one person can administer the business page.
So I just logged in as the business personal page and appointed my regualar personal page as an admin, then deleted the business personal page. Easy.
Now I can simply manage the business page from my personal page and appoint others as admins too.
Good luck,
James
Comment by James — April 18, 2010 @ 5:39 pm
Facebook has defiantly made this process so much more difficult then it needs to be. It would be nice to have a clear direction. Cause what they have now is thousands of businesses who have all done it a different way do to a broken and under documented process.
Comment by Printer — April 20, 2010 @ 6:56 am
James–
Can you give a few more details about how you did this? I'm still confused. Thanks. —Dennis
Comment by Dennis — April 20, 2010 @ 9:21 pm
how do u make a new facebook accout i dont understand thanks kayla kneale xx
Comment by kayla kneale — April 21, 2010 @ 12:35 pm
Can I build a face book for my own company and keep my peresonal facebook Thanks, Lynn 219 929 6648
Comment by Lynn F. Jaynes — May 4, 2010 @ 6:03 am
My problem was with setting up a username for a business page that was not connected to any personal page. Anytime I tried to create a username I kept getting messages telling me to set up a personal profile. I finally found a way around this! If you are a fan on your own business page, or have a trusted fan that will do it for you, make yourself an admin on the account. Then sign into your personal account and choose manage pages from there. Now you can go to the facebook.com/username and from there choose to setup a username for a page you manage. Worked like a charm. You can then remove admin for the personal account if you don't want to keep it as an admin for your business page. Hope this helps a few of you out there!
Comment by Stephanie — May 5, 2010 @ 8:48 am
I only want a business account. I thought that is what I had accomplished when I signed up; however, it is showing up as a personal account. What did I do wrong and how do I correct my mistake?
Comment by Suzanne Hendricks — May 11, 2010 @ 11:33 am
I belong to a group that would like to create a page for interested people to find out what we are up to and connect with other members.
Our group will create a new role for geek chairperson and that person will manage the site for 1 year, then the position will again get a new warm body to oversee the site.
What type of site would I create? business, personal?
I want to create the site based on the role and I want the next elected person to not worry about being "shut down".
Suggestion? Help.
Sarah
Comment by Sarah — May 16, 2010 @ 3:41 am
How do I "share" posts from outside sources to my business page. Everytime I am reading an article or wanting to post a photos, I hit the FB share button in that media, and it automatically posts to my personal page. How do I get these "shares" to post to my business page?
Comment by mary — May 16, 2010 @ 9:14 pm
This method does not work. All posts default to your personal account.
Comment by Liam Kiggen — May 22, 2010 @ 7:26 am
Forget about using FB for business, use LinkedIn insted.
Comment by msa — May 24, 2010 @ 1:44 am
Hi Everyone,
I really need some kind of response or tip on how to maintain buisness page when ur personal account is disabled, since that buisness page has more than 6000 members that means u cannot leave that un attended so how to maintain and add new pictures while ur orig acct is disabled , any response or tips will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Comment by fariha ghulamali — May 24, 2010 @ 1:10 pm
Is it possible making an personal account into an business account? And if the answer is yes, how?
Comment by Marc — June 2, 2010 @ 5:47 am
i really appreciate with this text but i am looking for making personal account for business or my companies.
thanks.
Comment by nepal tour — June 3, 2010 @ 11:41 pm
i have my personal account but i wanna make another pages for my business,how?
thanks
Comment by nepal budget hotel — June 3, 2010 @ 11:44 pm
Isn't it a little bit "unfair" for all the folks that have had a "personal profile" millions..that now may want to have a "business page" can only do this from their profile? All a while all others that decided that now is good time to jump in on FB just for business purposes can do so without a profile page??? Big advantage! Most that have just a business page that page comes up on Google searches..but if one has a profile page and a business page attached ONLY the profile page pulls up not the business…Am I missing something? Its like all of us who have been out on FB basically making FB rich with a "profile page" are being punished for wanting a business page. Something is not quite right here!
Comment by E — June 6, 2010 @ 9:58 am
I created a business account for my company, but now even when I sign into my personal account I can't find it! It doesn't come up on the search engine so I have no way to access it…. does anyone have a solution??
Comment by Mary — June 28, 2010 @ 12:36 pm
I suppose "faceless" business account contradicts
Facebook concept.
Fortunately Twitter doesn't have this limit.
Comment by Xander — June 30, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
I put my hands up to needing help working with facebook business accounts. But your observation regarding seperate accounts is incorrect. I have 4 personal accounts and 2 business. Anyone who wants to know how can email me at happychappy020@yahoo.com.
P.S. it is not rocket science !!!
Comment by Stephen Moss — July 7, 2010 @ 11:57 pm
Facebook sucks for businesses.
Biggest pain in the ass ever.
Comment by orlando computer rep — July 18, 2010 @ 3:15 am
What if I have a personal account and a fan page, which I have utilized the facebook ad feature. Is there a way I can delete the personal account and still keep the fan page?
Comment by NB — July 26, 2010 @ 10:28 pm
I'm getting ready to set-up a business page on Facebook and the post and comments are of great help. Thanks….
Comment by lvc — August 3, 2010 @ 10:57 pm
Why does representatives from Facebook not respond to any of the above questions? I too have been totally confused by Facebook's instructions how to set up accounts!!!! And now I think I've screwed it all up!!
Comment by Steve — August 7, 2010 @ 3:47 pm
I have set up a Facebook business account and would like the ability to post comments on other Facebook pages that are relevant to my company's line of work. How do I do this? Each time I enter the Discussion Board, there is no 'Comment' option?
I've looking online and can't find any help – was hoping someone in this forum would have an idea of how this works.
Comment by Nicole — August 10, 2010 @ 7:15 am
Thanks for the information, it would be handy if you had a link to the business signup page in your post. I found you post while trying to find just that.
Comment by David — August 18, 2010 @ 12:53 am
I have created a business page through above email I'd, I want to know how to administer that business page for changing photos and all & how to obtain URL for that business page.
Comment by Anil sawlani — August 26, 2010 @ 9:36 am
Lots of interesting comments to an obviously frustrating situation.
My question: How does a larger company, not a small business with lets say a sole proprietor, administrate a FB business presence? I'm the sole proprietor of a design/marketing firm. Having a business page for myself through my personal account is no big deal. But, I have clients that would like me to set-up and be the administrator of their FB business page. How are larger firms doing that? I don't want to use the personal account of my contact at my client or my personal account, or others at the firm for that matter – what if they leave the firm or I discontinue working with them – all login and access goes away.
Is this a solution? Create a "John Doe" personal account with an email johndoe@companyxyz.com. Have John set-up a business page for my client at companyxyz and have John Doe's login/pw etc be "public" knowledge at my client so anyone – in theory – could login and administrate the account in the event that any one person leaves the marketing loop (my contact, myself etc).
Am I putting my personal FB account and business account at "terms of use" risk here by doing that? If I set-up as John Doe, login as John Doe, administer as John Doe with a
John Doe email, am I not John Doe?
I'd love comments from any one with insight to this possible solution.
Thanks.
Comment by Ray Bauer — August 29, 2010 @ 11:15 am
So my business is connected to my personal page (UNFORTUNATELY), and I'm wanting to use the NOTES Application on my business page (use it like a store blog…) however, when I go to the Notes Application it only lets me make a note to my personal page. HELP!
Comment by Stacey — August 30, 2010 @ 8:00 am
I am trying like crazy to make a fb page that when a user clicks on the f icon on my website will take them to a facebook page that would look like this: http://www.facebook.com/alicesallinone, with everyone having access to see it (only if they want to post something they would be prompted to login with their fb account. I tried everything that the others were trying in this thread: created additional page as part of my personal account, created a separate account, put all the info, to no avail. When I searched for the page it gave me some stupid string of bulshit characters and I had to log in to see my stupid page.
How the other biggies do ? Ex: http://facebook.com/veganoutreach, http://www.facebook.com/ScienceChannel, etc ? Please fb help us!!!!!
Comment by Alice Gheorghiu — September 1, 2010 @ 12:58 pm
I have tried to set up a business page with facebook without having a personal one and it doesnt allow yo uto do this. it will always ask you for your log in details and if you dont dont have this, you have to create a profile. there is no method to bypass this.
Comment by Paul — September 14, 2010 @ 7:15 am
I'm waiting on how to properly set up FB pages. I do this for my clients and I want a check-list to see if I am missing anything. and also maximizing the page for my customers. Help!
Comment by Angela — September 15, 2010 @ 5:07 pm
if setting up business under your personal, you have to "like" the business page by clicking "like" then it will show up in the search. Next to see the pages again you have to click the home link in the top right of screen and then click the adverts and pages link which is located under your profile pic. Also if you want someone else to manage or take over the page updates, you need someone else to "like the page and then view all your friends, and click the link to the right of their name to set them as an administer. then later they can remove you as an administrator.
Comment by Angela — September 15, 2010 @ 8:18 pm
You have to have 25 fans before you can optimise your fb page URL.
Comment by Stephanie Hunt — September 16, 2010 @ 5:30 am
Someone please answer this…This is exactly what I would like to to do as well. I would like to "like" a business page, but I don't want it to say that I like the page, I want it to say that my business likes the page. Is there anyway to make this happen/
Comment by Chad Musgrove — September 20, 2010 @ 2:53 pm
I want to know the same thing. Been trying to figure this one out.
Comment by Renee Troutt — September 22, 2010 @ 5:56 pm
You have to "Like" the company first and then you will be able to see the "Comment" option.
Comment by Renee Troutt — September 22, 2010 @ 6:07 pm
It may not be obvious how to setup an administrator.
Step one is for that person to become a fan.
Step two s for person that created business page to set that person up as as administrator.
You do that by going to fans on business page and selecting that fan. A popup box allows you to then appoint that person as administrator.
Comment by Charles — September 22, 2010 @ 8:55 pm
Charles,
AFAIK you can only add friends, not fans, to become page Admins. Business accounts can't have friends, so you can't add admins. Very frustrating.
Comment by Robert — September 24, 2010 @ 6:35 pm
I have a family member that has a personal profile, but wants to have a separate account for her business. She tried creating a page for the business, but then when she comments, it shows her personal profile, not her business. If I post to her business wall and she comments on my comment, it shows the business, but not if she goes to my wall and make a comment. She doesn't want strangers that may "like" her page to be able to see her personal profile (trying not to mix business stuff with family/friend stuff). PLEASE HELP!! I have seen that you can't create 2 separate accounts with 2 separate email addresses, which is stupid, so what is she supposed to do.
Comment by Lindsay — September 29, 2010 @ 5:52 pm
@ Lindsay: it is so easy now for many people here who were really unhappy. But using my own experience as an example when I started "SGC Nigeria | Online Store" on Facebook made most people understand clearly what went wrong. Just read my post here or send me an email:
sales@sgcnigeria.com
And for those who have been asking me: 'Well, yeah, I'm a Marketing Manager @ SGC Nigeria too'
Cheer up everyone, will'ya. lol
Comment by Emmanuel Obafemi — October 6, 2010 @ 5:54 pm
Ray: Did you find an adequate answer or solution for this predicament? This is the exact same question we are asking ourselves as well. Thanks!
Comment by Derek Dominguez — October 8, 2010 @ 1:02 pm
My question is just the opposite and for some reason I cant find an answer to it so maybe someone here can help me. I need to change my business account into a personal account how do i do this.
Comment by Jenna — October 15, 2010 @ 11:31 am
My company would like to have a FB page with several employees having access to the account.
Nobody is going to let everyone use their personal account.
It sounds like they don't really want businesses to use FB.
What difference could it make to have both????
I would like for FBto reconsider this rule.
Comment by Julia Dean — October 17, 2010 @ 4:01 pm
In order to have what is known as a "vanity url" you have to have at least 100 Fans. After that you can change your url to something shorter.
Comment by Megan — October 24, 2010 @ 3:27 pm
I guess they have changed things, because I just went to the trouble of setting up my business account and now they insist I set up a personal account and my business account will just become a blurb on my info tab! I'm not very happy!
Comment by Muno's Bakery — November 7, 2010 @ 8:28 pm
I accidentally deleted my sole right to my business page because I don't wanna link my personal account with business page. But what I've got is no more link but no more maintenance either. What should I do to get back into the page?
Guys, any suggestion, please?
Comment by mae — November 12, 2010 @ 10:44 pm
I also have this problem….
I want to set up a business page, ac, or what ever but it still list a personal name! you cant fake it because the system knows if it is not a real name…
How has the Queen managed it?
http://www.facebook.com/TheBritishMonarchy
ERRRRRRRRH!!!
Where is the answer?
Comment by richard — November 16, 2010 @ 5:13 am
i have a personal account but want to create a page on face book for business or a website but i want it separate from my personal account . is this possible ? if not how can i add a page but it be unknown to users , friends and so on that i am the creator and its just from the company or website?
Comment by brent — December 19, 2010 @ 10:19 pm
I too am having a terrible time setting up a business account for my company without it asking for my name. I have tried several times using different emails, so that FB doesn't pick up on them and still no luck. I have a personal account and need a separate business one to inform my customers of new items and getting feedback, etc. Extremely frustrated now.
Comment by Christina — January 6, 2011 @ 2:10 am
It looks like The British Monarchy is a Fan Page, not a profile page.
Comment by Kay — January 13, 2011 @ 5:06 pm
My name is Scott. I am doing some marketing for a small non-profit credit union
(o.u.r. federal credit union). I Need help setting up a "business account" for my “business page” on facebook.
To my understanding a “business page” needs to be associated with a “business account” or a personal profile for search engines to see it. I am a freelance person so I need to set up a business account- NOT a personal account.
I understand the difference but cannot find the the way to get to the "business account" area.. from my newly made business page. I was never prompted to go any where after loading pics and filling out the business info…. i just hit the page update button and thats it…….. NOTHING …..
Can you pleas give me some guidance or turn me to someone that possibly can help me?
If you like you can contact my regular email, as i don’t know if the new FB page has email……
Big thanks
Scott Cunningham
phone: 415 734 6332
email: o.u.r.federalcreditunion@gmail.com
Comment by scott — January 15, 2011 @ 7:53 pm
thanks
Comment by rambabu234sonu — January 20, 2011 @ 2:59 am
Setting up my business page off of my personal account has now become a nightmare. I have to ask people to become my friend, then request them to the business page. At this point I am unable to have friends on the business page. Can someone help?
Comment by Debbie Horn — January 29, 2011 @ 8:28 am
I have a personal account, call it Don XXX. Then my co-worker created a business account for our film/video magazine by creating another personal account Don Cine S and then creating a CineSource Magazine page somehow connected to Don Cine S. Unfortunately, CineSource has Don Cine S listed on its account but not vice versa. I can only log in as Don Cine S, that page has its own friends and people who like. Then I have to search for CineSource Magazine, which is the actual business, which in turn has its friends, people who like. I need to unify the two accounts, or close them and start anew of my own account, or something. Any suggestions
Comment by Doniphan — January 30, 2011 @ 6:08 am
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Comment by Psychotherapy — February 9, 2011 @ 3:23 am
hi how you dowin how do i creat a faecbook page
Comment by R de-koe — February 10, 2011 @ 8:48 am
now how do Id do that
Comment by r de-koe — February 10, 2011 @ 8:49 am
I had the same issue, go to the account tab and select which user you would like to be eg, personal or page.
Comment by Caz — February 14, 2011 @ 10:27 pm
hi
we opened one new company i want to open account for that one in facebook can you please help me out how to do that job.
Thanks in advance
Varun
Comment by varun — February 23, 2011 @ 4:33 am
give me good example of the business account on facebook so i can go and see.
Comment by Muge — February 23, 2011 @ 12:49 pm
This feature is now available on Facebook, just recently. Under account, there is an option for "using Facebook as a page." You can switch yourself from Chat Musgrove to xyz business and post as the business…pretty cool new feature.
Comment by Mary Stadum — February 23, 2011 @ 11:58 pm
Seems I am not the only one having a nightmare – my two partners and I have started a business, we tried to set up a fb account – it linked to my partners personal account – now we cannot unlink it. We don't want to use our personal fbs account to control the business account, nor allow information sharing across the two -but I am now worried that if I try to shut down the fb account (for the business) and start over – it will also wipe out our personal fb accounts.Does anyone know how to do this? Many thanks.
Comment by Hannah — March 16, 2011 @ 5:23 am
You need to call someone you know or I guess I can do it, to look up your page to see if it is published. What did you name it? o.u.r. federal credit union? I will look….and get back to you
Comment by Kelly — March 20, 2011 @ 10:00 am
Please help! I set up the fb page, now what? When does the fb login page com up?
Comment by susan — March 28, 2011 @ 5:33 am
I did all the steps you said for a book of mine, but it still looks like a personal account, and the title of my book is nowhere. how can I make sure?
Also is there a way to deactivate an account but recreate one with the same email? thanx
Comment by Khaila — April 11, 2011 @ 11:04 pm
Why won't FB let me use the "info" for our company email address. This email has already been established and we would rather not change it. Any ideas?
Comment by DEbbie — April 18, 2011 @ 3:42 pm
For me the Facebook has defiantly made this process so much more difficult then it needs to be. It would be nice to have a clear direction. Cause what they have now is thousands of businesses who have all done it a different way do to a broken and under documented process.
judithbassler
Comment by lucas jerome — May 8, 2011 @ 10:58 am
just use separate email accts. — the issue is two accounts tied to one email – I admin commercial pages for multiple companies and non profits – pain having to create unique email accts for each but after making myself additional admin from personal acct. it is no problem – login once and admin them all
Comment by tim c — May 17, 2011 @ 3:38 pm
Yep. FB doesn't give a hoot about all of the reported problems and frustrations of small businesses. They will not respond to emails and will arrogantly continue to ignore requests to clarify or fix this process.
Comment by Kay — May 24, 2011 @ 5:37 pm
Can a business account create a facebook application via the developer app? Or is it not possible to install apps (the developer app specifically) under a business account? I'm a software developer that does not have a personal account. And based on the documentation I've been reading so far, it looks like it's not possible to create an app for facebook without having your own personal account. So frustrating!!! I have no need for facebook personally, and don't want to link my businesses to my personal life that doesn't even exist online. Why should I need to create an account just to create an app for other people to use? It doesn't make any sense. I've considered creating a fake profile to just be the owner of my business application, but I don't want to risk the app becoming popular only to find out the violating the facebook terms of service locks out my users from functionality they are used to having. Because then I'd have no way to even contact facebook about it, and my app would just disappear into the abyss. So after a full day of wasted time and research, I'm just not going to make a facebook app. It's a nice to have, but not worth the hassle.
My suggestion to facebook would be: just give businesses the same "rights" as people. Let businesses create profiles, and create applications the same way individuals can. There's already a legal structure for fictitious business names set in place (at least in the US where im from). Is that not good enough? Even my bank will allow me to open an account under my business name!!! Why can't I create an application under that same name?
Comment by frustrated — May 25, 2011 @ 7:30 pm
if i convert my facebook personal profile to business one will i be able to control two other pages that i own before doing that
Comment by Moazzam — May 31, 2011 @ 2:38 pm
Tammy We are realizing that FB has very sharp people that are fully aware of the power they control and are never going to allow biz or non profit orgs life me to "market" to their goldmine of people (info) …so we all HAVE to be a person and FB will not be a free product testing site or MLM Criags list type operation
PS if you saw the movie "Social Network" it is easy to realize the boy thought this through BRILLIANTLY!!
we just gave in and have many Admins along with our media dept good luck Steve
Comment by steve — June 2, 2011 @ 7:05 pm
I have the same problem, can't create a username, I'm about to close the account, did you get a solution since you post this?
Comment by Luis — June 9, 2011 @ 1:59 pm
I created a personal account before facebook came out with this business account idea. So my business page is actually linked with my personal account. Is it possible to covert my personal account to a business account? I really only want the account to manage my business page. I do not want my profile to be searchable or have friends, etc. So essentially, I have a business page linked with a personal account. How do I link my already created business page to a new business account? Or convert my personal account to a business account?
Comment by Laura — June 20, 2011 @ 8:28 am
Hi, great tip, but I'm wondering if anyone can help me given I set up the page with my personal account, and now one of my co-workers needs to be an admin, and doesnt have or want a personal account. Thus, I want to set him up a business account … but I cant find how to do this without setting up another page or an ad for him to admin. Any tips on a workaround, so that I can make him admin of the existing page?
Comment by Todd — June 22, 2011 @ 4:34 am
Very informative article. My only question is, do I set up a business account, then put the fan page there, or do I just set it up under my personal account?
Comment by drm removal — June 26, 2011 @ 11:39 pm
Wheb you create a business account you need to select the company or institutions option and not small businesses. I did the same thing as you but somehow this worked out in the end. Facebook does some weird and not so wonderful things sometimes.
Comment by anon — June 27, 2011 @ 7:39 pm
I am getting so frustrated at having to switch back as myself to load certain apps. Then I cannot load it onto the my business page of my facebook account. Is there any way to make sure I get the apps I want on my business page. I also think it is very unfair not to be able to have a seperate business account just because you had a personal one.
Comment by Sam — July 11, 2011 @ 6:13 pm
i have just set up a business account FB and i want to have links for poeple to see me and maybe want tobe on my list. how do i do that
Comment by mgmads — July 14, 2011 @ 12:24 pm
I have my business account set up, and want to post news items at times, and allow friends to respond to MY POSTS only. But I don't want all my friends posts about personal stuff on my business page. I have HIDE ALL POSTS BY THIS FRIEND and that takes care of personal posts, but now they can't reply to one of my business posts. Any ideas??
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Comment by Remove WMV DRM — November 28, 2011 @ 9:24 pm
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Comment by tom — December 3, 2011 @ 2:55 am
Hie,how do i manage friend activity on my business account
Comment by tumai — December 6, 2011 @ 3:02 am
I'm struggling to set up a 'business' Facebook page. It's not really business, it's more for my photography, however I want to keep it separate from my personal page. I cannot figure out how to put a 'LIKE' button on my Photography Facebook page. Apparently one has to be thoroughly knowledgeable in coding, which I am not. So, I'm stuck with absolutely no help.
Comment by Kay — December 26, 2011 @ 7:59 pm
Same here and I hate it! What good is a business FB page if someone has to go through your personal page. I want a business page for business and I don't want my friends and family to have to constantly hear about my business and my business customers don't need to hear about my friends and family. Business is business and personal should be "personal".
Comment by Sue Catherman — January 1, 2012 @ 9:08 am
Trying to create a FB page for my small business, can't even do that as keep getting error message "Oops, somethings gone wrong, we are trying to fix it" – no they are not! I have been trying for over a month and reported it to them and still cannot create a page – I may give up on FB as it is probably more hassle than its worth.
Comment by Caz — January 10, 2012 @ 9:35 am
I have recently started working for a non-profit and have been asked to create a facebook for the organization. The social media is being added to our organizations website and can not easily be changed, so it is important to have a facebook account that will stay with the organization instead of individuals. How should I go about doing this?
Comment by Nicole — January 31, 2012 @ 12:32 am