This post is dedicated to show you exactly how to create a Facebook fan page. Fan pages are really important for businesses nowadays. Even if you are just trying to market a simple eBook, this can be a key factor to exposing you that much more. The reason for this is that not only can people in Facebook “fan” your page and see updates but search engines can see the fan page and since you have links to your site, you gain a little bit of the facebook PR juice. This can’t hurt at all, it can only help!
Ok let’s start:
- Once logged in to Facebook, go all the way down to the bottom, at the footer and look for the link that says “advertising” and click on it.
- This will take you to a page that says “Facebook Ads”. There should be 3 graphics and the middle one should say “Deepen Your Relationship” and it should have a link under it called “Promote your Facebook page or website”, click on that.
- Now in the upper right hand corner below the home – profile – account section you should see a green button labeled “Create a Page”, click on it.
- Now, you will want to make sure you are in the “Official Page” section and choose between Local Business, Brand-product-organization, or artist,band, or public figure. Here I chose brand,product, or organization, filled out page name and click the checkbox stating I am the official representative, blah blah.
- Finally click on “Create Official Page”.
- Now you have a totally blank fan page. Gotta spruce it up though!
- The first option you have is to add an image, well I just have a basic product at easywpsalespage.net nothing that really needs a logo or picture exactly but I decided to go to an awesome place over at http://www.vectorportal.com/logos/. You need illustrator for this but it’s really nice in that these are stock and free to use. So I took a logo template, added some text and saved it as a .jpg and now I have a logo.
- So then, you will click on add info and include your website URL and basic info about your product or company – pretty easy stuff.
- It probably is on your info page after you click on “done editing” so to go back just click on the “Get started” tab.
- Now we have the option to “Post status updates”. For this I just put down a brief paragraph that the website is up etc and promote my product just a little more.
- Next option is to add a like box to your own website, this is optional but if you do… I didn’t change any of the option it asked and just click on “get code”. This code you will use to paste into your site. – You can save it into notepad for later use if necessary.
- The last two options are just extras, but that is pretty much it.
- On the lower left hand side you can click on “share” to share with your friends or you can click on “like” to have it show up on your profile.
Hope this helps everyone!