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Although Facebook is already over ten years old (it appeared in 2004), many people are not clear about the difference between a Facebook Profile and a Facebook Page<\/strong>.\u00a0That’s what we’ll talk about here! Today we will show you how you can turn your Profile into Fan Page<\/strong> and why it is convenient to do so.<\/p>\n This article is especially aimed at those people who use their personal profile to promote their business<\/strong>.\u00a0Here you will know the advantages that a Facebook Page can bring<\/strong> to your company or venture, and the reasons why you should turn your profile into Fan Page<\/strong>. Let’s start!<\/p>\n First of all, it is important to explain the difference between a Profile and a Fan Page<\/strong>. While the first one is for personal use (that is to say non-commercial) and is designed to connect with friends and family, the second is designed to promote companies and commercially proposed on Facebook.<\/strong><\/p>\n In fact, the Facebook Pages<\/strong> are integrated with a complete advertising platform that provides refined segmentation, promotion and statistics<\/strong> tools related to the target<\/em> or target audience of advertisers using this medium to promote their companies.<\/p>\n The Facebook advertising<\/strong> service fits in every<\/strong> pocket<\/strong> and is extremely effective<\/strong> for both large companies and small retailers<\/strong>. This is thanks to the effective mechanical segmentation, which allows displaying ads to your target audience with virtually no margin of error.<\/p>\n Now let’s look at the differences between Pages or Fan Pages and Facebook Profiles<\/strong> with more specificity:<\/p>\n A Facebook profile is a personal account created to be used by a real person<\/strong> (that is to say, with your real name).<\/p>\n With a Facebook profile you can:<\/p>\n A Facebook Page<\/strong> is similar to a Profile but unlike this, it can represent anything (not just people)<\/strong>. Indeed, there are Pages or Fan Pages for everything from celebrities to festivals, local businesses, politicians, movies or books. Postcron also has one!<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n So, if your goal is to generate a relevant presence for your business on Facebook, the best option without doubt is to create a Fan Page.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n With a Facebook Page, you can:<\/p>\n To do any kind of thing on Facebook, like creating a Fan Page, you need a Profile<\/strong>. Besides it is convenient that you use your real name, since Facebook sanctions the users that lie with their personal data. You can take a look at this article to know what other actions you should avoid not to be blocked on Facebook.<\/p>\n In conclusion, if you are looking for a way to promote your business and connect with your audience, the way to do it on Facebook is through a Fan Page.<\/p>\n In case you have been promoting your brand or business from a personal profile, it is time to stop! Create a Fan Page from your profile to prevent blocking Facebook and access the many facilities that the social network provides to businesses and shops.<\/p>\n Doing so is really simple, as we’ll see in the step-by-step tutorial<\/strong> below. But first it is important that you take into account the following points:<\/p>\n Now that you know why having a Fan Page for your business is the most convenient, we will show you how to generate a Facebook Page from your profile, step by step. You will see that it is very simple! Here we go:<\/p>\n Enter your Facebook profile, since you must be “logged in” to perform this process.<\/p>\n After entering Facebook, click on this link:\u00a0\u00a0facebook.com\/pages\/create\/migrate\/<\/a><\/span><\/strong> to start the process of creating a Fan Page<\/strong> for your business from your Profile.<\/p>\n Press the “Start”<\/strong> button and after a few moments you will see a message saying:\u00a0“Congratulations, you already have your new Facebook Page”.<\/strong><\/p>\n You can add relevant information<\/strong> such as the name of your business, your address, your website, hours of operation, and a map with your location, a description of your proposal and all kinds of information that is useful to the public.<\/p>\n First of all, we advise you to select all your friends from your profile, or the majority, to follow you on your new Facebook Page.\u00a0Complementarily, you can write an email introducing your new Fan Page and send it to all your contacts<\/strong>, to tell them your proposal and invite them to follow you.<\/p>\n The idea is to add some content so that users who visit your Fan Page can know more about your business, products, staff, etc. If you are uploading photos from your computer, we recommend you take a look at the sizes recommended by Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/strong> to make your images look attractive.<\/p>\n To capture new followers and keep the ones you already have, you need to provide quality content. And for that nothing is better than creating your own social media strategy<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong> For this we advise you to analyze the profile of your audience, to raise the communication objectives of your business and generate content to achieve them and at the same time to bring added value to your audience.<\/p>\n 5- Publishes with constancy to generate engagement<\/p>\n After creating and optimizing your Fan Page, it is important to maintain a systematic pace of your publications<\/strong>, so that there is always fresh and interesting content available to your visitors. That’s why the best practice is to schedule your publications in advance, so that they are automatically<\/a><\/span><\/strong> shared with no margin of error on the days and times you set.<\/p>\n To conclude this article, we can say that turning your profile into Fan Page<\/strong> is the way you should follow to promote your business on Facebook and reach your audience<\/strong>. Follow the steps proposed here and then tell us!<\/p>\n To learn more about managing your Facebook Page, we recommend reading the following articles from our blog:<\/p>\n That’s all for today! What did you think of this blog post? What is your experience promoting your business on Facebook? Tell us your opinion! And please do not forget to share this article with all your contacts that could interest you. See you soon! ?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although Facebook is already over ten years old (it appeared in 2004), many people are not clear about the difference between a Facebook Profile and a Facebook Page.\u00a0That’s what we’ll talk about here! Today we will show you how you can turn your Profile into Fan Page and why it is convenient to do so. 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<\/a><\/p>\nA Facebook page for your business allows you to:<\/h3>\n
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What you need to know about turning your Facebook profile into a Fan Page<\/span><\/h2>\n
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How to convert your Profile to Fan Page? Step-by-step tutorial<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\nStep 3<\/h3>\n<\/a>That is all! Simple, right? Now we’ll give you some tips to get the most out of your new Fan Page.<\/p>\n5 Tips to Manage Your Facebook Page Successfully<\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n1- Add information to your new page<\/h3>\n
2- Get fans for your Fan Page<\/h3>\n
3-\u00a0Put some photos of your profile to your Facebook Page<\/h3>\n
4- Create a content strategy<\/h3>\n
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