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What if awhile ago you started using the personal profile, then created a new business page.
Can you convert your personal page friends to LIKES of your existing business page? Essentially merge the personal profile into the existing profile page?
finally Facebook has come around and I thought Linkedin would be the first. Since I am a SEO professional i have struggled with putting effort into FaceBook but now I think it will be worthwhile. Thank you for the marketing guide to as I am a novice at marketing through social networking sites.
Think this is a great idea. I've created a business profile using my own name awhile back and having to use my own name has driven me crazy. I just went to migrate my profile to a page and facebook won't let me change my name to my business name. It keeps saying to keep it similar to my real name. I only have 88 friends so what gives?
Yes, I agree with some of the earlier posters. Facebook still doesn't seem to go far enough; I've never understood the business logic of their locking in users with their complex array of profiles and profile rules: "you can do this w/this number of friends" or "you can change this but not that." I've just tried the migrate my profile and the thing I was hoping for most, which was to remove my personal info, is still not allowable. Unfortunately, the monopoly of their's allows them to continue to disregard the frustrations of their users.
Please be careful... Your Groups, when making the switch Groups apps, photos etc do NOT show up!
I was able to gain access through an old account i never used and having group admins activate my admin...
FB needs to allow you to Keep the Personal Profile after converting. I'll probably stick with the old way to do it.
I can only imagine how many people will be making this switch! I have run into many business pages who were trying to add friends because they opened a business profile in error. Great to see this functionality in place.
As Kathy said, so many business want to get their message out, but the personal pages aren't as well indexed if they are at all. I hope this can be done in a useful manner.
Really great information. Thanks for sharing a solution to such a common question. I was at an internet conference last week and social media was a major topic.
You are the first to share this simple solution or at least not keep it to themselves!
This is great news for lawyers who want to market through social media. Thanks for the update.
Hi, I converted my facebook profile to a business page and all the friends become fans, great but the problem is that i can enter the admin section of the page but it will not publish or display, does anyone know how to fix it??? thanks
The new possibility is also a new change in the eyes of users
If until now people could join a profile considering friendship and personal motives ,now they should suspect everyone to manipulate and convert them to LIKE followers