Author: Christian Karasiewicz

Link your Facebook Page and Facebook Profile to boost engagement!

A lot of people have the misconception that it is difficult to use your Facebook Profile for business. While you’re not supposed to run your business from a Facebook Profile, you can leverage your profile to promote your Facebook Page.

There are a number of ways you can do this. For example, you can like your own Facebook Page and share updates from your news feed on your profile.

This will help let your friends and followers learn about your Facebook Page through the content that you share.

While this is a great way to grow your engagement, you can’t do this until you get people to like your Facebook Page.

So what can you do to create a more permanent way to promote your Facebook Page on your Facebook Profile for all of your friends and followers to see?

The problem

You’ve want to feature your Facebook Page on your Facebook Profile.

The solution

There are two ways that you can feature your Facebook Page on your Facebook Profile. We’re going to start with the easier one. To link your Facebook Page to your Facebook Profile, follow these steps.

How to add your Facebook Page to your Facebook Profile

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Pause or stop Facebook Ads or sponsored stories

Are you still being charged for Facebook Ads you are not running? Instead of filing a dispute or getting mad at Facebook, learn how to stop Facebook Ads and sponsored stories.

The problem

You ran Facebook Ads or sponsored stories and you forgot to stop them.

In this situation, you have a few options to stop Facebook Ads from running.

Solutions

Here are a few ways to stop Facebook Ads or sponsored stories that you are running.

The easiest way to stop Facebook Ads is to pause or delete them.

You can stop Facebook Ads using the following instructions.

How to stop Facebook Ads or sponsored stories

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Pinterest for ecommerce

A lot of people think that Pinterest is only good for a handful of things – saving and sharing fashion, designs, and recipes you find online. Don’t let it fool you though. You can use Pinterest for business. You can even use Pinterest for ecommerce.

In fact, there are approximately 46.9 million monthly active users on Pinterest right now. . That’s a staggering number, considering just one year ago, there were only 12.2 million monthly active users on Pinterest.

So just why is Pinterest for ecommerce so important? Here are few stats that you need to be aware of as an ecommerce business that can affect your online sales.

Important facts about using Pinterest for ecommerce

90% of the users on @Pinterest are women. .

61% of women influence consumer electronic buying decisions. . [Source]

Pinterest driving more traffic to websites than Twitter for ecommerce businesses. .

As an ecommerce business, what can you do to tap into the large number of monthly active users on Pinterest?

This infographic on Pinterest for ecommerce helps breakdown steps you can take with your business to leverage Pinterest as a marketing channel.

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3 Steps to make your Facebook Page private

Do you need to do some work on your Facebook Page before you launch it? Maybe you just want to hide your Facebook Page because you are rebranding your business. Learn how to make your Facebook Page private and hide it from fans and friends.

Who can see my Facebook Page?

When you make your Facebook Page private, this will hide it from fans. This means they won’t be able to see it or even find it within Facebook Graph Search.

If someone is an admin on your Facebook Page will still be able to see it.

If someone is a manager, they will be able to see your Facebook Page and make changes to it.

To make your Facebook Page private, follow the instructions listed below.

How to make your Facebook Page private

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7 Common questions about Facebook locations

Facebook recently launched Facebook locations. If you have questions about setting up locations for your business, we’ve compiled a list of common questions to help you get started.

Questions on Facebook locations
Common questions about using Facebook locations.

Before you get started with using Facebook locations, you probably have quite a few questions. Here are a few tips to avoid when setting up your page.

Things to do:

  • Make sure you have the correct Page ID for the main Page
  • Make sure your page web address doesn’t have any spaces or symbols
  • Get your latitude and longitude coordinates

Things to avoid:

  • Do not add or remove columns in the spreadsheet
  • Avoid assigning store IDs that you previously assigned to other locations for your business

Keep reading for a list of common questions about Facebook locations.

Common questions about Facebook locations

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Managing multiple places with the help of Facebook locations

Do you manage a business that has multiple locations? Keeping all of those Facebook Pages updated can be very time-consuming. Now you can make things much easier with the help of Facebook locations (formerly Parent-child pages).

What are Facebook locations?

Facebook locations
Example of a business using Facebook locations.

Facebook describes Facebook locations like this.

Facebook locations are a way to manage pages for all your locations in one place. Each store will be tied to one main Facebook Page.

Anyone who has a store with multiple locations can now tie their Facebook Pages together under one main page.

For those of you who run a business with multiple locations, this is great news. This is because this feature was previously only available to large companies like Starbucks and McDonald’s.

Now, when someone visits your main Facebook Page, they will be able to see that you have other locations as well that they can engage with.

Benefits to using Facebook locations

If you have struggled with managing lots of pages for your business, here are some of the ways Facebook locations can make things easier for you and your customers.

  • Creates authentic Pages for all of your store locations
  • Updates all of your Pages with the right information
  • Helps people find your business on Facebook
  • Page admins with Content Creator or Manager status will be able to add, edit, or remove locations

This means anyone with multiple pages for their business can provide their location information and take advantage of Facebook locations to help bring them together.

To get started with Facebook locations, follow the instructions below.

How to create Facebook locations for your Facebook Pages

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Viewing Facebook comments on dark or unpublished posts

Did you create a dark or unpublished post on Facebook?

Do you know how to view comments made after you’ve created a dark or unpublished post?

Today I’m going to teach you how to view comments on a dark or unpublished Facebook post in just a few steps.

Why view comments on a dark or unpublished Facebook post?

If you want to increase Facebook engagement, you can’t just create a dark or unpublished post and ignore your audience.

While dark or unpublished Facebook posts don’t show up on your timeline, that doesn’t matter.

Anyone who has a direct link to your post or was targeted in your dark or unpublished post can still leave a comment.

If you ignore comments on a dark or unpublished Facebook post, you send the message that you don’t care about your fans.

The good news is that viewing comments on a dark or unpublished post takes just a few minutes to do.

To view comments on a dark or unpublished Facebook post, follow these instructions.

How to view comments on a dark or unpublished Facebook post

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The Complete guide on how to apply Facebook Ad coupons

Did you receive a coupon for free Facebook Ads? Instead of letting it expire because you don’t know how to use it, here is how to apply Facebook ad coupons to your Facebook account in just a few steps.

The importance of Facebook Ads

While some people believe that you shouldn’t have to use Facebook Ads to drive engagement and to grow your Facebook Page, they’re not going away anytime soon as Facebook Ads generated 49% of Facebook revenue for mobile in the last quarter. That’s a staggering number that should continue to increase as more and more users are using mobile devices.

Couple that with the fact that there are over 1 billion Facebook users and those users spend an average of 6 hours and 35 minutes on Facebook per month, hopefully you can see the power of Facebook Ads.

They provide a tremendous opportunity to grow your business – when done right.

How can ads help your business?

If you’re still not convinced, Facebook Ads can be a great way tool to advertise and promote your business to fans.

Here are some of the things running Facebook Ads can do.

  • Gain more fans on your Facebook Page
  • Target specific groups of users based on age, personal interests, and other Facebook Pages they like
  • Target fans on desktops, tablets, or smartphones
  • And more

To apply Facebook Ad coupons to your account, follow the instructions listed below.

Note: If you have multiple Facebook Ads coupons, you will need to repeat the instructions for each Facebook Ads coupon.

How to apply Facebook Ad coupons

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Rename your Facebook Page with suggest an edit

Have you tried to rename your Facebook Page; however, you’re over the 200 fan limit? If you find yourself in this situation, don’t panic or create a new Facebook Page just yet. Instead, here’s a shortcut using the suggest an edit feature on Facebook.

We’re going to walk you through renaming your Facebook Page using the suggest an edit feature, which should help save you time when you need to rename your Facebook Page.

The problem

Once you reached 200 fans on your Facebook Page or you have changed your Facebook Page name one time, you no longer have the ability to rename your Facebook Page.

This isn’t so bad unless you are going through a rebranding or you’ve spelled your business name incorrectly. If you’re in this situation, you are essentially stuck with the name you chose when you launched your Facebook Page.

Fortunately, you can fix this issue and rename  your Facebook Page with the help of suggest an edit on Facebook.

The solution

Instead of creating a new Facebook Page, you can rename your Facebook Page with the help of the suggest an edit feature on Facebook.

This feature also comes in handy because you can retain your Facebook vanity URL, keep your fans, and all of the content you have shared on your Facebook Page.

To use this feature, here are a few things to know when renaming your page.

  • Make sure the category of your Facebook Page is set to local business
  • Gather 15-20 of your friends or fans
  • Tell them what you want to rename your Facebook Page to
  • Have them enter it in the page name in the suggest an edit area on your Facebook Page

Seems simple, right?

Now that you’ve done the preliminary work, here are the instructions you need to use suggest an edit to rename a Facebook Page.

Note: Be sure you follow these exact instructions. Otherwise, it may not work for your page.

If you are concerned about changing the category on your page, you can always change that part back.

Suggest an edit on Facebook to rename a Facebook Page

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