Fan page or personal page: How to promote yourself or business on facebook.

Fan page or personal page, what should I be using?  That is a question a hear many times from business owners, agents, & friends.  The answer is not all simple.  You actually have to weigh out its pro’s and con’s, and how it would benefit you. I personally have one of each.

Profile pages are intended for people, not businesses.  If you are using a basic profile for your business it is actually against Facebook terms.  If Facebook were to find out you were using a regular profile page for your business it is possible for them to delete your page including all those friends you worked so hard to gain.

DID YOU KNOW:  

A profile page can only have a max of 5,000 friends.

A fan page is unlimited.

The disadvantages for a fan page are not many, but they should not be overlooked:

•  In A fan page you do not have the ability to invite friends.
• Fans can post negative comments
• You have to keep it up to date

Although these are pretty bad, there is a way around some of them.  As far as not being able to invite friends.  You can copy/paste your url (www.facebook.com/yourfanpage) into your personal page and share –  That is why I have two.  I like to let people know what kind of person I am and that I am not just suit.   You can also set your preferences so that only certain posts in your personal page will show and others can be kept private.  

Keeping it up to date- people like to be acknowledged when they post something on your fan page.  Don’t over do it either.  Posting a bunch of non sense also does you no good.  Keep it to things that are interesting to your audience and not only yourself!  

Here are the pro’s:

• A fan page is free!
• You can have a unlimited amount of fans
• You can contact all your fans in a instant
• You get great feedbacks
• You can get a personalized and much more professional look to yourself and your business.

Check out my fan page to see a example of what I mean:

Click on the image below!