Outsourcing Social Media: Letting Them Handle Your Facebook Fanpage

Written by Tyrone Shum Thursday, 26 May 2011 06:16

The first thing what you should do is if you haven't made a FaceBook account, I suggest doing that and all you've got to do is just visit FaceBook and just simply sign up to have an account. Then, the reason why I'm implying to get a FaceBook Fanpage today is that after say you reach about 5,000 friends you'll be restricted in what you can apply to be able to promote to or stay in touch with all your friends and with it, you can have unrestricted fans or unrestricted people following you and also contacting you so you can imagine the influence of having a Fanpage. Let's move through firstly and I'll provide you with just how to do detail by detail regarding how to set up Fanpage. Initial thing I've done is I've logged into my account and as you are able to see this is my very own profile page. What you should do is at the bottom here that says "Ads and Pages" simply click on that. So now you go in to be able to establish a Fanpage and to do that, what you see here is up here it says "Create Page, New Page or Delete Page". What we need to do is firstly come up with a page.

The first thing what you should do is if you haven't made a FaceBook account, I suggest doing that and all you've got to do is just visit FaceBook and just simply sign up to have an account. Then, the reason why I'm implying to get a FaceBook Fanpage today is that after say you reach about 5,000 friends you'll be restricted in what you can apply to be able to promote to or stay in touch with all your friends and with it, you can have unrestricted fans or unrestricted people following you and also contacting you so you can imagine the influence of having a Fanpage. Let's move through firstly and I'll provide you with just how to do detail by detail regarding how to set up Fanpage. Initial thing I've done is I've logged into my account and as you are able to see this is my very own profile page. What you should do is at the bottom here that says "Ads and Pages" simply click on that. So now you go in to be able to establish a Fanpage and to do that, what you see here is up here it says "Create Page, New Page or Delete Page". What we need to do is firstly come up with a page.

To build a page, all you've got to do is select just one of three options. You've got here Local business, Brand or product or Artist or band. Based on what you're doing, if you're an enterprise then I would recommend developing a local company and if you select on that, there's a few options that you'll choose from and according to what business or which area or category you are simply select that. In my circumstance or in my situation here, I've created personal branding for my own name so I selected Artist or band. And you will select any of these based on what you really are, I'm just basically whether public figure or just a writer. I've chosen previously as being a writer. And then just have a Page name. Basically type in the name of the page. With my case, it's my full name and then simply just click on "I'm the official representative" so now once you've created that, all you have to do is click on this button that says "Create official page". Great once that's done, it'll take you straight back into your page which I'll teach you right so now.

Alright once you've done that, what I suggest as well too is to try put little bit more details. So you probably want to put your info page here and share exact details, links back to your blog, backlinks to your other websites that you have etc. Then the following point I recommend doing as well is to put some photos up. People want to know who you are, find out a bit more about yourself and I've put several photos of who I've met with previously like Darren Rowse, Gary V, and so on and Yaro Starak. Next thing I would recommend doing is to put in a few different applications. For example links to YouTube, Twitter and also Posterous blog posts and the like. There's some really neat piece of software or tool that I use to set this up and you don't have to do it by setting it up yourself. All you need to do is simply head off to this website called Involver which I'll open up right now for you. It's called Involver.com and you can easily see it right here. What it does is it enables you to add maximum of two applications into your FaceBook Fanpage if you sign up for free account. If you decide that you want to add more applications, can be done that and just pay a monthly fee to be able to access that. But all I would recommend doing is adding the most two important things that you need which is YouTube and Twitter.

To register your account, just click "Start here" and it's a simple three-step process: discover the apps, find the apps and then choose which feature is suitable for you. And as I've mentioned, I recommend signing up again Twitter account and also the YouTube account and as long as you have those two already setup such as the YouTube account and Twitter account, all you need to do is add in the details here and Involver will do the rest for you. So I'll let you do that anytime you want and it's very easy to do.

Next, one final thing I wish to accomplish is just discuss more details about creating yourself a particular link so that anybody who would like to access your page will be able to find it. What happens is that originally, the link that you get on your Fanpage is something like FaceBook.com/pages/numbers-yourname which is extremely hard to remember. What I suggest you do is to set up a certain link, customized website address for your page or you'll have a basically directory that's been redirected here. For me, I've got a specialized link that goes directly to the page which is Tyroneshum.com/FaceBook. And anyone can do not forget that if I just send it out via email or send it out to anyone in my contacts, and I'll ask them to visit my Fanpage, all they should do is type in Tyroneshum.com/FaceBook and you'll be able to access my page anytime.