Putting my freelance biz on Facebook - best way?

Rikki · 28 Sep 2010 at 10:47

Hi folks,

Im wanting to put my freelance business on Facebook but am not sure how to go about this.

Ive seen a lot of companies creating user accounts so that they appear like normal people, can send and receive messages and such like but Id also read that wasnt the best way to do things.

I'd like people to be able to obviously communicate via messages and wouldnt like to just create a fan style page where it lists me as the "person behind" things as I have a lot of family, personal style stuff on my own Facebook page and although not anything I am ashamed of, its not really something Id like prospective clients to look at if I am the page creator etc.

What would you recommend ?

Thanks

Ri

Greenlizard0 · 28 Sep 2010 at 10:48

What is your biz, how about a bog standard Facebook advertisement? That's the shiz for your biz.

lookitsjonno · 28 Sep 2010 at 10:50

fan page, groups are rubbish as people have to manually check for updates afaik

PapaLazaru · 28 Sep 2010 at 10:53

Some friends of mine run a small recruitment company and they use FB, Twitter etc.

They initially set it up as a group. Then they changed it to a whole account. You can do a lot more with a whole account it is certainly what I would do if it was me.

Got links if you want to see both.

alexakasloth · 28 Sep 2010 at 10:54

If you create a fan page you won't be connected to it unless you become a fan.

Rikki · 28 Sep 2010 at 23:01

PapaLazaru said:
Some friends of mine run a small recruitment company and they use FB, Twitter etc.

They initially set it up as a group. Then they changed it to a whole account. You can do a lot more with a whole account it is certainly what I would do if it was me.

Got links if you want to see both.

That would be great thanks.

The ability for people to message me regarding business would be great but I havent found anyting explaining how to do it without creating a personal account for my biz and giving it a close name.

PapaLazaru · 28 Sep 2010 at 23:13

Here you go -

Group (old) - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=19402313382&ref=ts

Whole account - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Clever-Recruitment-Ltd/98264997958?ref=ts

Twitters - http://twitter.com/cleversarah / http://twitter.com/clevercraig

As you can see, the group page is a little limited with what you can do.

Hope putting these up is not breaking any rules. This is not my business!

Rikki · 29 Sep 2010 at 12:19

Thanks fella, went round and round thinking of stuff to get it going and decided to play it safe and went for an official page for it.

Ideally would have liked a user account so I could under the name of the company write messages, leave comments and such like but hey - this will do

THanks for your help mate