Replace 5+ systems with one and save tons of money! How does a restaurant become your "Friend"? Or you want to become a fan of a company and all they offer you is "Friendship". How do you determine the sex of your company? Is the company really as old as the owner or the person who set it up? Do all your "Friends" really need to see the pictures from the last girls night out on your wall? Do you see where I am going with this?
A Personal Profile is just that. It is you personally with all "your" personal info. It is your family members and friends from grade school, it is your "farmville" stats and your "personality test" score. This is not what a business should be displaying to the people that are trying to become a Fan. These are applications that can only be on a Personal Profile.
A Business Fan Page is for the Business. There is no personal information that can be viewed from your Business Page that anyone can see. It is just that, for Business. Your Business Page does not have a gender or an age. It doesn't show the girls night out pictures that your friends posted to your personal wall, and it certainly isn't going to ask anyone to help them move the pink cow out of the road.
Here's the Rule from Facebook: If anyone has a Business Page set up as a Personal Profile, Facebook can at anytime disable your account. Yes, this means that without warning your contacts will disappear. Protect your efforts of getting followers and create a Business Page
How can you get your "Business Page" from your "Personal Profile".
First, create a Business Page from your profile (Applications, Pages and create from there. You can also scroll to the very bottom and click on help and then click on pages).
Once you have it all set up, send a Wall Post to all your "Friends" and tell them that you would like them to "Fan or Like" your business and provide a direct link for them. I would do this a couple of times in the next few weeks and then you can either get rid of the "Personal Profile/Business Page or keep the Personal Profile Page and remove anyone who has moved over that is not actually your friend.
I really do encourage anyone who is not running their Facebook Business Page correctly to fix it before something happens to your content and your contacts.
I hope this helps you get on the right track.. Consider that you have gone to great lengths to evolve to where you are.. Don't you want to do it right?
If I missed any tips, please leave a comment.
