How can I embed my Facebook feed into my website?

Posted by on Apr 9, 2011 in Facebook Tutorials | 0 comments

Facebook is free and easy. So I can just create a Facebook for my business just like I did for myself, right? You can, but here’s why you shouldn’t: A business recently created a Facebook profile. They were a very popular, world-wide organization, and quickly reached 5,000 fans.  They were not allowed to have any more fans, because that is the limit for personal profiles. If they would have created the page properly as a business Page instead of a personal profile, they would have not run into this problem. The same business mentioned above also found that one day they weren’t able to logon to the Facebook profile.  Facebook had disabled their account. They lost 5,000 contacts who trusted them enough to connect with them Facebook. They had no way to retrieve those thousands of contacts. Here’s what they received: The account I created to promote my business, band or other organization is now disabled. Per our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, Facebook profiles must represent an individual. Users aren’t permitted to maintain an account under the name of their organization, or use personal accounts to advertise or promote themselves professionally. If your profile was listed under a non-individual name, or was used primarily for professional promotion, this is probably why it was removed. Here’s the direct answer from Facebook’s help page. Some people will be less likely to to Like your business on Facebook if they know that you have not created your business Page properly. You will Just because something is free and easy doesn’t mean you don’t need to seek the advice of an experienced social media marketer when it comes to your business.

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