Business Facebook Pages

Many of us have them and they are a great tool in advertising your business and your current work. I also have a lot of face painters who are fans of my page as well and I think we really need to 'think' before posting things on people's business pages.

I have had a few issues of people posting things on there that I really wouldn't want my clients to read.

I am just bringing this up to make you think before posting things on peoples facebook biz pages

Wow! Really?!

Now it's making me want to check facebook and see what they said! LOL

Just delete it/them and explain the situation if it ever comes up. After all, it is for business. I hope I haven't written anything inappropriate, :/ now I'm all paranoid...

on a slightly different note, who else has switched their page over to timeline? It's sooooo pretty

Everyone I have spoke to hates the timeline, but it is pretty!

I just have a personal facebook. People contact me thru that 99% of the time. I don't like that you can't send private messages thru your fan page or business page I've seen people complaining about not getting a reply/phone call on their fan page. something like, "Did you get my voice message?" Or "Haven't heard from you. Are you still doing the party on __ date?" Not cool! It doesn't look professional when I see a comment like that

you can get messages on it NOW!! yay timeline!!

Suzy, can you give some examples? I've had a couple of FP'ers post, but most are just comments about designs or likes...I'd love to hear of some examples of no no's.

I switched to Timeline, it is pretty pretty .

BTW you CAN now send private messages! They just added it when you switch to Timeline .

Perry Noia wrote:you can get messages on it NOW!! yay timeline!!

Hahaha Erin you beat me to it!

Well one person asked if a kid was a boy or a girl........ I would be offended if I was the parent coming to look at my kids photo and I saw a comment like that

Others ask where I get my supplies... I am not going to answer that, I don't want the "I can do that mom's" knowing that...

There are other things but that is just a few examples

I have had people leave some inappropriate comments also. It's like .. um helloooooo this is a business page! I had one person say a child in one of my pics has a duck face, and other people forget they can't drop f-bombs on my business page. SMDH.

That's strange! I've never had a problem with that before, but really its hard for people to see others posts on your wall. You have to go in and manually switch to see "everyone's post".

I'm switching to timeline when I get a cover photo ready.

SuzySparkles wrote:Well one person asked if a kid was a boy or a girl........ I would be offended if I was the parent coming to look at my kids photo and I saw a comment like that

Others ask where I get my supplies... I am not going to answer that, I don't want the "I can do that mom's" knowing that...

There are other things but that is just a few examples

Ahhhhh. I can see how that could be rude.

I just tell people I buy my stuff from all over the place. It's very true. I order from everywhere, buy at cons, and swap. If they press on I just tell them to start with MAC. That usually makes them leave me alone because everyone knows MAC is expensive.

you can set profanity filters to keep vulgarity away (in settings, profanity blocklist set to "strong"), but it would definitely be mean of people to post negative comments about people's pictures.

Good point, Suzy. I recently had to delete a post from a former co-worker who was wondering whether or not I was back from Orlando. Personally, I thought she could have posted that on my personal profile, but I guess sometimes people's minds gravitate towards my business page before my personal page.

Oh, wow! now I just might have to get a business page with Timeline! LOL

I just tell people that I get it online. Then I point to my Kryolan Interferenz colors and tell them that one blue is $25! It scares them away pretty fast! LOL Sometimes, I'll say that starting out you probably need to spent $1000 at the least.

Ahh...yeah...I had one incident that a client was trying to do the entire booking process on my Facebook page no matter how many times I mentioned "Please give me a call or email me for more information" and I didn't have her contact info (her FB page was locked up tight)...and she had the cojones to try to haggle with me on my hourly rate...I kept just deleting her comments and replacing it with the "Please contact me via phone or email and we can discuss booking me for your son's party".

As of March 30th EVERYONE's business pages will switch to Timeline.

I just have all my settings to only I can post, and delete stuff I do not want on either of my pages.

I could not agree with you more Suzy..I got a post from a girl that I didn't even know..she got one of the pictures from the Bachlorette party I did from a friend of hers...she was saying the girl broke out and eye swelled shut..I wrote her back and said I saw the girl I painted the next day and she was fine as I have painted her before and I have never had anyone say anything bad about my paints breaking anyone out..she then got back to me and said a friend of hers got painted several years ago and broke out...and told me it was not my work that did it..made me feel better..but it looked like when she posted it that is was slamming me...i just talked to her and we got it cleared up..i deleted the post..I told her that I didn't want any of my clients to see it she understood.. things like this could ruin our business..she was just posting on what had happened to her friend along time ago, and just using my pic..made me so mad..

Fortunately no one has posted strange/rude things on my business page (yet), but I have had a couple of people try to book me publicly. I don't have that problem anymore since I created a booking form through Wufoo and connected it to my Facebook page. But I don't know if people are even going to notice my handy dandy booking form with the new Timeline layout...grrr, Timeline.

Overall Timeline does look better, it's just the actual timeline part that looks a bit scattered to me, with how you have to keep looking back and forth as you go down the page.

I also don't love Facebook's restrictions for the cover photo:

According to Facebook, cover photos cannot contain:

• Price or purchase information, such as "40% off" or "Download it at our website"

• Contact information, such as web address, email, mailing address or other information intended for the Page's "About" section

• References to user interface elements, such as Like or Share, or any other Facebook site features

• Calls to action, such as "Get it now" or "Tell your friends."

Oh well, we're annoyingly being forced to switch so I hope they will continue improving the layout. I do look forward to the cover photo even with the restrictions - it's so big and pretty and you can do all sorts of clever things with it. And there are other good features they've added, like private messaging and being able to "pin" posts so that they stay at the top of your page.

you can rearrange the app tiles if you click to edit them, it says "swap with:" and you can switch their places so that your contact one is right there at the top. Photos is stuck where it is but all the rest are "swappable" in their positions.

The pinned posts stay there for 7 days, then you could pin it again, but it would probably be better at that point to write a new one, even if it says the same thing in a slightly different way.

Hmm, for some reason I don't get the "swap with" option on the app tiles. I just see Edit Settings, Link to this Tab, Uninstall Apps, etc.

I'll have to figure that out. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing or it's a temporary glitch or something. The Wufoo booking form has been really useful so I want it to show up as one of the first things.

this might help http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/29/how-to-use-timeline-for-pages/

Thanks Perry Noia, that does help! At least now I know I'm looking in the right place and the option just isn't there, so I'll keep working on it.

You should be able to go into the manage drop down box and choose edit page, where you can check the box
[ ] Only show posts by {your business name} and friend activity on your Page until reviewed by an admin.

I assume that means you'll be notified of any posts and you can then decide whether or not they remain hidden. Not sure if it applies to comments though.