The Facebook Business page is like a business account to promote your business and reach customers globally. In today, a lot of people use the Facebook platform around the world. If so, businesses can give updates, share contact information, receive customers’ messages, give awareness about their businesses through the Facebook business page. The Facebook business page is one of the best free methods to market your business globally today.


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Why should you create a Facebook Business Page for your business?

 Facebook have 1.80 billion daily active users.

You can minimize the advertising cost of your business.

You can expand your market share to the whole world.

You can build a targeted audience using Facebook marketing tools.

Can promote your business using Facebook Ads to only a targeted audience.

You can get on-time customer insights, analyze insight reports and use this information for the decision making process of your business.

You can collect customer data from insight reports to identify your correct audience and learn about customers’ behaviour and nature (Ex- age/gender/comments/demographic data and others).


How to create a facebook business page


 

How Create Facebook Business Page Step by Step

Firstly, you should have a Facebook personal account to create a Facebook business page. You can create a page for free. When you log into your Facebook personal account, click the page icon on the home screen of your account.




Step 1: Page Information

 

Page name- you enter your business or brand name here.

Username- you should enter a unique username for your business in here, then customers can search and find your Facebook page easily.

Description- provide a short explanation about your business. Include what type of products or services customers can get from your business. The character limit is 255.




Step 2: Add a profile picture and cover photo

Profile photo

Add your business logo to your page profile picture. Your profile picture should be 170 X 170 pixels. It will be cropped to a circle.

Cover Photo

You add a beautiful cover page and include contact details or a website address to the cover photo. The cover photo should be 1640 X 856 pixels. Then select and add your cover photo to your page.




Step 3: Add your Whatsapp account to your business

Select your country code and enter your WhatsApp number and click the send code button and get the verification code, after entering the code to verify your WhatsApp account.



After your complete, this then views the homepage of your Facebook business page.




Step 4: Add your business details

 In this step, you should enter your business location details, contact details and others.

Contact- Add your contact mobile number and Whatsapp number

Email- Add your business email or personal email but not essential

Website- If your business has a website or blog you can add a website address here.



Location

If your business has a physical store you can add the address of your business location, city and Zip code of the city. In addition, you can drag and position your business location to the right place. Then the customer can find your store location easily.



 

Service Area and Working Business hours

Service area

If your business provides service or sells in only specific areas, you can add only your business service areas. When you add this detail you can get customers orders from only these areas.

Business Hours

If you have a physical store then you have a working period per day. If so, you can add store open time and closing time. It is a very important detail for your customers. If you have an online store or online service business then you can select as always open. Then, customers can visit your store around 24 hours.



 

 

Step 5: Add Action button

When you select an action button, customers can contact and engage with your business in real-time. According to your business type, be change the action button.




 Step 6: Select the Template For your Business Page

Have different template types, you can select a template for according to your business. If you do not need a special template you can select the standard template. In addition, you can enable some special options here. Such as offers, services, events, shop, jobs, and live).





Step 7: Page Roles

In this option, if you want to change or add a new admin to your business page then you can add a new admin through this option. Further, you can add page admins only for some special works. Such as editor, moderator, advertiser and analyst. You can search and select the Facebook profile name of that person and select as admin or controller and click the add button. After when the person approves the request, you can complete this process.


Step 8: page Visibility

If you want to unpublish your page for temporary you can use this option. This option is most useful for within time of making some changes to your page. In addition, if you want to close your page temporary, this option is very useful for you at that time.




Step 9: Create a post

When you create a post on a page you can use the business suite option. Because the business suite option has more a lot of publishing tools and others. The Business suite has been designed for businesses to publish their posts easily.



In this business suite option, the main value is you can schedule your post to publish. This opportunity is most valuable for businesses. You can select a date and time to schedule your post to publish.





Step 10: Get customer insights

You can go to the insight section in the business suite and can see the Facebook page and post’s reach, engagements, audience insight and others.





 You can create a successful Facebook business page by following these 10 steps.

 

 

Best strategies for growing your Facebook Business Page


Invite friends

Before you invite friends to the page, you add new friends interests to the type of your business. Then, you can build a good audience to your Facebook business page from your Facebook friends.


Create your page posts consistently

When you create posts to your page you should select a time to publish posts every day. This time depends on your audience. For example, you think that you have an audience in the USA but you are living in another country. If so, you should find the time of USA people active hours on Facebook. Then you should publish that post for that time. If so, you can get good reach and engagements for your posts using this strategy.


Add a pinned post

You can pin your most popular post to the top of the page. If so, you can get customer attraction using this strategy.




Get Reviews

Your customer reviews are very important to build up the trust of your potential customers. If so, you at the beginner level can request a review from your customers regarding your service. In addition, you can post customer reviews to increase the trust of new customers.


Share Facebook page posts in Facebook groups

On Facebook, have a lot of Facebook groups. So, you can join that groups and stay as an active user. After a few days, you can publish your business page posts in that groups. If so, you can promote your business through Facebook groups as a free method. Nevertheless, keep in mind when you join Facebook groups you should join groups only related to your business category. Please do not create spam posts in that groups. You should follow the rules of that Facebook groups.

 

Boost your posts

This is the best strategy as a paid method. You can advertise your posts using the boost post option. When you boost a post, you can advertise the post only to a target audience. You can learn more about the boost post option by watching this video.



 

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