- I've been getting this question a lot lately.
How do I manage my Facebook business page from my phone?
For those of you that are on the go business warriors
in this video I'll break down the easiest possible way
to manage your Facebook Business Page while on the go
from your smartphone.
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My name is Jerry Potter, yes it rhymes with the boy wizard
and today I'm showing you
how do you manage your Facebook Business Page
from your smartphone?
There's actually a separate app to do it
from the regular Facebook app
and that's what I'm gonna show you.
So what I'm showing you is the Facebook Pages Manager App
which is an app that Facebook released
just for managing business pages.
And I'm gonna go through the tabs on the bottom here
and just kind of show you how it's set up.
But whenever somebody says,
"Oh, how do I do this on a Facebook Business Page?"
It's usually something they're trying to do
in the regular Facebook app
and then they try it in the Pages Manager
and it has all of the features
or at least a lot more than the regular one.
So the first tab here, starting from left to right
is just your page.
So you see your cover photo there,
you can tap edit if you want to change your cover photo out,
if you wanted to publish to your Facebook story,
you can tap the plus sign,
you can see there on my face there on the profile picture,
these options come up,
I can create a story, I can view the picture
or I can choose a new picture
so those are all different situations there that you can do.
Scroll down a little more you see "visit group"
that just happens to be the call to action button on my page
and then these are all your different publishing tools.
Here you can publish if you wanted to make a post,
just like normal.
A "photo video" would take you straight to your camera roll,
it's just a shortcut to create an event
and then "promote" would be if you wanted to create an ad
from your Page Manager.
Scroll on down and essentially you see your feed
just like usual.
If you wanted to go in and boost a post
or anything like that,
you can do that from right here on the screen.
I have a couple of friends that all they do is manage ads
and boosting for different clients
and they say it's so much faster
doing it in Facebook Pages Manager
than trying to do it on the computer.
Basically because this is a dedicated Facebook app,
I mean it does move along very very quickly.
So next tab over is your Facebook Insights,
you can come in here,
you can choose a date range that you want.
It's not like you can choose any dates you want
but the rolling 28 day average is sort of a regular thing
in social media 'cause if you do month to month,
while some months have 31 days and some have 28.
So that's why a lot of the times,
marketers use the 28 day rolling average.
So you can see posts, reach, engagements, new page, likes
all there at the top.
Under that you can see your promotions,
if you have any ads or boosts running,
below that you can see your posts
and how they are performing.
What kind of engagement did they get?
So if you wanna see them all in one place
and you can see the little "see more" button, tap that
and you can actually see more of your posts.
Below that Facebook events, if you have events going on,
you can check the insights on those.
So the nice thing is on the phone,
this is all super accessible
and if you know what you're looking for,
like you're monitoring something every day,
you can jump to it really really quickly.
So that third tab over is going to be your inbox
and as you can see here there's this notification
if your Instagram business profile
is attached to your Facebook business page,
you can actually see your messages
on both of them right here
in the Facebook Pages Manager App.
So as you can see some of these have a messenger
for Facebook icon next to them
and then others have a little paper airplane,
which represents the direct messages on Instagram,
all in one inbox.
By tap, this other tab at the top here for comments,
you can go through
and manage all your comments on Facebook
and Instagram again,
right here on the Facebook Pages Manager App.
So they are really going out of their way
to make it easier for businesses
to be on both Facebook and Instagram.
The next tab is notifications, so you tap that bell
and it brings up all the notifications
for your business page, just like you're used to.
The one after that is your calendar,
If you use any sort of appointment booking tool on Facebook,
then you'll have this here.
Now if you don't use it or you've never turned it on,
you may not see that tab at all.
For some of the pages I manage that doesn't exist.
And then finally the last tab is your toolbox
and under tools you've got settings,
so if I tap on that you can go through
and manage a lot of the same settings
that you can on desktop.
Below that under sharing tools,
here are all of the photos you've uploaded,
so it's basically your photo galleries
for your business page, post drafts, if you have any drafts,
scheduled posts, Videos,
is like clicking on your video tab for your page.
Below that Other tools, ads management, appointments,
contacts, events, jobs
and then down below this is actually just a link
to the Facebook Ads Manager app,
which if you run Facebook ads through Ads Manager,
they actually have a dedicated app.
It's never been that great but if you run campaigns
and you wanna monitor them and you don't have your computer,
it's a sort of adequate replacement
is the best way that I can put it.
Now what I showed you today was on an iPhone
but Android should look relatively similar.
If you don't have the free Facebook Pages Manager App yet,
grab the link to download it for Android or iPhone
in the description of this video right now.
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