Have you ever struggled to grow the numbers in your Facebook group? Yes you
can invite your friends but are they the right people to be in a group built
around your business. The great news is that now you can link pages to groups
you can actually invite people who've liked your page. Even though they're not
your friend you can invite them directly to join your group. Here's how it's done
So here I am on my business page and as you can see if I click on the group's
tab here you can see groups by this page and this is a great feature that links
the group directly to the page which means that rather than you having to be
in a group as you personally you can actually be in there as the page so
several people within your company who are admins for the page could manage it
I'm going to show you how to link a group shortly because what's great about
this feature and you can see already there's the opportunity to invite people
who like your page to the group there's a big blue button there and there's also
here in a drop-down you could say invite people who like this page but what's
really clever is that you can link more than one page to the same group and
therefore invite people who assuming those pages are related in some way then
it makes perfect sense to invite people from a couple of different groups
so I'm going to go to a page called Paul the Rotarian trainer which is a social
media training page specifically for members of Rotary and I click on that
what I'm looking for is the group's tab Now you might not have that there but
you need to go to settings edit page and add the tab if it's not there already
and as it says here linking group to build a community around your page so
I'll say link your group and there it is straightaway in the list and I'll click
link
So I'll now be able to manage and interact with people as the page it's
also a linked group. And there it is the option to invite people who like the
page so click on invite members what you'll get is about 50 people listed at
a time and you can literally go through and invite them all in sequence and once
you get to about 16 then you can't easily invite anymore so what you do is
just click away and then say repeat the process if I people like page just go
through the next 16 and you'll get to 50 and you'll be able to invite anymore at
that point but literally within 25-30 minutes you'll be able to go back and
repeat and invite another 50. Occasionally you might get a cannot add
member pop-up that's because the person has chosen not to allow themselves to be
invited to groups that's fair enough they can miss them out and again another
way to do the same thing to invite people is just to say invite people who
like your page from that drop-down and again you get the same sort of list then
give us the person and so you can see we've come to the end of the people we
can invite for now go have a look at the group itself and do be aware that that's
now changed the listing for who the group is by if you want that to be back
to your original person created the group or the original page no problem
just unlike that you can always relink it at any time so if I go back to the
Paul the Rotarian trainer page and now I'll just simply click here and say
unlink group and then go back to the original group and you see it now says
group by PRwilson media so that's a great breakthrough for me to allow you to
really expand your groups outside of your friends contacts etc
and to get people who really want to be in the group to join because they have
to accept the invite and then choose to join that's it for me I'm Paul from PR
Wilson media your social media personal trainer Cheers