If you're inviting people that you know quite well to your Facebook group it's a
great touch to be able to write a personal note to ask them to join.
They're more likely to respond positively in that case. So I'll show you
how that's done in this video. Here we go. So here I am in my free social media
training group and actually I can go here to invite members enter the name of
a person or a page. In this case I'm going to invite a page so if I type in
the first couple of digits consortium networking then I need to write a note
so hi would be great and click the invite button notice a confirmation there
Consortium Networking has been invited to the group. So let's now look from
Consortium's perspective. Here we are on the page you can see there's one
notification and there it is PR wilson media invited you to join public group
free social media training. So because i'm inviting as the page I can only
invite other pages so what I need to do hi Consortium would be
great for your page to access the training group personalized message
you've got one month expiration date and they will say yes by clicking join group and
now you can see they can post as their page name not so not a personal
profile. So a useful way to be part of a group being invited and now let's change
it around so we'll go back to the group change it to interacting as me
personally
and this time I'm going to invite a member of my own friends group so again
I can click personalize with a note.
Obviously you can have a more embellished request really personalize
it down to particular details, reasons why they should join the group etc
and now if I type in the first couple digits Peter Wilkins he's one of my
friends so I'll say invite. And now let's login as Peter and see that. So I can see
a login from Peter and Paul Wilson invited you and again you can see that
individual message. I've just realized is a little bit confused because Peter is
also part of the admin team but anyway just switch it to being Peters profile he
can say join the group. And I get the same three questions that are standard
issue to anyone who wants to join and then you can process. So we're gonna
exit for now I'll also show you the new version of Facebook and how that affects
how the groups look at personal info so I'll say switch to new Facebook
currently I'm interacting as I should be interacting as PR wilson media
In fact looking at it it's hard to see a way to invite people as the
page at the moment with this version so interacting as PR wilson media but I
can't invite people whereas if I switch to Peters profile there's an invite button so
that maybe again a feature of the 2020 rollout not being quite up to speed.
Notice as well you can have a certain number of people in
blocks you can see some accounts here they're unavailable for reasons like
they may have expired in terms of Facebook no longer active and you can
simply tidy up by clicking on the dots and then you can say remove member and
choose to remove them activity wise and block them from the group if you want to.
So notice there's a wide number of pages that you can interact with as well I've
joined the group so other ways to reach out to people as well as just the
personal profile. So lots of different things it is important though to have
that personal message personal note it may not be a feature that survives into
the new era of Facebook by the look of it but it's certainly there for now and it's
worth using just to make sure you get that personal interaction with the
people you want to join whether that's with a page or whether it's a personal
invite that's it for me I'm Paul from PR Wilson media your social media personal
trainer Cheers