- Wondering how to connect a Facebook business page
to a group?
Unfortunately, I think, Facebook tried to make it easier
and actually made it harder.
But I'm gonna walk you through exactly how to do it
with the New Pages Experience right now.
Let's jump into it.
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My name is Jerry Potter.
Yes, it rhymes with the boy wizard.
In this video, I'm gonna show you
how to connect a Facebook business page to a Facebook group.
So, this actually used to be a relatively simple process
but once everyone was forced to go to
the New Pages Experience from Facebook,
it got a little more complicated.
But I'm gonna walk you through this step by step
and you can pause the video anytime you need,
that's the great thing about recorded trainings like this.
Now, hopefully, as I go through this on my screen,
it looks the same or at least close
to what you are seeing on your screen,
but I do wanna make sure to cover every potential step
that you might have to go through.
So, the first thing I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna go to my Facebook group
that I want to connect my business page to.
Now, this is,
you may have a shortcut for it over here on the left
or otherwise, you can click groups, you can search for it.
I actually know the URL for mine
so I'm just going to type it in.
This is for my Social Media Leads Lab group
where we help people generate endless free leads
using social media.
And now, you may not have to do this
but my group does not allow pages to join.
But in order to connect my business page to my group,
I need to allow pages to join.
So, you can skip this
if you already allow pages to join your group.
But otherwise, I'm gonna come down here
to group settings on the left
and then I'm gonna come down to manage membership.
Who can join the group?
It says only profiles.
Now, I'm gonna change this back after we're done
but right now, I'm gonna say it's okay
for pages and profiles to join the group.
I'm gonna hit save.
Okay?
So, that's step one.
Step two, I need to switch into be my page.
So, when Facebook forced everybody
to go to the New Pages Experience,
now, you come up here to this picture on the upper right,
hopefully, it should be your face on yours
and you have all the different pages and profiles.
So, I'm gonna click see all profiles.
So, this Jerry Potter one here with the blue shirt on,
that is my personal profile.
And now I'm gonna click see all profiles
and now I'm going to choose my page
which is this Five Minute Social Media-Jerry Potter.
So, I'm gonna click on that
and it's gonna switch me over to the page.
Now, I'm gonna go back to my Facebook group again.
Now is my page the one I wanna connect it to.
So, you can search for it, or if you know the the URL,
you can just type it in up there.
So, I'm gonna go back.
So, here it is.
This is my group, but now that I'm on my page,
you can see it says join group.
Okay?
So, I'm gonna hit join group.
And on this group, you have to say
what your email address was to join
because this is part of a paid program.
But if you have any questions,
answer the questions as your page.
Now, it says your membership is pending.
So, now we need to switch back to our profile
that is the admin for the group
in order to accept this request.
Okay?
So, now I'm gonna come back up here again,
click on my face, see all profiles
and I'm gonna switch back to my personal profile.
And now, if I go into my notifications,
I'm gonna see right here, Five Minute Social Media
Jerry Potter asked to join Social Media Leads Lab.
So, I'm gonna click on that.
And so, here it is.
Ad I need to approve myself.
Basically, I'm approving my page, joining the group.
Now, if you don't see the notification,
if you go to your group again,
and over here on the left in this menu,
you can also see member request.
You should be able to click there and see it.
So, I'm going to hit approve.
So, now my page is a member of that group,
but there's two more things
that you are going to want to do, okay?
Most likely.
First is, I want to make my page an admin for the group.
Okay?
So, what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna click up here on Community Home,
this basically takes me back to the group
and then I'm gonna click members on the menu
right here in the middle.
And then I'm gonna find my page.
So, you can search for it right here.
So, I'll search for five.
And then what I'm gonna do here
is I'm gonna click these three dots
and I'm going to add as an admin,
I'm gonna click send invite.
So, now if I'm logged in as my page,
I can do things that other admins can,
if that's something that you want to do.
So, now I'm an admin in there as well.
Okay?
Now we have to switch back to being our page to accept that.
So, going to switch back to my page.
You can see here again, right here on the group,
Jerry Potter invited to become an admin for this group.
I'm gonna hit accept, okay?
So, that's one thing.
And then the other thing I wanna do is
show you how to grow your group if it is a free group.
So, now what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna go back to my Facebook business page.
You can search for it or if you have it bookmarked,
whatever is easiest for you.
On this menu here,
you may see it here, or you may have to click more
and I'm gonna click on groups.
And this shows me all the groups
that my page is connected with.
And so, here's the Social Media Leads Lab one.
That's the one we just did.
Up here, I'm gonna click these three dots.
Now, you'll notice there's two boxes here with three dots.
One's for the page, one is specifically for these groups.
So, I'm gonna click this
and I'm gonna click automatic invites.
So, if you want people to join your group,
basically, people who have been active on your business page
or people who are the most active on your page
will get an automatic invitation to go join your group.
So, if I wanted it for this one,
I would just turn that on and it will say,
all right, is this something that you definitely want to do?
You hit confirm and that's done.
Now, I'm not going to do that
because this is a private paid group,
but if I still had a free group,
then I would absolutely do that
'cause it's a great way to get people
who are already engaging on your page
to then join your free group.
One final reminder,
remember, if you changed it so pages could join your group.
You may want to go through and turn that off.
So, again, group settings, manage membership,
who can join the group.
I'm gonna change it back to just profiles.
Now, my page will still stay in there
because it's already added
but new pages will not be able to join the group.
So, if you want your group the same way,
make sure that you select that.
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