Need to know how to post a video to a Facebook Business Page? I'm going to show
you the best way to do it as well as how to do it on a smartphone or a mobile
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Jerry Potter, yes it rhymes with the boy wizard's name. You can follow me on social
here, and today we are talking about posting videos to Facebook business
pages. By the end of this video you'll know how to post a video to a Facebook
business page with either a computer or a smartphone, and I'm gonna show you how
to add captions to your video for free - which you should do because 85% of
videos on Facebook are watched without sound. These are the tips that I use for
all of my clients across the country and I want to share them with you right now
So on your Facebook page there's a few ways you can go to post it. One is to
click "share photo or video" here and upload it. Another way, if you are already
typing something in the text box here, you can click this little camera icon
What I usually do if I've got my file handy is to just literally drag it into
the posting box here. Now it's there. That's it. I'm gonna type my caption
As usual you've got options down here if you want to add a feeling or a location
or anything like that. If you want to boost your video ahead of time you can
do it there, and then of course just like any post you would go to here to hit
schedule if you wanted to schedule it for the future
You can backdate it. you can save it as a draft if you want to come back to it or
have somebody look at it later, or you can simply hit publish. So I'm gonna go
ahead and just schedule this for an hour from now and the reason for that is
because I want to go back and add captions before it actually goes live. So
I'll go ahead and hit schedule and just like that it's going to start uploading
and processing the video. A minute or two later, or possibly longer if you have a
longer video, Facebook will send you a notification saying your video is ready
and you can view it. So then it's gonna take you to
your video library page. Here's the video that I just uploaded. I'm gonna click the
little pencil here to edit the video. Now I can go in - here's my caption that I did
I can also add different tags. Then I'm going to click over here on thumbnail
This is where you can choose a thumbnail for your video. Now a lot of times if
it's a talking head video like this I'm just going through either trying to find
the least dumb looking or the most dumb looking facial expression that I can
possibly have in the video. Now I will tell you this:if your video has a lot of
text in it, Facebook does not like text on images, and for videos the thumbnail
is what it bases the text count on. So if all of your thumbnails have a bunch of
text you might want to do a custom image that doesn't have any text and when
you're going through avoid having a bunch of text where it looks like a
flyer, like a terrible night club flyer. You really want to choose something that
has less than 20% text. This is probably okay since this is all kind of logo so I
will go with that. Next option over here is distribution
You can choose whether or not people are allowed to embed your video and you
might want to embed it on your own blog. You can also crosspost. This is a way
for you to let other pages, yours or otherwise, share the video. You can both
post it and then the view count and all of those statistics are combined from
the two pages. So that's a neat tool. And here's subtitles and captions. Now if you
know all about captions you can type up or generate your own SRT file or one of
the other caption file formats elsewhere great, good for you. I take the easy route
with Facebook. You come in and if they are not already auto-generated you can
ask them to auto-generate. So you can see here this says English subtitles already
auto-generated. It went really quick because this was such a short video that
I'm using just for demonstration purposes, but I'm gonna go ahead and
click that pencil and go in and edit them and make sure that they are
accurate. I'm kind of uptight about grammar and spelling and things like
that so I'm gonna go through and make sure that it's spelled correctly and that,
you know, Facebook is capitalized, all that kind of stuff. So once
you're all set hit Save Draft and now you've got your draft saved and then you
go ahead and hit Save and it's all set to go. If I go back to my page right here
I can see I have the scheduled post ready - click on it and there it is - simple
as that. Now to do it from a smartphone you want to grab your mobile device and
get the Facebook Page app. Once you're in here click Photo/Video. Select the video
that you want, hit done. Now your video will show up here. You may want to give
it a quick watch and just make sure, "okay is this the video that I wanted it to be?"
You can go through and preview it. If that's the one you want click Use and
then, just like you would on the computer add the caption down here. You can go
through and you can put a location on it, add a feeling or activity if you want -
different options like that. When you're all set hit Continue and then it says
"When will this be published?" You can either schedule it at a certain time in
the future or you can say publish now. Click Done and now you see "When will
this be published?" It says Publish Now. You can go and hit publish and your
video will be up. If you have any questions please let me know down in the
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