- If you're wondering, can I create a Facebook business page
without a personal profile?
The answer is yes and no.
Facebook officially says, no, you can't,
but I've created a workaround for several clients
that solves that issue for most people
if I don't want a personal profile,
and I'll show you exactly what we did in this video,
all right, let's get into it.
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My name is Jerry Potter, yes, it rhymes with the boy wizard,
and today we're talking about,
can I create a Facebook business page
without having a personal profile?
And again, the answer is yes and no.
Facebook says, no, you have to have a personal profile,
but I've put together a workaround
that for every client I've worked with that just said,
"I don't want a Facebook personal profile,
I just want a page and I wanna run ads",
this has been a satisfactory solution
for every single one of them and I hope it will be for you.
And it just takes three steps, okay?
Let's go through them.
Now, the first thing you're gonna do is go
to facebook.com and create a personal profile.
And I know this is exactly what you're trying to avoid,
but bear with me and trust the process
and watch it all the way through.
Facebook requires you to use your real name here,
but more than that, for certain types of ads,
if you plan to advertise at some point,
you may have to prove that your account is legit.
So I suggest putting in your real name here, again,
just like you would on a Netflix account
or something like that.
When you choose your birth date,
just make sure to choose one that at least makes you
a legal adult so you have access to all
the things that adults should be able to do.
When you go to put in a profile picture,
just make it a picture of a landscape
or something like that.
That way if for some reason, people see your name
and they send you a friend request, they say,
"Hey, you didn't except my friend request",
you go, "Oh, that's not me."
You don't want any personally identifiable information
on there, it kind of gives you a plausible deniability,
even for friends and family.
And also don't fill out any other information.
Facebook will ask you for it, but it's not required.
You have to have your name, your email,
and a birth date, and that's it.
Step two is to go in and turn off all notifications.
You don't want to get suggestions and all the other stuff
that Facebook's gonna wanna send you.
So we go in here, to Settings and Privacy,
Settings.
Down here you wanna choose notifications.
And there's a separate setting
where you can get notified via push,
which is a notification, like in the app,
email and SMS, or text message.
So just go ahead and shut all those off.
And when you get down here under pages that you manage,
that'll show the pages that you are a manager of
and it'll take you to that page
to set up your settings for that.
But the rest of these are for your personal profile,
which again, you don't wanna use,
so we don't want any of those turned on.
And then step three that I recommend is bookmark
the specific pages that you are going to use.
So instead of going to facebook.com,
this is my business page,
I would bookmark facebook.com/fiveminutesocialmedia
so I could come right to the page.
Or if I was going to be monitoring
the inbox here for messages,
then I would bookmark
facebook.com/fiveminutesocialmedia/inbox.
Instead of, again, having to click through other things.
This way you never have to go to facebook.com.
And the last part of this third step
is to download not the regular Facebook app
to your smartphone,
but get instead the Creator Studio app
or the Facebook Business Suite app,
both of the apps do most of the things that you'll need.
Facebook Creator Studio is designed more
for content creators,
and Facebook Business Suite is designed more
for kind of local brick and mortars, things like that.
Try them both, see which one you like better,
but again don't download the regular Facebook app,
get one of these specifically for business pages.
I hope you found that helpful.
I know it's not truly not having a Facebook profile,
but again, if you turn off all the notifications,
you don't friend anybody,
then it really just becomes a login
just like you would have for YouTube
or Netflix for that matter, all right?
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