One of the most common questions I get from people is about how to keep their
Facebook business and personal pages separate. In this video I'll show you how
to do that so you can have a Facebook business page with no public affiliation
to your personal profile, and show you how to make sure you never post as or
on the wrong business page, alright? Let's get into it
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whenever a new video comes out. My name is Jerry Potter and today we are talking
about how to keep your Facebook business and personal pages separate. By the end
of this video you'll understand how Facebook business pages and personal
profiles are set up and how they relate, also how to post as your business page
or one of your business pages or as your personal page in different situations,
and why Facebook won't let you just post as your business page wherever you want
First things first - you can't have a Facebook business page without having a
Facebook personal profile. Sometimes people say, "Well I don't want to have a
Facebook page for myself, just for my business." You still have to create one.
You don't have to use it, it's just the way that you log in to your business
page. Every Facebook business page has at least one admin, or administrator, who is
there to run the page but you do that through your personal profile
If you created the page you are the admin. So the login for your business
page is the same login as your personal profile - that being said your personal
profile and your business page are not linked publicly anywhere by default, so
you could have a Facebook business page called "I Hate Puppies" and none of your
personal friends would have any idea that you're the one running that
terrible page. Now your page can have more than one person who helps run it,
like maybe you are the admin but somebody else helps reply to comments or
messages, or helps with posting. So you can go into settings in the upper right
corner of your Facebook business page, click on Page Roles and there you can
add additional people to help you run your
page and you can give them different access levels. If you want more
information about how to properly setup page roles on your business page I've
got a video about that and you can get that in the description of this video. So
how do you post and comment on Facebook as yourself versus as your business page?
Well let's go through a few scenarios and I'll show you. So first of all if
you're on your own business page and you wanted to comment on something, down in
the lower right-hand corner - by default if I just go to comment I'm gonna
comment as this page but right above that on the lower right there is a
little drop-down box. Now I can go through and I can choose to comment as a
different business page or I can actually just choose myself. So if I
wanted to comment just as a person instead of as the company to get some
engagement going (or whatever it might be) I can just do that. This is actually true
on most situations - you click this drop-down here and you'll be able to
choose who you want to comment as. If you don't see the page or account you're
looking for you probably don't have the permission to comment in that place. Now
if I go to another business page (I am NOT an admin on the Under Armor business
page) I click that same drop down. You can see I can comment as any of these pages
in these different categories or as myself. By default my personal profile is
gonna be what it's going to comment as. So now I'm just in my feed - take any
given post - and you'll notice down here I can comment as myself but there is no
drop-down to choose other things. That's because this is shared by somebody on
their personal profile. I can't comment on their stuff as a business. Meanwhile
just a few posts later in the same feed here's something from People magazine
and you'll see - there it is - I can actually choose who I want to comment
from. Last thing I want to show you is here in Facebook groups. This is my group,
the Five Minute Social Media group, and as you can see if I click the
drop-down I can post as myself or I can post as my business page because my
business page is attached to this group. But if I go to another group that I am
in but it is not my group, I have no drop-down. I can only comment as myself
Finally I often get asked, "Hey I want to post on my friend's personal profile as
my business page. Why can't I do that? Well the reason for that is pretty
simple. If Facebook let business pages post anywhere they wanted, there are
people in the world, not you, not me of course but terrible people
that would go around and just spam people by posting on their pages all the
time as a business. The general rule of thumb is a business can't interact with
a person on Facebook unless the person has interacted with the business first,
aright? Do you have a question about this that I didn't answer? Let me know in
the comments and we can chat there. Also grab our free Five =Minute Facebook
Facelift. This is a quick makeover for your Facebook business page to optimize
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