In this video I'm going to show you how to post on a Facebook Business Page from
Instagram which saves you a little time. Let's get into it
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Jerry Potter and today we're talking about saving time by posting to your
Facebook Business Page from Instagram. First of all let me say posting natively
on each platform really is the best possible practice. Just because you put
something on Instagram doesn't mean it's good content for Facebook. Ultimately it
comes down to this: when you're posting on Instagram, before you just
automatically share to Facebook, really think, like, "how's this gonna look on
Facebook? Is this gonna be a good piece of Facebook content? If the answer is no
then just don't bother. Sometimes it's great though and let me show you exactly
how to share to your Facebook Business Page from Instagram. Now I want to
clarify up front I'm doing this on an iPhone but it's very similar on Android
phones. And also I'm doing this from an Instagram business profile to an
Facebook business page so I'm gonna start on my profile and I'm gonna tap
the three lines in the upper right hand corner (it's actually called a hamburger
menu cause it's supposed to look like a hamburger I guess) and then at the bottom
I'm gonna click Settings. And then in my settings I'm gonna scroll down until I
get to "Linked Accounts." Click on that and - my page has been previously selected so
that's why it already shows my name here on the right but if you have nothing
there or if you want to change the page, anything like that, if it's actually
connected it'll be lit up in blue as you'll see when we're done. So I click on
Jerry Potter there on Facebook rather. It says "Instagram wants to use facebook.com
to sign in." I say yes go ahead, I hit continue. Now it gives me a choice to do
it through the Facebook app or through a browser. Because
I'm doing this on my own phone and the account logged into the Facebook app is
the admin account for the Facebook page, I can go ahead and do the Facebook app
like that. So I tap that one - it'll say can they open this in the Facebook app
and again, this might be slightly different on Android and of course you
do have to be an admin on the page you are trying to post to. I can't just be
like, Yeah I want my Instagram to post to Kylie Jenner's page or McDonald's
Another pop-up here - you previously logged in, continue? Yes. If you hadn't
then you'd have to log in with your information. And now you can see it says
Facebook and it has my name and it's lit up in blue. That shows that it's now
connected to my page. If I tap in I've got a few options here. It shows me where
I'm sharing. It also allows me to share my story to Facebook if I want to - that's
what that switch is - if I want to share my posts automatically to Facebook so
everything you put on Instagram automatically goes to Facebook, that's
where that is. And then if I want to unlink I tap that button there at the
bottom. If you are doing this from a personal Instagram account your screen
might look slightly different. So if I go in here from a personal Instagram
account I have you can see it says Share to Facebook profile I tap on that now my
profile is at the top and then all of the Facebook pages that I am an admin for
come up underneath. So if you are doing it from a personal profile you'll see it
that way. If you're doing it from a business profile it's just going to show
you businesses that you can connect to and again of course you have to be an
admin on the Facebook page to do that. Now real quick before I show you how to
share the actual posts from Instagram to your Facebook business page I want to
show you how to set this up from the other side from your Facebook business
page. So if you're on your page click Settings on the upper right here and
then in your settings on the menu on the left you'll see Instagram, click on that
Now this, in all of my experience, is the most foolproof way and probably the way
that Facebook prefers to connect your Facebook business page to your Instagram
business profile. So once I clicked on that Instagram there I'm gonna say login
Type in your username and password for Instagram and hit login and it will
automatically connect your Instagram business profile to your business page
here on Facebook. The neat thing is then you can
you can edit your page from here among other things, and if you ever wanted to
run ads or anything like that you will have to do that
Alright so to share straight to your Facebook business page from Instagram
you create a post just like normal. Get everything set up the way you wanted it
and then down here at the bottom you can see different places where you can share
For Facebook you'll see it shows my business page name so that's how I know
it's going to the right place. Once I've got that up I go ahead and hit share so
it's on Instagram there and then if we pop over to Facebook and ... there it is
Let's say you forgot to hit that button before sharing or you have an older post
that you want to share on your Facebook page, now all you have to do is go to
that post, tap the three dots in the upper right-hand corner and then hit
Share and it'll give you those same options. And all you have to do is make
sure that the Facebook button is turned on and then hit share at the top and it
will show up on your Facebook page. I'm curious do you post the same content to
all of your social networks? I see that with businesses a lot. I do it sometimes.
Let me know down in the comments, yes or no, and I'll share kind of what I do as
well. I'd love to talk to you in the comments of this video. Thank you so much
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