What's going on everybody Cereal Entrepreneur here and in this video we're going
to show you how to get that gray or blue checkmark for your facebook business
page alright this is super important you have to happen for your business for
people to trust you so follow me on over to the computer we're gonna show you how
to get that done alright people so we're gonna show you how to get the gray
checkmark and we're actually gonna show you how to do it for my Cereal
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showing you guys how to get this set up so here's a big issue alright and I'm
gonna let you guys know this upfront because I wasn't aware of it
Facebook doesn't have any notification set up to warn you of this but there's a
page setting all right so we're just gonna head on over into Facebook really
quick I'm gonna show you guys we minimize this really quick I actually
have a couple things I'm gonna talk about that are really cool number one
how to get some free advertising money with Facebook how to get them to
actually send you a free ad credit because it's bull crap what they did to
me and number two I'm gonna show you guys exactly how to set up that that
little verification badge you can see our page doesn't have it any more but it
actually used to the reason why it doesn't have it
anymore and the reason why I'm kind of irritated is because when you change
your page settings Facebook automatically removes it and you have to
reapply for it so you guys be careful of doing that and what do I mean by that
basically when you go into business managers so basically what you need
understand is you have to go to business dot facebook.com/ get into your
business manager go to your actual page you can't search it on Facebook and
click settings and go to your actual page so you should be able to find it
when you click general' under settings you can see there's nothing here so
Facebook I just let them know about this issue they're gonna be resolving this
but for now you need to do it through your business manager so when I click
settings on my business manager page you can see right here bada bing bada boom
general settings all of this shows up you can see right here where it says
page verification pages not verify it used to say page verified and this is
why a facebook is irritating me so when I went here to edit page I was testing
something out for a client I went here to edit the page and I changed my page
settings you can see it's currently in a standard page you can change it to be
like a business page the services venues nonprofit pot whatever when you change
it it removes that verification so if you guys already have the verification
setup and you ever try to change the page style or the page template then it
is going to remove that for you guys just so you're aware but let's go ahead
and quickly set this page verification up alright so what is the point of the
check mark guys basically it gives you that credibility it gives you more
authority 11 it allows people to know that you're actually a real business
you're not just some scam company right I mean that's important people have to
trust your business before they'll ever do business with you especially if
you're trying to promote to them on social media channels all right so the
great check mark is where you have to start a lot of people want the blue
check mark the blue check mark only comes when facebook recognizes you as a
public figure you know you have a huge following you have a lot of people who
you know might be trying to replicate your business or create copy accounts of
your business that's usually when they try to do that and it's because they
want people to know you're the real page all right so blue check mark is
something you get to a little later once you build the page up and you have a lot
of notoriety in your area but for now you just need to start with the gray
checkmark and trust me it does a lot better for your business you get you get
shown higher on Facebook search results all that so all you're gonna do is when
you get here you click Edit and then click verify this page and verify this
page okay and then you're going to do basically this little setup right here
so we're gonna enter in my stuff we're gonna make sure we screen this phone
number because I don't want y'all calling me all the time no extension
country US all right and then they're going to call you can do it with a
document but we're just gonna do it with a phone call so I'm actually going to do
this right now oh cool they're actually just going to
send me a verification code Oh nope they're calling me with the verification
code and my verification code is coming here in a second all right my code is
$4.99 so when I click continue sorry we couldn't verify the page with this info
we couldn't confirm that phone number is associated with the business or
organization this page represents please try using a publicly listed phone number
or verify with documents instead so since I don't attach my phone number to
this page obviously we're gonna have to verify it with documents or I can have
my phone number to the page and just remove it later so let me see here
business tax file so I guess they're wanting like my ein certificate of
formation Articles of Incorporation so these are all documents that you can
upload and so what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to upload the tax
identification form and I'm going to upload my statement of organization
I don't need to upload a bank letter cool so we're just gonna upload those
right there my statement of organization and my tax identification number so
we'll do this statement of organizer and then once that gets uploaded we'll
upload the other one
or maybe that's all we need to do looks like you only have to do one so boom
we're just gonna send her that then that statement of the organizer and they
should be able to get back with me I'm gonna guess within around 24 hours to
set that page up so we could do that way let me see if I can actually just had my
phone number really quick and get it done even faster so it's already under
review you can obviously do it the phone number way and it will actually do it
instantly that's how I did it the first time I remember actually set up my phone
number on the page and that's all you have to do guys it really isn't
difficult to get that checkmark they'll let you know whether they're gonna give
it to you or not the biggest thing is that you have your all of your
information about the business set up properly like the phone number the
address if it's a local business they have to have the phone number in the
address all right if they don't have an actual physical address like my business
doesn't that we promoted lease or tell people about then that's where you'll
want to do the verification process that I just did and it just makes it a little
easier because of the fact that again they don't have to look for a specific
location they're just looking to make sure that you're a legitimate business
that's the whole point of the verification is to make sure that you're
a legitimate business so that way they know that you're not trying to scam
people for their money so that's basically it guys it really
isn't difficult again Facebook has a lot of issues on their back end where things
get messed up or things get misplaced and then you have to redo things over
again which kind of sucks but that's why I wanted to I mention at the beginning
you can get free ad credit so if you ever have problems with Facebook you can
easily go to their support which if you guys don't know how to get to support
I'm going to show you a really cool trick it's not that hard you're gonna
click help up here on your business manager page and then you see over here
there we go still need help they're gonna take me to the support page or you
can just go to like google and type in Facebook business support so here you
just click support get to their actual homepage and then when you scroll down
you'll see boom chat email ask community now sometimes you might not see it if
you're bitch if you're advertiser account has no history with Facebook
whatsoever I feel like sometimes they don't like to show this option to people
who don't spend any with them or don't have a history with
them so you might have an issue there which means basically guys just keep
building your page keep staying active spending money on Facebook add stuff
like that making sure that you're setting up more business pages
requesting to have more ad accounts all that stuff allows Facebook to understand
that you are highly involved with their platform which gives you better access
to their chat so you just click that chat window and it will pop up a form
for you to fill out and they actually do get with you in about two to four
minutes so it's pretty cool anyways guys that's it for this video oh and then
when you get there just tell them hey send me a free ad credit I do all this
stuff for you I spent all this money with you guys you could at least send me
an ad credit and then they'll put in a request to do that for you so that's
pretty cool but outside of that guys that's all I wanted to show you I hope
you guys are able to learn something super special from this video if you
guys have any questions comments or concerns about setting up your page
verification or if you're wondering more tips about how to get the blue
verification which is what we're working on here on our channel we know the
process to get there it just takes a little longer but you want to know tips
or you know strategies to getting the blue checkmark leave a comment below and
ask a specific question and I'll let you know exactly how we're doing it here
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