Visitors and new members in BNI need to remember that your marketing takes time – VCP model helps them better understand why. Glad I helped you get an educational moment idea!

Debra

When posting from the business page, all admins appear the same and their personal identities are hidden from the public view. Therefore, you can have several admins posting information to the page, but it all comes from the “admin” of the page not a particular person. You also want more than one admin for a page to prevent the page from being stranded if the admin’s personal account gets disabled for some reason.

As far as who police’s the fake profiles, I don’t know how often or what algorithms they use to identify accounts to be disabled, but I do know that people’s profiles do become disabled and to get them reinstated takes some time.

So make sure you:

1. use your real identity when creating a personal profile
2. have more than one admin for a Facebook Business Page

Hope this helps.

I guess we can make the fake profile real under the business name…who and what crawls the Facebook pages to make sure the profile is real…?

Those of us who are around this stuff all the time take for granted what we know. I constantly battle with whether my information is too basic so not to insult the reader while knowing there are people who need the basics and want to help them as well. The clients I work with regularly reinforce the fact that everyone doesn’t spend 8 hours a day on a computer doing Internet marketing. Thanks for the support.

I wouldn’t use a business account. Why do they use a “fake” personal profile? No one knows who created the page (unless you tell them) so create it under someone’s real personal profile or make the fake profile real. If they already have a real profile, have them “like” the page, make them an admin and remove the fake profile – then delete the fake profile from Facebook.

I believe the only thing you can do from a Business Page is to mark a page as a favorite. Then that shows up on your page rather than your profile. The model is that people like and share, not businesses, so these personal things tend to come from your personal profile.

I know that people who are admins want to post on Fan pages as themselves but can’t – so there is a bit of confusion around being a person and being a business.

If I find out that there is a way, I’ll post it here so you can get an update.

Debra