How to Create a Facebook Business Page – The Best Way

One of the best possible ways to increase brand awareness and generate sales on Facebook is to know how to create a Facebook business page.

You can be in your room and sell your products or services to customers from any part of the world if you have a well-functional Facebook business page.

That is not a miracle.

It’s something you have to work for.

There are over 80 million businesses using Facebook to promote their businesses.

This guide will provide you with the opportunity to learn how your business too can be on the list and maximize your sales and marketing reach.

How to create a Facebook business page

In this simple step-by-step guide, you will learn how to create a Facebook business page that works perfectly for your kind of business.

Before you begin, make sure you have a personal Facebook account and some basic information about your business ready.

Prerequisites for Creating a Page:

• A personal Facebook account
• Basic business information (name, address, contact details)
• Profile and cover photos

Logging into Facebook:

Go to facebook.com and log in to your personal account. If you don’t have an account, create one by following the on-screen instructions.

#1. Go to the Facebook website to start

Use this link to create a new business page and follow the instructions. The link will send you to a page on Facebook where you can create your business page.

Click Create a Page on the top right of the page to set up your Facebook business page.

You need a Facebook user account to create a business page. This can be your own personal account or the account of someone from your marketing team, depending on your objectives.

What is important is to use the account of the person who will be managing the page.

You have to make sure you select the type that is suitable for your business.

You can select Community or Public figure if your business is a service rendering entity. That is to show that your business will be dealing directly with people on your Facebook page.

#2. Fill out business basic information forms

The next thing to do is to fill out the forms to customize your business page with your business information.

 

Make your page name anything, but let it be simple and compelling.

Because your business intends to sell artwork, you don’t have to call your page name Creative Designer. Instead, your page can fall under the category of Creative Design or something very close and you name the page nicely.

In this practical example, let’s call our page name Testing, and the category Test Preparation Center just to make a real example.

In 155 characters, describe your page to make your audience understand what is in it for them. Then click save and follow the page tips.

 

However, other basic information you may need to add includes your business address and phone number.

#3. Add your profile photo and cover photo

The best photo you can use here should reflect your brand if you can’t afford to use a logo.

What matters as far as a profile photo is concerned is that all the pictures you intend to use on your business page must reflect what your business or page is all about.

For good output, the width and height of your profile photo should be 170 pixels by 170 pixels.

After setting your cover photo, it displays widely across the top of your page. It serves the purpose of promoting your brand.

Strategically, if you want your cover photo to catch the best attention your brand needs, you must use a photo that can trigger your visitors’ emotions.

For the best result, the width and height of your cover photo should be 820 pixels by 462 pixels.

Don’t be surprised if you see your cover photo becoming smaller on a small interface. Your cover photo is responsive due to differences in device types.

If you have a video or slideshow that can promote your brand, you can insert it in your cover photo.

It works great there!

#4. Optimize your settings

After adding your cover photo, your page is half done. You may not get your desired result if leave your page uncompleted.

Automatically, Facebook will prompt you to take the necessary steps that remain to complete your page. But why should you wait for Facebook to tell you what to do? While Facebook is doing its business, do yours.

Meanwhile, from what is on your welcome page (see image below), Facebook will prompt you on what to do.

 

#5. Create page username

Your Facebook Page username has a lot of advantages you need for promoting your business. It helps your business gain social presence, and increase your visibility and engagement rate.

If anybody is searching for a story, content, product, or service related to what you do, your @username will bring the person to your page.

However, it’s known as a social handle or vanity URL which helps you integrate your page on other digital and social networks in order to share your content online.

If you’re setting up your page on a desktop, look on the left sidebar of your page, and click See more to expand the list menu.

Then, click About where you can add your @pageusername.

Click Create Page @username and follow the instructions. The box below will pop up for you to customize your page username.

Your Facebook page username shouldn’t be too long, make it short and simple for your audience to remember it easily.

Click Create Username. Then, click OK.

To edit whatever information you feel like editing in your About section, go back to your About section.

#7. Complete your page about the section

There’re two tasks left that we have to complete: Tell People About Your Business and Edit Page Info.

Tell people about your business

Under this section you can describe your business in details.

Click around Our Story to write a story about your business that will make your audience to like you.

After writing your story, click Publish.

Edit page info

Click Edit Page Info and edit your details: General, Contact, Location, Hours and More.

#8. Customize your page template

Click Settings at the top right of your page.

Go to the left sidebar and click Templates and Tabs.

By default, your page is using the Standard Template. If you look down a bit, you will see the Tabs that come with the current Template.

If you need to change the template or rearrange the tabs, this is where you can do that.

You can edit the template if the current isn’t good enough for your business.

There are nine great templates behind the link. If you click edit, a box will pop up containing all the templates. They include:

1. Standard;
2. Business;
3. Venues;
4. Nonprofit;
5. Politicians;
6. Services;
7. Restaurants and Cafe;
8. Shopping; and
9. Video Page.

If you scroll around the popup box, you’ll see all the templates. You can try them one by one until you see the one that’s most suitable for your business.

#9. Publish your first post

There’s more to writing a post and gaining likes, comments, and shares on your Facebook page.

Anytime you want to publish a post, ensure it tells the right story to gain more audience.

Your post can influence how your audience engages with your page.

If you take advantage of all the writing and publishing tools available to you on your Facebook page, your page will grow so fast.

In another tutorial, find out how you can boost your Facebook engagement rate with your posts.

We listed out each of the tools in that tutorial and guided you on how to use them to your advantage.

In a nutshell, to get the best result with your post, your Facebook page has all you need.

Your page contains different tools that can make your page highly compelling.

Click Create Post at the top-left or the text area (Write a post) on the third roll below your page cover photo.

There you go!

You can write and publish as much as you can to keep the page busy.

Since Facebook monitors how often you publish on your page, it’s possible it helps you promote your page if you update it regularly.

Conclusion on Creating a Facebook Business Page

Your Facebook business page has the potential to increase your brand awareness and sales if you do it right.

So, you can follow the step-by-step guide in this tutorial to learn how to create a Facebook business page that works.

This tutorial was created to help you achieve all the marketing benefits of creating a Facebook page for your business.

If you follow it from the beginning till the end, it will help you reach your prospective customers, and build a good relationship with them.

In turn, you’ll grow your business, gain credibility, and increase sales.

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