Thanks very much. It worked! I now have my very own Facebook business page for my accounting practice.

I’ve even started doing a Q&A on there with some of my clients. I love it. And it’s a great way to stay in touch with them and to help them out.

Thanks for the e-book. And I look forward to your next article too!

Karen

Also, choose your vanity URL carefully. Facebook states that you can’t change it once you have claimed it.

One other thing: you mentioned that you are setting up a business profile on Facebook. Just to be clear, I would recommend you set up a business “page” – which you can do from within your personal profile.

Regards,
Peter

What you are referring to relates to what is known as a “vanity URL” (the web address). It used to be that when you created a business page on Facebook you needed 25 “likers” before you could choose the name of the URL. For example, in our case our page is: http://www.facebook.com/Marketing4Accountants

If you didn’t have 25 “likers” then Facebook would just assign you a web address with a string of characters after the “www.facebook.com” part. But in 2011 Facebook announced that you would no longer need a set number of people liking your page before you could claim your very own web address. This makes it a lot easier to promote your facebook page on websites, business cards, in adverts etc when you are still starting out.

Once you’ve set up your page, just go to http://www.facebook.com/username then follow the prompts and you can choose your very own page name from there.

Just one more thing: we have heard that despite Facebook revoking the 25 liker policy, some people are still getting the message that they need 25 people liking their page before they can change the name. This is probably just a case of the update still being rolled out.

See how you go, and if you have any questions, just post a reply here, or give us a call and we’ll be happy to help.

Regards,
Peter