Facebook Page vs Profile: 11+ Features You Never Knew Existed

So, you are at that point in your marketing journey where you are looking at the Facebook page vs profile situation. Yes, there are a ton of experts out there advising you about which one to choose. It's possible that you are brand new to Facebook or you've always had a personal profile but rarely used it. A close friend of yours advised you to set up a Facebook page. However, you noticed another friend going live for a network marketing business on her Facebook personal profile. You are now wondering what to do. How to know for sure what are the rules for each section of Facebook? Is it possible to gain success for your business on Facebook? What methods should you use to attract your potential clients? Will you get banned if you use your personal Facebook profile for business? If only there was a way to get absolute clarity around these areas? In this post, you'll learn all about the best practices when it comes to using Facebook for business, which section to use when. As well as how to generate leads for your business on Facebook. A Brief History of Facebook Understanding where Facebook came from may help you to better understand its current status. Facebook began back in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and 4 of his college roommates with the intention of limiting the usage to Harvard students. This was extended to all colleges in the Boston area then to all colleges and universities in the USA and Canada. By 2006, anyone with a valid email address had the ability to create an account on the platform. If you are as old as I am or possibly older you'll remember what Facebook was like back then. Actually, I am sitting here wondering when I joined Facebook. I just checked and my account was set up in 2007. It's crazy to think how time flies so fast. Facebook got to its first 100,000,000 users by August 2008. That's just under two years after granting access to anyone with an email address 13 and over. Here's an interesting Facebook business page fact, there were 100,000 business pages on Facebook in late 2007. October 2008 saw the decision by Facebook to set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Why was Facebook created? It was a means for people to have an online profile to display a profile photo of themselves plus other personal information. Now, here we are many years later and Facebook is more than just your face and basic details about you. Why Use Facebook for Business? Well, if you are wondering why you should consider using Facebook to help you generate leads for a business. Here are a few interesting facts to consider. Facebook has a very strict policy about people setting up more than one personal profile. Unlike Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest where you can set up many profiles and brands. LinkedIn is the only one that would be on par with that specific Facebook rule. With a total of 2.