create a new facebook account, or do a page off your current account, which is how facebook evidently wants you to do it. I’m not sure they even allow you to do a stand alone business page. Do they? I am obviously not savvy about FB, have only 4 “friends”, who are musician buddies that moved to different locations, and rarely check FB. My wife is pretty active on it, though, and if we do a page off a regular account, it would be hers.
Anyway, how would you do it? New account or a page on your regular FB account?
edit: “were”. If you were going to do a Facebook page for business.
I would want a stand-alone page. I wouldn’t want a link that casual browsers could use to see my personal facebook page. I may not even want them to know I’m involved with the store.
If they require it, I’d use the email for the business to set up a new, second personal Facebook page with almost nothing on it
I’ve never seen a business or restaurant Facebook page that links me to anyone’s personal page, though.
I’m not on Facebook at all and only visit under protest to see occasional videos, so I don’t know the answer to this. Does Coca-Cola have their business page off of a personal one? If not, that should be your answer.
One thing to keep in mind, and I have heard this from several people with business pages on Facebook, don’t ever pay them for advertising. And don’t expect people who follow you to actually see anything you post.
I don’t think there’s an actual link between businesses and personal accounts. I run the page for my church and no one knows it’s me. I am also add other people as admins for the page. My brother runs a page for the band he manages and you can’t go to the band page and know that he runs it.
I get notifications when there are views for the church page, and notifications when there are messages. There is a quick and easy option for me to post as the church, and if I reply to a message sent to the church I would reply as the church even though I am logged in as myself.
So yes Facebook requires you to have a personal account before you can make a Page. But they then keep your personal account hidden from the viewers of the page, and gives you the ability to use Facebook as that page (or rather as that company, organization, etc).