How to do things in facebook

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Trying to find a way to do things with FACEBOOK.

Can you add a follow button to your personal profile page? I have seen a few that look like they have it, unless they have branded themselves and that page with their name is a business page?

If not, I would like to add it to my business page; When I went into the designer sectioin, I can get a follow key that allows others to follow me from blog or website but I want to add one to the page or profile directly.

Any ideas how?

Thank you

Blueonblue
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  • Profile picture of the author abundantlife085
    Yes anybody can follow your personal page as there is a Follow button already. You could create a Facebook cover image with an incentive to follow you and an arrow pointing to the Follow button. You'd need to make sure whatever you post that you want others to see is marked as viewable by "public" when you post.

    However I do think the better way to go about it is creating a Facebook page for your brand (yourself if that's your brand). That way you can do a lot more to promote it, including running ads to get more Likes (Which are followers technically. They will get all your posts in their News Feed) You can easily get followers for a penny or less each this way. Or for free if you go that route.
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  • Profile picture of the author YourBizAid
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    Personal pages on Facebook don't come with follow button. When you send a friend request to someone, you automatically start following them and vice versa.

    Only Fan pages come with that button. However, you can make your fan page look like a personal page. That's what most people do because you can use your name as a brand as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Garcia
    Originally Posted by blueonblue View Post

    Trying to find a way to do things with FACEBOOK.

    Can you add a follow button to your personal profile page? I have seen a few that look like they have it, unless they have branded themselves and that page with their name is a business page?

    If not, I would like to add it to my business page; When I went into the designer sectioin, I can get a follow key that allows others to follow me from blog or website but I want to add one to the page or profile directly.

    Any ideas how?

    Thank you

    Blueonblue
    Yes, you have to activate that setting yourself... I learned that the hard way after not having it set up haha. It's always best to have a business page that is branded to your name.

    I don't quite understand the second part... are you asking if there are social plug-ins you can use from your blog to allow people to like your business page?
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonjoel
    It's really easy. If your profile or page don't have a "follow" button then people can use the "add" button. When the cursor is upon the "add" button then there will appear a "follow" button below.
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