Facebook Warning just received

by SuccessWarrior

Posted: 13 years ago 6 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

For the last few weeks I've been making a little money setting up Facebook pages for small businesses and then selling it to them.

I typically set the page up first then present it to them, rather than try to sell it to them and then set it up, because I close a LOT more sales that way.

But I just received a warning from Facebook stating this:

"We have removed your Fbpage: ... from Facebook because we received a report alleging that it infringed or violated the rights of a third party, and/or because we have reason to believe that you are not authorized to represent the subject matter of the Page.

We strongly encourage you to review the content you have posted to Facebook to make sure that you have not posted any other unauthorized or infringing content. Please keep in mind that it is our policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers/violators when appropriate."

This was for a page I set up yesterday and was about to call and try to sell to the company today.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there any way around it? Any thoughts/ideas?

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Tsnyder 13 years ago

FB is pretty clear about that right on the page
where you go to set it up.

Apparently the people you were going to sell it to
aren't interested. They saved you a call!

The alternative is to set the page up on another
server and sell it from there. I know it won't have
quite the same impact but it also won't get you
banned from FB.
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Model2Web 13 years ago

I've seen similar things. Facebook has been very quick to takedown pages based on almost any complaint. Here's their copyright policy:

facebook.com/legal/copyright.php
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E. Brian Rose 13 years ago

The company that you were trying to sell the page to probably has a Google Alert set for their name and when they saw this page, they freaked out and thought somebody was trying to impersonate them.
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TryBPO 13 years ago

We've known companies that have taken this similar approach with other things. (Google Places, templated websites, Twitter accounts, etc.) My questions is always, "What will you do with the site/page/account if they say no to signing up with you?" If your answer is anything other than, "Give it to them anyway" you're potentially causing yourself all kinds of grief.

One approach I would mention is setting it up for them for free and calling them to hand it over. While you're at it, you can explain to them how much better you could make it, get it ranked, etc. with examples of paying customers and much better pages. It doesn't cost you anything extra (You're setting it up for them right now, anyway) and avoids some uncomfortable discussion when asked that question or if they choose not to go with your services.

This doesn't exactly help out with your FB issue but is, in my opinion, a much better (safer) approach.
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absolutelee

13 years ago

When I set up a page to try to sell to a company, I don't actually use their name. I just call it something like "test auto garage" or something like that. When I actually sell the page, I set it up on their server, name it correctly, etc. I've had no problems thus far.