What is the difference between FB account and FB page/fan page?

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I have a facebook account, which I use to communicate with my social, family friends and relatives regularly. I like to earn money using FB. Is it possible right now? or I need to make a FB page/fan page?

If so what is FB Face page? How to make it?

Pls provide help/ help link.

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  • Profile picture of the author ReferralCandy
    Hi hsbinmarket,

    That depends very much on what you mean by "make money using FB", actually. Facebook is a social network, which means that most of the users there aren't looking for commercial opportunities (buying or selling stuff or services, etc). For that reason, I wouldn't recommend you use your personal account to try and push any sort of business--you could very well end up pissing people off!

    What social media IS good at is helping you to relate with your customers, if you happen to already have a solid business model in place. Let's say you have a decently popular online store and you want to promote the deal of the week, or receive feedback from your customers--platforms like Facebook or Twitter are good for helping you do that. On top of that, social media is also a good way to add a human element to your business model, sharing stuff you find interesting/cute/relevant to your business.

    There's also the promotional element of Facebook, of course, but I find that the much more boring aspect. Spend a little time to talk to people individually and get them interested and invested in your product, and I promise you that word of mouth will be incalculable. Better yet--build a kickass business that people can't stop talking about!

    (Anyway here's the link you asked for: https://www.facebook.com/pages/creat...ype=sitefooter)
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    • Profile picture of the author ChrisH
      Your facebooik account is what you at first set up on FB to connect with your family (as you have said). You can then add Pages to do other things. You can add a page in a variation of your own name if you like but there are differences between a page and an account. You can post on other peoples, brands pages as either your account or your page. By the way you can have unlimited pages.

      This is what Facebook say "Personal accounts are optimized to work for individual people instead of businesses, brands and organizations. Facebook Pages allow artists, businesses, and brands to showcase their work and interact with fans. These Pages come pre-installed with custom functionality designed for each category. Developers also build an array of apps for Page admins to add to their Pages. Unlike with friends for personal accounts, there's no limit to the number of people who can like a Facebook Page. "

      This is the link to FB's help on Pages: https://www.facebook.com/help/281592001947683/
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      • Profile picture of the author hsbinmarket
        Originally Posted by ChrisH View Post

        Your facebooik account is what you at first set up on FB to connect with your family (as you have said). You can then add Pages to do other things. You can add a page in a variation of your own name if you like but there are differences between a page and an account. You can post on other peoples, brands pages as either your account or your page. By the way you can have unlimited pages.

        This is what Facebook say "Personal accounts are optimized to work for individual people instead of businesses, brands and organizations. Facebook Pages allow artists, businesses, and brands to showcase their work and interact with fans. These Pages come pre-installed with custom functionality designed for each category. Developers also build an array of apps for Page admins to add to their Pages. Unlike with friends for personal accounts, there's no limit to the number of people who can like a Facebook Page. "

        This is the link to FB's help on Pages: https://www.facebook.com/help/281592001947683/
        Many many thanks to u.
        I hope ur success as u seems to be a great man.
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        • Profile picture of the author ChrisH
          Originally Posted by hsbinmarket View Post

          Many many thanks to u.
          I hope ur success as u seems to be a great man.
          I wish you success and I may have a product coming out about Facebook in a couple of months time!
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          • Profile picture of the author hsbinmarket
            Originally Posted by ChrisH View Post

            I wish you success and I may have a product coming out about Facebook in a couple of months time!
            Thanks !!!
            Waiting for your product !
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  • Profile picture of the author links123
    This means on what you think of "making money on FB" it is a social networking sitw and I don't recommend you to use it for this purpose.
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  • Hello,
    basically the normal Facebook account is for personal use where you limit the audience to your immediate friends and family members but as for Facebook FanPage, it is the best option used to generate money and place your ad. You can't really generate money with normal FB account if you dont have huge number of audience. Hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author racksjackson
    Facebook profiles are now only for individuals and pages are for business
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  • Profile picture of the author ppcmanager
    Some good tips above.

    It would depend upon your monetization method- based on which you can use a profile, a fanpage, a Facebook Group or an Facebook App.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sean Hebdon
    Pages also have the disadvantage of having to accept friend requests, although there are probably auto accept apps out there
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  • Profile picture of the author jattmarketer
    Yes, Of course you can make money by using facebook but you have to create a Facebook fanpage. When you open Facebook.com at the bottom there is a link create a page click there and fill out all necessary information & you can also find help regarding creating a new Fanpage here facebook.com/help/281592001947683/.

    But before doing this, first thing you need to do is select a particular niche about which you are going to make Facebook fanpage. For example you can choose from many niches like Internet Marketing, businees, shopping etc.

    Once you selected you niche and created a page then post regularly to your page about your niche. Join groups on facebook and add relavant replies there with a signature to your Page's URL.
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  • Profile picture of the author furqanarshad
    For Facebook Page you first have to create facebook profile ! so facebook account is someone's personal account while Facebook page or fan page is usually used for entertainment and business
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  • Profile picture of the author davidverney
    The way I see it, you have one account. That account is made up of both your personal page (where you can have a maximum of 5000 friends) and the other part of your account is your fan page where you can have unlimited numbers of people who like it.

    Obviously, not everyone has a fan page because not everyone is in business and not everyone is attempting to influence a large number of people so most people only have a link to their friends, family and colleagues.

    I hope that helps
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    • Profile picture of the author ChrisH
      Another difference, I do believe, is that on your peresonal page there is a limit of the number of friends that you can have (I can't find it stated anywhere in the Facebook help pages!) but you can have an unlimited number of likes on a page.
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