How to Create a Fantastic Facebook Page

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How to Create a
Fantastic
Facebook Page
Sid Macatol

Sid Macatol - How to Create a Fantastic Facebook Page 18-Nov 2010

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What is a Facebook Page?


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Your News Feed is NOT a Page!


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Your Profile is NOT a Page!


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Someone’s Profile is NOT a Page.


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This is a Facebook Page


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See the Difference?
Personal Facebook Account

Facebook Page


Again, this is a Facebook 8

Page


This is a Fantastic Facebook 9

Page


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Study the Two Pages


Where Would You Most 11

Likely Click “Like”?


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Enticing promo


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Pictures of prizes you can win


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Faces of People you may know


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A Call to Action


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Disclaimer:
It is YOUR job to
develop your own
promo


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All I’m saying is,
image is power


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With these slides,
learn how to do the
following …


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[1] Your promo name here


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[2] Your fantastic profile here


[3] Your Welcome Message 21

here


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Are the
expectations clear?


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OK
Let’s proceed


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PREPARE YOUR
PROFILE
PICTURE
Creating a Fantastic Facebook Page


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This is the profile picture


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Width = 180 pixels
HEIGHT

YOUR Height = 540 pixels max
FANTASTIC Image Resolution = 300 dpi
PROFILE
PICTURE


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What is Image Resolution?
Google it!


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DPI means
DOT PER INCH


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300 dpi is good for
your image


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Less than 300 dpi
is bad for your
image


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So, don’t kid
around.
Use 300 dpi.


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‘

YOUR
We use this part
FANTASTIC
PROFILE
as thumbnail
PICTURE later


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This is a thumbnail


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That came from here


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‘

YOUR
Thumbnail.
FANTASTIC
PROFILE
Keep this in
PICTURE mind


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‘

YOUR Its location in the
FANTASTIC
PROFILE picture profile
PICTURE
does not matter

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PREPARE YOUR
WELCOME
IMAGE


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This is the Welcome Image


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Width = 510 pixels

Height is
up to you
WELCOME MESSAGE

Image Resolution = 300 dpi

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Tell people to click “Like” here
Click “Like” and I’ll Fly You to the Moon


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Put your promo here


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Tell people who you are here


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In this demo, we use this


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Save the images in
a folder


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CREATE YOUR
FACEBOOK
PAGE


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Type this on your browser


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Ignore this


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Pay attention to this


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Choose what applies to you


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For this demonstration we 53

choose this


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Type your page name here


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Click this button


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Click this button


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Click this button


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You land on this page


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You see the Page Name?


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I’m done with Expectation #1


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There’s your “Like” button


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DO NOT click “Like” yet


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Click “Like” Once
Page is Done


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At this point it isn’t done yet


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UPLOAD YOUR
PROFILE
PICTURE


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Click this


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Click this


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Select profile picture from
your folder


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Click “Open” or “OK”


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There’s your profile picture


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Profile Picture Stays in the 72

Wall Tab


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This is the Photos Tab


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Wait a minute!


Thumbnail needs some 75

fixing!


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Click this


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Click ‘Edit Page’


LATER . . . fill this up as 78

completely as you can


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MEANTIME … click this


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Scroll Down


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Click this


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Drag the image to adjust

✜


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There we go!


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Click this


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Click this


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Click Photos


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Looks like we fixed it 


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UPLOAD YOUR
WELCOME TAB


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Click ‘Create a Photo Album’


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Click ‘Select Photos’


Select the Welcome Image 91

file


Click ‘Open’ (Mac) or 92

‘OK’ (Windows)


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Give it a name


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You can ignore ‘Location’


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Click ‘Create Album’


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Click this album


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Click this thumbnail


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Right Click on the Image


Click ‘Copy Image URL’ (Mac) or 99

its equivalent in Windows


Paste the URL in a text file or 100

Notepad


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You will need this later!


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Click your Page Profile


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Click ‘Edit Page’


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Click ‘Applications’


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Scroll Down


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Add ‘Static FBML’


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There it is!


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Click ‘Go to Application’


Change Box Title to 109

‘WELCOME’


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We will put some text here


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This is the text:

<img src=“xxxxxx”
width=“510”>


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Easy to type, right?

width=“510”>


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But wait, let’s complete it first

width=“510”>


We replace “xxxxxx” with this 114

code


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Remember this?


URL of our Welcome Image that 116

we copied earlier


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This is now our code
<img src=“http://
sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/
hphotos-ak-snc4/
hs1203.snc4/155593_1703650
76325844_170198059675879_4
63148_7667217_n.jpg”
width=“510”>

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Copy and Paste Code Here


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There it is . . .


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Let’s zoom in


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Click ‘Save Changes’


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Changes saved


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Click . . .


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See the Welcome Tab?


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That’s what we just created


Now, hold your breath and 126

click it


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Here’s your Fantastic Page


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You can make this clickable


Just add the right HTML code 129

here


One more thing, click and 130

hold here


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Then drag towards here


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Click ‘Wall’ tab


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Click ‘Settings’


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Click ‘Default Landing Tab’


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Choose ‘WELCOME’


This Page will now greet all first 136

time visitors


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You may now click ‘Like’


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Thanks for watching the slides.

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Dream a Life!
Live your Dreams!
Sid Macatol


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