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2:53 am
January 25, 2013
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QuoteHello,
I hope you guys are well. I'm a French-American singer songwriter based in Portland Oregon. I wanted to ask you guys for some advice about Facebook. I have a personal Facebook profile (www.facebook.com/ericjohnkaiser) and a Fan page (https://www.facebook.com/ericj.....isermusic/). The problem is that I just capped at 5000 friends on my personal profile and now I cannot add anymore people or accept more requests. The other issue is that when people search my name on Facebook they first see my personal profile instead of my Fan page. So they send me a friend's request. I have more friends than likes.
I contacted Facebook to see if I could merge my profile into my Fan page and transform friends into likes. They said it was possible to do so. It would help me get more insights about my fans but also help me run better Facebook ads. I would also only be posting content to one Facebook feed instead of 2, which is I guess better in a way.
However on the other hand if I do that, it would also mean that I loose all the messages stored in my profile over the years but also all the content I created. I would also need to create another personal profile and add some of my friends to this new one. I also read horror stories about merging the 2 and how some of the friends did not convert in likes...etc
Have any of you guys experienced the same issue, and what did you do ? Any advice ?
Thanks a lot for your time and your help, I appreciate it,
Eric John Kaiser
"Parisian Americana"
http://www.ericjohnkaiser.com
5:53 pm
November 21, 2014
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You're better off having both. When you advertise a post on your page, share the post to your profile, it's as easy as just clicking on the upper right of the post where it says 'share on profile' (or something like that). Takes one second. When your friends start to respond to that post on your profile, it will boost the ads status in the ranking and it will get seen by both more of your friends and those that 'like' your page, and therefore you will end up spending less to get your ad seen by more people on both sides.
Another tip is to post something on the profile right under your name for new visitors that says 'I also have an official facebook PAGE for my music: https://www.facebook.com/ericjohnkaisermusic/, that's where all the real action happens' or something like that.
Anyway, that's my two cents hope it helps
best,
Thomas
6:10 pm
January 25, 2013
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Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer Thomas. I appreciate it. Thanks for the tips. Interesting stuff. I do actually share content from my Page to my personal profile constantly. Also if I merge both I will be have to create another personal profile to manage my page.
The problem I have is that I'm capped at 5000 friends on my personal profile and I've already sent them all of them an invite to like my page (Facebook doesn't reboot those invites so a lot of them are from a long time ago)... so at this point I'm not really growing my Facebook presence... that's what I'm trying to figure out.
Thanks all the best,
Eric
9:59 pm
June 9, 2011
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Hi Eric,
Let me begin by saying that no, I've never experienced this issue, but to me it almost sounds like a good problem to have.
I can see the value in merging both, however Thomas brought up some practical points that I agree with as well. I do realize that you're problem is not being able to pick up any more friends, although people keep finding you and wanting to be your friend.
So I guess the question is how do you get to where your fan page is what's coming out on top in search? Is that what you're asking?
When you try to send new friend requests to go and like your page, do you explain to them that you are capped? I would think that you should because it's completely a reasonable situation, and it might actually make people go over and like the page.
There's definitely benefit to your personal account staying active because those posts will reach more people for free. You'll always have to pay to boost fan page posts, in order for a larger part of the page fan audience to see it.
At some point though, you'd want to be directing all of these people to get onto your email list. You're not limited there and will be able to reach all subscribers with anything you want to share.
8:49 pm
June 7, 2011
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Hey Eric,
My apologies for the late reply. I'm only just seeing this now. There has been a bit of an issue with notifications lately and I have missed a few posts. Really sorry about that as I try to make it a point to respond to everything here.
I have never personally merged a page, but I am certainly familiar with the issue. I have no doubt that merging them will cause problems, but in my (somewhat reluctant) opinion, I kind of think you should merge them.
The reason being is that you can't advertise to your personal profile. Promoting your posts so that your existing fans see your content is pretty essential when you have promotions, shows, etc. You can't really do that until you have those users on your page, rather than your profile. So if it was me, I would bite the bullet, accept that there will be loss, and just do it. But if you never plan on advertising then you might think twice before doing so.
I also think FB is a pretty cool platform when you use it as it's designed. But when you have 5000 fake friends you really can't. Your feed is pretty useless to you at that point.
This is absolutely a double-edged-sword scenario. But because advertising to your followers is so essential (at least it is to me), I would personally do it anyway. You could possibly start by posting to your profile regularly for a week to let everyone know what is about to happen, and you could create the new profile first and start messaging those that really matter to you to get them all moved first.
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