Tonight I was going through my tasklist knocking off projects for the week and realized that I hadn’t gotten around to securing our custom URL or username for Facebook yet for our Pleth page. The truth is that we have had a page on Facebook for a while now but we haven’t really promoted it a lot because we have been very busy as of late working on client projects, but I will admit that that’s not a good excuse, especially since Facebook is where a lot of our new clients have been finding us. I have even advised some of my existing clients this past week to get online and reserve their usernames and URL’s before they were grabbed up. Here’s a description of what usernames do for you that I found on Facebook’s FAQ’s
Usernames allow public entities to easily promote your presence on Facebook with a short URL (http://www.facebook.com/companyname). This username can be used in your marketing communications, company website and business cards.
I have probably 20 or so pages that I am an admin for inside of Facebook and I went through and set most of them up that I could tonight, but when I got to Pleth’s page it wouldn’t let me set it up so I went to the FAQ’s section to find out why. We didn’t have 100 fans yet on our page, as I mentioned earlier I haven’t been promoting our presence on Facebook hardly at all. One of our projects recently had over 20,000 fans so I should be ashamed of myself I guess. Here’s what I found on the FAQ’s:
Your Facebook Page must meet two requirements: it must have been live on Facebook prior to the May 31, 2009 cut-off date and have had a minimum 1,000 fans at that time. This limitation is temporary. All Pages created after May 31, 2009 or that had less than 1,000 fans on that day will be eligible to claim usernames on Sunday, June 28, 2009 if they have more than 100 fans.
In an effort to reach the 100 fan mark I went out to Twitter and posted a request and also sent messages to a group of my Facebook friends asking them for their help in getting us to the 100 mark, hopefully we will get there sometime tonight so I can knock this last project off of my tasklist… If you have a few minutes and are on facebook, I would appreciate the love, http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=pleth&init=q&sid=ec50f898d1747e133d9d81ad83aaaa22#/pages/Batesville-AR/Pleth-Networks-LLC/14932808682?ref=ts
If you are interested in setting up a username or custom URL for your business, click here.
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