How to Convert Your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

Convert Your Facebook Profile to Facebook Business Page: As you all know that Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites that provide individual identity in digital form. At the same time, Facebook also provides pages for promoting business and organization.  This is because there are more stout features available on Facebook pages for enterprises and organizations and are appropriate enough to meet business needs. But it can be still seen that various companies and recruiting agencies use a personal Facebook profile for business promotion.

How to convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

How to convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

If you come under such category, then you need a change or else there will be a risk of losing your profile as stated clearly by Facebook. In this article, you will learn about the steps to convert your personal Facebook profile into a business page. This conversion will also eliminate the restriction of having 5000 friend connections and will allow you to have followers if you change it to a Business Facebook page.

Step 1:  Make a Backup of Your Profile Data

Before you convert your Facebook page to a business page make sure you understand that only your profile photo and friends (which will be converted to likes) will be migrated to your business page. No other data will migrate to your new page. So you need to make sure to download all your Facebook data before you convert your profile to a page.

1. Go to your Account Menu from the top right section of the Facebook page and choose the Settings option.

Go to your account’s menu Convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

2. Now, click on the “Your Facebook Information” link on the left-hand Facebook page section, then click on View option under the Download your information section.

click on  “Your Facebook Information”, then click on view under “Download your information” option.

3. Now under Request copy, choose the Date Range or keep the default options autoselected. Then click on Create File button.

Choose the data Range if you want to filter data by dates or keep the default options autoselected

4. A dialogue box will appear informing A copy of your information is being created“. Thus, wait for the file to be created.

A copy of your information is being created Convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

5. Once the file is created, Download the data by navigating to Available Copies and then click on Download.

download the data by navigating to Available Copies and click on Download. Convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

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Step 2: Modify the Profile Name & Address

Note: The new business page converted from your Facebook profile will have the same name as your profile.

If your Facebook profile has more than 200 friends then you won’t be able to change the name of the business page once it gets converted. So if you need to alter the name, make sure you change the name of your Profile page before the conversion.

To Change Profile Name:

1. Go to the Accounts menu from the top-right corner of the Facebook page then choose Settings.

Go to your account’s menu Convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

2. Now, in the “General” tab click on the “Edit” button for Name option.

in the “General” tab click on the edit button in the Name option.

3. Type a suitable First name, Middle name, Surname & click on the Review Change button.

Type a suitable name & click on Review changes.

To Change Address:

1. Under your cover photo, click the “Edit Profile” button on the timeline.

Under your cover photo, click the “Edit Profile” button in the timeline. Convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

2. A pop-up will appear, click on Edit Bio and add information of your business and click on the Save button to save your changes.

Click the “Edit” option Convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

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Step 3: Convert your Personal Profile to Business Page

From your profile page, you can manage Other Pages or Groups.

Note: Before you convert your profile to a business page, assign a new admin to all your existing Facbook pages.

1. To start with the conversion, visit this link.

Note: The said link seems to be broken temporarily.

2. On the next page click on the “Get started” button shown highlighted.

Now on the next page click on the Get started button

3. On the Page category step, Choose categories for your Business page and click Next.

On the Page category step, choose the categories for your Business page

4. On Friends and followers page, select the friends which would like your page & click Next.

On Friends and followers step, select the friends which would like your page

4. Next, select Videos, Photos, or Albums to be copied on your new page & click Next.

Select Videos, Photos, or Albums to be copied on your new page

5. Finally, review your choices and click on the “Create Page” button.

Review your choices and click on the Create Page button. Convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

You will note that your Business page has been created.

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Step 4: Merge Duplicate Pages

If you have any business page that you would like to merge with your new Business page then read Facebook guide here and follow the below steps:

1. Go to the Accounts menu from the top-right corner of the Facebook page then select the Page you want to merge.

Go to the accounts menu then select the page you want to merge.

2. Now click on Settings which you will find at the top of your Page.

Now click on the “Settings” which you will find at the top of your Page.

3. Scroll down and look for the Merge Pages option and click on Edit.

Scroll down and look for the Merge Pages option and click on Edit. Convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

3. A menu will appear then click on Merge Duplicate Pages link shown highlighted below.

Note: Type the password of your Facebook account to verify your identity.

A menu will popup. Click on Merge Duplicate Pages. Convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

4. On the next page, enter the names of two pages you want to Merge and click on Continue.

Enter The Names of two pages you want to Merge and click on Continue. Convert your Facebook Profile to a Business Page

After completing all the above steps, your pages will be merged.

Note: You can merge two business pages as well. Unfortunately, the said link seems to be broken temporarily.

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That’s all you need to know how to convert Facebook Profile to a Business Page. But if you still think that this guide is missing something or you like to ask something, please feel free to ask your queries in the comment section.

6 thoughts on “How to Convert Your Facebook Profile to a Business Page”

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    mike Gelsthorpe

    This whole article doesn’t work because stage 3.1 ‘visit this link’, which is the FB tool to do the migration says “sorry this content isn’t available right now” and that message has been on the page for months. Please check your links. Thanks.

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