Have you accidently registered your Facebook page username as your profile page instead?
Someone at work did the same for a client's Facebook page and we had printed material that was ready to go out on shelves - Luckily I managed to rectify the situation and avert disaster!
Facebook username? you might be wondering what that is, well this is a URL like: www.facebook.com/companyname and it will take users directly to your Facebook Page.
There are a couple of steps you need to get it transferred:
- Your Facebook Page should have at least 25 likes, you cannot register a username without 25 likes and they will probably not transfer a username to the page without them.
- The profile you used to register the page should be the admin of the page, obviously if you have registered your username as your profile instead of your page by mistake this will be the case.
- Fill out the following form on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_infringement and explain your situation in the box provided
NOTE: On step 3. below I DID NOT fill out the trademark information on the form, I just explained the mistake that had been made.
It took Facebook less than 24 hours to rectify the situation and our major disaster was averted.
I also posted on a Facebook discussion and you can see that this worked for other people too: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=10381469571&topic=21365&post=114815
Hope this helps you solve your Facebook issue.
UPDATE: Facebook now offer a way to convert a Profile in to a Business Page. The information can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=18918
Note the following before doing this: Be aware that when you convert your profile to a Page, your profile pictures will be transferred, and all of your friends will be automatically added as people who like your Page. No other content will be carried over to your new Page, so be sure to save any important content before beginning your migration.
The account associated with the profile you previously maintained will be converted to a business account, which will be the sole admin of your new Page.
Again I hope this information is useful and helps solve your Facebook issue.
Thank you for the information, I just did it and I hope it will work for me! :D
ReplyDelete@xinita post back here and let me know if it does :o)
ReplyDeleteThank you very much! I followed your instructions and got it sorted in 45 mins!!
ReplyDeleteThanks again!
@David really glad you got it sorted :o)
ReplyDeleteHey Kunji,
ReplyDeleteI don't really understand what you mean by
NOTE: On step 3. below I DID NOT fill out the trademark information on the form, I just explained the mistake that had been made.
So you filled out everything from your name, telephone, email what have you the only thing you didn't fill out is the trademark registration number? Then the very last box talking about the website Url is the one I want changed?
@DJ Maximus just had a look at the form and the field at the bottom is new!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you put the facebook URL you accidentally registered as your profile in there if you want that to become your facebook page URL so: www.facebook.com/username.
Hope that helps :o)
Update:
ReplyDeleteIt worked, thanks a bunch Kunji
@DJ Maximus excellent! Glad it was sorted for you :o)
ReplyDeleteI am very gald that I worked for me. I am very thankful to Facebook team for it and all the users for their feedback.
ReplyDeleteIn my case it didn't took even 24 hr. I sent my request to FB team on sat. evening and when on sunday morning i thought to try if it is working.
I released my profile username by changing it to some other username and my desired username for my pgae was released. When i did this i was not sure if it will happen or not. but i thought let's go ahead and will see whatever happns.
I am very happy to see it has been done and Thankful to FB team.
Yeppiiiiiiiii............ :)
Mahendra Gupta
@Mahi really glad it worked for you :o)
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