3 Tips for Setting Up a Company Page on Facebook

I just set up a company page for Space Database on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SpaceDatabase/ . I'm not much of a Facebook user - I just can't come up with those clever little messages and notes. But it's important to stake out the territory and get a corporate brand presence. Through setting up this project, I've discovered three things that should be helpful for anyone setting up a company Facebook page.

1. Get a good address. When you set up a page, you create a name but the URL includes a very long number as well. Pages can get shorter and better names if you have at least 25 fans. BUT you can also get an address if you have a trademark! 





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2. Brand your tabs. Facebook pages look very generic and it is difficult to make them look more like your brand. I used MiproApps To build a different Company tab that looks like this:
   
   This tool let me easily embed a SlideShare widget and a Twitter feed into the page.




3. Connect your blog. Facebook says you can connect your blogs RSS feed to your notes page and get posts to appear that way. I had no luck with this method, but I found other applications that did the trick. I am using Involver to post the blog on the Space Database page and Social RSS on a tab on my page.
   
   
   
   

Here are a couple more useful links:

• A CrunchBase article on customizing Facebook
• A Squidoo Lens on setting up Facebook pages

How we'll use this Facebook page is still a bit of an experiment. It may be good for customer support or as a 'suggestion box' for our clients. We'll figure it out over time!
Click below to visit our Facebook page:
Or go to http://www.facebook.com/SpaceDatabase/