Hey Everyone,

Wes (aka Publicity Director for Cyber PR) here with some Facebook tips to ease your hurricane worries!

So you wake up in the morning, and before you read the paper (or Perez Hilton in my case) you check your Facebook. However, you can bet by lunchtime something has changed in this ever-growing social media platform. One of the most recent changes is actually extremely beneficial to artists and can help grow your fan base.

When you used to suggest your page to friends, it would basically get shoved in the corner of Facebook like your dirty laundry. They would rarely see the suggestion because it was in some random spot with a million other requests (Farmville, anyone?) If you’re like me, the only notification you really pay attention to is that little red flag at the top. You know you pay attention to those, you can admit it. You want to know who liked that funny status you wrote or who commented on that super artistic photo you took with instragram. So the other day when I received a red flag it was undoubtedly the first icon I clicked, and my friend had “suggested” me to like her band.

Like I do with every status update, I clicked to see what this notification was all about. I checked out her band, enjoyed her music, and instantly became a new fan of her page. That’s when I realized how fast that took and how easy it was.

Many times as a musician you have thousands of “friends” on your “personal” page (quote-pun, intended) and you would love to convert those to your fan page. However, there is no Facebook Fairy that will magically do this for you. With this new Facebook feature, it is extremely easy to get noticed and have a WAY higher turnover conversion from your personal to fan page.

First, go to your fan page. Once you are there because you are an admin you will see the box below where you can “Invite Friends.”




Once you click “Invite Friends”, you simply choose which friends you would like to suggest the page to. If they are already fans of your page, you will not be able to choose them. Once you check each friend you would like to invite and press “submit”, the next time they login they too will receive that exciting red box at the top of their page.

You can definitely brainstorm on other ways to use this to your advantage as well. Only admins of the page can utilize this new feature. So you converted a ton of friends to fans. What about your superfans? What if you made them feel special by giving them admin access for the day to invite all their friends to like your band?

This is one of the newest and most beneficial updates to Facebook for musicians. Granted, it is only lunchtime and this could change by dinner.

Please try this out and let us know what you think and how it works for you!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Higgs/1204506225 Ryan Higgs

    I am trying to do this now, but after I “use facebook as page,” there is no invite friends icon. Do you have to have a certain number of likes before you can use this feature? (we are fairly new) 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Higgs/1204506225 Ryan Higgs

    I can invite friends using my personal account on my band’s page, but not as my band page on my band page. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/Nickcpark Nick Park

    Ryan, you are right… however there’s a slight twist. I find, that if I switch back to my personal profile from the band page as an admin ( “use facebooks as” function) I see the add friends feature. Otherwise you don’t see it!

  • Lena

    It only works if I am doing it from my personal page, doesn’t show up if I switch…

  • http://kristianjackson.com Kristian Jackson

    Wes, As the other comments here suggest, once you use Facebook as your page, you do lose the ability to invite friends to it. If you go to any of their profiles, you can only see the information they have made public. This,I figure, is to prevent pages with multiple admins breaching the privacy of non-friends. I was surprised to read that you’ve experienced otherwise. Can you please verify that your process is correct. :)

  • Kara

    Thanks so much, Ryan – fantastic!  I also was only able to do it from my personal page … didn’t show up for me if I switched to my band page. 

  • Wesley-Anne

    You are correct, sorry if I wasn’t clear in the blog post (I updated it). You have to be an admin and AT your fan page, but not LOGGED into it. That is where you will see the Suggest To Friends option. So anyone you make an admin can do this with their entire friends list :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/bbuckley01 Bud Buckley

    I like the idea of making a daily admin to invite their friends. I routinely use the invite friends button but there has been less and less return on that over the past year.

  • Jan

    if you aren’t logged in it doesn’ matter if you are an admin or not … FB doesn’t recognize you then… this doesn’t work either.