Social Media Examiner | Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? | Topic Replies http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/feed/ Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? - Forum Topic in the Group Facebook Tue, 21 May 2013 14:45:06 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.5 en http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-46109<![CDATA[Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-46109 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:14:59 +0000 Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook Answer - Yes you can change your name (I did successfully) and yes you can merge a page with more likes into one with less likes via a special link at Facebook - and keep all of the data/posts on the page you are […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45957<![CDATA[Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45957 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:18:02 +0000 Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook @andrea-vahl
I am an admin on both pages. I did this and added additional admins straight away.
As I explained above, If I log in as Sheridan Mills and go to my primary page it does not come up with an option to […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45953<![CDATA[Andrea Vahl replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45953 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:54:52 +0000 Andrea Vahl replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook First, you need to make Sheridan Mills an admin of both Pages.  Then go to the Page you want to keep and be logged in as Sheridan Mills.  Then see if you have the option to merge the other Page into that page […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45951<![CDATA[Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45951 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:44:24 +0000 Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook @andrea-vahl
Facebook says very clearly that you need to log in from the page that you want to keep (if you are wanting/there is any hope of keeping that pages data). 
Therefore, I can log in as Sheridan Mills […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45943<![CDATA[Andrea Vahl replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45943 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:08:09 +0000 Andrea Vahl replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook You should be able to merge the pages of the larger Likes into the one with the smaller likes @sheridanmills  Are you looking at the backend of the Page while logged in as your personal profile, not your Page? […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45910<![CDATA[Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45910 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:06:32 +0000 Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook @ryrussell 
The page was a personal page which needed to be merged into our business page. Branding/buying not part of this.
This is all about merging. The name change was purely to see if I could […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45873<![CDATA[Helena Zwarts replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45873 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:20:16 +0000 Helena Zwarts replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook I also changed my name (after the one time you are allowed). After requesting the name change and about a day or two waiting for FB response everything went smoothly for me. Luckily I didn't had to merge two […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45867<![CDATA[Ry Russell replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45867 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:30:29 +0000 Ry Russell replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook @sheridanmills That is frustrating, well I do not usually recommend people to purchase "likes" but if it solves the problem and makes you able merge the pages sooner it might be worth considering. This is a […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45847<![CDATA[Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45847 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:49:02 +0000 Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook @alexandrabriggs @howwhowhen @ryrussell
I just had my second business page's name successfully changed via Facebook (a one time thing only they say) and so now both pages are exactly the same.
'Merge duplicate […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45756<![CDATA[Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45756 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:28:00 +0000 Sheridan Mills replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook @alexandrabriggs @howwhowhen @ryrussell
I have successfully converted the personal page into a business/fan page (I haven't done the merger yet).
The process was very easy and it has converted the number of […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45715<![CDATA[Ry Russell replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45715 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:37:06 +0000 Ry Russell replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook @sheridanmills Once you have created a name for your Facebook page and you can change it once without much hassel. In terms of merging two pages to become one, you want to be extremely careful from a […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45706<![CDATA[Howie Nguyen replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45706 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:16:33 +0000 Howie Nguyen replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook I'm not sure about merging but as far as changing the name I think you are allowed to only do this once.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45698<![CDATA[Alexandra Briggs replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/can-you-change-the-name-of-your-businessfan-page-how-safe-is-it/#post-45698 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:50:56 +0000 Alexandra Briggs replied to the forum topic Can you change the name of your business/fan page? How safe is it? in the club Facebook @sheridanmills I believe the stipulations on Facebook are based on how many likes the page has whether you can change the name simply. I would be curious to hear how the process works out for you, and hopefully […]

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