Hello Scott,

We’re waiting. Early adopters are great, but if we wanted to switch early, we’d have to set up a case, send it to committee, and get approval. It is easier for us to just go “Yep, they forced our hand.”

J

I am waiting. No rush. I want to use my landing pages, til I can’t anymore.

@scottprock @annfurnivall
Thanks Scott, I am slowly working on my pages anyhow so will keep going forward. I accidently published one of mine this morning but oh well. I will keep working to get it ready.

@scottprock

I am going to publish mine as i am not running contests at the moment but would suggest to wait for at least another few days.

Would love to get some feedback on my page?https://www.facebook.com/businessmarketstrategy

I think the new timeline layout sucks.

So many reasons why, I simply can’t believe that FB with all of their talent and collective wisdom can continue to make such HUGE mistakes.

I was forced to change mine just now – reluctantly – and instantly had problems.

The list goes on, bugs etc, etc, etc the page doe not refresh as you are scrolling, you can’t see, or find, important information like ‘likes’ or about so easily blah blah.

Hate it.

I am trying to work with it as the FB regime forced me.

however, the change is COMPULSORY for everyone else in the coming weeks regardless of this discussion, so start planning for the change.

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AB

HI Guys, we (Antavo Promotion Builder) is prepared for the new adapters – just in case you would want to create promotions to the new timeline, you can do something like this: https://www.facebook.com/antavo/app_284881901569903

I switched my page yesterday http://www.facebook.com/Time2Mrkt, but I think I will hold off a day or two for my clients.

I just ran across this great article on making the changes http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/facebook-timeline-for-fan-pages-frequently-asked-questions/

Hello Scott, 

I would suggest that go on and apply it now to see what’s new, what you can do now, which is not possible before. Master everything new about Facebook page before your competitors takes their feet ahead of you.

Yesterday i applied it for my own blog page and digging more into new features to see that what’s new and what’s hot to use for my business and till now i found this:

1- Default Landing Pages Are Now Diminished 
2-You Can Add Cover Image but Bind By Lots Of Rules.
( Don’t Include Price And Purchase kind of things in your cover images like 40%off, download it now.

Contact information’s such as websites, mail,contact details are intended for your page about section not for page cover section.

Please don’t mention like this page, or share this page and similar thing in your cover image if you want to make your page safe.

Don’t include call to action in you cover pages. )

Some Good Changes:

1- Now people able to contact you through messages Private. Notification for new message will appear in right side of your admin panel.

2- New admin panel with some good UI and new tweaks.

3-Page Profile Pictures size is minimum 180px.

4 And Page cover size is 315pxX850px.

I’m waiting until we have to switch on March 30. Hopefully, they’ll have the major bugs worked out by then.

Thanks for sharing your link, Dee @deereinhardt. I look forward to reading your post.

@bertievg The first thing I noticed was the cover image was obviously upsized. In other words you had an image that wasn’t quite 851px wide and it had to be scaled up to fit. This has created an image that has jagged edges and doesn’t look as crisp as it does on your website. My suggestion would be to re-create the image for the wider format, or at least place your graphics into an 851x315px canvas so there’s no upscaling.

… Scott

@deereinhardt great cover photo, it speaks about your business while staying with in FB guidelines and thanks for sharing the resources.

@laurachristianson yes and let’s hope a lot sooner. I don’t see the bugs they have as too big of an issue for FB anyway. 

… Scott

@zsuzsaszab I am checking it out!

@dedimason great plan Dedi,

I think people are genuinely interested in the history of businesses ad brands they like. Aside from the few things we’re going to miss with the new format, I think Timeline’s advantages outweigh the negatives.

Hello all of you!I read most of your posts after spending hours trying to solve all the bugs or misunderstandings I have… It’s great to see all of you participating in helping each other, I hope I will be able to do so soon!

One of the advantages of Facebook was the fact that it was easy to use and intuitive… I find that it’s getting more and more frustrating to understand all the trics, and we can not all spend hours searching for the solutions…
It’s good to be positive about these changes, be an early adopter and educate ourselves and our clients…However, I considered before theses changes that Facebook was an amazing tool to democratize marketing and give people who don’t have the budget of a marketing department to access a great audience without being too intrusive..It is supposed to be an easy tool to use for people who are independent contractors, who are not necessary big companies, but artists or freelances who are not necessary social media geeks.

Simple small example that I am trying to deal with at the moment: if the pictures you have for your cover page doesn’t fit the format…If you don’t know how to reframe this picture yourself with the specific softwares, and if you don’t have friends who can do it for you, you might need to pay for it… Unless the reposition button ends up working and helping us to do so? If a picture is too small or too big for the size of the cover what can we do? And a none professional timeline picture might really affect the first impression….

I am sure we will all get used to these changes, but pointing out the frustrations is also good because I expect Facebook will hear them and improve them…

Amel

@edwardbrown Thanks for your advice! I looked your page, your pictures are great! What a great offer from you, Thank you! If I don’t find a solution for a picture more relevant to my page topic, I will definitely think of you But I will also think of you if I see that some of my clients need pictures as yours.And yes, the Timeline does make sense even more in your case, visuals enhance it all…

On my FB page at http://www.facebook.com/socialsavvynetworks I’m taking a poll on the timelines. Please check it out and click on the polling and of course while your visiting my page  and you find it’s something you can use then don’t forget to “Like” it!

I’m going to wait another week or two.  I was just about to design a couple of landing pages for myself and client, glad I didn’t.

No rush, and I want to pick up any hints/tidbits before, such as all the great comments on this post.

A great video on how to convert your pages to the new format is here (from Inbound Zombie)

fb.me/1461tGj54