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What category should I select when making a Facebook page?
From These
*Local Business or Place
*Company, Organization or Institution
*Brand or Product
*Artist, Band or Public Figure
*Entertainment
*Cause or Community
Any clarification would be helpful.
2012-03-30 21:08:00
Go ahead - pick one of these 6 categories for your new page(the best that suits your page). When you do, the image flips up and reveals a drop-down box where you can choose something very specific to that category.Once you've found a category that's similar to whatever your Page will be about, you can then type out the "Name" for your page. If you don't know what to pick, believe me, you'll have a more clear picture once you administer the Page for awhile. Once again, you can always change the category in the future if you believe something better should have been used.
2012-03-31 20:12:00
When I try to change the category from "company" to "local business" it just flips back to "company" after I have saved it.Indronil - if you are able to successfully make this change please could you explain hw you did so. Thanks.
2012-04-01 07:56:00
1Go to your Page, click Edit on the top right2 Select Basic Information on the left3 Use the drop-down menus to change your main and sub-categories4Be sure to scroll down and Save Changes. I triedi have two pages one with the old layout which does not have much likes i tried to change but it didn't changeBut in my another page that is recently created (has the new layout like the timeline )it changed may be old pages are not allowed to change
2012-04-01 07:57:00
still try to do with another browser it may help