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I need Facebook help

Ok, I'll *try* to keep this short (& clear), lol. I have a personal FB page and I have a fan page. But I think when I created the fan page...I did something wrong (STILL not quite sure what I did) ...so even though I have over 200 "likes"... I still can't drop the incredibly long number!! That drives me crazy! And i dont want to lose my 200+ likes ALSO, recently I looked at the personal page ... and I always had the link to my 'Jujubeader' page at the lower left corner ... But NOW I also have a 2nd link underneath it that also says 'Jujubeader' and it's listed under "friends". Whaaaaat? I'm confused. Why am I my own friend, lol? If you have a clue as to what I'm talking about ... can you help?
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Oh my Judy. I wish I had an answer for you. Sounds like your post here should also be sent to the facebook help team.

Good luck!
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What do you mean by 'the incredibly long number'?
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Mine has that, too. Here's what she means (mine as the example) www.facebook.com/pages/Bax-Cat-Co/277284262326252
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She means the 'un-pretty' URL that facebook assigns new fan pages. It's got your page name followed by a long, seemingly random number. Once you get a certain number of 'likes' on your fan page, you can set up a pretty URL without that number at the end.

Judy, I'm wondering two things:

1. Are you making sure that the 'likes' you got are on the fan page, and not your personal page, or likes on pictures? They have to 'like' your actual fan page. In other words, do you have at least 25 'fans'?

2. Have you followed these steps to the letter? ... (from facebook)

"The 3 Easy Steps to Getting Your Custom Facebook Fan Page:

1) Login to Facebook.com - with the account that is the administrator for the Fan page.

2) Go to this page: http://www.facebook.com/username/

3) Select if you want to change your Fan Page (aka your Business page) or your Personal Page URL - you can do both. Just pay attention which one you choose - so you don’t accidentally name your personal page your business name! "

I think I remember reading that you may have accidentally changed your personal facebook URL earlier this year. That means you won't be able to use the same name for your fan page URL, you'll have to try something else.

And remember, a lot of names are already taken, so you might be trying to change to a name that already exists.

Hope that helps!

(more on FB fan page URLs http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=126934463992742)

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Looking at your FB pages now.

You've got facebook.com/jujubeader as your personal account URL. That means you can't use that for your fan page URL.

Maybe try JuJuBeads instead?
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Ugh, that's IT, Kat. How in the world did I do that? Actually, the 'original' name of my business IS Jujubeads...but if I change it to that, won't I lose my 250 likes? I know some people would follow me but not all. Is it worth it? (And who in the world can memorize that ridiculous, RANDOM number!?!?)
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Btw Kelly...your link doesn't seem to work?
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No, you won't lose your likes. It should just change the ugly URL to the pretty URL, but it's still the same page, with all the same fans, etc.

Use the instructions above, and make sure you choose to change your fan page name (rather than your personal page name) and you should be all set :)
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FB is a bit confusing! I was "liking" on my page and it didn't do a bit of good. then I started liking from my personal account as well and voila! I was able to drop the numbers and create a custom URL.

I did have to get over 25 "likes" in order to do this.

FB is a very odd and fascinating place!
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Ooooooh, I hope you're right, Kat. (You USUALLY ARE!!) I will try this. Hopefully I'll have time to do it today...'cause I'll be away for the next two days. Thank you once again for coming to my rescue!! ;-)

Alex, I'm glad it worked for you ... and yesss, it surely is!!
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Well, Jujubeads is already TAKEN. There is already a Jujubeads Jewelry on FB and on Etsy. Now I'm really screwed. I don't think I wanna make it more complicated by making it Jujubeads Inc, or Jujubeads Ltd (although that sounds kinda cool) but I don't think people will remember that. (Or will they?) Any opinions? Should I just leave it ... even though it's not quite right? I guess I did it 'bass ackwards' as usual, lol.
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What about JujubeadsUS, presuming you live in the US. I have C&C personal and C&CUK business. The most important bit is obviously jujubeads and as soon as you are on there you should come up in search near the top anyway and most people probably won't notice the end part of the name. Just a suggestion of course.
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I always need fb help so I am definitely marking this page.
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Sbb1, if you are stuck try joining one of the Etsy FB teams such as Etsians of Facebook. http://www.etsy.com/teams/10355/etsians-of-facebook
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Hmmm. Claire, it's not a bad idea. JujubeadsUS :::thinking:::
What do you think about JujubeadsInc or JujubeadsLtd? (I kind of like JujubeadsLtd) Opinions?
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The only problem with either of those is that you should really be an Inc or a Ltd to use them ie if you don't have that company status as you already. Ltd usually references a Limited company in the UK so if I was Cards & Craft Ltd then I might use that instead. I could be wrong but I don't think that term/abbreviation is used outside of the UK ie Inc is usually US, Ltd and Plc are usually UK. If you want to check if there is actually a company called that you can find out via the Companies House website. I am only suggesting this to save potential headaches later on and not because it doesn't look nice. http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/
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I just checked (it used to be offline at this time of night, probably shows how long ago it is since I last looked) - there is no jujubeads ltd at the moment.
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Claire, I believe you're correct! My husband (who in addition to being my husband is ALSO an attorney) said that I cannot use either of those suffixes. So it looks like I'm sh** outta luck! Any other suggestions....I'm open! :)
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If you only sell on Etsy another one could be JuJuBeadsEtsy I've seen other sellers do that.
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If you only sell on Etsy another one could be JuJuBeadsEtsy I've seen other sellers do that.
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What about JuJuBeadsOnFB or JuJuBeadsOnFaceBook? JuJuBeadsDesigns? Or, maybe JuJuBeadsTM (for TradeMark?)
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All good suggestions. I'm so disappointed that I cannot be plain old 'Jujubeads' ... I just need to get OVER that (lol) and I'll sleep on these ideas. I really appreciate your help, ladies!! :)
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