Last month, Facebook announced quite a major design change on personal Facebook profiles it seems that a new one is to be launched for all business pages on March 10, 2011. The new business page can be upgraded if you want, however as with any new launch it is advisable to wait until it rolls out by itself, only 10 days left.
Here are the major changes one will see on his Facebook business page:
1. Profile pictures – the new design will only allow pictures with 180 x 540 pixels in dimension (the actual page allows up to 200 x 600 pixels)
2. Choose whatever category you want – when setting up a new business page you have to choose a category from a well-defined drop-down menu, well not anymore; with this update, businesses can edit their categories and subcategories for better relevance
3. Featured pages – with this new redesign one can reveal “featured likes” and “page owners” on the left side of his Facebook page; featured likes will show pages you have liked in the past
4. Most recently tagged photos – just exactly like personal profiles, from now on recently tagged pictures will be displayed horizontally on top of business profile page
5. “Like” as a normal user – with actual Facebook Pages, you as a brand owner could not “Like” a certain page or make a comment as your page; from now on, things are to change, thus adding more communication channels for your brand; this is one of the most beneficial changes Facebook is to make while you can definitely increase your brand’s exposure and build your awareness on the most popular social networking site ever
6. The box with little details about the business will be removed and the “Info” tab will feature all the necessarily information
7. Notifications – you will be able to add notifications regarding to whatever activity is on your page, like someone posting on your wall and so on; also, you will be able to build a list of “banned words” you want to block on your Facebook Page
As with the Facebook Personal profiles change, there will be business owners that like this update and others that were fancying the previous one more, however it seems that the new design will come with some great improvements, for both users and brands exposing their businesses online.