This is how Facebook Scheduled Post Feature Made My Day

Doing social network stuffs requires me to update different Facebok fan page around the clock. It seems it is easy to say but literally I need to be awake 24 hours or closer as that. I remember how I used automated script to work on my behalf but it only lead my fan page being banned as this is against on Facebook's TOS. I also hired freelancer who will post updates when I'm not available and most of the time when I'm sleeping while spending money for such simple task I is not a good choice either. That is my social media marketing daily task.

Until Facebook released a feature where you can schedule your post to publish. Not only it is useful in my off hours but also, it is easy for me to plan it all the way since the entire system is very detailed. You can also review your post through log in case that there are some error or duplicate scheduled post. You can easily manage your post in this manner than in different hours of posting which is more prone to error.

It is very easy to follow, you can see in my screenshot below:

Just click the clock-like icon and you will see a series of selection to schedule your post. 

Among all innovation of Facebook this is what I really like. Technically legal yet powerful feature. No need to download or use script to make automated post in your behalf, also they cater the easiest method to manage all your post while implying services to all your followers/subscribers around the clock.

How To Verify Facebook Fan Page

If you own an official Facebook fan page for a certain products, website, apps, business, company, organization, brand or you are celebrity, artist, popular entity it is better for your page to get verified from that certain brand. This will improve your brand credibility against duplicated fan page, unofficial fan page, and especially from scam/phishing Facebook fan page using your brand name maliciously. 

You will know that your Facebook fan page has been verified once you see the blue circle with check after the title. You will see also this on result from social query. 

taken from official fan page of Justin Bieber

Aside from advantage of this new feature on Facebook I stated above there are also some technical benefits you can claim for being verified:

Reclaiming impressions from misleading/duplicate fan page.  Because it is duplicate fan page, all content such as header, logo, photos etc are from official fan page and with this state, it is difficult for fans to know where is the original. While this will be a lose on your impressions, instead of pointing on original fan page as what fans want to happen, away from their knowledge and you as owner didn't know that fake fan page taken the impression of your fans from you. 

Improve your page ranking on social queries.  If fan is looking for a certain fan page, those verified fan page for a certain query will got the top rank. This is for fan and potential likers to see the official fan page and definitely got their likes. Without this new feature, all queries will only base on what fans make an interaction with or those who already got like from them but now, the official or the verified fan page always got the top rank. 

This will be a big and free promotion for your fan page thorough related queries and suggestions. Most official fan launch a marketing campaign to advertising and sponsored post this time since got marked as verified, Facebook is well convinced to suggest you in some queries and this will be a big factor on page promotion.

Now ready to verify your fan page? Well according from their official release, you don't need to do something. Facebook has their own algorithm to grant the verified status to all official fan pages. But if they missed your fan page as long as this is official brand, you can contact Facebook, follow instructions, claim your brand, got verified