Re-branding Company Social Profiles

[BeckyKey]

Hi

Does anyone have experience of re-branding LinkedIN or Facebook? Can you keep the company page/followers and just change your name or do you have to start again?

Thank you!

[andy.bigbangthemes]

I don't think you'll be able to change everything (the URL for example) yourself, but you should definitely log a support ticket with both sites and ask them to do this for you. Facebook might not be possible at all - but I think Linkedin will.

Hope this helps If it does please send a like. Thanks!

[BeckyKey]

Thanks, I'm trying to research as a lot of places must have this problem.

The main concern is losing the likes/follows built up

[andy.bigbangthemes]

That's a valid point, however without reaching out to them you're unlikely to be able to completely change the branding. You need to see things from their POV too - perhaps somebody would promote a charity at first and then switch to porn one night. They need to have control over these.

[BeckyKey]

Hi

Yes I see your point. I found this article on Moz https://moz.com/blog/how-to-rebrand-your-social-media-accounts

I think if you prove it with documents then it's more likely to be accepted?

[andy.bigbangthemes]

Sure they will, but it will likely take a bit of time

Good luck!!!

[Roman-Delcarmen]

In my experiece I created some brand pages related to one of my product, create some trending content and when the page is ranked I merge the old with the new one.