My friend Shawn of Interactabel Social Media had a client who wanted to merge two Facebook Business Pages together but, after our rather arduous experiences of changing a Personal Profile to a Business Page, we were not very enthusiastic about even attempting the job – especially when a Google search revealed that many commentators specifically said it was impossible.
Remember the subtle difference there – you Merge two Pages together but you Migrate a Personal Profile into a Business Page.
However, there was one report which shed some light on its feasibility – The Social Animal suggested that we authenticate the page first – linking it in Facebook’s eyes with the personal profile of an admin – and then attempt the merge.
And then this very easy solution from Just Ask Kim. However, as at January 2012, the whole function is very unstable, so you might want to think twice about attempting this for the moment.
So, why do people even want to perform the merge of two pages?
1. It could be to merge an existing Business Page with a Facebook Places Page to take advantage of the check in activity.
2. Associates from the same company have set up two identical Facebook pages for the same product
