Facebook How-To: Send a Note to Fan Inboxes

January 20th, 2010 by Eric Frye

Are you an administrator of a Facebook Fanpage? If yes, you know Facebook features are constantly “tweaked.” The basic capabilities for posting data and reaching fans stays consistent, but the methods change sporadically, just to keep us crazy.

For months, business owners have flooded Facebook message boards asking how to send Fans a direct note (an email viewed in their Facebook inbox). Facebook has responded! Those who assumed they could only reach fans by posting a status message now have a better solution. Please follow the steps below to send a “Facebook email” to your Facebook Fans:

As an administrator of the Fanpage, log into your Facebook account and visit your Fanpage. Then follow these 3 simple steps:

Fans will find these messages here:

This entry was posted by Eric Frye on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 2:30 pm and is filed under Facebook, Social Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Facebook How-To: Send a Note to Fan Inboxes”

Josh Says:
February 6th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Thanks for this! If a user has email notifications turned on, will these messages also get sent via email, like regular messages from friends would? Or is it just restricted to Facebook inbox?
Allison Kulage Says:
February 9th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Email notifications typically do send a notification to your email inbox, not just your Facebook inbox. So, as long as FB doesn’t change their rules this week, your messages should be delivered via regular email as well.