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How to Create a Facebook Story on a Business Page

With business pages’ organic reach continuing to decrease on Facebook, it’s now more important than ever to experiment with different ways to get your posts in front of as many eyeballs as you possibly can.

Facebook recently rolled out Stories to business pages, which provides another opportunity to showcase your brand and increase your Facebook engagement. While many brands are using disappearing Instagram and Snapchat stories to reach their Audience, Facebook Stories has previously been limited to personal profiles, with very little uptick in usage.

Facebook’s latest algorithm change prioritizes local news, as well as interactions between friends and family, making it even harder for posts from business pages to be seen without spending money to boost them. It’s now more important than ever to look at alternative ways to interact with your audience. Facebook Stories may help business pages gain some visibility, especially with so few people using them at this stage.

Much like Instagram Stories, Facebook Stories are visual rather than text-based. They can contain multiple photos and videos to communicate a message and disappear 24 hours. Business pages can only post Stories using the mobile app, not from the desktop.

Before jumping into Facebook Stories, it’s important to understand the difference between content that makes a good Story versus content that makes a good post. Much like on Instagram, Stories tend to lend themselves better to behind-the-scenes content and often have a more “guerilla marketing” feel than the professional photography you’re more likely to use with posts. You want viewers to watch your Story from the beginning to the end by guiding them through a journey. Here are some guidelines to follow on how to create a good Story versus how to create a good post:

Facebook Story

Facebook Post
  • Plan out what you want to showcase to your audience and create a storyboard
  • Decide what story you want to tell your audience
    – Do you want to share behind-the-scenes photos showing your audience what goes on in your business?
    –  Do you want to educate your audience with your expertise? Facebook Stories can be a great way to deliver tips and short how-to tutorials.
    – Are you trying to discover more about your audience? Ask for
    your fans’ feedback and use them to focus group new products or services
  • Come up with an overall theme/idea and include a combination of video and images to keep the Story visually appealing.
  • Decorate the Story with elements such as filters, stickers and text to keep it visually interesting
  •  Start with no more than 1 Story per day
  • It is crucial to write your text for speed readers. People scroll through their News Feed quickly, so get straight to the point and use strong call to actions
  • The audience will be more interested in your post if the content is exclusive, entertaining or informative.
  • Determine your objective behind each post. Are you trying to get brand awareness? Drive people back to your website? Get newsletter signups?
  • To gain engagement in your post, ask questions and use hashtags. Be direct and avoid asking yes/no questions. You want people to comment and discuss.
  • Keep your posts relevant to your business and audience. The focal point of your posts should always relate to your company’s culture, products/services, or business objectives.

How to create Facebook Stories

To share Facebook Stories, you must be an admin or editor of your brand’s page. Through the Facebook app on your phone or your page’s Creator Studio tab on desktop, you can directly post Stories by:

1. Going to your brand’s page

2. Scroll down to where you see Create Story in the top middle of the screen indicating a menu

3. Click Create a Story.

4. Create your Story by taking photos or video, or upload photos and video from your Camera Roll

  • Tap BOOMERANG to create captivating mini videos that loop back and forth
  • Tap MOOD to create GIF-centric Stories frames to convey a chosen feeling
  • Tap POLL to ask a question, customize the answers and let people vote for their favorite option.
  • Tap MUSIC to add a clip of a song to your photo or video.

5. Add filters, text or draw on it. Tap Effects to add other creative effects to your photo or video, or Save to save it to your camera roll.

6. Add a Call-To-Action button (Book Now/Get Directions/Learn More/Call Now/See Event/See Offer..) to your Page’s story so people can interact with your page

 7. Tap Done, then tap Share To Story

How to Create a Facebook Story on a Business Page

How do I share your Instagram story to Facebook?

If you have a business profile on Instagram, you can allow your Instagram Stories to be shared to Facebook Stories automatically:

  1. Access your settings in the Instagram app
  2. Select ‘Story Settings’
  3. Turn on ‘Share Your Story to Facebook.’

With this method, all of your Story analytics will be combined and viewable on Instagram.

Instagram-Stories-will-also-be-shared-as-Facebook-Stories

You can also push your Instagram Stories to Facebook Stories manually.

  1. Start creating a story, then tap Send to.
  2. Below Your Story, tap Sharing Options.
  3. Select Share to Facebook Every Time or Share Once.
  4. Tap Share.

Comments (67)

  1. sherwin - Reply

    Hi Lilianne, good day! Thanks to this very informative Tips and Guides about How to Create a Facebook Story on a Business Page, this great help as I am doing online business today…

  4. Michelle - Reply

    Hi Lilianne, I am trying to post from a business page to Instagram. I have the options for publishing to page and story but haven’t got instagram on this page – however it is there on another. Both are signed up for instagram through facebook – I am stumped!! Please help 🙂

  5. Celeste Geber - Reply

    Hi Lianne, I see the option on my business page on my android phone, but not on my laptop.
    Where is it on the computer please?
    Thanks!

  8. SONIA MIRA - Reply

    hi can you tell me why it doenst allow you to see which person “viewed” your story it only shows an eye in the corner?

  9. Jess Bouren - Reply

    Is there any way to view who has viewed your story? It only shows the “eye count” but doesn’t let you click on it. TIA

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  13. osama - Reply

    but if my personal profile gets a block from posting or using Facebook futures you will not be able to manage your business page and this is so dumb to link my personal opinion with my ability to access my business page …

  14. Javier Castillo - Reply

    Hi, I just created a FB ad linked to my business page and fb created an fb story and Instagram story but I can’t figure out how to get these to show on my page stories. Any help is appreciated. Thx

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  17. Dani - Reply

    I have the same problem as another commenter. The “your pages story” option is not showing on my business page through the facebook app or pages manager.

  18. Lisa Sicard - Reply

    Same with mine, driving me crazy looking around to find it! I wonder if they haven’t rolled out stories to all pages yet?

  20. Elizabeth - Reply

    While viewing your FB biz page on your phone, at the top there are two ways of viewing the page- A) Activity B)Insights. If you view it on the insights option and scroll to the bottom under “reccomended actions” that is where I found it. The icon doesn’t look exactly like it is pictured in this article.

  22. Heidi - Reply

    Elizabeth, Could you describe in a bit more detail where you are seeing the choices “1) Activity B)Insights”? I don’t see them on my phone. When I click the Insights tab from my computer, I get several choices along the left column, one of which is stories, but clicking there only brings me to an page for story “insights” of which there are none…given that I can’t seem to find a way to post any. It almost sounds as though there isn’t much consistency in what people are seeing on their various business FB pages. Is that possible? Confused….

    • Lori Galloway - Reply

      I had a really hard time finding this too! You just click on your profile picture…the “+” symbol and a box pops up for you to add to your story!

      • Red Wortham - Reply

        OMGoodness! I can’t tell you how frustrating it was to try to find the link to create story over and over! People above were correct for temporary options like bottom of insights “recommended actions” until it was not one of the recommended actions anymore! FINALLY, the profile picture Plus is NOT the most intuitive place to find this. THANK YOU for posting!

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  32. Roland Denzel - Reply

    On some pages you have to enable it in ‘Insights’ first. After that you’ll be able to create them IN Insights or using the little + on the lower right of your profile picture

  33. Heidi - Reply

    I clicked within ‘Insights’ on ‘Stories.’ All it said is that there are no insights because there are no stories. Could you share what you see when you go to stories to “enable ‘insights'”? Thank you!

  35. silenciobarnes - Reply

    Was struggling with this. Found the suggestion about using the insights section here, and it worked for me.

    — Opened page from the regular android app (not the Pages app)
    — Went to the Insights section and clicked “See All”
    — Option to turn on stories was second section down from the top

    After turning the feature on, I still could not share anything posted prior to turning it on. I could make a new story ONLY by using the option under insights.

    Sharing to story fails when trying to do it after posting to the timeline. No story options whatsoever exist for me in the Pages app. But, it’s progress 😀

    Note to admins: This post shows up high in search results, it might be a good idea to update the post with the information about the insight section.

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  39. Sarah - Reply

    When you go onto your page where it says ‘create a post’ underneath you should see ‘add to story’ this will allow you to create content to be shared out from your page to a story.

    In order to see how much engagement, etc you are getting if you click insights then you can see how many people are clicking on it, etc 🙂

  40. ROSE - Reply

    I would like to edit Story in my Fb page.
    but couldn’t see “Your page’s story” nor “Edit page’s story”
    Any help is greatly appreciated. 🙂

    • Lilianne Le - Reply

      Yes, you can publish a story from a computer. On the Facebook desktop, there’s a ‘create’ botton located at the top right of the page, click that button and select ‘Story’ and you can either create a a photo story or create a text story.

  45. KikiJack - Reply

    The story option is readily available on the PHONE! If you hover over your business icon/logo, options open up that include “create story”. I have tried everything from the desktop to find this option. Per the instructions, I do not see Creator Studio. I have also been using Business Suite to connect IG to FB. That could be the problem. When I used Pages Manager the options were different. I preferred that one, but can’t find a way to go back to it. Thanks for the comments and procedures. Please update your current procedures.

  46. KikiJack - Reply

    Lilianne Le, in a business page the options under “create” are; like, follow, share, create page, invite friends. Unfortunately, there is no “story” option. I am not sure what you have, but I do not see that. From the phone, it’s available.

  47. Kirsty Kloppers - Reply

    How do I create a story highlight on my facebook business page? Been trying for ages and cant find how to do it. I have it set up on my personal facebook page and both instagram accounts but am at a loss on facebook business

    • Lilianne Le - Reply

      On the Facebook app, tap on your profile picture and on the bottom right, tap the star icon “Feature.” Now select the stories you’d like to highlight, edit the title and tap on ‘Done’.

      • HoneyTrek - Reply

        Tried to follow your directions. Doesn’t work for me. Are you sure you aren’t talking about personal FB profile? Notice the OP said “business page”, which is where we are trying to create a highlight reel (like on IG). If you are able to do this on your business page, can you share a link, and re-share the instructions, as I don’t see the options you stated above. Thanks Lilianne!

  48. Kirsty Kloppers - Reply

    Am I being totally blonde here. I dont have that? Im on facebook on my phone. Ive gone to my business page and clicked on the profile pic – star icon or ‘feature’ Just Create a story / View Story / View profile pic / choose new profile pic

  49. Charlotte - Reply

    Can I create a multi picture story. I’ve seen others do it on business pages but I can’t seem to do it. Even when I select the multiple option it only allows 1 image to be selected for the story.
    Can anyone suggest anything. Please

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