Create a Custom Tab without 2000 likes??

Hello friends,

I am new to monetizing facebook and I would like to set up a custom tab for my sales funnel on my business page. However, I only have around 300 likes on the page and read that it isnt possible to create pages without having atleast 2000 likes after an update not too long ago. Is there a way around this?? or am I better off buying likes for the page and then creating the custom tab??

Thank you!

Custom tab for your sales funnel? What do you mean?
You can setup custom tabs on your page, but I never heard about a limitation that said you need at least 2000 likes before creating a custom tab.

What is your aim?

X-R0 said:

Custom tab for your sales funnel? What do you mean?
You can setup custom tabs on your page, but I never heard about a limitation that said you need at least 2000 likes before creating a custom tab.

What is your aim?

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Thanks for the reply,

My plan is to have a broad advertisment for my company based on a certain factors then people who engage with the Ad or visit my website I will retarget to try and get them to download my free ebook on my custom Squeeze page I made in WordPress. The classic, offer free quality information, get an email, and then follow up later on to close an actual sale.

BUT, when I try and set up a custom tab with the URL to a Squeeze page for the free ebook I get this error message:




After researching the only explanation Im finding is that after the recent API update there is now a 2000 like minimum for business pages to make a custom tab.

So Im wondering what I should do or I guess if this information is even accurate.

Thank you!

thanks for further explaining. To be honest, this was also new to me: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/pages/tabs/

did you already set up a Developer Account?

But I I'm still not sure if I don't get your plan or if there is a misconception, what custom tabs are actually for.
I don't get what the custom tab has to do with retargeting.
If you want to retarget people who had engaged with a specific Ad, I would suggest building a custom audience from engagement.
Use the new CA with a new Campaign "Messenger Objective" and encourage people with a strong call to action for requesting your free ebook.

TBolts20 said:

Thanks for the reply,

My plan is to have a broad advertisment for my company based on a certain factors then people who engage with the Ad or visit my website I will retarget to try and get them to download my free ebook on my custom Squeeze page I made in WordPress. The classic, offer free quality information, get an email, and then follow up later on to close an actual sale.

BUT, when I try and set up a custom tab with the URL to a Squeeze page for the free ebook I get this error message:

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After researching the only explanation Im finding is that after the recent API update there is now a 2000 like minimum for business pages to make a custom tab.

So Im wondering what I should do or I guess if this information is even accurate.

Thank you!

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There is no way around it you need at least 2k likes in order to be able to use it.

Just a headsup the custom tab will NOT be visible in the facebook application nor in the Mobile browser, only desktop based users will see that custom tab