Hey Mango, what tips do you have for people wanting to make their own Facebook cosplay page?
Honestly? Don’t bother. Facebook reach is tremendously awful these days, especially for those just starting Pages.
Focus your energy on Twitter, it’s pretty much the only platform with decent assurance that your followers will actually see what you post. Instagram is a close second but they’ve messed with the algorithms over there so much that it’s started to decline, too.
Also: don’t ever switch to a Business profile on anything. It’ll nuke your reach unless you cough up money because the platform will assume you’re using that profile to make money, so they want to charge you for it. Think of it like... A cosplayer can totally walk around a con to show off their costume. But if they start selling prints of their costume at that event, the con will want to charge them for a Dealers/AA table, since the cosplayer is using that venue to earn money. (Similar to how a lot of cons make photographers buy a special photographer badge if they’re charging for shoots at the event.)
