Is it time to delete your Facebook group? Groups can be a valuable asset to your business marketing but they don’t always work out the way you planned.
If you have a large membership, they can be extremely time-consuming. Unless they are contributing to a specific business goal, it’s hard to justify keeping them alive.
In this post, we’ll look at how to delete a Facebook group as well as some alternatives to pulling the plug.
Deleting your Facebook group is drastic and final. Once you’ve done it, there’s no going back. You’ll lose all the content and threads. All the work you put in will be gone for good. So before you delete, consider the other options.
If you are 100% sure you want to delete scroll down to point 4.
1. Change the Group’s Name and Branding
Instead of deleting could re-branding the group work?
It can be disheartening when you grow an engaged group but members constantly recommend your competitors in their comments. Usually, this is because you didn’t make it clear that the group is owned by your business when you set it up.
If so, a re-brand could fix the problem. Change the group name, add branding to your cover images, and link it to your Facebook page. Here’s how.
Change the group name
- Click the three dots underneath your cover photo
- Select ‘Edit group settings’ from the drop-down menu
- Type in your new group name next to ‘Group Name’
Add branding to the cover photo
Your group cover image size is 1,640px by 859px. Use Canva, or your preferred graphic design tool, to create a Facebook group cover that includes your logo.
Link the group to your page
Linking your page to your group lets you post, like and comment as your page on your Facebook group.
To link your group to your Facebook page:
- Click the three dots under your cover photo
- Select ‘Edit group settings’ from the drop-down menu
- Under Linked Pages click ‘Link Your Page’
- Click ‘Link’ next to the page you want to link
2. Appoint New Admins
Friendships form in groups– members make real connections and support each other. Deleting the group and destroying these relationships can end in hurt feelings and damage your reputation.
Instead of deleting,…
