With our new Profile Picture Frame social action you can create a campaign that benefits your supporters and your cause.
- They get a cool profile picture overlay to show their friends they support your cause.
- You get a list of names and emails of everyone who believed in your cause enough to associated it with their most prominent Facebook image.
It’s a win-win. And best of all, if you contact these supporters in the future, you won’t be spamming them. They’ve shown the world they stand for your cause, making them that much more likely to show support for future actions related to your cause, too.
How to create a Profile Picture Frame Social Action
First log into ActionSprout and select your Facebook Page to work with from the Accounts screen.
Next click on the Social Actions tab in the left hand menu of the screen:
Then click the green Create Action button at the top of your screen and choose Profile Picture Frame from the list of templates.
You’ll be taken to a page that looks like the one below. This is where you can create, edit, and manage your new profile picture campaign.
Start by filling in the basics:
- Give it a catchy title
- Be clear about what you’re asking supporters to do
- What do you want the button to say to get them to click?
- Choose an engaging image to promote the Profile Frame. What’s likely to catch their attention while they’re quickly scrolling through their busy Facebook News Feed?
Once you’ve entered all that, you’ll want to upload the overlay or frame image itself. This will be the picture your community adds to their profile images to show their support.
We recommend you use an overlay image that’s 1000 x 1000 pixels. Also, make sure you save it as a .PNG file with a transparent background.
If your overlay image is not a square, you’ll have the chance to crop it once you upload it into ActionSprout. (It has to be a square because profile images are square on Facebook, and your overlay needs to match up exactly.)
Once you’re happy with your overlay image, write a description for your social action. Make sure the wording helps persuade your supporters to change their image for your cause.
You can also customize your thank you screen, privacy info, opt-in message, donation appeals, and whatever info you’d like to collect when supporters complete your Social Action and apply the frame to their profile images.
Then Save Changes at the bottom of your screen. When the screen refreshes, click the link at the very top of the page to view your brand new Facebook Profile Frame.
