Google + Circles

[gfiedel]

This question is so elementary, I'm almost embarrassed to ask it. I am having trouble directing potential followers/friends to Circle us on our Google+ business page.  People add to my personal profile page instead, the result of which, i am not building up Circles for my business while I am building my personal profile which i don't care about. I have made personal requests, used our logo on my personal page header saying "Gina Fiedel representing (business name)" and "Visit our Google+ business page", etc.  I feel like I'm missing something. Has anyone found any sort of magic bullet for this?  Thanks!!

[William.Lau]

Use any one of these multiple implementations on your site.

https://developers.google.com/+/web/+1button/

Just use the target as your homepage/+page. When they click it on your site it will show up on your page as well.

[gfiedel]

Thanks, William. I should have mentioned we have everything set up on our site. That's handled. I am referring to people who are not going through the site but directly to Google+ and either finding me there under my name, or already in my personal circles or some other path. It even seems like it's possible that even when someone looks for our business, they land on my personal profile instead....

[littlesthobo]

Hi Gina

I just googled your site and I can't immediately see anything to do with Google+ on there.  I can see your FB and LinkedIn icons in the footer.  Would be a good idea to put a Google+ on in there that links to your page.

I also googled your google plus page and found it I also noticed it doesn't have a lot of attention and 4 plus ones.

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To grow that I would definitely add a plus one button to your site and when anyone clicks the plus one button on your site it will tally with the page.

I can see you post regularly on your plus page, you have only circled 5 people (from your page, not from you).  You can treat your page like a personal profile, use it to circle people, follow, engage with them, circle your clients (business pages and their personal pages) with your page profile.  It's not really possible for your page to start engaging when its only following 5 other.

Hope that helps, but feel free to ask if it doesn't make sense.

[gfiedel]

Thank you, Joanne.

I appreciate that you checked our site. I'm a bit surprised/sorry you didn't see the G+ 1 button on all our site pages. We use the Sociable plugin and it's there at the bottom of each page of the site directly above the footer along with the whole gang of socials. (I disabled Digg because it was slowing load time.) We don't have a ton of traffic on our site and so these efforts move very slowly. I know- 5 is pitiful. ;o(

What I understand you to be saying is that I can Circle people from our business page in the same way I've done that on my personal profile.

Admittedly, I only created the business page in the late Fall, but I still feel I'm lagging dramatically.

[gfiedel]

Hello again!  I visited my Google+ business page to follow your suggestion to use the business page the same as personal in order to build circles. On my personal profile, there is an option to view people i may know and add them to my Circles (similar to People You May Know on LinkedIn). There is no option like that on the business page and so I'm wondering if you have any further thoughts on how to follow-through on this.