How to get contacts to my Google Plus Business Page, not my personal?

[Southbay_Carnivorous_Plants]

Basically, I have 1000's of business contacts in my gmail account.  Within google plus, I manage my business page and then try to add contacts to my circles.  However its says I have none.

If I switch to my personal google plus which is associated with the gmail account then I can add my business contacts and customers to its circles...

I tried to work around this by setting up a new gmail account, importing my contacts and making it a manager for the business plus page.  It turns out all gmail accounts have a default google+ id , so I run into the same dilemma.

Been banging my head on this all morning and really want to add all my business contacts/customers to my business page & its circles.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[mark_baird]

I have been trying to sort out my google plus, gmail and YouTube accounts fr a good few weeks. The more I try to organise things the worse things get. I am pretty sure it's just a google cock up and it is probably not your fault.

[Southbay_Carnivorous_Plants]

Yeah I can't figure it out, it looks as if they might have done it on purpose.  So you can't add people to your business page directly... You need their button & links etc.  I hate it, but considering the weight - its something I need to use.

If I could add people to the page from my email contacts, I would easily get the 100 requirement for adwords.  Which is my primary concern.

Anyway - if anyone else knows how to add from gmail to circles on a G+ Page , not Profile ... Let me know.  Both are built on the same gmail account.

[MoosaHemani]

will second Mark here!

[adriandg]

This was driving me crazy so i made a small in browser jquery script.  First you need to load in jquery via the firebug or chrome console.  You need to be on the page that has the contacts in gmail.  You run this script in the console:

(function( $ ) {
$.fn.pop = function() {
var top = this.get(-1);
this.splice(this.length-1,1);
return top;
};

$.fn.shift = function() {
var bottom = this.get(0);
this.splice(0,1);
return bottom;
};
})( jQuery );
var list = $('.MN.MQ.abJ');
var counter = 0;
var total = list.length;
var timer, timer_two;
contact = list.shift();
contact.click();
timer = setTimeout(function(){cycle(list);},2000);
counter++;

function cycle(){
if($('.abZ').filter(':visible').attr('href')){
console.log($('.abZ').filter(':visible').attr('href'));
}
window.location.href ='https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#contacts/group/XXXXXXXXXX/YYYYY';
timer_two = setTimeout(function(){wait();},2000);
}

function wait(list){
list = $('.MN.MQ.abJ');
i = 0;
while(i++ < counter){
this_contact = list.shift();
}
counter++;
this_contact.click();
timer = setTimeout(function(){cycle();},2000);
}

Edited to update code a bit. its faster now and better.  You might want to disable "extensions.firebug.showXMLHttpRequests;false" in about:config for the duration of the logging so that it doesn't get all clogged up with post requests.

Important! make sure to replace https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#contacts/group/XXXXXXXXXX/YYYYY with the correct path to your contact list list.  if you have multiple pages of contacts you can let the script finish and then do the next page by changing: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#contacts/group/XXXXXXXXXX/YYYYY to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#contacts/group/XXXXXXXXXX/YYYYY/P1 then https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#contacts/group/XXXXXXXXXX/YYYYY/P2 and so on.

You could probably tighten up the timers a bit.  Eventually you get a list of all the google plus account urls in the console log.  You copy this out and then import to google plus page via circloscope.

Cheers,

Adrian