I created a G+ Page last night for +Ian's Studio but I am seriously wondering how much use it will be to me. There are some major restrictions with these pages:
I have no way to move my 10,800+ followers over to following "Ian's Studio" which logically is what they should be following as that is my photographic business. Nor can I stop those 10,800+ people from following my personal account.
Pages can only circle people who have either circled my page or have interacted with my page. This means until people find me, I can't actually interact with them as a business. That includes leaving comments. I follow +Trey Ratcliff and he made some interesting points about pages from a photographer's point of view – I wanted to respond/comment on his post but because +Trey Ratcliff hasn't yet interacted with +Ian's Studio – +Ian's Studio can't comment on his post.
A page cannot +1 web pages. This just seams silly to me. Surely it should be possible of a business to endorse web page?
The next couple of points are minor ones but frustrating none-the-less. Switching between using G+ as me and as +Ian's Studio could be simpler. To switch I have to go to my profile page and then use the drop down box which then taken me to my pages's profile page or vice verca. Why is this an issue? I found today some who had circled my page but not me as a individual. I was looking at the person's profile wanted to add them to my circles, switched profiles and of course now could no longer see them. The solution is to remember the name, type it into the search box to be able to locate the person and circle them from the personal account. Long winded or what! If I could switch profiles without moving from my friends page it would have been easy.
I use google+blog by +Daniel Treadwell – at the moment I can only import posts from my personal profile not from my business page. I'm sure +Daniel Treadwell will sort this one in time.
And finally… and this is a bug that I have reported…. in some cases on my page "Ian's Studio" gets displayed as "Ian's Studio" Grrrr!
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You can invite them to the page though.
You can invite them to the page though.
+Stephen Sumner Oh… not found that yet… must look into it.
+Stephen Sumner Oh… not found that yet… must look into it.
I posted this morning about the pitfalls of personal pages if you're interested. I foresee many falling into disuse.
I posted this morning about the pitfalls of personal pages if you're interested. I foresee many falling into disuse.
+Stephen Sumner I give up – can't find the option to do invites, you will have to tell me where it is!
+Stephen Sumner I give up – can't find the option to do invites, you will have to tell me where it is!
So far, I agree with you +Ian M Butterfield . I set up a page for the organization I run, but I fear many of our users will not see much use (or perceive much value) from these new pages. It was also not clear, during the sign up process, that only one account would/could be associated as the administrator of the page. This was poorly communicated by Google.
So far, I agree with you +Ian M Butterfield . I set up a page for the organization I run, but I fear many of our users will not see much use (or perceive much value) from these new pages. It was also not clear, during the sign up process, that only one account would/could be associated as the administrator of the page. This was poorly communicated by Google.
+Bill Murray Additional admins for pages I believe is in the pipeline. So I am not worried about that one. I have raised the issue of moving followers over to pages on their discussion groups and I understand it will be fed back to the team. Don't know if it will change though.
+Bill Murray Additional admins for pages I believe is in the pipeline. So I am not worried about that one. I have raised the issue of moving followers over to pages on their discussion groups and I understand it will be fed back to the team. Don't know if it will change though.
The problem of migrating the existing followers to the pages is really a big question. No way you could/should/will have to invite every single one of them. On the other side… it took you 3-4 months to get them… and if they are loyal they actually should follow you into the Pages, don´t they? The ones that do not follow… well, they are not interested in the "business side". At least that would be the logical explanation.
The problem of migrating the existing followers to the pages is really a big question. No way you could/should/will have to invite every single one of them. On the other side… it took you 3-4 months to get them… and if they are loyal they actually should follow you into the Pages, don´t they? The ones that do not follow… well, they are not interested in the "business side". At least that would be the logical explanation.
+Kristian Peetz But to take a leaf out of traditional marketing techniques – just because to you haven't heard from a potential client in the last 3-4 months doesn't meant you want to cut them off from your marketing. No easy answers. It'll be interesting to see how Google address it all going forward. I'm keeping my options open at the moment I could jump either way.
+Kristian Peetz But to take a leaf out of traditional marketing techniques – just because to you haven't heard from a potential client in the last 3-4 months doesn't meant you want to cut them off from your marketing. No easy answers. It'll be interesting to see how Google address it all going forward. I'm keeping my options open at the moment I could jump either way.
For the first week or so (maybe even month or two) I'd suggest just posting your photo stuff on your studio page, and sharing it from this account to your personal followers/circlers. Continue to use this as your personal, everything to do with online stuff to post on, but when adding stuff to your studio page, share it here – if people only interested in your studio stuff, they'll just need to circle the studio page.
For the first week or so (maybe even month or two) I'd suggest just posting your photo stuff on your studio page, and sharing it from this account to your personal followers/circlers. Continue to use this as your personal, everything to do with online stuff to post on, but when adding stuff to your studio page, share it here – if people only interested in your studio stuff, they'll just need to circle the studio page.
+Rupert Wood If I don't abandon the business page altogether that is exactly the process I was planing to adopt.
+Rupert Wood If I don't abandon the business page altogether that is exactly the process I was planing to adopt.
Great post! I’m having a heck of time with the simple switching between myself and my page. Excuse my density, but where in tarnation is the drop down on the profile to switch between entities?
Hi Meg,
The dropdown box… if you view your “stream” there is a small version of your profile avatar top left. The dropdown box is just to the right of it.
Hope that helps
Ian.
Dude, thank you so much for replying. I discovered it yesterday. I don’t know if it was a browser issue – my FF was plyaing up before and after an update to 8.0 so I switched to Chrome – but the dropdown was not available the first 36 hours or so of my G+ Page being available. I had checked Chrome soon after creating it in case there were x-browser issues, but main thing is that it is there. Thanks for helping a rube!