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Google plus has finally opened their new social network to the public.  Savvy musicians and music promoters everywhere are jumping on the Google Plus bandwagon.  GooglePlusForMusicians.com is the leading blog for musicians looking to add the social network to their list of promotion tools.                Subscribe Pages are up! Finally!  Google Plus has opened up their pages feature.   Every musician, band, record label, or other business should have a page up and running as soon as possible.  The reason?  When someone sets up a Google Plus profile,  Google reccommends other profiles and pages for them to add to their circles, based on people or businesses they have interacted with.  As your fans join Google Plus (And they will), you want your page to be one of the first ones that they add.   Find out how to set up a page here. How do I promote my music on Google Plus? The network doesn't have any sort of music player yet, but thet doesn't mean you can't promote you.  However, there a a couple of ways to make your music easily accessible.               Read how What kind of Circles should I have?   The beauty of Google Plus is being able to separate your friends from fans, family from coworkers, etc.  This enables you to direct your posts at just the people you want to see them.   Besides the usual circles (Friends, Family, People I don't really like but felt obligated to add, etc...),  there are a few musician-specific circles you might want to add to your Google Plus account.                      Read more Get new fans on Google Plus. So you've got a great Google Plus page set up, you have videos and links to your music posted, and you're connecting with as many music industry professionals as possible.  So now what?  The next logical step is start converting other Google Plus users into rabid online fans of your music.  There are two ways to go about this.                        View the complete article      Networking and following on Google Plus One of the best features about Google Plus is that you can add people to you circles without them adding you back.  This way you can see status updates they make visible to the public, but they won't receive endless updates from people they don't know.  This is great for networking and keeping track of industry insiders.  British Google Plus guru Michael Lee Johnson recently compiled a list of 50 marketing, social networking, and business folks to follow.  You can find the list here, or follow Michael Lee Johnson for more. Keep your music visible without annoying your friends One hard lesson that many musicians have learned on Facebook (And too many haven't yet learned) is that you can't constantly post music videos, new songs, and show dates on your personal page without alienating your real friends.  Since Google + doesn't yet have a way to upload songs, your best bet is to share either a link to your ReverbNation, Soundcloud, or Bandcamp page, or to your best music video.  When you share the link, share it with "Public."          Read the rest

Join Google + (GooglePlusForMusicians.com is not affiliated with Google). Articles How to get new fans Music promotion on Google + Posting Videos Linking to your other sites Musician or band pages Circles Musicians: Looking for a list of thousands of music reviewers, websites, and radio stations that will play and promote your music?  Check out the Indie Bible! TIR Christmas Songwriting contest winners announced! Songwriters  Jodi Pederson and  Ioulia Koznova won the Reviewer's Choice award and the Reader's Choice award, respectively.  Find out more about the contest and listen to the winning songs here. Featured Google Plus Musician. Logan Venderlic is a folk/rock musician from West Virginia.  Venderlic, along with California country singer Raihanna Estrada, recently won the TIR Indie Awards, hosted by our sister site, www.IndieReviewer.com.    Visit Logan Venderlic's profile here