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Is Google full of Musician Spam, Already?

Back in March 2012, we talked about musicians flocking to Google Plus and acting like it was a brand new uncharted territory for staking out their MySpace/Facebook like territories.

“We are all far too familiar with the constant barrage of “hey check out my shit! don’t forget to like me on facebook, and twitter, and please please please vote for me and buy my record and share my stuff with all of your friends 200 times a day – I’ll do the same for you,” bullshite.
G+ is full of it, too. Heck, before they even opened up for brand pages, it was already thick with musicians, doing the same old thing. A bunch of them got kicked out for it, and I say, “Hoorah!”

Read more at http://www.midtnmusic.com/g-musicians-to-spam-or-not-to-spam/#YKZtAFbGLIP7gAO5.99

#canthespamWell, there has been no slow-down. There’s been a lot of learning, but no slowdown. Google Plus is now the second largest social network on all the whole ding dang ball of interwebs, and every day more people pile on board. That’s great, mostly, ok, sort of…

BUT

It seems these folks have read one too many blog posts about why they should be “marketing” on Google Plus, or every freaking social channel for that matter. Somehow, in all their study, they skipped the part about not spamming.

Folks let me tell ya. If you think popping onto G+ and sharing the same crap posts you share to Facebook and Twitter is going to win you a bunch of new social media friends, you are dead wrong.

Google Plus is a different place – for now. Let’s keep it that way!

Don’t take me wrong…

There are fantastic groups doing huge things with and for musicians all over Plusdom, such as +John Voshell at +Artists in the Plus and Diane Cobb with “Let’s Talk About Music”.

Jessica Northey’s “CMChat” the largest show on Twitter is gaining a huge following by adding the Hangout On Air feature and taking the show to a whole new level of interaction with up to 9 live guests via video.

Artists, painters, musicians, writers, and designers are making 1,000′s of new friends and contacts and learning great new things every day. They are networking! Yes, I said it. That’s what +Joshua Smotherman and I have been trying to get through your head for the last 2 years – Can the Spam and Network!

But what do I know?

Are you a fan of music on the internet? Why don’t you tell us what you like to see from the musicians you follow and circle?

Musicians – what works for you? If you are using G+, how is it different for you?

Spam Spam Spam!

Bonus Tip: Share shit Directly with people you don’t know for Instant Blocking!

Update, just now…

only minutes after I published this article, I got a Great post shared directly to me from some bee-autch I don’t know. Not just one, but Two, actually about 10 minutes apart. It’s pictured here at the right. I can tell you that the only thing this cat’s marketing got him was Blocked. Does this kind of thing work for you?

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Last updated on Thursday, 31 January 2013
About C Bret Campbell

Jedi Bret, sometimes known as C Bret Campbell, does what he does out of passion. From the Small Barn at the base of the Plateau, the force is strong. Bret is a happily married father of three. His education focus at UT-Knoxville was in music and business. He is a carpenter and owner of Small Barn Sound and co-founder of Middle Tennessee Music . Connect on Google+.

  • http://www.midtnmusic.com Joshua Smotherman

    The same day the report came out about Google+ being #2 behind FB, I saw musicians I had been following on other networks popping up in my G+ stream with posts like… “didn’t realize so many people were using Google+, better start using it more”.

    The problem is, like you have said, people are going to do what they do on FB and Twitter.

    Google+ is NOT just another social network. It is a social platform, or in the words of the great Chris Brogan, Google+ is a social backplane: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/social-backplane/

    Google is using Plus to expand and improve what it is already doing. The other networks are at a huge disadvantage because they lack everything Google had already built before G+ was developed.

    This is what keeps G+ from being “just another network”.

    Google is also observing, researching, and learning WITH the community and not just trying to pimp out its users to the highest bidder…

    Google+ is a community of passion.

    If you simply come over into our neighborhood and post 140 character updates with links to yourself, we will simply scroll on by or move you to an Ignore circle. G+ is a community environment, not a bulletin board.

    Musicians and everyone else need to understand this. I highly recommend setting up your Google+ profile, circling some people, brands, and other bands you enjoy.

    Sit back and observe for a while before trying to promote or market.

    Most importantly, Get Involved In A Community (!!!). This is where you find the real value of networking in the world of G+.

    • http://www.midtnmusic.com C Bret Campbell

      Heck, that’s almost another blog post, man!
      Dead on.
      I saw the same post you mentioned, “Guess I should start using it more…”
      Wow, that bugged me.
      Another thing that we could mention is that within the Google Communities, there are plenty set up just to be “Sharing Bulletinboards.” I would highly suggest that Plussers circle those communities if they really want to see every new song post, and that musicians use them almost exclusively for sharing songs – only posting their latest to the public stream and seldom at that.

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