These social media marketing secrets will help you to get your business a lot more customers, even more so than you could get from being on the first page of Google. 

Social media is the most popular online activity, long since overtaking porn. People spend four times longer on Facebook than on any other site, and so that is where I will start. 

There is not one secret to success on Facebook, it is more a combination of things. You need to be entertaining, and engaging, get lots of likes, update your page regularly, have good SEO so you get found on Google, and hopefully you will turn those visitors into customers. 

You can use many different page designers to make a custom Facebook page like Pagemodo, or you can create apps that have an iFrame connecting to any web page you want, hosted on your own server. 

You can have your entire website on your Facebook page if you want, just go to the Developers button at the bottom of every page, and learn how to create an app. 

To find out more, see: How to Make a Popular Facebook page. You fill the page up with quality, keyword relevant content including photos, videos, a descriptive info page etc, and then you make back links to the page and get likes. 

You can buy Facebook page likes quite easily in a number of places, and this can have quite a dramatic effect on the ranking of your page in a Google and Facebook search. 

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What many people often fail to realize however, is that while Facebook has the largest amount of people on it, it is probably not the best place to find customers for your business unless you can make a profit from advertising on Facebook Ads. 

The fastest way to get targeted traffic to your site, (and therefore customers), is Twitter, so long as your site has a widespread appeal. 

The fastest way to get Twitter followers is to buy them. There is a debate about whether it is better to buy Twitter followers or try to get them naturally, and of course it is better if you can get people to follow you for no other reason but they are interested in you, but these sort of followers are usually only achieved by celebrities. 

Talking of celebrities, did you know that Kim Kardashian charges ten thousand dollars a tweet? Not bad money for something that takes a second to do. 

Another great way to do social media marketing quickly is to join lots of different groups in Linked In, and send out your latest blog post to all the people in those groups. 

You have to do this responsibly, and make sure that it is relevant to the group, or they will just ban you from that group. It is quite possible to get hundreds or even thousands of views in one day by joining the right groups on Linked In. 

StumbleUpon is a great site, you just have to know how to use it. You follow people who look like they're looking for followers to share with, they will follow you back, and you agree to vote up each other's toolbar shares. The more thumbs up a page has, the better it does in the random surf on StumbleUpon in a particular category. 

Google Plus is the newest, fastest growing social media site, and in my opinion, it's as good as any of the other ones I mentioned, perhaps even better, although given that it is still new, I haven't got quite as much traffic from there as from the other ones. 

Those are my social media marketing secrets for beginners, you just have to learn how to use the sites, try to be social and friendly, and stick at it.