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Currently one of the most fundamental aspects of attraction marketing is understanding how to maximise our use of social marketing.

Social media and the way it enables us to develop relationships, gives us an excellent opportunity for increasing our brand and web presence and it's usually free, although time absorbing until you become very experienced and quite stringent with yourself about the time you allot to each medium.

In order to make the best of social networking and other social media, you need to develop good time management though it does offer you much more leaway to increase your interactions with people. Social networks often have instant chat features as well as blogs, forums and groups where you can talk and share your knowledge and experience in order to bring people to you.

Twitter is one of the most widely used social media sites at the moment, although it can be tough to check yourself and be able to share what you want to in just 140 characters lol - it undeniably took me a little while. Likewise with Facebook still being one of the most considerably well used social networking sites - you have a formidable arsenal if you just concentrate on these two in the beginning.

One of the secrets to using social media effectively is to bear in mind that you are there to develop your authority, to become recognised as being a valuable resource, not to rake people with your links and become recognised as the person everyone rushes to avoid (in actual fact facebook and twitter have very strict policies and it isn't difficult to get your account locked or barred there so start slow and develop your friends and followers base carefully).

When you add friends pick them for their similar interests to you, look at them in view of common interests, in facebook the easiest way to do this is to use groups that you are interested in and find that you can impart information effectively within and then slowly make friends with the people there, this is a useful method because facebook won't permit you to view another persons full profile before you are friends. When you apply for a friendship with someone, advise them where you found them and what common interest you seem to have, this will encourage them to accept you and be willing to start a dialogue with you.

This will get you off to a decent start, - make no mistake, social networking and using social media are incredibly effective marketing tools, they just take time and a softly, softly approach giving you time to develop a relationship of mutual respect with your friends and followers before you do business together..