Just what is social Marketing? It’s a new way to use the power of the fastest growing sector of the Internet to your advantage. Social networking or social media sites are often in the news. And almost everyone is using them.

If you know nothing about this growing phenomenon, and want to learn more, Don Crowther from stompernet has a new video. It’s 50 minutes long but very entertaining and will teach you all about social marketing.

The purpose of the video is to advertise the Smarts (Social Marketing Traffic Strategies) system. Don’s assertion is that social marketing will be very profitable because traffic to top sites is massive. And there are now hundreds of sites with new ones appearing almost daily.

To give you some idea, both myspace and facebook now get equal traffic to the mighty google. And youtube consistently gets more traffic than google. And it gets better. The traffic to these sites are doubling every 6 months.

But how can you take advantage of this?

You can publish your material on content sharing sites like wikipedia, productwiki, scribd, hubpages and squidoo. Bookmark your articles on digg and deli.cio.us. Bookmark your blog on technorati and your website at stumbleupon. Publish your videos on youtube and share you photographs on flickr. Join communities at facebook, myspace or even create your own community at ning.

Once you are a member of a social network site, simply talk about who you are, what you do and add a link to your site. All very low key. In-your-face promotion is scorned by social networkers.

You would be surprised at how much traffic you will get from these sites. And, if you publish a blog, it’s even better. You become a part of the ‘blogosphere’, which is probably the biggest community of them all.

The possibilities are endless.