Advertising is in deep trouble. The new economics driven by social media rejects the old advertising model as invasive, annoying, and anti-social. People have learned to ignore advertising. Meanwhile, click fraud, spam, and trolling are rampant. Fortunately, Social Flights offers a unique way to attract the perfect customer to the perfect products. No more guessing, no more ad networks, no more throwing 20% of your revenue “at the cloud” hoping it will rain customers! Social Flights guarantees 100% engagement or you don’t pay. It’s all about Quality and Quantity. Pull, Don’t Push! MORE >>

This guest post is by Tito Philips, Jnr. of MADphilips. Authority, in case you’ve forgotten, still rules! ProBlogger is still relevant because of its authoritative content. If you’ve ever read an article on ProBlogger about a concept that is not relatively new, there’s an unusual approach the writer adopts that makes you wonder if you’re just learning about that very concept for the first time. The same thing applies to mainstream blogs like ChrisBrogan , SethGodin , ZenHabits , LateralAction , and so on. You just can’t get enough of their content. Insight. Depth. MORE >>

Ever since I’ve moved to CA I’ve had troubles finding people I have things in common with, and it seems to be because they were all working at The Search Agency. I’ve found people who share my love for street art, whiskey, and comic books this week. It’s been a great week culturally. didn’t realize exactly how important culture was to me in a company until I started working somewhere that valued it. In the past I’ve worked in places where culture didn’t really exist, the mentality was “sit down, shut up, do your work, and get the hell out&#. MORE >>

This ran in the March issue of Franchise Times , which is why the bent is toward that audience. But I think you’ll get some value from the interview I did with Joel Libava , aka The Franchise King. Are you getting tired already of experts and everyone telling you to get on the social networks without a real tie to your marketing strategy or business results? Me, too. There are lots of PR firms adding social media tools to their toolbox, and they should be. But they’re still doing PR, not just social media. And I think that’s important to consider. You’re still doing marketing and PR. MORE >>

I’m out at South by Southwest in Austin, TX or SXSW as it is called or even South by for the extra cool people (or lazy people, however you prefer to look at it). I’m here to network with people, meet people I’ve followed for years online and make new connections. The conference has a Music, Film and Interactive section. The Interactive portion covers emerging technologies and all things internet.  It’s fantastic and crazy and stay tuned for lots of interviews and coverage. MORE >>