How PR Pros Are Using Social Media for Real Results

The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here. PR professionals use social media every single day to get the word out about clients, to communicate with customers and to respond to questions or problems. As one PR professional, Jeremy Pepper, told us, "There are so many uses — conversational marketing, reaching influencers — that PR is able to participate in conversations and answer questions, be a support system for clients and companies, as well as empowering customers and power users to be a de facto resource for your company, a champion for your products." We're going to take a look at how PR professionals are using social media to achieve real results when dealing with business-to-business relationships, when representing companies that already have a well-known brand, and in politics.

Clickbooth CPC : Can it Compete with Google AdSense? Clickbooth, a CPA/CPC affiliate network based in Sarasota, FL, has stirred up some news this week with buzz around their CPC offering for publishers who are looking for an alternative or compliment to Google AdSense. Clickbooth CPC, an IntegraClick project being led by former AOL Exec Tom Haney, is reminiscent of the IndustryBrains/AdHere and AOL/Advertising.com projects of offering more direct to market or publisher friendly CPC solutions into the mix, where premier publishers (or even smaller ones) can leverage more direct advertiser relationships and also tap into the current Clickbooth CPC ads as well. A good number of these AdSense/AdWords competitors have come and gone over the years, and many have been acquired by larger Google competition (Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo …etc), but what makes Clickbooth CPC stand out a bit is its partnerships right out of the gate with MSNBC.com, CNN.com and ESPN.com -three dominant players in the online (and offline) content space.

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