Ramble On Ron

Diamonds, Music and other Facets of Life

We Got Our Facebook Vanity URL

Well, the time came and went.  12AM on June 12 was the time to grab your Facebook vanity URL as fast as possible.  In 3 minutes 200,000 names were taken.  In 15 minutes it was 500,000 and now it’s in the millions.  I was not so concerned with my profile name.  I went after our [...]

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Off To Vegas For JCK

Well I’m off to Las Vegas for the JCK Jewelry Trade Show where I will be presenting with Greg Cangialosi from Blue Sky Factory on Sunday at 9:45 PST, 12:45 EST.  We will be streaming live so come check it out.  Then Monday is a Facebook Face to Face party at TAO.  Should be a [...]

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Samuelson’s Diamonds in the News

The RambleOnRon PR machine is crankin’ this month!  Here are a few articles that we’ve been featured in: From the Baltimore Business Journal: Ron Samuelson, CEO of Samuelson’s Diamonds in Baltimore, uses Twitter – a communication service emblazoned with a  bird logo – to spur business and attributes much of his success of the year-old [...]

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Samuelson’s Finalist in Contest for Best Online Ad

We were honored to be chosen as a Finalist in National Jeweler’s Best Online Advertising contest: “Samuelson’s Diamonds, a Baltimore, Md.-based retail jeweler, was chosen as a finalist in the contest for its use of a viral marketing campaign. The brand created a Facebook fan page simply called “Diamonds,” so that anyone searching for that [...]

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My First Live TV Broadcast

So yesterday I had the pleasure of heading over to Blue Sky Factory for a live broadcast with my friend Greg Cangialosi.  We had a great time and talked about business, Baltimore, Facebook, music and showed some big diamonds of course.  We even had a little jam session! (about 37 minutes in)  We also set [...]

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Have You Driven a Ford Lately?

I talked about Burger King doing it right in a previous blog post.  They’ve been running some good viral campaigns lately like “Delete 10 Facebook Friends and Get a Free Whopper” and others.  So they get the social media stuff.  Now I just ran across Ford doing the same.  Now, before I get started I [...]

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Back to The Cold, Burger King is Doing it Right

Just got back from vacation to Florida.  Great seeing all of my Florida friends, hanging on the beach, even got a little jam session in.  Now I’m back and BAM!  It’s freezing.  When I left this morning for work it was 6 degrees.  Florida for the winter sounds like a plan, but it’ll be a [...]

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In The Wall Street Journal…And Some Great Spanish Food

Well, the facebook unfriending or de-friending fiasco has almost come to a close.  The Wall St Journal found my blog post and interviewed me about this issue.  Wow – and I even got a sketch in there or a “hedcut” – although I don’t like the chins they put in there – oy vey.  Click [...]

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A Crazy Facebook Fan Page

Well, the job of Facebook never ends. Here’s a good one. The jeweler that I talked about before who unfriended me has a son in his business. I created a group for jewelers and other people in the trade called the “Facebook Jewelers Network”. I get a request from this guy’s son to join. Well [...]

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