Ramble On Ron

Diamonds, Music and other Facets of Life

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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I Can Status Update 250,000 People

So I wrote in a previous post that we had a crazy Facebook Fan page. That was in November when it was at 90,000 fans. Now it just hit 250,000. We started it a year ago this month, and in 3 1/2 months it’s grown by 160,000 people (almost triple). Pretty ming blowing stats. We’re [...]

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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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Unfriended on Facebook – Compliment or Diss?

So I friend requested a jeweler in the Midwest, has a big luxury store, Rolex, Cartier, the whole deal. He also likes music and is a third generation family business, like me. I said that in my request and an hour later he accepted. Then I look on my page the next day and I’m [...]

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