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Jason Yormark

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May 13, 2013

My Switch From iPhone To Android: Part One

After a month or so of research, testing and gathering opinions, I finally made the switch from iPhone to Android. I ultimately landed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 even though my search initially had me thinking either the HTC One or the Samsung Galaxy S4. When I actually moved my search to in person, - Read More -

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April 25, 2013

My Search For An iPhone Alternative

About 6 years ago when I was still at Microsoft, I made the jump from whatever Microsoft friendly phone I was using at the time to the iPhone. I was insanely jealous of my Apple fanboy co-worker and his. Let’s be honest, the iPhone was a game changer, and me being the gadget freak, I - Read More -

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January 28, 2013

5 Ways To Ensure You Don’t Get Hired

If there’s one area that I have had a tremendous amount of experience around, is in the hiring process. When I was at Microsoft, there was a period of time, where that was practically all I was doing as Microsoft Advertising was in a hiring frenzy back in 2006 or so. Literally 30-40 phone, and - Read More -

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January 14, 2013

Twitter Advertising Review: Not Ready For Primetime

I have had the luxury of having quite a bit of experience watching an ad platform evolve from the ground up having been at Microsoft Advertising in the launch days of adCenter. It’s not an easy task to build a platform to accomodate that much data and users. Many of these plastforms, even the Microsofts - Read More -

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January 9, 2013

My Hot Brands & Products of 2012

I always feel compelled to share some of my favorite things that I experience or use whether they be everyday occurrences  or one time experiences.  I thought the best way to do so was to wrap them up into a yearly recap to make it easier to compile all of them.  So without further ado, here - Read More -

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July 24, 2012

Social + Charity Done Right: DollarPerMonth.org

I love great ideas.  Even better is seeing them come to life.  Such is the case with a new charity called DollarPerMonth.org.  A little over a month ago, our creative director Jonathan Harris brought in a friend to discuss having our firm ShowPony come on board to help them with their creative and marketing.  At - Read More -

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June 13, 2012

5 Reasons I Think Facebook Is On The Decline

Crazy right?  Who in their right mind would make a silly claim about a network that has close to 900 million active users with average usage times close to 20 minutes per day?  The fact is, no one is bullet proof.  Ask Yahoo, MySpace or ….., all major networks that ruled heavily at one time - Read More -

June 6, 2012

5 Facebook Posts That Need To Stop

I interrupt my regularly scheduled programming, to bring you this message in hopes that I can assist in cleaning up our Facebook feeds from unnecessary and often over done posts.  Yes, we all choose our Facebook friends and thus are responsible for what we see, but I can’t help but point out a few things - Read More -

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