OrangeSoda Around the World

With several laptops here at OrangeSoda being wrapped in some great fizz, the OrangeSoda Around the World contest has now begun!

OrangeSoda employees are encouraged to show their pride in making the business world a better place by showing off their OrangeSoda-skinned laptops and notebooks in various places around the world.

For those who don’t have a laptop, any piece of OrangeSoda-ness will suffice. Future posts will offer pictures of OrangeSoda around the world. With any luck, we’ll get to see various OrangeSoda chotchkes in the hands of famous persons or in famous places.

Already our illustrious CIO, Chris Finken, has brought the following images of his laptop in Taiwan:

OrangeSoda employees are expected to show their pride as they travel around the world. And if you’re an OrangeSoda client or partner, we’d love to see you with your OrangeSoda goodies wherever you go! Talk to your account manager to send in pictures.

Chris has got things off to a pretty hefty start. Let’s show him he’s not the only one with OrangeSoda pride!

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Laptops…With Fizz!

The OrangeSoda family is a close-knit group of Online Marketing fanatics that exude pride and sincere joy in our accomplishments together as a company and we are always very proud to exhibit our company pride at any given opportunity.

A few weeks ago, many members of the OrangeSoda team placed our orders for OrangeSoda laptop skins from SkinIt.com. Not surprisingly, many people put in their orders for the laptop skins to add color and character to their laptops. Chris, one of our founders, created several designs for us to choose from that allowed us to pick a skin for our laptops based on our personal preferences and tastes.

The skins are functional as well as decorative, as they provide a protective membrane of sorts that will help protect our laptops from minor bumps and bruises that can be incurred during everyday use. They are made from photo quality paper with residue-free adhesive so they won’t leave us with a sticky laptop if we ever need to remove or reapply them.

They were very easy to apply as well and none of us had any trouble with air bubbles or wrinkles during the application process. Additionally, between us, we probably had 10-20 different laptop brands and models and SkinIt was able to accommodate each of us with customized skins to meet our needs.

We are all excited to show our true colors — the OrangeSoda colors — and we’re happy to parlay that excitement and pride into our work by bringing quality Online Marketing services to thousands of clients with experience and enthusiasm.

So, maybe one day you’ll be in an airport terminal, a library, or an internet café and you’ll look up to see someone typing away on a laptop skinned with the OrangeSoda logo, and you’ll know that that person is an Online Marketing expert, and someone who is proud to be a part of something special here at OrangeSoda.

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OrangeSoda’s Christmas Party 2007

Last weekend, OrangeSoda held their company Christmas party. OrangeSoda is just over a year old, so although this wasn’t the company’s first Christmas, it was their first formal company Christmas party.

One of my favorite parts of a company Christmas party is when the person that had most exemplified OrangeSoda’s mission throughout 2007 is recognized as “employee of the year,” or receives some other similar recognition.

When the time for this recognition comes, I always like to try and guess who it’s going to be. I usually do pretty well. At most companies, the hardest working and most dedicated employee is usually quite obvious, and it’s not much of a secret who that person is.

I joined OrangeSoda in May, and though that should be plenty of time to find out who the employee of the year would be, I found myself struggling to pinpoint the one person that was most deserving. Not because nobody stood out as the obvious choice, but because so many people stood out. I couldn’t imagine the difficulty those in charge would have in selecting the one person to recognize.

Several possible names ran through my head. Then they made the announcement: Director of Client Support, Nathan Judd. I nodded my head in acceptance. Nathan was certainly deserving of the award.

But then they brought out another award. I smiled as I realized that the executive team could do no better at choosing a single person than I could.

Jared Turner, VP of Development was next. But it didn’t stop there. Jared was followed by David Dustin (Sales Manager), Jon Wadley (Director of Campaign Management), and finally Jon Sanderson (Account Manager).

left to right: Nathan, Jared, David, Jon W. and Jon S.

As I considered these five employees, there was no doubt in my mind that each and every one deserved the recognition they were receiving. But at the same time, they could have recognized a dozen or more employees and I would have felt the same way I did then: that several employees who were so deserving weren’t being recognized.

That thought sat with me for a bit as I considered what truly makes OrangeSoda unique. In past jobs, I’ve listened to coworkers talk about going on strike, complain about their job or their boss, or browse the help-wanted ads while at work. These things don’t happen at OrangeSoda.

Every full-time employee is here because they want to be here. Every one of us believes in OrangeSoda, and every one of us is willing to sweat and bleed for this company. The commitment spills over to our customers, because without their success, OrangeSoda doesn’t succeed.

“Without you, there is no us.” We hear it so often it’s become cliché. Every company says it, but does anybody other than the executive team live it? At OrangeSoda, every employee knows it, believes it, and lives it.

When the opportunity for me to join OrangeSoda came up, I had a bit of an internal struggle. The company I was with at the time had given me four weeks of paid vacation due to the time I had served with them, something I wasn’t too interested in giving up.

Furthermore, I felt that I was well respected in my position. I was the third longest serving employee, having started with them when they were working out of three tiny offices in the corner of the second floor of a four-floor office building.

There were only six full-time employees. Three of us stayed around long enough to watch the company grow to over 100 employees, take over all four floors of the office building, and eventually win an award as the fastest growing, privately-owned technology company in the nation. I felt like I was an important part of that company’s success, history, and culture. The thought of leaving them nearly brought tears to my eyes.

But in the end, OrangeSoda presented an opportunity to start over, to be an integral part of having that experience all over again; helping a new startup company grow and be successful.

I believe in OrangeSoda, I believe in our mission, and I know that my fellow coworkers all believe it too. So in my own little world, I award employee of the year to every one of my coworkers, each of whom are deserving of this recognition.

If you’ve ever wondered whether or not a company you patronize has any interest in helping you, you don’t ever have to worry about that with OrangeSoda.

Here’s to a new year with twice the passion, and three times the success for both you and OrangeSoda! Watch out world. The fizz has never been stronger.

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New Look and Feel

Orangesodalicious is getting a makeover with a new look and feel!

Please feel free to make known your thoughts, or to let me know about any strange anomalies you run into. I’m still making changes though, so keep an eye out!

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Sardine room

If Alex hits me with his chair one more time….

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The fizz lives!

OrangesSodalicious is now live. Stop by any time.

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