Who is Daan

Hi, my name is Daan Jansonius. Yup, that’s not a typo – my name is really spelled with two ‘As’. My parents weren’t drunk, they were Dutch. If you are wondering how it’s pronounced, I’m sad to say I haven’t found a phonetic equivalent yet. However, if you need me something like this will likely work.

I’m a digital marketer, currently specialising in social media.Right now I’m an Account Manager at social media marketing agency SocialMedia8.

SocialMedia8 is a WPP owned agency specialised in helping brands move away from traditional advertising towards a model which is more engaged, content-driven and focused on consumer dialogue.

My curent role consists of three distinct elements:

1) Relationship management & new business development

2) Strategy & campaign planning

3) Account management of our largest client, Mazda

Past experience includes blogger outreach, influencer identification, SEO, PPC campaign management and link building through a year-long work placement at Onetomarket and freelance work for We Are Social and Rubber Republic.

Thanks to these companies I’ve had the great fortune to work with a wide range of amazing clients in various different sectors, largely focussing on B2C companies across Automotive (Mazda, Volvo, Fiat), Technology (Intel, LG, Skype), Entertainment (Paramount) and FMCG (P&G, Tesco).

I’ve also had the privilege to share some thoughts in front of a crowd of highly experienced sports marketers during the Sports and Social Media Summit.

My foray into blogging started in 2007 with a personal blog, which now no longer exists. Soon after I joined the team at ViralBlog, which currently ranks in the top 50 of the AdAge Power 150 – a list of the most influential blogs within the marketing and communications industry. After a serious dose of writer’s block I have finally decided to start noting some of my ramblings down again.

Outside of work I’m a passionate fan of Liverpool FC and was one of the founding members of the online community Talklfc. This was a very successful community which grew a membership base of over 6,000 members who created over 1.2millions posts over a 6 year period. Sadly, not entirely unlike Everton’s trophy ambitions (not sadly), Talklfc no longer exists.

Other interests include sports (football, tennis, volleyball), traveling (far and sunny), movies (anything with gangsters), music (pretty much anything) and TV series (anything HBO).

Interested to find out more? You can connect with me on Twitter, Linkedin, Delicious and Tumblr. Or, if you are the badge collecting kind you can try FourSquare – but I only connect with people I have an existing relationship with.