Woot! Woot!
I qualified for a new exciting Mp3 player from Matchstick.ca and I can’t tell you how excited I am to receive it and tell everyone about it! I’m totally amped! Congrats to our forum members who qualified as well!
I’ve really been enjoying Matchstick.ca’s programs and I love their concept. For those of you who don’t know Matchstick.ca, they’re Canada’s leading ”Word Of Mouth” company. They give out free products to qualifying members and in return expect you to give your fair unbiased opinion on the product and tell your friends about it!
They simply create a “Buzz†around the product.
As a personal example of ‘buzz’ I recently invested in a Scarf Print Coach purse and I say invested because they’re pretty costly. (I hope to goodness my husband doesn’t read this and see me admit that!). Anyways, I had heard from a friend how nice these purses were, and how they’re the ”it” purse of the season. She showed me hers and how fab it was to carry and I just had to have my own! Would I have ”invested” in the handbag otherwise? Nope, not a chance, Ever. Why do people line up down the street when a new Tickle me Elmo is launched? Why did you rent that movie when your friends said it was a great show? That, my friends, is Buzz!
Matchstick.ca is now well known amongst top companies and come out with new campaigns for free products very frequently. I’ll do my best to notify you on here as soon as new campaigns are out 
Keep your eye out for Matchstick promotions; you never know, you could be one of the lucky few who qualify when they are offering free cool new products! Once you have a product in hand talk about it! Write about it! Show all your friends your cool new product! Be honest! Pretty sweet deal isn’t it?
I’ll let you guys know as soon as I get my Mp3 player 
Thanks for the info! I signed up on Friday the 13th, received a call on the next Tuesday (IIRC) and also qualified based on site readership. It was fairly easy to tell what they were looking for, but I definitely fit into the focus group. For the record, I’m primarily a Mac user but as long as you’ve got a Windows PC to run the software on and are willing to give it a chance, things should work out.
For the record, I received the Zune package this afternoon. My technical review will be going live once I get a bit more experience with the device, although I also intend to talk about the marketing process a bit since I’ve never been involved in this type of campaign before.
I received my free Zune today!
http://blog.iamjay.ca/2008/06/26/unboxing-the-zune/
Oh thats great! So hows everyone feelin it?
Pros cons?
Ive used it for a few hours, personally I think eventually Id like the bigger Zune for the bigger screen.
Sound is pretty good, really easy to set up and navigate.
I like the device itself. I have to get used to the menu structure since I’ve been using my Ipod Video for over a year and a half now. The big downside right now is the software. Microsoft have a lot of catching up to do on the autoplaylist/syncing side when comparing it to Itunes. This is a big deal breaker for me since organizing your music revolves around the use of playlists.
So far it seems pretty good. When you listen to the radio, it tells you the title of the song playing, so that’s pretty cool! I agree, the syncing stuff was a bit confusing, and I still don’t know how the playlists are organized. :S
Has everyone recd theres?
I hope so!
Im still playing around with mine, some of my friends thought it was pretty neat! Im still stuck on the small screen, go big or go home isnt that the saying? I do realize its because it is the smaller version, so I’m working with it.
I havent had a chance to move a big video clip yet, but ive done pictures and many mp’3s so far im happy, esp since Jake from another blog explained to me how to put it to ”sleep” whatever happened to the good ol’ off button? The sound if pretty nice, with the extra headphones they sent. As for the syncing stuff Im not there yet, Im still trying to figure all that out
Anyways just wanted to check in.
I do not post on blogs too often, but this one deserved a comment. information!