Over the past year I’ve sub­scribed to many Cana­dian blog feeds and I’ve found myself stay­ing up past my bed­time read­ing blogs on the inter­net. I find some of these blogs fas­ci­nat­ing and truly cre­ative! (I’ll list my favourite blogs in a future post). About a month ago, while read­ing the com­ments on one these blogs, I came across this com­ment by Yvonne who said that their com­pany was giv­ing out a free Nokia 6682:

I work for a word of mouth mar­ket­ing com­pany called Match­stick and I’m look­ing to give away brand new mul­ti­me­dia smart phones to a num­ber of qual­i­fied indi­vid­u­als [snip]. Please have a look at the cri­te­ria and feel free to con­tact me with any ques­tions you may have.
I am look­ing for exist­ing Rogers cus­tomers who meet the fol­low­ing cri­te­ria:
• Hosts a pop­u­lar blog with 400+ hits a day
• A cur­rent Rogers cell phone sub­scriber (phone only sup­ported with the Rogers net­work)
• Between the ages of 22–35
• Keeps his/ her blog updated on a reg­u­lar basis with pic­tures and video
• Very socially active
We think you will thor­oughly enjoy this prod­uct and its fea­tures, and if you do, we would encour­age you to talk about it. If you or some­one you know fits these cri­te­ria we would love to hear from you!
Thanks for your time, I hope to hear from you soon.

Yvonne
Match­stick Inc.
yvonne@matchstick.ca

416–530-8000

To be hon­est, at first I thought this was spam. All blog­gers get loads of spam mes­sages every­day and after a while one becomes very sus­pi­cious of any unusual com­ment. How­ever, this com­ment as you might notice, didn’t exactly feel like spam. So I gave Yvonne the ben­e­fit of the doubt and decided to dig more into her claim. I vis­ited matchstick.ca and it seemed like a legit­i­mate com­pany. But it wasn’t until I checked around in the Cana­dian Blo­gos­phere and found that a cou­ple of blog­gers had actu­ally received their free cell phones, that I knew matchstick.ca were seri­ous and legitimate.

The next step was to see if I met MatchStick’s requirements

Hosts a pop­u­lar blog with 400+ hits a day

I get way over 400 unique Cana­dian vis­i­tors every­day so this wasn’t an issue

A cur­rent Rogers cell phone sub­scriber (phone only sup­ported with the Rogers network)

Luck­ily I had a Rogers con­tract which I signed up over 2 years ago and I’m still stuck with until now.

Between the ages of 22–35

I’m 24… phew I barely made the cutoff

Keeps his/her blog updated on a reg­u­lar basis with pic­tures and video

I believe I update my blog quite reg­u­larly with pic­tures. Not many no videos real­ly… but hey, if I could fig­ure out a way of adding deals related videos I wouldn’t mind post­ing videos.

Very socially active

I wasn’t sure how socially active is “very socially active” but I do have a few activ­i­ties and I’m a mem­ber in a few clubs/communities.

So I decided to con­tact Yvonne. She was very friendly and pro­fes­sional and we talked about their cam­paign and my blog. She asked a cou­ple of ques­tions (house­hold income, how much I spend on elec­tron­ics every year, etc.) and in less than 10 min­utes she had my mail­ing addreess and said that I should receive my brand new Nokia 6682 Smart­phone and a whole bunch of acces­sories before the end of the week. I received the pack­age in less than 48 hours

Here are the con­tents of the pack­age:
– Nokia 6682 Cell Phone with USB con­nec­tor and charger, head­set and 64MB Mul­ti­Me­dia Card (MMC)
– an addi­tional 512MB Mul­ti­Me­dia Card for mp3s
– a Nokia Blue­tooth Wire­less Head­set
– Extra set of white head­phones that look like iPod head­phones.
– a wel­come let­ter
– a bunch of “Get the Buzz” cards to give out to fam­ily and friends.

It’s been about a month since I’ve received this pack­age and I can con­fi­dently say that I’m enjoy­ing my new cell phone. Before I got this cell phone I was using a Nokia N-Gage which I whole-heartedly loved. Chang­ing to Nokia 6682 was very easy since the menus were very sim­i­lar. Nokia 6682 has many cool fea­tures includ­ing a 1.3 Megapixel cam­era (pretty good for a cell phone), Blue­tooth, mp3 player and other fas­ci­nat­ing bells and whistles.

I’m per­son­ally very sat­is­fied and thrilled by my new Nokia 6682 and I truly enjoyed deal­ing with Matchstick.ca.

If you want to find out what other Cana­dian blog­gers thought of this cell phone or the promo in gen­eral here are the perma­links to other related posts. Just like every­thing else in life some reviews are pos­i­tive and some are neg­a­tive. But over­all they’re very interesting.

Nokia 6682: The Best Nokia Phone You Can Get in Canada

viral mar­ket­ing : nokia 6682

mar­malade: now with more buzz!

Pssst! Wanna free cell phone?

New Nokia 6682 and a bunch of free toys

Nokia 6682 Mini Review

Pho­to­junkie goes Nokia Squared

QotD: Can you hear me now?

Nokia ‘seeds’ blog­gers with free cam­era phones

Word of Mouth Mar­ket­ing with the Nokia 6682

I Won’t Be Nokia’s Bitch

Liv­ing with the Nokia 6682

Nokia 6682 Review Part 1 of 5: Ini­tial opinion

Nokia 6682 Review Part 2 of 5: Soft­ware Applications

Part 3: Con­tacts, Cam­era, Headset

Nokia 6682 Review Part 4 of 5: Free­ware Appli­ca­tions, Bat­tery Life and Upgrad­ing Firmware

matchstick.ca is giv­ing away Nokia 6682 Phones in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver

Match­stick — Give Cana­dian blog­gers up to date phones like the N80 not last year’s phones like the 6682