Check Out What I Won
In what I consider a hilarious juxtaposition with yesterday’s blog posting, I have to tell you about the prize that I’ve won.
I’m a big fan of entering contests. Thanks to weekly contests at Videomatica and the Georgia Straight, I’ve probably seen more movies via free passes to sneak previews than I have actually paid to see movies. Sure, you end up seeing some less than-stellar flicks such as Touristas and Piranha 3D, but hey, free is free. Anyway, I regularly enter any contest ((right now I’m trying to win a trip to Dublin for St. Patrick’s Day from the radio station I listen to in the mornings. I now listen to it at night so that I can get their hourly password and enter it into their website for more chances to win! I’m such a sucker for these types of marketing schemes)) that doesn’t require me to actually do any real work ((lazy > desire to win contests)). But I digress.
So on Friday I got a phone call from Executive Search Dating – a dating headhunter service – that I’d won their Valentine’s Day prize pack. I go for a “consultation” this week and then they are going to match me up with two “high quality” matches. No low quality troglodytes are getting a date with me on their watch! In addition to setting you up with the matches, they also arrange the dates for you – making reservations at one of their “partner restaurants” and finding a mutually convenient time for both of you.
At any rate, I figure it can’t hurt to try. I’m sure not meeting anyone in my day-to-day life, which isn’t surprising given that I work in heath care (where almost everyone is female), I play hockey with women, I go to a yoga studio with mostly women ((and even on the rare occasion that a guy shows up, you aren’t allowed to talk in the yoga studio anyway)). Honestly, I don’t know where Vancouver is keeping all the men. So, really, why not try this headhunter? And if the dates go really, really terribly, then that will make for excellent blog postings ((you have been warned , potential high quality matches!)). So it’s a win either way, right?

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That red cup campaign is very clever–Blenz is very progressive in its marketing.
Speaking of contests, have you entered to win a stylish Tilley hat on my Canadian project? http://1y1c.ca/3r. Uh, stylishness not guaranteed.
Heh – I have a red Blenz band in my bag right now that I’d been meaning to photograph and blog!
@Darren – I thought it was a pretty clever campaign as well. And I’ve now gone to Blenz twice to try it out when I probably wouldn’t have gone to Blenz otherwise, so it’s worked as a way of upping business (at least on me).
Ah Tingle… the straight equivalent of Grindr for people who don’t want to admit they’re sluts.
Seems like a good idea from Blenz.