Creative Zen M300

A month ago my 8gb Creative Zen MX died. It served me well. Well, actually it got some sentimental value for it was given to me by someone very special and dear to me. I love listening to music at home and especially in the office. I can't concentrate well with my work without the earphones on. Music is part of me. I soo miss my Creative Zen MX  and been using my phone as my player. But just tonight someone surprised me with an 8gb Creative Zen M300. Thanks to my dear shakuhachi !

box content

I've posted some unboxing pictures here.  The box contains the following:
- player itself  (8gb)
- USB cable for data transfer and and for charging
- earphones

The Creative Zen M300 is available in 4gb, 8gb and 16 gb. And it comes with black, white, red and yellow and mine is an 8gb black. And the good thing with this player is its memory is expandable up to 32gb on a microSD card.

back 

Pros:
- portable having a dimension of 55.2 x 44.2 x 12.6mm that can even fit in the small pocket of your pants.
- sleek and stylish. you can choose from black, yellow, red and white.
- crisp quality sound. I gave it a  4.7 / 5 rating  for sound quality.
- expandable memory up 32gb (microSD)
- got an FM  mode if you are bored with your own playlist
- photo viewer. not really  much a feature... but can be used for album covers and background of your songs.
- voice recorder





Cons:
- finger print magnet.

For overall I give Creative Zen M300  a 4.8 / 5 rating.

top : power , hold button

right side: mic, microSD slot 

bottom: usb slot, earphone jack

left side: volume control

30-Day Challenge: Perfect Attendance for February 2012

A few of the Callbox Marketing Team

Been a long time since I have my last post here. I have been soo busy lately with work and other stuffs that I have and wasn't able to sit and write something here. I thought of having a 30- Day challenge for this year and I started it with my perfect attendance challenge in the office.

The Works Flavor Super Gang Size Pizza by Pizarro

The perfect attendance challenge was already completed and I received my reward. To give you an idea I have been working at Callbox Sales and Marketing since 2006 and left the company after a year and 3 months and came back last 2009.  And since 2006 there wasn't a month that I got a perfect attendance, its either I am late going to the office or out or on-sick leave.  So, last month I started my 30-Day Perfect Attendance Challenge. And I was also more motivated when my Marketing Manager told me that she'll treat all the Marketing Department with pizza if I pass the challenge. 6:00pm of February 29, 2012 is the judgement day, and I made it. I dunno if what my co- workers were thinking about the challenge, but I made it for myself and the pizza was an additional motivation for me. But sort of I made it partly for them too.

Super Cheese Pizza. Yum! 

It is not because that the 30-day challenge for perfect attendance is done, it doesn't mean that I will be late again for work most of the time. I want to stop that habit. And I have proved to myself that I can make it. And I am planning to continue it on a 60- 90- day perfect attendance challenge for me. And I'll be trying all my best to be punctual on all of my appointments as well. Good luck to me !

Having this post just made me wanna eat pizza now !

Quote of the Day

Its been a while since my last post. And when I was doing some research I just stumbled on some quotes from Helen Keller and I just thought of sharing it here. And it also gave me an idea to have a "Quotes and Words of Wisdom" category here.




"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision." 

Outliers in Hand

Wasn't able to have some updates here. Work keeps me busy recently.

Was checking out the local bookstore earlier that has a book sale, I checked out some books that I might be interested with and I found on one of the book shlevs " Outliers"  by Malcolm Gladwell. Been looking into buying his Tipping Point and Blink but money didn't allow me before, each book costs like 300.00 + in peso. However, just earlier they got the Outliers on 20% sale, so I did grab the opportunity.

The book is about the story of success...as is said on its cover

Will update you once I'm done with the book, but today I just enjoy reading it. I am looking forward into grabbing a copy of Tipping Point and Blink.

Happy reading to me....

Adwords Cheat Sheet : Have them handy....

For a person like me that is still starting my journey with PPC - Adwords it is necessary for me to have the Adwords essentials always at my side. For a beginner a cheat sheet can be your best companion in doing the campaign. With all the terms and acronyms you may scramble them up. Having my own Adwords Cheat Sheet handy really helped me a lot in understanding the essentials of Adwords. I also consider it as my guide in doing the campaign. And it got all the basic things that I need to know in running my Adwords campaign.

You may get your FREE Adwords Cheat sheet at Pay Per Click Search Marketing: Adwords Success Cheat Sheet. 

Making More Money with your Keywords in Adwords

Keywords is one of the important determinants of search marketing whether its with organicSEO  or Pay Per Click with Adwords. Good keyword research and analysis is your first step to successful keywords. Choosing the right keywords for your campaign is not that easy a you think it requires a lot of your time as well as your analysis skills. If you are into PPC such as Adwords it is important to choose the effective keywords and maximize them for each keyword will cost you an amount of money. In Dr. Glenn Livingston's blog he discussed how to make more money and maximize results in no time at AdWords Content Network Themes – Maximizing Results in Minimum Time. 

10 Steps to Adwords Success from the Guru

I have been in charge of the company that I am working with our Adwords PPC campaign. Having the responsibility for the campauign is such a huge challenge for me. Everyone knows and even my boss that I do not have a serious hands- on experience with PPC. Yes, I do search marketing but not PPC. Been working with SEO for some time now and taking the responsibility with our Adwords campaign gave me an oppotunity learn PPC with Adwords.

Learning includes a lot of research, I read on several books on PPC and Adwords, Free training vidoes in Youtube, subscibed on different blogs about PPC Adwords strategy and tips. And I have also known some of the experts in PPC and Adwords such as Perry Marshall, Brian Todd and Dr. Glenn Livingston.

One of the best Adwords tip that I have read is Dr. Glenn Livingston's 10 Steps to Adwords Success. The blog is for everyone, even if you are just a newbie like me or someone who have been working with PPC and Adwords campaign. If you consider yourself to be working on PPC and Adwords then the blog can serve as your reminder or guide and perhaps there things that you might find useful.

Read the 10 Steps to Adwords Success by Dr. Glenn Livingston.