[Sponsor] Announcing My First Sponsor- Scrubly.com

One thing that I pride myself on is that I work incredibly hard to stay neutral in my comments and posts, but when there is a conflict of interest, it needs to be made as transparent as possible so that you, my readers, can trust what I have to say.

Ever since I started this blog, I have been developing on-line correspondence with several of the major players that I often refer to.  Occassionally, I will offer them unsolisited suggestions and feedback regarding their product, bugs that I find, or just tell them something that is really getting under my skin.  Such an example is the feedback that I recently provided GIST in regards to their upgraded Blackberry application.  This feedback was mostly due to frustrations that I personally was experiencing, but the goal was to get a useful product to my fellow Blackberry users.

Other times, the feedback is given in the form of blog posts, which is quite common among the blogging community.

Unfortunately, FREE does not pay the bills, and as you can imagine, running this blog is not cheap, especially since I am unemployed.

As a synchronization specialist, I have made it known that any of these companies, or any upcoming startups, are welcome to hire me as a freelance consultant.

After reviewing scrubly.com, they did just that as I provided them valuable feedback to help improve their product.  Were these proprietary secrets?  No.  This was feedback, as an average user, my thoughts were, what I'd like to see done differently, bugs I found, etc...

I will confess, though, that I did fall in love with scrubly.com.  I love their de-duplication service more than any other that I've used.  It is no secret about the issues that I have with other services, and what I feel makes scrubly.com stand out.  So yes, it is tough to stay down the middle, BUT, I assure you that if any of the other services steps up to the plate and gives them a run for their money, I will be the first to stand up and show them off.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, here's what it means for you- Scrubly.com is now the FIRST official sponsor of stayinginsync.info (that is not tied to a generic affiliate program).

In honor of kicking off this partnership, we are giving away 25 free one-time scrubs on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To qualify, just leave a comment below telling me why your contact list is so corrupted that it needs a good scrubbing.

In addition, as part of their affiliate program, I am proud to annouce that you, my faithful reader, qualify for 10% off your subscription.  To claim this discount, and help support this blog, just go to:

http://www.scrubly.com/user/register/special/stayinginsync

Finally, if your life, contacts, calendar, or any other part of your life is out of sync, and you need help getting in sync, I am available to help you out.