Ask HN: Is a free Ipod a good way to drive traffic to my site?
I've been working on a side project for the past couple months.  I know that it's not perfect, but I believe that it could be helpful to my target audience in it's current state.  The only problem is I need information from my users.  The site relies on reviews from end-users to work.  If I can get people to start sharing information, I'm hoping it will snow-ball from there.<p>My target audience is college students, so I thought that if I could entice some with a chance to win a free Ipod touch, then I might be able to get them to write reviews.  I thought that if they enter 5 reviews, their name is entered into the drawing once.  10 reviews, and it is entered in twice.  I figure I could limit it at 10 so that I don't get a bunch of made up reviews.<p>Is this a good way to drive traffic and get useful information from end-users?  Do you have any experience with tactics like this?  Is there another way that I should be exploring?<p>Update:  The students are entering reviews on whether or not they needed to purchase the text book(s) for a particular course that they took.