As part of the activities for the MY-NPL 2009, we are having a special tournament for bloggers! Don’t worry if you haven’t competed before or even played before – the competition is open to prospective Paintballers of all skill levels. (except for pros).

In case you don’t know what Paintball is: Paintball is a game in which players eliminate opponents by hitting them with pellets containing paint (referred to as a “paintball”) usually shot from a carbon dioxide or compressed-gas powered paintball gun (or marker).

It’s not actually as painful as it sounds – it’s not just for the guys – plenty of girls play paintball too! Paintball requires stamina, team work, strategy and psychology in order to win a game, and it’s a whole lot of fun! Those that play online games will notice that has its similiarities to Counter-Strike

Register yourself in the upcoming Advertlets Bloggers Paintball Tournament as the preliminary stage which entitles you to be able to compete like a professional in the Division 4 (Young Gun) in MY-NPL 2009! The top 3 winning teams will be sponsored for their registration fees for the 5 rounds of MY-NPL 2009 and stand a chance to win attractive prizes in the MY-NPL! Visit www.my-npl.org to find out more!

We are looking into 5 persons in a team, with 20 teams in total (100 participants in total). You may start contacting other bloggers within the network OR register as an individually bounds to no age limit, ethnic, gender, background, etc. Those that register individually will be grouped into teams at the discretion of Advertlets. Paintballers with competition records (those that have taken part in professional competitions before) are not allowed to join us to participate, though you are allowed to have them coach you if needed.

Your expenses will be fully adopted by the MY-NPL’s home field, MAPAAC (Malaysian Paintball Academy) in Astaka field, Petaling Jaya. Registration fee will be charging at RM10 ONLY for bloggers who are within our network and for those who are not in the network can as well participating which will be charging at RM90. These charges will be inclusive of paintball marker rental fully equipped and paintball pellets. As of such, since the expenses are sponsored, we would appreciate your assistance in helping them raise awareness of the MY-NPL (details are below)

Tentatively, the Advertlets Bloggers Paintball Tournament will be held on the 17th January 2009 (Saturday) from 8am until 6pm. This is subject to change depending on the participants and schedule.

Want to write about it to get your Blogger friends to join too? Here are some tips on writing your blog post…

1) Write about paintball / MAPAAC / MY-NPL with at least 500 words.
2) Include both links of www.my-npl.org & www.mapaac.com
3) Include both logos of MY-NPL & MAPAAC
4) Include at least 2 (Two) photos of paintball playing field / paintball game / paintball equipments / anything which related to paintball
5) Mentioned about the games package

Continuous coverage for each round of MY-NPL 2009 will be much appreciated, as our sponsor is going to pick up the tab for YOU to have fun! Our bloggers (whether playing as well or not) are also encouraged to register themselves as a media whereby you are able to photograph or videograph the extraordinary excitements during paintball competition games!

Register yourself now by emailing us at info@advertlets.com with the subject “Advertlets Blogger’s Paintball Tournament!”. Please provide us your full name, e-mail address, blog URL and handphone number.

We’re happy to let you, and your blogger friends in on the fun too: Check out the following news… (note: all campaigns noted below are impression/traffic based!)

Tech & Gadget Bloggers
Campaigns from Sony Ericsson & Dell, running all the way up to November 2008 (and some more tech related clients to be announced soon…with campaigns guaranteed all the way to February 2009. Yes, you read that right. Campaigns guaranteed for your blog 4 months in advance (as long as you fit the content criteria).

To be added to the campaign, please make sure your blog is registered under the “Science & Technology” category and talks about one or more items such as the following: Technology news, new gadgets, handphones, internet telephony, social networking, programming, hardware, PCs, Macs, new web technologies, peripherals and accessories…you get the idea.

These campaigns run in the 728×90, 468×60 and 336×280 Advertlets Ad Formats only. This applies to both Advertlets Malaysia & Singapore

Business & Automotive Bloggers

This campaign is for the Mercedes Benz Driving Experience. Whether you run a car forum, an automotive blog, or you’re an enthusiast who blogs about cars and accessories often, or you write about business related issues (eg stocks, business news, world markets, savings & investing, finance). To be matched with this campaign, please make sure your blog is registered under “Business” or “News & Current Affairs”. (An Automotive category will be created soon). Blogs which attract a fair amount of working adults may also be considered.

This campaigns run only in the 728×90, 468×60 and 336×280 Advertlets Ad Formats only. Please note that forums are only allowed to utilize the 728×90 and 468×60 ad formats. This applies only to Advertlets Malaysia.

If your blog fits the criteria, and you don’t see the relevant campaigns running on your blog, please e-mail us at info@advertlets.com and let us know so we can automatically match you with new campaigns. Just let us know and we’ll try our best – on average, most individual campaigns run across thousands of blogs, and we’re pretty sure we can find you a good match for advertising on your blog.

And of course, as for Advertlets TITANS, note that you will get higher payout for this campaigns, and they will be run more frequently on your blogs compared to regular members.

Stay tuned – we have even more exciting news coming your way for ALL sorts of different bloggers!

Here are the details:

“Blogger’s Tea Party @ Bangsar Village Fest”
Time & Date: 21 June 2008, 3PM
Venue: Bangsar Village II, 3rd Floor
List: Limited to selected 100 bloggers only (Advertlets Titan members get priority)
Menu: Food from D’lish! Finger food, cupcakes, sandwiches, drinks & more!
Itenary: Tea time with fellow bloggers, camwhoring session, followed by adjourning to check out the rest of the activities at Bangsar Village! There will be goodies for early/lucky ones.

Interested to come? Drop us a mail at info@advertlets.com with the subject “Blogger’s Tea Party”, and we will notify you if you are shortlisted! There are only 100 spots available, and the event is 3 days away, so do be quick!

What can you do at the Village Fest?

You can: get a face reading, or a palm reading, attend a free Yoga Session (from either Dr Saumiakumar of the Ayur Centre, Yoga2Health, or Celebrity Fitness. Or you could get a manicure or pedicure, and basically pamper yourself to some grooming and relaxation!

There are also jamming sessions, health tests, and even line dancing. There will also be a selection of interesting products including environmentally friendly wares, including “personal chopsticks”, energy saving bulbs and interesting stuff made from recyclables.

For those with kids, there are craftwork activities, kid’s yoga, a music jamming session using everyday household items (yes, pots & pans, etc…), and also a story telling session. Then while your kids are busy having fun, you can take part in line dancing, and feng shui exhibits.

We also have a range of well known speakers & demonstrations on topics such as : meditation, weight loss, feng shui, how to have healthy hair, stress management, yoga, fortune telling, hypnotherapy, allergy testing, music therapy, cosmetic dentistry…and interestingly enough, the potential of your birthday.

About The Village Fest

The Village Fest is two days of music, dance, yoga and other fun-filled activities to help you achieve a healthy balance beteween these three pillars of health.

The objective of the Village Fest is to provide information to the community on a wide variety of subjects concerning wellness. This will be done via a series of talks, activities, food, exhibitions, displays and consultations. Some of our speakers are well known personalities Madam Zorra, Andi Singh, T Selva and Joan Mahony. The best part? There’s stuff for everyone!

Check out more at www.bangsarvillage.com or visit the Advertlets Facebook Page for the event!

Sponsored Post Opp: Mudah Review (RM20)
Check out mudah.com.my, and review the site on your blog! You can choose to highlight interesting features, some of the items there that you are interested in or anything that appeals to you about the site!

Details
- Opportunity is for the first 100 bloggers that fit the requirements (limited to 1 blog per blogger)
- Malaysian Advertlets bloggers only, with significant Malaysian traffic
- RM20 per review
- At least 100 words long
- At least 2 screenshots of mudah.com.my
- At least 1 link to mudah.com.my

Please note
- Important: When you link to mudah.com.my, please use this tracking URL: http://www.mudah.com.my/redir?s=advertlets_username Please replace username with your Advertlets username
- End the post with this sentence: This review is brought to you by Advertlets.com and Mudah.com.my!
- Let us know that you’ve written the post for us to approve and credit your account. E-mail us at posts@advertlets.com

Sponsored Post Opp: It’s Easy to Post Your Item On Mudah.com.my (RM50)
For Advertlets TITAN members: Post up an item or service that you have for sale to mudah.com.my, and document how you did it (eg, submit image, select category, etc), with screenshots. You can also choose to talk about the item you are selling as well. Only 10 posts available (grab it fast!)

Details
- Opportunity limited to first 10 Advertlets Titan bloggers that fit the requirements (limited to 1 blog per blogger)
- Malaysian Advertlets bloggers only, with significant Malaysian traffic
- RM50 each
- At least 100 words long
- At least 2 screenshots of mudah.com.my
- At least 1 link to mudah.com.my

Please note
- Important: When you link to mudah.com.my, please use this tracking URL: http://www.mudah.com.my/redir?s=advertlets_username Please replace username with your Advertlets username
- End the post with this sentence: This review is brought to you by Advertlets.com and Mudah.com.my!
- Let us know that you’ve written the post for us to approve and credit your account. E-mail us at posts@advertlets.com

We had the biggest jump in traffic ever – our usual Malaysian traffic ranges from about 115,000 – 150,000 uniques. However, on the 7th of March 2008 however (a day before the Malaysian elections), the Advertlets network reached out to exactly 249,734 unique Malaysian internet users. This increase in traffic is undoubtedly due to people were searching political blogs online for information on candidates and parties. Statistics like this reinforce the view that blogs will increasingly become a significant source of information and expression for their readers. Vote wisely for the future of Malaysia, and I hope you’ve all made the right choice

Also, most of you in Singapore would have heard through the newspapers on Advertlets partnering with cliCKTRUE, a division of Singapore Press Holdings. Read more here too at IzReloaded’s blog (Iz is our Singaporean Blog Ambassador). More details on that tie up soon, as well as the increased traffic in Singapore, and what it means for our valued Singaporean members! (PS: The first most significant benefit, is of course, a HUGE amount of ad campaigns coming your way soon!). Stay tuned!

Advertlets is growing even bigger, and to allocate for future growth as well as to make things even faster, we will be upgrading our storage space and data writing speed later tonight sometime between 11PM-1AM. During that time period, you may experience 15-30 minutes of downtime. After the upgrade, you should experience faster ad load speeds, between 50%-150% faster.

On another note, we are working out a deal with our hosting provider to offer special discounted rates and packages on web hosting for Advertlets members. What would you most like to see? Free domain name? WordPress pre-installed, with lots of handy widgets too? Large storage space for photos & videos? Do let us know, and we will put together a great new package for you guys based on your feedback. Cheers!

When the system attempts to automatically format the code, it will add extra formatting tags (like extra spaces or line breaks), and cause errors with the code. Please use the “Edit HTML” mode when pasting in your Advertlets code, or else it will not work properly. Refer to the diagram below for more details:

Also, when you input your blog URL into the Advertlets Blog Manager or when you sign up, please omit the “www” if it is a subdomain already. For example, if your site is http://example.blogspot.com, please put in http://example.blogspot.com, not http://www.example.blogspot.com

Thanks, and we hope that this clears things up for our Blogger.com/Blogspot.com Users!!

We had problems deciding who would win, so we though, ah, screw it. We’ll just let all of you win! RM50 each for all of you! The money will be credited to your account before end of today, all at the same time! Thank you for the time, effort and creativity you put into your submissions!

Stupe – Money On Trees
Delephant – Cash Cow
Irene – Frozen Barley Advertlets
Jimmy – Advertlets Everywhere!
Yvonne Foong – Fund Raiser
Uncle Sha – Earrings
Drizad – Kids!
YongKaiLoon – Relaxed
Nafa SG – Laptop
ShoppingNSales – Real “Badge” On Site
Anna – Kaching!
Karimaka – Bunnies
Ben Moh – Angel & Devil
Budiey – Happy Face

Feeling left out? Want to join them? No worries, here’s a sponsored post opportunity for 100 bloggers200 bloggers (number extended due to ridiculously overwhelming demand – in Malaysia & Singapore). Its not much, but its our way of saying thanks for choosing Advertlets, and a great way for your to quickly boost your earnings with a simple post:

Details are as follows:

Budget: RM20 (Malaysians) / SGD10 (Singaporeans)

Language: English / Bahasa Malaysia / Mandarin / Singlish / Romanized Hokkien

Limits:Only one opportunity per blogger.

Requirements: To take part in this opportunity, you must not have had cashed out from Advertlets before. You must also be an active member (have had the code up for more than a month at least)

Closing Date: Blogvertorials must be submitted before 30th September 2007

Required: Post must incorporate picture above (advertlets-moneyhappy.jpg), as well as a link to http://www.advertlets.com on the image itself. You must also incorporate another link to www.advertlets.com using this text : “Advertlets.com – Blog Advertising in Asia!”.

Post Content: You are free to decide on the post title and what you’ll like to write for the rest of the post. Suggestions include: How you’re looking forward to cashing out from Advertlets, what you would do once you get your Advertlets cheque, let others know that they can take this posting opportunity too, and what else you hope to see from Advertlets in future besides your cheque Be creative, and be different.

Cheers! In the meantime, to those that have received your cheques, do keep in mind we’re also running a contest this month for you to blog about what you plan/will do with your Advertlets earnings.