Scheduled Maintenance This Sunday & Pending Cashouts
We will be performing scheduled maintenance and backups tomorrow (this Sunday, 11th May 2008. at 10PM-11:30PM). During this time, you may not be able to log into Advertlets.com and ads may not be displayed all the time throughout this period. After that time period, normal service should resume, and it might even be slightly faster too 
We note that also, some of you may not have received your cheques yet, please read more if you have a pending cashout that has not reached you yet. Thanks.
Advertlets Wishes You Merry Christmas, And Brings Presents!
This Christmas, Advertlets has a few things for you…
IPSERVERONE – Web Hosting Discounts!
IPSERVERONE and Advertlets are happy to bring you discounted web hosting! Use the discount code “advertlets7″ for an RM30 discount per year on 100GB and 200GB both Linux & Windows Hosting.
PS: Linux hosting supports PHP5 and MySQL5…perfect for a new WordPress installation! So if you’re looking to shift your blog to your own domain, feel free to make use of this great offer. IPSERVERONE is the company that hosts Malaysia’s most popular tech forum Lowyat.net, so you can be assured of high bandwidth transfers.
CJ7 Contest – Movie Merchandise!
Stephen Chow is back this New Year! The star of Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer and more brings you something entirely different – CJ7, the tale of a poor laborer and his son who find a strange new pet entering their lives.
Here’s your chance to win exclusive merchandise from the film CJ7 – we have 7 sets of CJ7 merchandise to give away, that includes: 1 Limited Edition CJ7 T-shirt (worth RM200 each), 1 Limited Edition CJ7 Tote Bag (worth RM120 each), and 1 Limited Edition CJ7 Notebook (worth RM80) each.
Hurry, contest closes 10th January 2008! All you have to do is write a blog post and answer the question: “What would you do if you discovered an alien in your back yard?”. Remember to link to Advertlets.com/CJ7Movie. That’s it, pretty easy to win eh? Contest valid for Malaysian and Singaporean Advertlets bloggers.
Advertlets+Faces E-Freebies December 2007 – Movie Merchandise, Fashion, Discounts and more!For December 2007, Advertlets + Faces presents E-Freebies yet again! (Yes, this is going to be on EVERY month from now on!). Here’s what’s up for grabs this month: (specially reserved for Advertlets bloggers)
- 2 x 50% vouchers of MyNavi that retails full price at RM1,948
- 1 x Nazleen Noor’s latest batik design material valued at RM680
- 1 x custom made carry-all leather bag by Iskandar Rahman
- 1 x 60 minute Raw Earth Spa Pedicure at Nail Art Artistry
- 1 x Limited Edition Enchanted accessories – worth RM800
- 1 x Limited Edition The Kingdom merchandise – worth RM300
- 1 x Limited Edition National Treasure merchandise worth 580
Just join either the Tech, Fashion or Entertainment Competitions at faces.com.my/contest/. Scroll down for details on the Advertlets exclusive contest. Contest open to Malaysian Advertlets bloggers only.
Oct Cheques All Sent!
All legit October 2007 cheques have been sent! You should receive it within a week or less (slightly longer for East Malaysia/Singapore). Future cashouts should not be delayed, and should reach you 30-45 days from the end of the month which you cashed out, as usual. Just a reminder: Please make sure that your details are filled up correctly (Full Name as per bank account, Mailing address), as sometimes we have to e-mail/call publishers to verify incomplete details, and this causes further delay.
Lastly, have a Merry Christmas and great holiday season! We at Advertlets wish you safe driving, happy partying, sumptuous eating, and happy blogging!
September Cashout Requests / Click Fraud & New Tricks
Firstly, let us say that we have been listening, and this is our response. In some cases, we have responded personally on certain blogs, however we feel that a more public explanation would be beneficial, and justified to our valued bloggers.
In Short: The Resolution
- September 2007 Cash outs will arrive to both Malaysian & Singaporean publishers within 1-2 weeks. Yes, we are aware that this is longer than usual, and we apologize. A detailed explanation is after the jump.
- Ad load time could be improved. A recent increase in the number of members and more visitors from countries other than Malaysia and Singapore has put a considerable strain on our servers. Although we are now already running on three dedicated servers, we will be upgrading our resources further to serve your better. An upgrade will be in effect within this week, with approximately 15-30 minutes of downtime required. This scheduled maintenance window will be announced shortly.
Please Update Your Details Now / Contest Results Out Soon / New Ads Later This Week
Important To All Advertlets Bloggers:
Recently, we had a couple of cheques sent back to us by the post office because the addresses was incorrect. Please make sure all your details are entered correctly, including most importantly your full name and mailing address. Do make sure that your house address/unit number is correct, as well as the full name of your HDB block if applicable. Please help us not to incur additional charges on reposting payments, and also to avoid you not getting your cheques fast enough
Other than that:
- Remember to put in your full name as well (same as your bank account), so that the cheque is made payable to the right party.
- Also, do remember to tag your individual blogs with relevant tags, under the “Blogs” section to enable us to match you with relevant ads for your blog quickly.
Contests & New Ads:
Results for the Faces+Advertlets E-Freebies and 30 Days Of Night Goodies will be announced within the next 3 days. And, new ads will be popping out this week (our graphics team is hard at work preparing the visuals for them), and two more exciting new campaigns are coming over the next two weeks! Hope you have a great week ahead!
Bananas / Got Your Advertlets Cheque? Let Us Know! / Postal Speed Test
Pei Hau was one of the first to receive her cheques for the recent cashout, and he’s put us on bananas for some reason. Our logo seems to look pretty happy up there. PS: It’s Pei Hau’s birthday in nine hours…go wish him! Kawazoe got her cheque too apparently, I wish I could read Chinese.
Anyway, the purpose of this post is for us to ask you whether you’ve gotten your cheques. Upon request, this month we sent a few cheques by regular mail instead as certain bloggers were certain there would be no one at home to sign for registered mail. This little experiment will enable us to gauge the average time it takes for cheques to arrive to various locations including: Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Sarawak, Sabah, Singapore, etc and also allows us the compare the speed of regular vs registered mail for those areas. On a side note, we were also thinking to compile a “hall of fame/Advertlets Cashout Club” style list where we link to all the blogs of the bloggers that have cashed out before. What do you think?
You don’t need to reveal where you stay (we have your address), but just tell us when you received your cheque (what time too even, if possible) so we can gauge the efficiency of the delivery. Do leave a comment on this post, or you can even write it on your blog and link to this post, and we’ll link it here too! Some of you might want to remain private too, but do drop us an e-mail if possible.
Thanks again for your responses on the this issue. We will continue to find the best way to serve you. All of you have contributed in some way to the growth of Advertlets, and be reassured that as we continue to grow, you will not be penalized with fees as our network grows bigger and bigger. The common sense thing is to do the opposite, and reward you!
We are confident that the size of the Advertlets network will continue to grow, as will sales of Advertlets ad inventory (which you provide, of course!). As the network grows bigger, economies of scale will kick in – and it will cost us less to operate as time goes by, and we will continue to pass our benefits and savings down to you.
PS: One very new benefit we’re offering for Advertlets Bloggers!…You you might want to check this out too (scroll down). More details soon!
Does Advertlets Charge Transaction Fees? + Advertlets Cheques Sent!
Your payouts
Just so you know, for Malaysians, all the cheques for the August 2007 cashout have been sent this morning by Poslaju. You should receive it within 1-2 days. (As promised, should arrive before Raya).For Singaporeans, you may have to wait a week.
For Malaysians, envelopes are sent via Poslaju (with a big Advertlets sticker on it), and to Singaporeans, via registered mail (look for a HSBC envelope).
Does Advertlets Charge Transaction Fees?
Of late, we have been asked whether it is our policy to charge anything or deduct anything in your payouts to cover our operational costs. The answer is no. Advertlets does not charge you for the cost it takes to send your earnings to you.
In case you’re curious, what does it cost to send out cheques to bloggers? Well, it depends on where you stay, of course:
Peninsula Malaysia: (RM0.50 Cheque + RM0.10 Envelope + RM5.20 Mailing Fee = Total RM6.80)
Sarawak: (RM0.50 Cheque + RM0.10 Envelope +RM7.51 Mailing Fee = Total RM8.11)
Sabah (RM0.50 Cheque + RM0.10 Envelope + RM8.09 Mailing Fee = Total RM8.69)
Singapore: (RM2.00 Commision + RM4.00 Mailing Fee =Total RM6.00)
Yes, its ironic that it costs less to send it to Singapore, although we’re sending it from Malaysia. For Singaporeans, we issue demand drafts (similiar to cheques), which are processed by our bank, HSBC. And for Malaysia, we handle it manually before sending it to the post office for processing. These charges do not include labour (of course, we hire fulltime staff and that’s part of their duties, sometimes I stuff envelopes too myself). It’s kind of fun Occasionally too, we also throw in Stickers and Badges for free – that costs us a bit more, but its worth it when we see it up on your blog together with your happy faces. Thanks so much for your kind support so far!
When we first decided on how we would send out cheques, we opted for a method that was surer, rather than cheaper. With your interests at heart, we decided that registered mail was the way to go. In the time to come, we will send out more and more cheques, and we have to find ways which are more cost and time-efficient. However, rest assured that your payouts will not be deducted to cover our costs.
Some of you have mentioned that you would actuallyprefer to have payments sent by regular mail because Poslaju/registered mail requires someone to sign for it, so if you’re not at home at the time the cheque is delivered, you would have to collect it from the post office. Sometimes the mail gets returned to us as well even, since it was not collected.
So, let’s conduct a vote: Registered , or regular mail?
Your Advertlets Cheques / 10 More Days For Singapore Reviewers!
Advertlets Cheques
Regarding your Advertlets cheques, please note that you should receive them within 30-45 days from the end of the month which you cashed out on. In the past we have managed to send out cheques earlier, however, its taking slightly longer this month because of:
- increased monthly total cash out amount
- an increase in monthly number of bloggers cashing out
- a new, more thorough system for click fraud auditing
In short, yes, most of you Malaysians should be receive your cheques before Hari Raya
Singapore Review Program
And for the Singaporean review program, there are still a couple more slots left, (including some of the high traffic/premium ones, eg, one more Hokkien review left), so hurry! Only 10 more days left.
Advertlets Badges/Stickers Posting Promo
We have received all your submissions, and the opportunity is now closed! We are currently compiling them and the review payment should be credited into your account over the weekend.
PS: Haven’t been blogging for a bit, there’s a lot more to announce including new advertisers, our network growth, and a few surprises. You’ll read all about it next week! The Advertlets Team will be at the Nurin Jazlin Tribute tonight, so do say hi if you’re there.Cheers!
