As you all know that I am running a Balkhis ML Contest which is proudly sponsored by Market Leverage.

To win this contest basically you have to earn points. I am not doing random drawing because people who do the most work sometimes doesn’t get lucky enough and it is not fair. So the person with the most points get to win this time.

I have posted a few ways to earn points on the official contest post.

This is just another way that can get you 3 points to add to your total.

Digg the Official Balkhis Market Leverage Contest Post

Digg the post above, and add a short comment. Once done post your username below, so I can verify.

For those of you who have never used Digg, I recommend you all to sign up to digg because it is one of the social bookmarks that is essential for the growth of your website. Hitting the top page on Digg is an honor.

I have also posted a short article in the past that relates to Using Digg for your Advantage.

Good luck in the contest.

Well unlike most of my past contests this is only a one week deal. This contest is starting today June 11th, and it will last till June 18th. Before I explain how this contest will be ran. I want to let you guys know why I am starting this contest. When I was in Seattle, I got an email from Debby of Market Leverage (ML). In the email, I was offered to run a contest in which the prizes will be donated by Market Leverage. Debby and Market Leverage are just setting the standards higher and higher among the competitors. They are becoming my favorite publishers. I would like to thank Debby and Market Leverage for considering this blog worthy and giving me the honor to run this contest. Since you have honored me and this blog, I would like to name this contest in the honor of Market Leverage, Balkhis ML Contest.

Now even though the prizes were donated by Market Leverage, I get to pick how I will run the contest. Now I tried to make this contest as simple as possible. And this time, there is no random drawing, so you can pretty much confirm your winning spot, if you have the most points. The person with the most points earned within these 8 days, will be the winner. And yes there will be 4 winners by point ranking system.

O did I tell you what the prizes are?

Prizes

First Place: Flip Camera

Second Place: IPOD Nano

Third Place: $50 AMEX Card

Fourth Place: 2GB USB Pen Drive

Above are the ones that you can work your way and win.

Aside from those I will be giving out,

1000 entrecard credits
468 x 60 banner on Balkhis (1 month)
125 x 125 banner on Balkhis (1 month)

These three prizes will be given to users selected randomly from those who enter the contest.

Now how exactly will you get these points?

**You don’t have to have a website to win this contest because alot of clues will not require you to have a website.

It will be described in clues. So I will not give out all the ways all at once. I will add the clues in my posts along the week, so you guys would have to read the blog if you are interested in the prizes. But how will you stay updated? I have an Idea. How about subscribing to my blog via email.

O I think I forgot to mention, this is one of the clues to earn points. By subscribing to Balkhis via email, you will earn 10 Points.

Don’t worry my subscribers, if you are already a balkhis subscriber via email, you will automatically gain 10 points. Now this will help you by getting you more points. Also you won’t miss any chances of earning points as posts will be delivered to your email address.

Please stay consistent with your email use. So use the same email everywhere. If you subscribed via a certain email, then use that same email to sign up to Market Leverage (ML).

O did I forget to mention this is another clue. You must signup using my referral link. Which is in the banner, so click on the banner above to sign up. This will get you 20 points for every approved account via my referral. (Sorry to those who are already a member of this service, it won’t count toward you).

Anywayz isn’t this an exciting contest. I know for sure this is. Market Leverage is doing a great job. These guys are really friendly. As soon as you submit, and your application gets reviewed. You will get a kind welcoming phone call. Where their representative will explain everything to you. The part that I like is you don’t have to wait for the offers to be accepted. For some of them you do, but you can contact your account manager to speed up the process. I recommend them at all cost. They will be going in my money maker list when I upload the new design for Balkhis.

O I just thought of another quick way that you can gain points.

Just write about this contest on your blog. Make sure you link to this post, and make a mention that this contest is supported kindly by Market Leverage, and put their link. This will get you 20 points toward your score.

Once you have written about this post, do remember to send a trackback or comment on this post linking to your post so we can keep track of it. This will take me to another clue.

Commenting on Balkhis will also gain you points. Each comment will be worth 2 points. You may not comment more than 2 times on one post. I mean you can but you won’t be rewarded. Don’t spam in the comments, because I will be moderating carefully. I have also asked David Pegg, Amanda Roberts, and Areeb to help me out with maintaing the contest and keeping track of the points.

Well guys what are you waiting for. Let the contest Begin.

More Clues that are added:

Digg Balkhis Market Leverage Contest – Clue #1

Digital Point post on Balkhis Market Leverage Contest – Clue #2

Tweeting the Balkhis Market Leverage Contest – Clue #3

Affiliate Marketers Giveback for Balkhis Market Leverage Contest – Clue #4

Join Mybloglog for Balkhis Market Leverage Contest – Clue #5

Market Leverage TV trivia for Balkhis Market Leverage Contest – Clue #6

Tip Sunday and Market Leverage Contest Clue #7

Technorati is a need for blogs – Balkhis Market Leverage Contest Clue #8

Entrecard Recommendations – Balkhis Market Leverage Contest Clue #9

Finding the Treasure – Balkhis Market Leverage Contest Final Clue

Well aside from the fact that I was late to the adtech, so didn’t get to see the first half hour of the keynote presentation. I couldn’t video tape the other half hour because the camera I have is a digital camera which is not a very good camcorder. Now I am waiting for some company like Cannon or someone to send me a decent camcorder, so I can make videos and thank them in each of my video post eh

The keynote was actually the Cofounder of Mercado Libre, ebay of Latin America. He wasn’t very helpful for the most part because he was trying to avoid the questions asked. I guess not everyone would share their secrets.

Well I actually made 3 videos, well one video was made by Amanda Roberts. One of the videos I had to take it out because the voice quality wasn’t as good. The guy wasn’t speaking loud enough for the camera’s microphone to hear.

I am attatching the other two in this post.

First video which is right below this, is the one which features me and Muhammad. I am excited that I got tons of goodies. Afterall this was my first conference. I was also excited about the fact that I got two USB Drives and Muhammad was jealous because he only had one. It includes both me and him.

This second video is about the group called Star Media. Basically their representative is going to tell more about them in the video. These were the people who gave me the nice clock with digital picture frame. I actually found out the value of that. $88 it said on one of the sites I looked.

Well twitter is the latest thing which is growing crazily. While I am not the first one to join Twitter, but I don’t want to be the last one to join either. I actually joined a while back, but I didn’t want to show my account when it was inactive. I went at it crazily, and I started following different people. My goal is to follow the most people anyone have on twitter, so let it be 15,000 ? or more ? eh

But in the past few days that I have started following people on my twitter, traffic to balkhis has increased. As you guys know whenever I start something like this, I do it to such an extent that other people start noticing that Balkhis exist, and then I let it carry its own flow. First it was MyBlogLog, then it was Entrecard, and now I am going into twitter.

I will update the stats and tell you how this month went with twitter, and how many followers do I have and how many people I am following. If you aren’t at twitter already, I recommend that you join it because it increases traffic to your site, and it will allow you to get to know people that you didn’t know before. Networking is what all this is about. It is a safeway of networking because you are not getting harrassed via IM because you are not sharing those and people can ask you simple questions like What are you Doing? and so on.

Do you already have a twitter? Let me know by posting your twitter page urls in the comments, and I will definately check it out and most likely follow you guys, so I know what is going in your life.

If you join twitter, don’t forget to follow me

Well as you all know that I attended Adtech Miami yesterday. I managed to get free exhibit hall pass, so initially I only spend the time and gas money for travelling a 150 mile round trip, and 3 dollars in parking. Which makes it pretty cheap for the gifts that we got. Now you are wondering who is we? Well we is a composition of Amanda Roberts of WordScrawl.com, Muhammad Karim (he is a very good programmer and working on getting some of his sites up), and yours truly myself.

Now let me share something that I really liked about this. Exhibit hall = freebies, and freebies for all 3 of us. Now my new car gives me around 32 miles per gallon on highways (thats if I drive roughly), and the gas is $3.99 / gallon. It makes the total roughly around $18 and $3 in parking making it $21 total spending. Now there were 3 of us, so it broke down into $7per person.

In exchange we all recieved tons of goodies. Now let me tell you basically what we all recieved. We got pretty much the same thing except Muhammad. He got an extra IPOD Speakers, he picked up that one, and they ran out of it. Besides I don’t have an Ipod so it would be no use for me.

Below are tons of pens that I recieved from famous companies. They are some decent pens.

This is from the same stall which gave Muhammad his IPOD speakers and stand. He also got this clock which have a digital frame. It keeps track of date and temperature also. Pretty cool eh. I believe it to worth atleast $50 in the market.

Below are the three mouse pads. The smiley face one is pretty cool because now I can make smiley faces in my emails. I have alot of extra ones also.

Below is a USB Drive that I recieved in the bag that we got when we checked in. It is a 1GB USB Drive. My bag was actually to full from the stuff, so I went back and got another bag which also had this. So I ended up with 2 one gigabyte usb drives. But my sister went honor roll in her 4th grade and got straight A’s and recieved 4 certificates for being smart. She wanted a present, so I gave her that. Dot com Life style saved me some money eh.

I will always have something to write on now and I won’t loose it lol. Who am I kidding… I always end up loosing stuff.

Below is the magic 8 ball which predicts that I will go bankrupt with Balkhis. It also thinks that I am fat, and ugly. Now I wonder how accurate this is lol.

Now we each spent $7 / person, and recieved over $150 gifts each. Plus we get to enter in the drawing for IPhone, Ipod Nano, and a Poker Table. I hope I win one of the 3.

I had fun walking around and talking to all the representatives. I have some of them in videos also which I will put up in my coming posts.