I don’t know about you, but I think its been too long since Balkhis gave something away. Who up for a contest? Thanks to the wonderful people at Market Leverage, Balkhis will be giving away not one, but two awesome prizes.

The first of our two prizes will is a brand new white ASUS PC, much like the one you see below, and the second of our two prizes is a brand new blue iPod Nano.

So what do you need to do you may ask? Well the winners of this contest will be chosen by random draw. Now, to better your chances of winning it is in your best interest to accumulate as many entries into the contest as possible, and you can gain entries by doing the following:

Subscribing to Balkhis’ RSS Feed you can gain 15 entries. This is the mandatory part of the contest, so if you want that ASUS, make sure you subscribe!

This step below is mandatory.

Signing up for Market Leverage will give you 15 entries into the contest. This is one of the simplest ways to earn lots of entries, so if you have yet to sign up, make sure you join Market Leverage.

Now, if you generate $1 with Market leverage, you will get one additional entry. Now this can only be used one, but, if you generate $100 with Market Leverage, you will get an additional 15 entries into the contest. So go out there and make some money!

Another easy way to get entries into the contest is to simply blog about this about this contest with a link back to this post. You can get 10 additional entries for your post.

Now if you have heard of this little thing called Twitter, you can make a killing with Twitter Entries.

A twitter post about Market Leverage (for those with 100 or more followers) will net you two entries, and this can be done daily for the twenty-four days the contest will run for a total of 48 entries!

If you follow @MLTV on Twitter, you can get one entry, and following @MarketLeverage will give you yet another entry to the contest.

And finally, you can gain 5 points for EACH PERSON you refer to participating in the contest. This can be done as many times as you like, just make sure that the people you refer comment that you referred them.

Well there you have it, it is as easy as that! The contest will run from now until March 22nd.

Now this contest is only open to new and current Market Leverage publishers who were referred to Market Leverage by Balkhis, and if you won a previous contest, than please sit this one out.

This contest will be operated in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations, and the contest will be run fairly with the winner chosen by random drawing.

This contest is not associated with, either directly or indirectly to: (i) alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, or any illegal substance; (ii) pornography, adult content or sexually suggestive or explicit content; (iii) expletives or inappropriate language; (iv) racism or racial hate; (v) gambling or lotteries; (vi) firearms or fireworks; (vii) any product or service that is illegal for a minor to purchase, obtain or possess; (viii) any group, political party issue, public policy position, organization or individual. So keep this in mind when you blog about the contest.

Running a contest is a very smart advertising technique which I have mentioned multiple times in my earlier posts. But this type of advertising only works if you can run your contest successfully. In this post I am going to share the type of contests you can run. Along with the ways to setup those contests. Also I am going to share the techniques of advertising the contest, and getting prizes for your contests. In this post, I have also added the advantages of donating prizes to the contests.

Before I go on with the post, I would like to show you some of my stats for my last contest which was Balkhis ML Contest.

Comments in a week – 900
Average Page Views – 6832 views a day
Average Unique Visitors a day – 1643
Increase in readership by 123 readers
Total of 53 fans on Technorati
Tons of Natural Backlinks

and much more….

Type of Contests

Before you start contests, you always have to plan ahead. One of the major things you want to know is how long will this contest be? Long Term, Short term, or Periodical? Because there are different ways you can go about in either ways to try and make it successful. (Read the rest in full post……)

Well as you know that I follow all of my reader’s blog. Mike Huang at Bloggin-ads is having a Mac Air and $1000 giveaway. If you don’t know he does blog reviews free reviews for blogs that he find interesting. Not sure if he does paid reviews.

Well the contest is very simple, he collected bunch of sponsors and decided to give away 2 Macbook Air, and 100$ to 10 different people which means his subscribers.

There are bunch of entry methods,

Subscribe to his blog Via Email (1 point)
Participate in forums (1-10 tickets per day)
Participate on the blog (1 ticket per comment / 5 comments a day)
Write about it (10 tickets)
Stumble and Digg it (3 tickets)

Since he admires John Chow alot he is getting evil also by making the contest end on Friday the 13th. Yup it is June 13th 2008.

I normally don’t enter contest, but I’ll enter Mike’s contest as he is a Balkhis user.

Alright everyone, today is March 11th and our contest is over today. Below are the rankings

1) TopMP3Songs
2) Madmouse
3) TheWWWBlog
4) Zorg-Directory
5) Clickmate
6) YoMobilez
7) KoolCorner
Word Scrawl

Prizes are listed here

For the cash prize winners, (1st and 2nd place) Email me and add your paypal address as well as your business address where you want the shirt to be sent to.

Rest of you guys need to email me and let me know your address so the shirt can be mailed, and i will link to all the sites where my banner was posted on the blog under the category called Contest Winners

Hopefully you guys enjoyed the contest, I will keep more coming in the future.

Well as you all know that contest will end in 5 days from today on March 11th. I was asked by one of the users for the update as the last one was given on Feb. 21st. Here it goes

Some reminders: I have awards for upto 8th place, and there are only 6 competitors, so even if you join right now you can still make it on the 7th or 8th place.

1st Place – Top MP3 Songs
2nd Place – Madmouse Network
3rd Place – Zorg-Directory
4th Place – ClickMate
5th Place – Koolcorner
6th Place – Word Scrawl
7th Place – No competitor
8th Place – No competitor

That is the update in the contest if you want to join the contest here is the original post

One more prize was added for all places by Ciclar Directory. They will be offering 1 Featured listing in their directory.