Issue 26 Deadline

Attn All Kampot Survival Guide Advertisers:

DEADLINE MARCH 15th

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If you do not yet have your advertising copy and payment in to either Tiny Kampot Pillows or Steve at Srey Mum's Cafe (both at the 2000 roundabout) you will be too late to secure a spot in the April 1st issue of the guide. Period.

It is entirely up to YOU to get YOUR act together in time to beat the deadline! There will be no extensions. Period.

For over 5 years the KSG has been Kampot’s single most important publication. It is designed to give up to date information on Kampot AND to drive customers to YOUR door. As the most widely distributed guide in Kampot it is THE one publication you don't want to miss out on for promoting YOUR business.

We will only be printing as many copies of the guide as we receive advertising payment for. ONLY advertisers will get copies to distribute to their customers.

AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT GET YOUR COPY AND PAYMENT IN TODAY...BEFORE YOU FORGET AND MISS OUT ON INCREASED BUSINESS.

REMEMBER if you miss the March 15^th DEADLINE….

Too bad. So sad. No ad.

Sincerely,

The KSG Team 

Advertising With The Kampot Survival Guide (KSG)

When We Print And Deadlines For Advertising

1. The next edition of The Kampot Survival Guide goes to print on the 1^st April.

1. Submission of - and payment for - your advertisement must be received by us no later than March 15^th This is to allow us time to collate the magazine prior to print and ensure that it is distributed punctually.
2. In the event that you submit an advertisement to us but we have not received payment for your advertisement by March 15^th, we will not be able to print your advertisement.
3. In the event that you pay us for advertising space but do not provide us with your advertising graphic or image by March 15th, we will run your advertisement as a plain text ad (no graphic) identifying your business or organisation as the advertiser.
4. We cannot accept any advertisement that is lodged after this date nor can we accept any request for changes to an advertisement after the March 15^th deadline.

What Image Format You Should Use For Your Advertisement

2. Your advertisement can be given to us in either JPEG or PNG formats.

1. We request that you do not submit your advertisement to us in any other format as it may be totally incompatible with our desktop publishing software or require extensive manipulation resulting in a loss of clarity and impact of your advertisement.

Types And Sizes Of Advertising Spaces

3. Advertising spaces in The Kampot Survival Guide are available in either Banner, Portrait or Half Page configurations. A Banner or Portrait equates to a quarter page of advertising space.

1. A Banner size space is Width 138mm x Height 48mm.
2. A Portrait sized space is Width 69mm x Height 97mm.
3. A Half Page is Width 138mm x Height 97mm.
   Note: It is strongly recommended that your advertisement is designed to accurately fit the above sizes and displays well before you give it to us. We will endeavour to resize your advertisement if the size is incorrect however the resizing may once again result in a loss of clarity and impact of your advertisement.

What Your Advertisement Should Look Like Before You Give It To Us

4. You can submit your advertisement to us in colour or in grey-scale (black and white).

1. It is strongly recommended that your advertisement image is of the highest quality possible before you submit it.
2. As a general guide, your advertisement will present best in the hard copy of our magazine if it is crisp, sharp, uncluttered and eye catching when viewed as a grey-scale image.
3. If you give us your advertisement as a colour image, we will convert it to grey-scale for printing in the hard copy of the magazine. Your advertisement will display in colour in the downloadable PDF version.
   Note: the design and creation of your advertisement is your responsibility. We do not have the resources i.e. a graphic design department to create the advertisement for you

Our Fees For Advertising

5. Our costs for Advertising have been simplified. For three months of advertising, the prices are:

1. A Quarter page Banner or Portrait space inside the magazine is $20.
2. A Half Page space is $40
3. A Front Page Banner (quarter page) space is $40
   Note: The Front Page Banner space will be available on a first in – first served basis i.e. the first person, business or organisation to request the space and submit their advertisement to us together with payment.

Note: If you have a preference for where your advertisement appears in the KSG, we will attempt to allocate that space to you. Please be aware that it will not always be possible for us to do this when there are competing demands for a space or the layout of the magazine precludes it.

How To Submit Your Advertisement And Your Payment To Us

6. You can submit your advertisement to us in either of the following ways:

1. Send your advertisement to us as an attachment by e-mail to ksgadsales(at)gmail.com. In your e-mail, please provide a Contact Name, a Contact Phone Number, a Contact E-Mail Address, the Name of Your Business and the Type Of Advertising Space you want – Banner, Portrait or Half Page.
   Note: We will send you a reply e-mail acknowledging that we have received your advertisement and advising you when payment is due for your ad. To pay for your advertisement – see below
2. Place your advertisement on a Flash Drive and drop it off, together with your payment, at the Tiny Kampot Pillows shop at the 2000 traffic roundabout in Kampot. The owner/manager of the shop speaks Khmer and English. The shop is usually open between 10 am and 7 pm. You will be given a form to complete stating Name, Business Name, Contact Phone Number, E-Mail address and the type of Advertising Space you want – Banner, Portrait or Half Page. Your completed form, flash drive and payment will be placed in an envelope for KSG staff to collect. You will be provided with a receipt for your payment.
   Note: When KSG staff have collected your advertisement and payment, we will advise you by e-mail that we have received them and that your advertising space has been booked with us. We will arrange with you for the most convenient way to return your Flash Drive.
   Note: If either of the above methods are not convenient for you, you can e-mail us at ksgadsales(at)gmail.com. to discuss alternatives.

Thank you,

The Kampot Survival Guide

ksgadsales(at)gmail.com.

Issue 25 and beyond...

The long delayed issue 25 is at last rolling again, just some final spelling corrections to be made, proof is printed and final artwork adjustments are under way, expect to see copies within the week.

So this time we have to thank...

Bart the Boatman
Blissful Guest House
Blue Bar
Bluestar Real Estate
Cambo Eco Tours
Champa Lodge
Ecran
Farm Link
Frangipani
Full of Beans
Ganesha Riverside Eco Resort
Green House
Keplers Books
Kampoccino
Kampot Dreamtime Tours
Kampot Pie and Ice Cream Palace
Indochine
Mea Culpa
Naga House
Oh Neils
Rikitikitavi
Sausage Sizzle
Senor Sushi
Srey Mom's Cafe
Teuk Chhou Zoo
Tic Tik Tours
Tiny Kampot Pillows
Titch's Place
Utopia


More Importantly we have to thank these wonderful submitters...

Irvin S
Alan HT
Uncle Fran


Anyway, all that done here's an update on our future.

Recently we temporally lost the facilities of file hosting, what did this mean? Well we lost all of our download files, all copies of the guide and all the maps. We have since been lucky enough to get them back but its a worry. In future we will probably only offer one download option, that way we can easily keep the blog etc updated and recover from any loss with ease.

Down to what we will be offering for download? Well probably just a cut down current issue with all ad's removed, allowing us to pop in as many pics as we want without the need to worry about a page count or advertisers.

It is also very doubtful that we will print large quantities of copies again, the last straw has damaged the camels back and none of us at the KSG want to deal with advertisers or artwork ever again. It's a shame but well...  you got five years of free work out of us and I think our work is done, all you have to do is look around, this place has changed, we have not.

We may however print copies for our own use, i.e. we will print our own and give them to customers, or maybe sell them, possibly even sell in bulk with the old single advert on the front, who knows.

There is still a chance we will produce the e-book version, so you may see QR code flyers appear in places with WIFI.

Nothing is certain except one thing, there is no way we are going to deal with as many advertisers again, its too time consuming to do for free. But as a way of compensation to the many advertisers that used to drive me mad by asking "how long does it run for?" well, this next issue runs for an extended period, a period in theory long enough for us to decide the guides future. So this issue runs for 100 years and 3 months, that equates to advertising costs as little as $0.20 per year, unbeatable!

bye for a bit...

Making Money Pay.

Breaking News – KSG Exclusive

From: XXX Ace Disgraced Underground Reporter Head Teaser

To: Editor, Kampot Survival Guide

Subject: Economic News

“Obama was in Cambodia last month to speak about far more than human rights.” This statement comes from a highly placed source in the US Treasury department who spoke to Head Teaser anonymously because he is not authorized to speak to the gutter press. He went on to say, “President Obama was in Cambodia to inform the government of a daring new plan to avoid the Fiscal Cliff our country is approaching at a gallop.”

Another conversation with a board member of the Federal Reserve Bank fleshed out the story. “As you know, we have been printing greenbacks at an horrendous rate. What do we get for that? A devalued dollar, that’s what. The dollar needed some added value, so we put our thinking caps on and came up with an idea that’s so American it makes me want to get up and salute the flag.”

He continued to drop a bomb shell nearly as explosive as all the munitions dumped on Cambodia during the secret war. “We have close to one Trillion Dollars of paper money in circulation around the world. Our beloved dollar has a life expectancy of between 4.8 and 17.9 years, depending on the denomination. From the day our first dollar went into circulation and our imposition, no sorry could you change that, since the dollar was accepted as the global reserve currency; around the world the Yankee greenback has promoted our brand as a benevolent though paternally stern nation of rampant capitalists.”

Pausing to wipe a patriotic crocodile tear from his eye he went on to say that advertising is as American as apple pie and advanced weaponry. “Most of the biggest companies in the world are American, and they all have immense advertising budgets. We can guarantee the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Coke and Monsanto huge exposure on a global scale by buying ad space on good old American dollars.”

The interest in buying ad space is so great that not even Feds ability to crank out money is able to supply the anticipated demand. That is why the American government is planning to auction off the one inch by one inch ads to the highest bidder. Space on a five year print run of one hundred dollar bills is expected to fetch in the neighbourhood of five billion dollars a year for the next twenty years.

“There are a few bugs to iron out. Like of someone goes into a Burger King and decides to pay with a McDonalds five and they refuse to take it do we send in the Treasury Department Police, the FBI, Homeland Security or the CIA to enforce the legality of our currency. There’s some talk of creating jobs by legislating a new level of bureaucracy with an armed, international force of Money Police.”

He went on to say that the technology was ready at the mint to start circulating the new ad-bucks. He also noted that other than the advertising on the bills, they are to remain the same dull green they have always been. “Can’t mess with the brand image too much,” he muttered.