Advertising Rates and Policy
Free Business Listings
Businesses serving the African and Diasporan community, especially healers, are invited to list with TheAfrican.Com free of charge. A listing would include the kind of information normally given on a business card, or in an insert in the Yellow Pages or in a classified ad in a newspaper. If you already have a web page, the listing may include a link to your web page. The search engine of TheAfrican.Com would allow searches of the database indexed by name, type of service provided, specialties within your field, location, and qualifications. Use the Listing Form to register your free listing as a service provider with TheAfrican.Com. Send us email if you need more information, or telephone 301-754-1362.
Business Brochures
Additionally, business serving the African and Diasporan community are invited to set up a brochure-on-the-web with us. The charge for hosting a web brochure, with photograph, and brochure-length description of your business, is a flat $10.00 one-time set-up fee, free thereafter. This is a great deal for small businesses that do not yet have a web presence. For those businesses which already have a presence on the web, you may want to simply give a free business listing with a link to your existing web site. But this special $10.00 offer to list a brochure with TheAfrican.Com is subject to change at any time.
To get your web brochure set up, send in a copy of your print brochure, along with a print of the photograph you would like included, along with your $10.00 payment by check or money order. The payment should be made payable to Decan Corporation, and the package should be sent to The African.Com, Decan Corporation, 10412 Haywood Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20902, USA. For further information, please send us email, or telephone 301-754-1362.
Product Listings
Product businesses, especially those supplying
- African-centered books and tapes (audio and video)
- health and herbal products, and
- music CD's, discs and tapes from around the Diaspora
are invited to list their products with the online shop of TheAfrican.Com.
The online shop offers the possibility of being an internet point of presence for your products on the web. Sales made through the online shop will attract a commission of 20%. Send us email to request details, or telephone 301-754-1362.
Wholesale and Distributorship Arrangements
We will also consider product suppliers who prefer a wholesale or distributorship arrangement. Please send us email with your products and prices showing quantity/price breaks, or write to The African.Com, Decan Corporation, 10412 Haywood Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20902, USA.
Banner and Button Ads for Sponsors
TheAfrican.Com would welcome any sponsors who would like to support the site and its objectives, and we would place banner or button ads on our pages in return for such sponsorship. We believe that TheAfrican.Com would provide an excellent forum to advertise African and diasporan related airlines, travel agencies, banks, finance companies, insurance companies, freight and shipping lines, print publishing companies, etc.. etc.
The section your ad is placed in -- Welcome Page, Magazine, Healers, Shop, or specific pages within a section -- would depend on the target audience you are trying to reach, and we would be happy to help you find the section that would work best, or you may choose it yourself. Banner ads would appear either on the top or bottom of a page, while button ads would appear in space made at the left margin of a page in clear view.
We offer the following rates for banner and button ads placed on the main page of a section:
MAIN PAGE RATES -- BANNER AND BUTTON ADS
Unlimited Page View Rates
Banner (390×75)
Button (90×50)
1-month sponsorship $ 500
$ 250
3-month sponsorship $1350
$ 675
6-month sponsorship $2500
$1250
1-year sponsorship $4500
$2250
Banner and button ads placed on pages subsidiary to a main page would be charged at the following rates:
SUBSIDIARY PAGE RATES -- BANNER AND BUTTON ADS
Unlimited Page View Rates
Banner (390×75)
Button (90×50)
1-month sponsorship $ 275
$ 138
3-month sponsorship $ 745
$ 370
6-month sponsorship $1375
$ 690
1-year sponsorship $2475
$1238
Send us email to request details, or telephone 301-754-1362.
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