Benefit from our aggressive marketing strategies and promotions such as:

Physical Marketing:

• Sponsoring Afghan Concerts. These include distributing fliers, putting up our banner in a highly visible area, setting up a booth to answer questions and inform people about our services, advertising on Radio.
• Since we are the ONLY web site that offers online ticket purchasing like ticketmaster.com, concert vendors will also do their own advertising, which may include print, TV, radio, mentioning AfghanStores.com as the place to purchase tickets. This will bring even more exposure and traffic to our web site, which means you’ll get more exposure for listing your business on our web site.
• Distributing fliers at Afghan events and markets.
• Satellite TV (Salaam Afghanistan TV, Az Los Angeles Ta Kabul TV)
• Radio (Persian Radio 670 AM Jan 8th 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.). We will contact additional Afghan and Persian radio stations to advertise further.
• Some vendors advertise our web site name on their products. (Ex. Miss Afghanistan 2005 www.vidasamadzai.com).
• In the near future, we plan to sponsor Afghan picnics in Southern California.

Online marketing:

• Banner exchange with other major Afghan web sites (Ex. www.afghanland.com).
• Promote AfghanStores.com by periodically blasting emails to our database of over 2,000 Afghan email addresses worldwide.
• Advertising AfghanStores.com on message boards, chat rooms, Afghan list servers, Afghan Yahoo Groups, Afghan web sites.
• Search Engine Optimization- Listing AghanStores.com on Google, AOL, MSN, etc.

Business Directory Membership:
All the above advertising is included in your per year price for listing your business with us. The only additional cost would be adding your banner to our web site. The per year price for listing your business and benefiting from the above advertising is $180 per YEAR. This is a one time charge for the entire year.

Yet another attractive and economical way to acheive maximum exposure on AfghanStores.com is to request to add your Business Directory listing to the Featured Businesses section of AfghanStores.com. By doing so, AfghanStores.com web site visitors will see your listing on the homepage of the Business Directory page. The benefit of being part of the featured business section is to showcase your listing up front so customers don't have to search for your business in the categories provided. Visitors of the web site will be be able to get to your listing quicker. Adding your business to the Featured Businesses section would cost $10 per MONTH.  This cost is separate from the business directory listing charge. You can purchase as many months as you wish. Below you will see visually where the featured businesses section is located on the front page of the Business Directory.

Banner Ads:
We accept advertisements at a very low rate and highest standard quality. Advertise your business, your web site, your project or your products and services. About 85% of our visitors are from North America and Afghans around the world have chosen this site as their primary shopping location.

AfghanStores.com offers various plans to fit your budget. Static ad spaces can be purchased only on the homepage (www.afghanstores.com). We also offer random banner ad spaces on Home Page, Business Directory, Concert Tickets, and Entertainers pages. Random banner ad spaces are more economical than static ads because these banners will appear randomly in one particular spot. For example, if your banner ad shows in the business directory section in a particular spot, the next time you may see a different banner in the same spot. Please, do not be alarmed because your banner ad will show up again randomly.

Banner Ad Pricing:
Banner ad yet is another way to have a visual image such as a logo, company picture, and on the homepage of AfghanStores.com. When users click on the banner, they will either go to your business directory listing or to your web site.

Banner Ads submitted will be subject to review. Upon approval, banner will be posted.
AfghanStores.com reserves the right to change pricing above at any time.