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Here are some tips that will help you to sell your horse
at a fair market price.
1. Know your market.
If you are advertising a horse that is between $1000-9999,
2-10 years of age, well trained or broke to saddle and registered
in some breed organization than you have a middle market horse.
Middle market people are looking traditionally for Family
horses they can enjoy on the trail, go to local shows and
just have fun with. They generally make over $30,000 a year
and less than $65,000. They may have their own acreage out
in the country or keep one or two horses at a local stable.
They will use the internet to find prospective horses by going
to a lot of horse sites that advertise horses they can look
at that are in their price range.
Under $1000 Bargain Shoppers- these are people
who scour the local paper ads, auctions, etc to find horses
they believe can be resold for a better price. They may also
be people who have always wanted a horse but never had enough
to buy one and stable the horse too and now have the means
to keep horses on their own property and are very hands on
folk.
$10,000+ are usually breeders and serious show
horse folks. They tend to stable their horses or have hired
help to do the work at their ranch. They tend to make well
over $65,000 a year. They will buy their horses from established
breed farms that win in the show ring, advertise in the breed
publications or select private sales.
2.Develop a Strategy-
Most horse buyers fall in the middle market range. So to attract
their attention you should place your ads in as many places
as you can that are frequented by them. A good collection
of free classified links where you can place ads for your
horse for sale for free can be found at http://4mywebshoppe.com/links.html
. One of the best paid for ad sites is http://agdirect.com,
they are also known as buyhorses.com and horsedirect.com.
. For $10 you get a photo ad that is good for a year and this
site attract alot of buyers.
3.Get a good website built.
Don't use a free site with popup ads it will detract from
the perceived value of your horses for sale or at stud. You
can get ad free webhosting starting from $30 a year!! This
is not the place to be skimpy. Don't build it yourself if
it does not look like a professionally built site. If it looks
like a refrigerator door with lots of stuff on it - it will
not portray a professional image. You can get a page built
for as little as $35. This is cheaper than a 1 week ad in
most local newspapers that may never generate a call.
4.Put up good pictures and online
movies.
Make sure the pictures look professional and load quickly,
people get tired of waiting more than 10 seconds for a home
page to show up.
Put online movies where they can see the horse
being ridden, jumped over fences, doing sliding stops, english
gaits, just being a horse,saddled, clipped, etc... so the
viewer can see more about this horse now. It may just be enough
to get someone to buy your horse over someone who has just
a nicer show picture than you have. Don't use MPG, AVI, Quicktiime
or Real player movies. They can take forever to load and most
people don't have the right media player to play them nor
10 minutes to wait for something to happen. Get FLASH Movies.
Go to
http://www.4mywebshoppe.com and take a look at the
Sample pages of movies and video ads. These are the type of
movies that have sold horses. Online FLASH movies can be obtained
for as little as $20.
5.Go to the FREE AD sites and place ads
that make your ad stand out from the rest. "SEE ONLINE
MOVIES! Tall Gorgeous Trained Winning Filly". Make sure
you put your website address and note that you have other
wonderful horses for sale with online movies to look at.
Place a lot of ads. It takes time, but the payoff is
that you are reaching more different people and who knows...
maybe you will be like some of the clients of MyWebShoppe.com
and your next buyer will be from Alaska or Costa Rica.
Be sure and BookMark this page.. We will be adding more articles
on photograhy, video and top Classifieds sites that are selliing
horses in the future.
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