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Policies & Prices:
Free Text Ads are posted
on either the classified ad page or the stallion ad page.
(So if you have a stallion and 3 mares for sale, send me 2
separate text ads, one for each page.) Text ads may contain
your email address.
Criteria: Text
ads should pertain to Hancock horses or something relevant
to Hancock Horse owners. Stallion Service ads are restricted
to paid (photo) Directory ads. Free Text ads should be brief,
should not list scores of horses and hopefully will be 3-4
sentences at most. For readers' convenience, text ads must
include your location or it may not be posted. Please
don't include your website link, promises of photos, etc...
Photos & website links are reserved for paying photo ads,
and that means I have to cut that out... Please don't capitalize
the horse's color or name or title, or capitalize much; Please
don't use all capital letters; that means I have to re-type
it to post it... The closer your free text ad submissions
meet these criteria, the sooner they will be posted! 
Thanks!
Photo Ads posted on the
classified ad page may advertise anything except breeding
stallions: General horse ads (for sale, lease, wanted, stolen,
etc.), ranch ads, ads for pets, announcements, want ads, products
or services. These ads include a photo and a website link.
Price: $25/4mos or $50/yr.
Display Ads Includes
more than one photo, and/or pedigree. $75/yr for ready copy;
$100/yr designed from scratch. 4 mos: $50/$75. Width 450 -
475 pixels.
Horse Sale & Auction
announcements - there is a separate segment on the left sidebar
of the Classifieds Ad Page reserved for organized Hancock
Horse sale events: Dispersals, Sales & Auctions.
Free Text Announcements: These ads are for
organized public sale events, not small private treaty sales.
These ads should pertain to sales featuring Hancock Horses.
They should be brief; should not list scores of horses, should
be about 3-4 sentences at most. Email link allowed, no other
links.
Photo Ad Announcements: A paying photo display
ad can also go in this section, which can
include long lists of horses, with photos & weblinks.
These are priced the same as display ad rates above. Their
finished size will be between 190-215 pixels wide.
Stallion Directory Listings
are restricted to stallions: Stallion service ads, and breeding
age stallions for sale or lease. (prospects & youngstock
go on general classifieds page.) Stallion service ads are
the only ads that include pedigrees (except display ads).
Stallion service ads run all year, late ads placed after the
breeding season (July 1st or later) roll over to include following
year. Price: $50 for 1st stallion, $10/ea for additional stallions.
Stallion for sale ads priced same as classified photo ads;
may include pedigree if run for a year. Free text ads are
not offered for breeding operations (stallion services).
Sponsorship Banner Ads.
Scrolling or revolving banners at top of homepage HancockHorses.com:
Banner ads can be purchased for any ranches, stallions, product
or service. Full size banners must be H:100 pixels
x W:400-750 pixels. Price: $125/yr for ready copy, or $150
designed from scratch. Half size banners must be H:100
pixels x W:400 or less pixels; Price: $100/yr for ready copy,
or $125 designed from scratch.
Discount Ad prices. We
have been known to give discounts when several ads are ordered
at a time. Please inquire. Thank you for your support!
Payment: Mail check or MO
made to Donna G Vickery, 830 Kelly Circle, Shepherd MT 59079.
To submit an ad: you can snail
mail it, or email
it to me. When you email photo ads, the picture should be
attached as a .jpg to your email that has the text of the
ad in the body. Oh, and - please remember; Check with the
criteria and directions on this page before submitting.
THANK YOU for your interest and support in our services.
Ad payments & webdesign allows us to maintain this website
and the Hancock Horse Breeders Directory. Please email
with any questions, comments, suggestions or concerns at any
time. Your satisfaction is our most important goal.
Notes to stallion owners: Internet advertising levels
the playing field for all stallion owners: Here, your
horse is found by more people, and is judged on his
own merits, not your pocketbook. Instead of spending
thousands of dollars targeting limited audiences in
a printed magazine that has a 30 day shelf life - consider
online advertising. With the internet, mare owners are
no longer as likely to look through stacks of old magazines
or breed newspapers to find outdated ads. Mare owners
want to see current information on your stallion now.
They want to see breeding animals tastefully presented
with current photographs & detailed information.
Get the best advertising value: For the lowest price
possible, we will present your stallion to the widest
audience possible - an audience that is already looking
for your Hancock bloodline stallion.
Our ad placement policy: A general
answer to several inquiries. Ads do come in randomly.
We don't play favorites. The only way to make sure you
are at the top would be to buy a banner for the top
of the page... Horse sale sites don't rotate ads...
the freshest ones are usually at the top of the page.
Feature ads that appear in special spots cost a lot
more. We don't consider our classifieds or stallion
directory page to be so large as to need special spots.
We think in this market... everyone is feeling the pinch...
if there are less breeding inquiries... We think it
is just a sign of the times, not where an ad is placed
on a webpage.
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this
cute little ad was featured in the
Western Livestock Reporter years ago
your ad receipts are proof to the IRS
that you are running a business
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Hats off to our readers: THANK YOU for your support !
"Just
a couple of things. First of all, the Hancock Horse website
works. Your classified ads work. The horse market is absolutely
dead here in our area. Advertising in our area (even in the
best advertising venues in the whole state), I wouldn't have
hardly been able to give my horses away. But in response to
my ad on Hancock Horses, I got a number of good solid calls
and inquiries from around the country. And yesterday, I had
a guy come pick up a load of horses and pay me a fair (in
light of market conditions) price for them. All thanks to
the ad and your website. Thanks for doing it and making it
available." ~ Todd Macfarlane, UT
"Thanks for the contact and WOW has the site grown. I
have to tell you what a good job you guys do and that I get
calls from the site off and on all year long." ~ Leslie,
Merrill Ranch, SD
"I love your Hancocks breeders page, it is a brilliant idea."
~ Rodolfo Valenzuela
"I just wanted to say I really enjoy your website and
all the hard work and info you've put into it. I look at it
daily and have found a couple REALLY good horses because of
it over the past 3 years since i'v found it. Thanks!"
~ Travis Starr, Stilwell, OK
"I want to tell you how much I enjoy this website - I get
on sometimes and spend hours reading! We frequently refer
people to this site to learn about Hancocks. We are the only
folks in our area who own these awesome horses so people always
have a lot of questions about them." ~ Tammy, TN
"Here is the ad I would like to have placed on your website.
I found the site because of the article in America's Horse
magazine and was excited to do so. It is a great resource
for Hancock breeders." ~ Kate
"Thanks for all you and your partner do in making and keeping
this website going. I use it almost everyday and would be
lost without it. Thanks again,"
~ Andy Reed, Coburn Creek Quarter Horses
"...the only place I go to look for Hancocks... no need to
waste time anywhere else."
"HancockHorses.com generates more hits to our site than any
$1200 full page magazine ad." Jennifer, Coyote Ridge Roans
"Thank You !!!!!!!!!!!! ~ Hi Gals, I just wanted to send you
a special THANK YOU for all the work you have done on the
Hancock site. It is a privilege as a breeder to be on such
a wonderful site. Just a thought, have you gals ever thought
of putting all this info into a book? If you ever do, we want
first in line for it! Thank you both sooooo much," Bill &
Cindy Smith L & S Q.H's
actually
that idea has been brought up before, and after much discussion,
we feel that due to the nature & cost of printed material,
a book would be outdated too quickly to make it worth publishing.
"Oh just FYI… I sold a nice high dollar stud colt to
a super fella in Oregon who stumbled upon us through your
site thus the push to advertise with you more… a person
just doesn’t know what’s working until it comes
to their attention so THANK you for your site!" LM
"Donna, I just purchased a 3 year old, Blue Valentine, Happy
Hancock, Doc Bar gelding, and then I read your story in the
America's Horse Magazine... I just want to thank you and Michelle
for your hard work and dedication to the Hancock bloodline,
and to let you know, your work is appreciated... God Bless
you Both" ~ Sincerely, Brad, Idaho
"Now, here's the good news. I don't know when you put this
[ad] up and modified it, etc. But I had three emails already.
Can you believe it?"
"Thanks for maintaining such a great website. I check it regularly
and am excited to see all of the new people listed every month."
Jim Willingham
"I'd like to compliment you on your work on the Hancock Horses
website. It is absoulutely great, I have learned a great deal
and really enjoyed the pictures of old horses and the historical
articles." WA State Rep. Joel Kretz, R-Wauconda
"Keep up the good work, people like you are really helping
the Hancock breeding programs."
"I would like to thank you for your website and the hits I
am receiving because of it, and the info it provides."
"I get more (website traffic) coming from hancockhorses.com
than any other"
"I am just enthralled with the site -- it is an all-encompassing
site for Hancocks and SO WELL DONE! Hancock and Blue Valentine
breeders everywhere owe you a lot for your hard work and dedication
on their behalf. The newsletter and site is SO CLASSY!" ~
Baru
"The hancockhorses.com site has been good for a lot of people."
"WOW! What great information you have on there. This is become
THE Hancock website -- choc full of information; I love all
the stories about different get of JH (Joe Hancock)."
"You two are doing a superb job!!"
"Thanks for all you have done with the Hancock Pages. We have
gotten a lot of inquiries from there."
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CAVEAT
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General Honor System & Case
by Case Approach.
 This website is a family
style project, and we do everything here with a personal touch. Michelle
& I (Donna Grace) are the sole owners of this website and I am the sole
weblackey of this site. We answer to no one other than you, our members,
when it comes to our policies and how we administer them.
 We
have a strong sense of fair play solidly in place, and we promise to always
try to give more to our members than we ask in return. In order to do that
effectively, as resident weblackey, I reserve the right to administer our
policies here on our website, on a case by case basis. In certain situations,
I may handle one case differently from another case. If I did not reserve
the right to do that, I might succumb to a situation where those taking unlimited
advantage of our generous policies would force me to change and restrict
our policies for all those of you who happily enjoy, honor & benefit
from, their underlying intent. So. Michelle and I will continue to administer
our policies as we see fit, and to accept, edit, and/or refuse any ads or
submissions. This is our way of honoring & appreciating our fantastic
membership, and still keeping HancockHorses.com enjoyable & rewarding
for everybody involved. All questions, accusations, complaints, whining,
kudos, and other commentary are cheerfully accepted by
emailing me.
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