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AD
Policies & Prices:
check this page before ordering an ad
policies & prices are subject to change
Free Text Ads Criteria:
1) All free ads go on the classified ad page. (no free stallion
ads)
2) Free text ads may contain your email address, but no photos
or website urls.
3) Free text ads should pertain to something relevant to Hancock
Horse owners.
4) Keep your free text ad brief: Shoot for 3-4 sentences at
most.
5) Include your location for readers' convenience,
or it may not be posted.
6) Don't Make Me Edit... if I am short on
time when I receive your free ad, and you have not read the
instructions here, it may have to wait to get posted til later
when I do have time.
Please don't include your
website link, promises of photos, etc... Photos & website
links are reserved for paying photo ads, which means I have
to edit that out...
Please don't capitalize the horse's color or name or title;
Please don't use all capital letters; (that is the equivalent
of screaming at the reader on the internet) which then means
that I have to re-type your whole ad to post it.
Same thing goes with your grammar, spelling, punctuation
etc., please don't expect me to re-write your free ad...
if you won't spend the short time it takes to write a nice
free ad, it may not reflect well on you as a seller, either.
Watch spelling and word usage... Conformation is how a horse
is built (not confirmation which i do for you after I post
your ad) and remember that offspring are BY a stallion,
and OUT OF a mare :o) (be professional).
I realize I am fussy about this, but, free ads are meant
to be a win:win situation for all of us... free for you,
and easy for me. SO... the closer your free text ad submission
meets the above criteria, the less likely I am to return
it to you for a revision - or the less I have to do to it
the sooner it will get posted! Thanks, and keep 'em coming!
Photo Ads posted on the
classified ad page may advertise anything except breeding
stallions (which have their own directory): 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
- the left sidebar of the Classifieds Ad page is reserved
for organized Hancock Horse sale events: Dispersals, Sales
& Auctions:
Free Text Announcements:
These ads are for organized public sale events, not a small
private treaty list of horses for sale. These ads should
only 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 is 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, 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 occasional 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 (stallion services) breeding operations. Your free listing
in the main member directory already does that.
Sponsorship Banner Ads.
Revolving banners at top of homepage HancockHorses.com: Banner
ads can be purchased for any ranch, stallion, product or service.
Full size banners must be H:100 pixels x W:750 pixels.
Price: $125/yr for ready copy, or $150 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, email me for my mailing address.
Or you can pay it online at Paypal.com to weblackey@yahoo.com
(it will walk you through the process).
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. Please read all instructions on this page
before submitting; it will save us both time. 
THANK YOU for your interest and support in our services.
Ads allow 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 !
"Gotta
tell you, still getting more hits from HH than anywhere else.
Keep up the good work, girls." Joel, Promised Land Ranch
(August 2011)
" My recent conversation with Randy Wright caused me
to think about you and Michelle the last couple of days. Honest
and sincere folks are getting harder to come by in our sector
of the horse world!" ~ John Gist, Wagon Wheel Ranch,
TX (June 2011)
"Holy cow, did I get a TON of response from the ad you
placed for me! I have sold all the mares, including their
fillies and two that were not even listed! I now only have
one mare from this group left, I would love if you could change
the ad for me... Thanks again! You guys rock!" Carrie,
C Lazy T Performance Horses (Jan 2011)
"Michelle and Donna Grace are both great ladies and have
done more to help preserve and promote the Hancock genetics
than anyone, other than Fred Gist when he was alive. If they
can help, they will go out of their way to assist you; you
have no idea how much they have done for many, many people
and love being able to." Randy, Wright Cattle Co., TX
(Dec 2010)
"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 (Autumn
2010)
"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 doesnt know whats 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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