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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.

 


this cute little ad was featured in the
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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."







CAVEAT EMPTOR

General Honor System & Case by Case Approach. Donna Grace, site partner, weblackey 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. Michelle, site partnerWe 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.  

We are not responsible for any misrepresentation, etc. and do not represent any guarantees of any kind.



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