How to get the best prints from your digital camera РThere are no “neighs” about good pictures!

This article was featured in the October 2006 issue of the Southeast Equine magazine. Dawna Smith of Custom Photo Book granted me permission to post this article to provide you with helpful digital photography tips to ensure that your special equestrian moments are captured in their best possible light. Custom Photo Book can help you preserve these photos for your family and for future generations in a high quality Coffee Table type book. Sample of Custom Equine Book

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Why have inbound links? Well in a word: traffic.

The more incoming links or one way links pointing to your website the better you will place in some search engines like Google, which leads to more people finding and visiting your site. Also you will receive direct traffic from the sites displaying your links. Hopefully if your site is set up right some of this added traffic will lead to higher sales and business profits!

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Advertising your stud horse is important for your horse business

Equine Teleseminar’s blog just posted the article, “The Business of Horses – Promoting Your Stallion” by M. R. Bain.

M. R. Bain has bred, trained and shown Quarter Horses, Appaloosas, Paints, Arabians as well as Morgans, Saddlebreds, Welsh Ponies and many other breeds. He has developed breeding programs and farms for owners, managed boarding and training stables, been a stallion manager and is considered an authority on equine management. His articles have appeared in The Quarter Horse Journal, Paint Horse Journal, Pinto Horse Magazine, POA Magazine, Spotted Saddle Horse News and 30 regional horse publications from Florida to Alaska and East to West Coast.

If you have a breeding stallion to market I think you should check out his article.

I hope to post some of his other horse business articles on this blog soon.

Stallion Greeting Cards

The holiday season is coming up fast and one way to advertise your stud horse is to send out full color greeting cards or postcards with Read the rest of this entry

Now EquineAuctions.com protects it’s buyers and sellers with the Escrow.com escrow service.

EquineAuctions.com is the only Internet horse auction of its kind, has raised the bar once again by providing the safest and most secure on-line equine shopping experience with escrow service.

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Are you placing your horse business ads online?

I just read a news report stating that more people are posting their classified advertising on the Internet instead of in printed newspapers. So if you are still only posting your horses for sale in your local paper seriously reconsider the Internet as your top choice for horse ads.

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If you rely on your horses for income, you are going to have to have good marketing skills just like any other business. That’s right, horses don’t sell themselves! If you are a breeder, riding instructor, trainer, boarding facility, or horse dealer, you are going to need to reach and impress your potential customers in order to sell them your products and services. How do you do that? Just follow the steps illustrated below and you’ll be well on your way to enjoying a successful horse-related business!

1.) Know who your customers are. Who needs your products and services? If you are a training facility, then people with untrained horses need you. If you are a boarding facility, then horse owners who don’t have space at home for their horses need you. If you are a riding instructor, then your potential customers are anyone who wants to learn how to ride horses. You get the picture! A big part of making sure your horse business works is identifying your customers.

2.) Find out where your customers hang out. Where do horse people congregate? At feed and tack stores, at horse shows, at online horse-related web sites and chat rooms, to name just a few. Now break it down even further. Let’s say you are a breeder of Morgan horses. Sure, you’ll find some Morgan enthusiasts at the tack shop and feed store, but you’ll likely find them in droves at breed-specific shows. Find out what newspapers and magazines your potential customers read as well.

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A business card does no one any good in the trash can.

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Does your printed marketing products brand you as a champion?

I meet a lot of nice people over the Internet. One of them is Fred Aronowitz, a horse and business owner who discovered my horse business blog and emailed me that he liked my logo and business card designs. Fred owns ColorPrintingPros.com, a full color printing business and he feels he can offer my equestrian logo clients and site visitors a better printing deal knowing that horse people like you desire their printed items as polished, good looking, and robust as your horses.

Fred mailed me samples of his 4 color printing and WOW I am impressed – what eye candy – the colors are clean, crisp, and bright and even the tiniest text is sharp and readable. I really like the substantial feel of the cards, because of their extra thickness and the glossy coatings make the colors POP. Color Printing Pros’s standard paper stocks are heavy 14 Pt card stock with a free upgrade to 16 PT, if you wish, on all cards (except their short run specials.)

Most printing companies charge extra for these heavy card stocks and extra for coatings. Free overall UV coating is included on all card stock and free aqueous coating is included on all book and cover weight stocks. Their standard book weight stock is 100Lb gloss so you don’t need to pay for an upgrade to have your flyers and stallion sheets look and feel great.

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10 steps to a business name and or tagline you’ll be proud off

You are going to spend a ton of time, effort, and money building up your horse business to become a success you don’t want to make it harder by saddling it with a bad name.

Your business needs a name and tag line that is imaginative and memorable.

Step 1. Gather your herd:

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Get your Free equine directory listing at everything-horses.net

Everything-horses.net offers free directory listings to equine businesses and associations. Click on over to their site and complete their easy-to-use directory listing form to submit your contact information and select appropriate business categories. Your listing will be updated to the everything-horses.net online directory within 48 hours.

Everything-horses.net just opened May 1, 2007 and is an online directory in which businesses, associations, and other service providers can promote their horse-related products and services to the equine industry.

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