Thinking of having a fall sale

[JRapp]

I was thinking of possibly having a private treaty sale this fall.  My goal is to sell the top 10-12 and average around $800-$1000.  Right now I have a very small advertising budget (whatever I can shake out of the couch!). I plan on getting a web site up and putting up fliers at MO/IA/IL state fairs and mailing/emailing some. Anyone have any good ideas or suggestions on what I can do or not do, to make this venture not a complete flop?

Thanks,
Justin Rapp

 

[ZNT]

I was thinking of possibly having a private treaty sale this fall.  My goal is to sell the top 10-12 and average around $800-$1000.  Right now I have a very small advertising budget (whatever I can shake out of the couch!). I plan on getting a web site up and putting up fliers at MO/IA/IL state fairs and mailing/emailing some. Anyone have any good ideas or suggestions on what I can do or not do, to make this venture not a complete flop?

Thanks,
Justin Rapp

I would advertise on the classifieds on steerplanet and other free cattle sites.

 

[trademark]

Why not have a sale?  Everyone else is.

 

[DTW]

I would say the biggest thing to having a successful sale is to have some dam good calves that people will talk about and then others will come look.

There are alot of sales out there but if you have the good ones and a reputation of raising some good ones in the past people will come.  Get good pictures or videos of the calves.  And make sure they are good. 

 

[trademark]

I would say the biggest thing to having a successful sale is to have some dam good calves that people will talk about and then others will come look.

There are alot of sales out there but if you have the good ones and a reputation of raising some good ones in the past people will come.  Get good pictures or videos of the calves.  And make sure they are good. 

come on.  a real salesman will have a damn good sale with cattle that suck.    (dog)    do you have a marketing degree?

 

[DTW]

Probably got more of a degree than you do.  You seem pretty mouthy on this board.

What makes you such an expert?  You have a sale or raise anything that has won something?

 

[trademark]

Probably got more of a degree than you do.  You seem pretty mouthy on this board.

What makes you such an expert?  You have a sale or raise anything that has won something?

I am a friend of Larry Anderson.

 

[ranch4profit]

I would say the biggest thing to having a successful sale is to have some dam good calves that people will talk about and then others will come look.

There are alot of sales out there but if you have the good ones and a reputation of raising some good ones in the past people will come.  Get good pictures or videos of the calves.  And make sure they are good. 

Who do you get to take your pictures and videos?

 

[herefordfootball]

You can have all the advertising and marketing skills in the world but if you dont have a good product people will NOT come to your sale, and if they do, dont expect to get a good price for your animal. A website is a pretty expensive venture, if I were you, I'd try putting your calves for sale on here in the classifieds. Get them clipped out, get some good pics and maybe a little video.

 

[ZNT]

Websites do not have to be an expensive venture, but it can get very expensive if you hire all the work out, and make updates frequently. Our site costs us $11 per year total. And we can update it every day if we want for free.

Good clipping and great pictures are the most important thing to get people to your place.

 

[savaged]

Websites do not have to be an expensive venture, but it can get very expensive if you hire all the work out, and make updates frequently. Our site costs us $11 per year total. And we can update it every day if we want for free.

Good clipping and great pictures are the most important thing to get people to your place.

What is your website?

 

[herefordfootball]

That is true ZNT. If you make your own website it can be extremely cheap. It may not be as flashy as a prof. designed one, but it will get the job done none the less. Its when you start advertising your website that gets expensive, putting it on showsteers or clubcalves, BUT you can put it on here and cattle.com and get a fair amount of traffic for FREE.

I'd like to thank Jason for putting up the breeder links, and Jeff Schroder(sorry if I mispelled your last name) for allowing websites to be submitted for free. You website will appear on cattle.com under the "updated sites" sections when an update is put on it. I've noticeds a large increase of traffic on our website when we put an update on it since its been on cattle.com, instead of just showsteers.

 

[ZNT]

Websites do not have to be an expensive venture, but it can get very expensive if you hire all the work out, and make updates frequently. Our site costs us $11 per year total. And we can update it every day if we want for free.

Good clipping and great pictures are the most important thing to get people to your place.

What is your website?

Our website is www.zntcattle.com.  We use Blogger to create the website, and use Godaddy for our web address.

 

[linnettejane]

webs.com is free!  can't get any cheaper than that...under each calf's pic, create a link to a youtube channel with all your video's, or directly to that calf's video...by storing the video's on youtube instead of your webpage, your webpage will stay free (you only get so much space for free, but it would be enough to put pics of the calves on, just probably not pics and video)...youtube channels are free also!  its a free, free situation!

then post like crazy on steerplanet and any other free site you can find!