Overview
Any alpaca breeder, regardless of farm size, can get on Openherd for FREE, list as many alpacas as they like, synchronize their Openherd sales lists to their farm website for free, and enjoy affordable, easy, effective advertising. There's no catch! So get started today!
Search-Relevant AutoAdsTM
Only on Openherd!
Someone does a search for "White Huacaya Bred Females." As they view their search results, your white huacaya bred female shows up alongside. It's what they're looking for. That's the power of search-relevant advertising!
For a small fee, we'll include your entire sales list in a pool of ads that will be placed for you based on what people are searching for. Now that's alpaca marketing made easy — and affordable!
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My Pen
Easily save the alpacas, packages, or farms you're interested in and compare them, watch their status, or use My Pen as your personal favorites shortcut list!
Site Advertising
Advertise with ease and affordability. Just upload your graphic, insert your link, and you're done.
Openherd keeps your ad costs low by not including charges for ad design services when you might not need them. If you need help with your ad design, we'll help you find a graphic designer.
Easy Messaging
Many prospects won't bother trying to contact you through a website if they have to set up an account first.
With Openherd, prospects can send secure messages directly from ANY of your sales pages without the need to create an account. It's just another way that we've made things easy for you and good for business.
Visual Statistics
Tracking how much attention your alpacas are getting is important for staying on top of what people are interested in and what you should focus your marketing efforts on.
You'll "get the picture" when you see your statistics in our easy visual format. Get quick timeframes or specify your own exact date range to see the results of your marketing efforts and determine your next move.
ListMirrorTM
Maintaining a sales list on your farm website is time-intensive and technical. With a simple update to your farm website sales pages, your Openherd sales lists will show up and automatically update when you make edits on Openherd.
It's beautifully simple, can be styled to match your website design, and best of all, it's completely FREE!
Account Dashboard
One simple login is all that's required to check on all your account activity. Get a summary of your page hit statistics, your most popular alpacas, upcoming and currently running ads, new messages, sales list and herd counts, and alerts about missing information in your sales lists.
Your own personalized Account Dashboard is where "alpaca marketing made easy" begins!
Easy Sales List Editing
We've worked hard to make powerful marketing tools easy to use while providing visitors to your pages with rich information presented in an organized, visually attractive way that makes each of your alpacas shine.
Features include:
- Edit all your info & photos on one page.
- List your alpaca as Promotional, For Lease, Trade, Auction Lot, or Fiber/Companion/Pet.
- Specify Champion/RC wins and Accoyo blood.
- Add YouTube video.
- Add graphical icons to your awards by simply typing a few characters.
- Enter unlimited fiber and other scientific data.
- Automatic image resizing and cropping.
- Re-arrange photo positions with easy drag-and-drop.
Summary
We know how valuable your time is so we've put a ton of our time into making this site powerful yet extremely easy to use. Along with all the tried and tested favorites, we've introduced many new marketing tools like keyword searching, search-relevant advertising, video, and social networking. This site is for any farm, regardless of size or marketing budget because we believe it can be this easy, this effective, and this affordable.