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Location: Bororen, Queensland, Australia

Friday, March 17, 2006

As seen in their ad in the business section

The College of Equine Dentistry Australia is located at Gunnedah in New South Wales.

The main function of the college is to educate Equine Dentists and future Equine Dentists in the correct procedures to keep the equine dentition in top condition. This in turn will alleviate any pain and suffering the equine athlete may have and allow them to perform to the best of their ability.

During the last thirty years there has been a resurgence of the art and science of equine dentistry led by lay dentists, giving greater understanding of the horse's general physical needs through care and maintenance of their teeth. continued >

Don
australasianhorsesales.com.au

Sunday, March 12, 2006

How we can help you.

The best way for us to help you is for you to help us. The way you can do that is to ask questions and make suggestions. We do not promise that all suggestions will be implemented, but we do promise that they will be looked at to see if there is merit to implementing the suggestion either straight away or at some time in the future.

You can email us at admin@australasianhorsesales.com.au with any suggestions.

You can also make comments here. Just click on comments under the post, and when the window comes up select who you want to be, even annom if you like. Then write comments and post. To post you will need to type in the text shown.

Word of mouth is still the best way to let people know about anything. If every one told only 2 of their mates, and they had a look at the site then 3 times as many people would be looking at your ads.

I am promoting the site as much as I can with the limited resources available to us, so any time you help yourself you help us all.

Have you consider placing a free wanted ad to let others know what you are looking for.

One lady placed a wanted add to buy a float. She has bought a float, but got quite a few emails offering floats. I would like to suggest that if you have a float for sale to use our site. They are all free ads.

Posters and E-books

From No 2 newsletter

Have a look at the posters and e-books available. Go to http://australasianhorsesales.com.au and then click on the menu options at the bottom of the left side.

We have selected 10 horse posters that will appear on that page, that will then lead you to a huge selection of posters. We think that they would be great gift ideas for any reason but they really suit for Christmas.

They need to come from the US, so do not leave it until the last minute to place your selection. Unlike the posters the e-books can be purchased and then down loaded straight away.

There is also a link to meet other horse people, who are single.

New Feature.

We may have been causing some confusion.

Our thanks to Les for pointing out that our wanted area was classified as non-horse and non-commercial.

That was not our intention so we will add a new category for wanted horses. Any wanted horse ads in the old area will be moved over to the new area.

They will remain as free ads.

Use the contact form under the ad if you have something that someone else wants.

Friday, March 03, 2006

Newsletter 1

NEWSLETTER 1
LATE NEWS.

As you all probably know by now we had a virus that was coming to our site. We do not believe that it has gone out to any of you but if it has please let us know.

The virus was contained in the attachment.

The e-mail came from register@, administration@, support@.

We do not use those e-mail headers.

We will not have attachments to any of our e-mails so if there is an attachment delete it straight away.

If we have information that is too big to be contained in the body of an e-mail, we will put it on the site and direct you to the page.

We have tracked the source of the virus, and do not believe that they are aware that their computer is contaminated. A lesson for us all. If you have virus protection check your system regularly.


NEWSLETTER 1

Welcome to Australasian Horse Sale’s first newsletter. We envisage this as a regular event, with some special ones as needed.

If you would like to see a regular feature please let us know, and of course what the feature would be. I don’t think I could do a crossword each edition but if you want to do one and send it in, go for it.

Tip and ideas might be a good regular. Send some in for inclusion, and I don’t mean tips like, “Be kind to your mum”.

This, the first edition, will mainly be about hints and tips on how to get the most out of your ad on the http://australasianhorsesales.com.au site. Covered in this edition, will be:
· Pictures sell.
· Advantages of using a Feature Listing.
· A copy of the Special notice sent out last week.
· The free advertisements from the e-mail New Site.
· Examples of how enquires have helped us to help you, and to improve the site.
· A reference to an ad that shows what you can do in your ad.

Please, if you have something that you would like to submit for inclusion in the newsletter, send it in to newsletter@australasianhorsesales.com.au. Even a 4-word question can promote discussion. We do not see the newsletter becoming a forum, but we do ask for submissions, and suggestions.

We do see that in the near future that we will have a bulletin Board / forum on the web site. If you would be interested in one please let us know. The more response we get the quicker it will happen. Send an e-mail to forum@australasianhorsesales.com.au.


Pictures Sell.

When you log in next time, go to the left hand side and left click on top rated.

We do not determine the rating; that is determined by the users who come on line and click on the more info logo to have an in depth look at the ads that appeal to them. You will see that the top rated ads are all picture ads. You will also see how many times the ads have been looked at.

Of cause they are horse ads and not trail riding ads, etc ads because the site is after all called http://australasianhorsesales.com.au and people are looking to either buy or sell a horse.

Of cause the number of hits does not mean that the item being sold will be sold, as that depends on lots of factors. However, the more times that your item is looked at the chances of a sale increases. The chances of a sale will increase if the potential buyer can see exactly what it is you are offering for sale.

Before my wife and daughters buy a horse online they like to see pictures of the horse from both sides and the front. The pictures can be on the site or forwarded to them in an e-mail. It does save a lot of time etc if more than one picture is available on the site they are looking at. All of Australasian Horse Sales picture ads offer the option of 3 or more pictures depending on the package you select.


Advantages of using a Feature Listing.

It just so happens that the top 3 rated ads are also Feature Listings.

They are seen more often than the other ads as they come up at the bottom of the menu on the home page. I will clarify that a bit and say that the feature listings are rotated so that every time you go to the home page at least 1 of the ads will be a different ad to the last time.

When a feature listing is selected the other feature listings in that category will be displayed directly below the ad selected. In other words it is possible for potential buyers to go and view horses in the category you have selected with out going in through the main menu. They would only be seeing featured listings.

They will also appear at the bottom of all ads in a category that has featured listings in it.

They cost $16.50 but we believe that they increase your chances of a sale.

On the left hand side of the main menu on the home page is the option feature listings to once again look at featured listings with out going through the main menu.


Special NoticeA problem with entering the price when submitting an ad was brought to my attention today.When submitting an ad, if you type the $ sign or any letters such as ono when entering the price, the price defaulted back to zero when the ad was submitted.The price box now has the $ sign before it and .00 after it. The programme only accepts numbers in the price box.If anyone had trouble attaching a price to your ad, please log in and update your ad.Sorry for any inconvenience.I would like to thank Anna MacLeay from Kareela Hill Hanoverian Horse Stud, www.kareelahill.com.au for bringing this to my attention.Gary BlaineCo-Owner

The 3 free ads available to Australian went to
· Annamac.
· J.S. and.
· Cazdan.

Two of the New Zealand free ads are gone at this stage. They went to
· Awatea18. and
· Petra.

This means that there is still 1 free ad available for someone from New Zealand.


How we can help you.

The best way for us to help you is if you help us. The way you can do that is to ask questions and make suggestions. We do not promise that all suggestions will be implemented, but we do promise that they will be looked at to see if there is merit to implementing the suggestion either straight away or at some time in the future.

As can be seen from the Special Notice your input can make changes that will improve the site for you and other users of the site. In that case highlighting why so many ads had $0.00 as the price.

One of the ways that your ad can be searched for is by price so we recommend to you all to go back in and put a $ value in as it just may get your ad looked at more often.

As the result of an enquiry about how to advertise 4 stallions and up to 40 horses for sale we have included a multi item ad. They are $22.00 and allow up to 6 pictures. As you can see with 40 horses for sale through the year 6 can be advertised at a time, and as one is sold then the next one can replace it in the ad. This information means that we do not get 40 $11.00 ads, but as we say on our Home page, our aim is to see that you keep as much of the purchase price that you can.


As an example of what you can do in an ad, go to the Real Estate section, then the agistment section and look at the ad for Premier Horse Resort.


In Finishing

We look forward to some great feedback and suggestions from you all.

Don Thompson
Co-Owner
Australasian Horse Sales