News and Announcements

Better Manage your Online Herd with New Active/Inactive Functionality

November 30, 2010

If you’ve got a large herd of alpacas for sale and advertise them through our online catalog, you may find it a challenge to manage all of those animals. To help alpaca farmers better manage their herds online, AOBA’s North American Alpaca Catalog now offers active/inactive functionality for all of its members.

Once you login to your account, you will now be able to leave alpacas on the site and simply choose to deactivate that particular listing. No longer will you have to take a listing down because a particular alpaca is not currently available.

So for example if an alpaca is pregnant and unable to be sold, you can deactivate it. Or maybe you’re shearing your animals for your current fiber harvest and want to temporarily deactivate their sales listing.

Whatever the reason, you can choose which alpacas are currently available for sale and which ones are not. Therefore, you can add your entire herd to the site and then choose which ones you’re currently interested in selling.

To check out this new exciting feature, login in to your AOBA account on the Member Services page today.

AOBA Alpacas Now Featuring One-Click Search Options on New Homepage

November 17, 2010

The mission of AOBA’s North American Alpaca Catalog is to make finding alpacas and farms as easy as possible. In that spirit, we’re proud to unveil our new homepage complete with one-click search options. Visitors will now be able to easily search for alpacas for sale as well as farms they can visit to learn more about alpaca ranching.

On the catalog’s new homepage, visitors will be able to enter their zip code and the breed, sex, color or even specific names of the animals or farms they’re looking for. Visitors will be able to further narrow their search through one simple click which will take them to a more extensive search page.

Besides the easy search options, visitors will also see a list of featured farms along with pictures of individual alpacas for sale. AOBA’s North American Alpaca Catalog combines all of the great elements of your favorite search engines to give you a one-stop resource for finding farms to visit or alpacas for sale.

Take a look at the new homepage for the North American Alpaca Catalog today and easily find your next alpaca and learn more about alpaca ranching.

Now Sync Your Alpaca Listings to Your Website at No Additional Charge!

July 20, 2010

We know you want to have one main place to manage all your alpaca listings, both on your website as well as in the AOBA North American Alpaca Catalog. And we also know not everyone can afford a premier solution. That’s why we’re introducing OnePoint Alpaca Update Lite as part of every AOBAalpacas.com subscription.

Now, at no additional charge, you can sync your alpacas to your website. OnePoint Alpaca Update lets you:

  • Display your alpaca listings at AOBAalpacas.com on your website, too.
  • Update all listings in only one spot – changes show instantly on both your website and AOBAalpacas.com!
  • OnePoint Lite is fast and easy to set up! (We’ll just email you the code you need to place in your page.)
  • Want more exposure? Want us to set it up for you? Check out OnePoint Gold!

OnePoint Gold is still available as an add-on, for those farms that want us to do the heavy lifting and optimize their alpaca pages. This unique technology helps your alpacas get double the exposure, not available anywhere else. Find out more about the advantages of OnePoint Gold for your alpacas.

May 18, 2010 – Meet us at the AOBA National Show this week

If you’re attending the AOBA National Show in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, May 20-23, come see us! We’ll be showing video highlights of the new Catalog and our online marketing services, and you’ll even have a chance to meet some of the people behind its development.

You can sign up for the Catalog right then and there, as well as get all your questions answered on the spot.

To find our booth, just look for the North American Alpaca Catalog logo on a big banner above our table.

May 17, 2010 – Now Accepting Alpacas!

We’re pleased to announce that after months of development and testing, the AOBA North American Alpaca Catalog is officially launched and ready for members to start adding alpacas!

Reserve the space for your alpacas now. You can sign up and select how many alpacas you’d like to add here: http://www.aobaalpacas.com/join.php

Whether you have a website or not, this catalog system is the one place online where you’ll want to be sure to list your alpacas. Here are just a few reasons:

We’ve taken great care to make sure alpacas in the Catalog can enjoy maximum visibility in searches both on AOBAalpacas.com and all across the Internet. Without having to hire an Internet marketing company, your alpacas and farm listing pages enjoy the potential to show up in Google, Yahoo, etc.

You can also have your alpacas synchronized to your website, too. You’ll only need to update them in one spot, and they’ll show instantly in both the Catalog and on your website.
View all features and pricing here…

Also look for an email from AOBA announcing the official launch shortly.

May 10, 2010

We're close. It's now only a matter of weeks before AOBAalpacas.com will be ready to accept full farm listings with the addition of your alpacas!

In the meantime, we’ve created a short video to give you a preview.

View video demo

You can also view features and pricing as well as the different subscription levels here. So start thinking about how many alpacas you’d like to feature from your farm!

Check back soon and watch for an email from AOBA when we open the Catalog officially!