Introducing PacaPages.com

We are PacaPages.com (Ron & Liz Beckman), a web design and Internet market company, that we run out of our home in the rural mountain town of Florence, Colorado. We are also Phantom Canyon Alpacas, and have a small herd of huacaya and suri alpacas and a farm yarn and gift store. This blog is to share our alpaca raising and marketing experience with anyone who might be interested in either!

Our Alpaca Herd

Right now we have a very small herd of our own and we are agisting alpacas for a couple of other people; we've had alpacas since January of 2000. The alpaca market is going strong and has been for about two decades now. People have a passion for these exotic critters with fantastic fleece. I absolutely love the fleece and the terrific blankets, shawls, hats, gloves, suits, wall hangings, rugs, and more that can be created from it. I can't imagine buying synthetic yarn when you can use alpaca. View our alpaca farm wesite.

Selling Alpacas

So far, we've been able to run a profitable alpaca breeding business using email/Internet marketing and a website alone, with no postal mailings to date. The use of the Internet significantly reduces marketing costs when it costs between 55 cents and a dollar per page to print color flyers, not to mention postage. Find out about our email marketing service: http://www.pacapages.com/email-ads.htm

You can list your alpacas for sale on the Internet for as little as $40 per year. Check out http://www.alpacaseller.com/ This service lets you post as many alpacas and herdsires as you want for only $40/year. They also offer a very nice and sophisticated website integration tool that allows you to integrate your alpacaseller listings into your personal website. So that any updates you make to your alpacas for sale (which you can edit and maintain yourself) will appear on your website pages.

AlpacaNation.com also offers an online database service of alpacas for sale and herdsires, plus a whole lot of other complementary services like brokers, fiber processors, transporters and more.

Raising and Breeding Alpacas

It turns out that it is just as fun as I'd hoped and imagined when thinking about living on a farm and raising animals. They are gentle, beautiful, easy to care for and so rewarding.

We're gathering inventory for our farm store. We have a bit of it available in our online store

That's all I have time for now, but I would welcome any questions!