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The Ideal Alpaca Community is a collective effort that is intended to create the maximum opportunity for profitable farms and herds for individual members.

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Marketing Objectives

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Marketing Objectives The Ideal Alpaca Community recognizes the power of the Internet to market alpacas. Each member realizes the value of educating their clients and doing their level best to see that the people who buy their alpacas have the information necessary to succeed in the alpaca business. The IAC web site and the scientific tools and principles behind it provide members the ability to offer customers the opportunity to join the Ideal Alpaca Community and start breeding superior suri and huacaya alpacas.

The community created by the IAC and Studmaster male program and this website allow each of the members to profit from fellow breeder’s knowledge and success in the alpaca business. Each breeder-member is intent on the success of fellow community participants. The importance of community is manifest in many ways:

  1. The members share genetics through the common ownership of males and the availability of breeding stock from community members.
  2. The sharing of knowledge through the website’s chat room, educational seminars, and promotional events.
  3. The belief in, and sharing of, common ideas of alpaca excellence which will lead to the creation of an ideal breed of alpacas which will be recognized by the marketplace as superior.
  4. The collective promotion of members’ farms and alpacas.

The ideal alpaca network is a collective effort that is intended to create the maximum opportunity for profitable farms and elite herds for the individual members.

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