Alpacas Marketing

Julie's guidance with marketing has been a strong contributing factor to our success in the alpaca business. She's always there when we need her marketing advice and assistance. Her expertise has been a tremendous asset to us. 

Ernest Kellogg, Double "O" Good Alpacas, Gainesville, Virginia

Julie Wassom is known as the alpaca marketing lady. She is President of The Julian Group, Inc., a training and consulting firm with a specialty in alpacas marketing and sales. Her practical ideas work to help alpaca breeders increase sales opportunities, profitability, and the image of their farms and animals.

Julie's interest in livestock began when she was a young girl living on a farm in Iowa, showing 4-H calves at local fairs and national stock shows. As she prepared to be a featured speaker at the 1994 AOBA Conference, she became "hooked" on alpacas. She has been involved with the alpaca industry ever since, as a marketing consultant to individual breeders, a contributing writer for Alpacas Magazine, and a speaker for AOBA, regional affiliates, and breeder educational seminars.

A few years ago, Julie bought her daughter, Elizabeth, a male pet alpaca that she showed in 4-H and other alpaca performance shows. Julie and Elizabeth prefer alpacas over other livestock because "You don't have to kill them and they don't kill you."

When she's not working directly with alpaca associations or individual breeders who own alpacas, Julie is producing marketing and sales training resources for the industry, including her books Marketing Alpacas: Tools for Getting Startedand 101 Ways to Market and Sell Your Alpacas, and a series of Special Reports on marketing and selling alpacas.  She also authors the FREE monthly e-zine, "Wassom's Marketing Wisdom," to which you may subscribe by Clicking Here.