VIDEO: Auction Procurement Idea: Holiday Trees to Increase Your Benefit Auction Profits

If you’re holding a late November or December benefit auction, a holiday tree is a great addition to your live or silent auction procurement strategy.

PODCAST: Auction Procurement Idea: Holiday Trees to Increase Your Benefit Auction Profits

In this podcast, Sherry Truhlar encourages groups with late-in-the-year auctions to add a holiday tree to the auction procurement strategy.

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Auction Procurement Idea: Holiday Trees to Increase Your Benefit Auction Profits

If you’re holding a late November or December benefit auction, a holiday tree is a great addition to your live or silent auction procurement strategy.

“Demolishing” the idea that you need a glamorous charity auction item

Getting to legally crash a car again and again is worth paying for. One auction bidder paid $3000 to give his son the chance to wreck a car in a demolition derby. Here’s the story, and some ideas on making it work for your charity auction.

Great charity auction donations come from those “doing it anyway.”

If you ask people to share something they already love doing, it’s easier to procure items for your charity auction. Here’s a couple of ideas to get you started with your auction acquisitions.

About last night… More proof these auction ideas work!

On the spur of the moment, a Red Apple Auctions consulting client is motivated to ask for a sponsorship for her public school auction. And it worked!

PODCAST – Auction Procurement Tip: Use Your Location to Help Make Connections to Celebrities

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Auction Procurement Tip: Use Your Location to Help Make Connections to Celebrities

Many groups seek a celebrity item for their gala. Here are four ideas on how to connect with a celebrity by virtue of “where you are.”

Silent auction item or live auction item: Does it matter where it’s sold?

What is the difference between selling an auction item in a live auction versus a silent auction? The way it’s marketed and the final sales price. This post gives an example of how one item fared.

Proof of silent auction ideas that work: Revisiting Printer’s Plates

Newspaper printer’s plates make for interesting silent auction items at your benefit auction fundraiser. Here’s an example of what they can look like.