It’s easy to get overwhelmed when it comes to procurement. You might think your auction is doomed unless you have a killer villa in Italy, or a dinner featuring a 5-star chef.
Not true! Your benefit auction’s best items are not necessarily difficult to obtain. They just require a little observation on your part, as I point out in the video.
Watch the video below.
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About Sherry TruhlarCharity auction educator and onstage auctioneer, helping schools and nonprofits across the USA plan more profitable benefit auctions. Her galas raise $15,000 to $2 million each and she’s sold at events with crowds up to 1200. A prolific writer for her own blog and other fundraising sites, her advice is tapped by thousands of auction planners seeking to improve their benefit auctions. She’s been covered in Town & Country Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Auctioneer, and other publications.
When “done right,” the results from raffles can be breathtaking! Join this webinar to learn how to select, structure, and sell the most profitable raffles for your gala for the least amount of work.
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For the first time EVER the Haverford School hired a professional charity auctioneer for our annual fundraising gala. Now we can’t imagine doing it any other way.
Sherry was absolutely awesome from the moment we first contacted her through the final wrap-up one week after the Gala was over. Despite the fact that we have been doing this for years, we learned so much from her.
By following her recommendations, we not only netted more from our event, we had a more professionally run and FUN event that has people enthused about next year. Sherry infused our event with much needed new energy, new ideas and new ways to raise funds for our cause! We MORE than got our money’s worth with Red Apple Auctions.
P.S. The auctioneer assistants that Sherry brought with her to the event were superb and helped us exceed our goal for the raffle – an unexpected and added bonus.
Sue Ellen Cummins & Sara Jones Biden, Co-Chairs of the Haverford School 2012 Gala
Haverford School (Haverford, PA)
