Auction Description
Benefit Auction Seminar for Non-Profit Gala Planners! THURSDAY, AUGUST 17TH, 10am to 2pm, at Wickliff Auctioneers' Carmel gallery.. Darin Lawson, CAI/BAS, will present best practices, tips and strategies for guiding your guests into greater giving! $20pp includes lunch, and each registrant gets a chance for a $500 donation to your 501c or 501c(3) charity!
A few of the topics to be covered:
- Venue selection- why it matters
- Date selection- why it matters
- Demographics of volunteers and financial supporters...are they different?
- Procument of items- it takes a village! And, a plan...
- What Items Belong in Live Auction?
- Pre-Event Communication- do you??
- Live Auction psychology and presentation
- Silent Auction psychology and presentation; use Buy Now?
- How to Present the Giving Opportunity (Fund-a-Need, Ask, Fund the Mission...)
- Using electronic bidding services
- Turning sponsors into Partners!
- Communicating your mission
- Run-of-Show and Agenda recommendations- avoiding the 20-minute speech!
- Revenue enhancers, games, raffles
And much, much more...
