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What goes Silent?
What goes Live?
Pre-auction
strategy session
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Want Kathy's energy & experience
to motivate your board, your volunteers, your staff,
your auction committee?
Is your organization brand new
to auctions?
...or despite years of experience, have your fundraising
auction revenues plateaued?
We work with your auction committee,
board of directors, development staff, executive director,
and auctioneer
on the phone or in person.
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"Kathy's strategies to increase
audience participation and boost revenue are
truly impressive. We far exceeded our financial
goal."
Joan Parker, Board of Directors
New Repertory Theatre, MA
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BRAND NEW TO AUCTIONS?
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Don't want to reinvent the wheel? |
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Make sure it's a success from the
get-go |
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Never done an auction before, and
want to learn and no stress |
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I want this to look like we've
been doing this for 10 years |
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Do you know that there's a right way to hold
a fundraising auction, and you want the secrets?
back to the
top...
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"You are a genius. We just had
our auction and used some of the things we learned
from you. It was hugely successful! Everybody was
totally totally amazed. "
Sydney Voghel Ochs
Development Director
Mattatuck Museum, CT
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AUCTION
REVENUE PLATEAUED?
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Is your revenue stuck? |
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Has your event become boring? |
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Do guests leave before the end? |
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Are guests distracted, and not bidding? |
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Does your event drag on and on? |
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Make too little money for all the effort you put
into it?
back to the top...
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You know there's a better way... and we can guide
you to it, easily!
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WHAT DOES KATHY CONSULT ON?
Kathy is available to consult on any and all aspects of
your fundraising auction.
Recent clients have brought her in on these topics:
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How
does
Auction Consulting
work?
We work with your executive team, auction team, and
auctioneer on the phone or in person.
We offer two packages for phone consulting, and two
packages for in-person consulting.
If you'd like to first book an hour on the phone,
the rate for a one-hour consultation is $300.
Contact
Kathy
for details at
kathy@kingston
auction.com or
603-926-1919
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"Thanks Kathy for
starting me on the right path to planning our first auction."
Lisa Hergenrother
Habitat for Humanity, MA
"These concepts work!"
Tracy LaPlante
The Met, NH
"I am working on my
seventh annual auction here at the Waldo County Transportation
Program. Our auctions have always been successful thanks
to the excellent training I and my staff have received provided
by national auction award winner, Kathy Kingston."
Ed Murphy
Waldo County
Transportation
Program
Belfast, Maine
"You have created
a veritable avalanche of success and well-being to summer
stages dance! I cannot thank you enough for your wise and
seasoned guidance..."
Diane Fielder
Chairman Summer
Stages Dance
"Kathy took our auction
to new heights by training our volunteers and staff... Kingston
Auction Company has provided great support to our staff
and volunteers in growing our event over the past three
years."
Jon Zasada
Assistant Chief Executive Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral
Alaska
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Strategies to increase profits in
any economy |
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What items sells best |
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How do I best run a silent auction |
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Put more power bidders in your audience |
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Empower your board to raise more money |
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How to hire a professional auctioneer |
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Imbed cultivation and advanced fundraising
strategies into your auction |
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Best ways to conduct a "Fund an
Item" appeal |
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Auction logistics and forms |
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CUSTOM WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
Contact Kathy to design a personalized program for
your organization
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OTHER CONSULTING CLIENTS HAVE ASKED
FOR HELP IN THESE AREAS:
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Key Profit Centers for Benefit
Auctions
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Proven ways to increase profits in any
economy |
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Empower your board to raise more money |
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How to hire a professional auctioneer |
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Imbed cultivation and advanced fundraising
strategies into your auction |
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Best ways to conduct a "Fund an
Item" appeal |
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Audience Development & Empowerment
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Strategies to fill your venue with Power
Bidders |
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Techniques to increase and elevate bidder
participation |
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Cultivate new donors and sponsors |
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Sponsorship benefits and involvement |
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Item Acquisition
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Ideas for high-yield silent and live
auction items |
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Top selling items - what items sells
best! |
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Avoid these 3 categories of auction items |
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Items solicitation techniques and coaching |
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Innovative Money Making Ideas
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Fund a need strategies and methods |
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Nine new creative revenue streams |
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Creative interactive activities that
boost revenue |
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Best practices from across the country
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Maximum Impact Marketing
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Create a dynamic climate for giving |
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Connect your guest to your cause |
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Marketing materials and catalog review |
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Auction catalogs that make money |
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Auction Design and Planning
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Auction profit forecasting and budgeting |
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Effective auction committees and job
descriptions |
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Volunteer, board and staff training |
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Timing, structure and show flow to maximize
revenues |
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Sound and lighting specifications |
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Tour auction venue to recommend layout
and set up |
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Live and Silent Auctions
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Proper sequencing of live auction items
and bid increments |
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How to best run a silent auction |
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Selection of silent and live items |
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Pre-bidding and absentee bidding |
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Silent auction bidding systems |
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Silent auction guaranteed bidding |
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Silent auction set up and display |
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Live auction staging and display |
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Forms and Procedures
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Silent and live auction forms |
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Streamlined registration and cashiering |
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Auction logistics and forms |
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Evaluation
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Strategic analysis of auction revenues
and procedures |
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Mine your auction data now |
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Pre and post-auction evaluation |
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Lights, Camera, Auction!
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Add entertainment and fun |
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Multi-media approaches |
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Orchestrate music and entertainment into
the auction |
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New Technology
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Benefit auction software |
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Express check out and credit card processing |
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Online registration and payment systems |
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Online bidding systems |
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Training & Coaching
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Volunteers, board and staff, sponsors,
auction committees |
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CUSTOM WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
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Contact Kathy to design a personalized
program for your organization |
AND MUCH MORE...
Kathy also offers innovative training
and coaching for professional auctioneers to master advanced
techniques to conduct successful benefit auctions. Please
call Kathy at 603-926-1919 or email kathy@kingstonauction.com.
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