Mobile cataloging allows auctioneers to photograph and display on screens every item being sold in close to real time. Using a mobile device like a phone or tablet, auction staff can wirelessly transmit photos and descriptions. This means auctioneers can now...
Attending an auction at the Sheraton West Hotel. Just the idea sounds old-fashioned… I am a product of my generation: an intern at a software start-up who uses pictures to supplement his blog posts because words just don’t do it anymore for kids like him....
Ask me a year ago if I would ever work for a software company, and I would have shook my head vigorously. Sell my soul to technology? Never. But in the antiqued light of the Sheraton ballroom, I can’t help but feel that companies like Wavebid- far from...
Every item you list in an online auction should include all the information a buyer needs to make a decision. What is that information, you ask? Keep reading. Here’s what I have learned after selling over $50,000,000 in online auctions. 1) Detailed...
I’m in the unique position of speaking candidly to auctioneers about their business. One of the frustrating parts of my job is talking to very successful people about their very unsuccessful website. The purpose of a website is to showcase your business. The...
(8) Ways to Charge Auction Expenses Running a successful auction business requires many things. There are marketing expenses, travel expenses, labor expenses just to name a few. Tracking expenses and billing them correctly is an important part of the auction...
