What will 2014 be like for your auction business?

What will 2014 be like for your business? It could be your best year ever as an auctioneer.  Great auction careers don’t happen by accident, they take hard work, flexibility, and a little luck. Here are five things to watch out for in the auction industry this...

Why Mobile Cataloging is Important for Auctioneers

Mobile Cataloging represents the next major turning point for the entire auction industry.  Mobile cataloging allows for near real time data transfer from almost anywhere.  This means a photo of an item can be viewed on a screen in seconds, or an item can be added to...

With Mobile Cataloging Live Auctions Will Never be the Same

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...

Evolution of the Auction

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....

Keeping the Auction Alive: one update at a time?

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...

Can Your Bidder Make a Decision?

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...