Maximizing Benefit Auction Revenue

Successful fundraising can be reduced to a few fundamental elements: quality auction items, prominent donors, a professional benefit auctioneer, and optimizing key event night components.

Join Auctionpay's Kristin Barton and Terri Walker of Walker Benefit Auctions to learn how to achieve higher revenue, avoid pitfalls, and streamline processes for maximum results. They will share the best practices and strategies they've learned at hundreds of benefit auctions, plus new approaches to help survive and even thrive, despite national economic woes.

At this seminar, you will learn:

• How to procure quality auction items
• Audience development: who to invite and how to do it
• Why a benefit auctioneer is a smart investment
• The four steps to maximizing revenue
• New trends in fundraising auctions
• How to achieve smooth event flow from check-in to check-out

Wednesday, October 22 - Louisville, KY
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Registration begins 30 minutes prior to start time.

Location: 

Churchill Downs
700 Central Ave
Louisville, KY 40208

Breakfast will be provided.

Presenters

Terri Walker, BAS, of Walker Benefit Auctions, has exceptional auctioneering abilities that have won her several awards, including First Runner Up in the National Auctioneers Association International Bid Calling Contest and Grand Champion in the Tennessee Auctioneers Association Bid Calling Contest. She has served as Chair of the Tennessee Auctioneers Commission and a graduate of the Certified Auctioneers Institute and has completed the Benefit Auctioneer Specialist program. Her company helps charities raise over $12 million annually through their benefit auctions. Terri has a B.S. and M.A. degrees in education and was an instructor at the Missouri Auction School, the world's largest auction school. She has worked with charities in the United States, Canada, and the US Virgin Islands.

Kristin Barton, Area Marketing Manager, Auctionpay, has worked with hundreds of non-profits and schools during her four years at Auctionpay. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience in running smooth and effective event registration and check-out stations and streamlining auction logistics. Kristin's working relationship with the auctioneers and event planners in her region has resulted in a personal database of many unique and effective auction "tips and tricks" that can maximize nonprofits and schools' fundraising potential.