VeeKast’s Post

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I have a professional auctioneer. Do your funding need or live auction? I know this is offered me asking you that you're professional, but why should someone? Why would they want to have a professional auctioneer instead of doing it otherwise? Well, this is your biggest moment of your entire year. This is your biggest fundraising event and you want to set it up for success. Just like with all the time and all the energy and all the dollar investment that goes into the event. You're going to hire a great caterer. You're going to find a great venue. You're going to have a great production team like Vcast. And, and you have all these great elements that are built in there. Why would you risk the success of your event with an amateur? That's like, alright, well, I'm funny. I can talk on a microphone. I, you know, told the, the speech at my brother's wedding. I, you know, I could totally do this or, or someone that, you know, it, maybe even a celebrity or a newscaster. They're on TV a lot and a lot of times that they're scripted within that and are, are don't have that experience to be able to be in such an impromptu situation. But it's that experience that really can set you all up for success because you know that that professional someone that like me, I eat, sleep and breathe a fundraising that I do know how to manage those different situations that come into that. There's been an opportunity where we started at $10,000 and someone gave $100,000 gift. And you have to know how to manage that as well too. It's like, all right, well, everybody in the audience is like, oh, they got 100 grand. We don't need to, you know, raise our paddles anymore. They've got enough money, but it's been having that. Conversation with the donor in the moment, in that, in that time of fundraising to be like, should we stop? And they're like, no, keep going, keep going. So it's being able to pivot, it's being able to move. It's being able to say the right things at the right time to create that inspiration and to have that knowledge of the mission and to have that knowledge of the impact that the gifts are are having. But then also being able to read the room and and know when to say when, like, OK, this is enough at this level. I can feel it. Let's move on to the next. Or if we have that Spidey sense and we know that there is other people. That are going to be able to give in the big ask or having the experience and the knowledge like I've got 10,000 hours behind a microphone working at different auctions and able to read the body language of the different bidders and the different buyers and the different, you know, individuals that are participating within that. Knowing when to say when or knowing when to push a little bit more or what to say to get that individual to say yes to that, to the whatever that next bid is. And that all comes from experience just like anything like, you know, you've got to. Find a great quarterback for your football team. I mean, you're not going to put the rookie that just, you know, came, you know, came on the field for the first time. Or maybe they've thrown a football in the backyard or maybe they watched a YouTube video. Ohh, I could do that. I watched a YouTube video on how to do that. But why would you risk your biggest night of the year, your biggest fundraiser of the year and you know, 10s, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to an amateur that could, what I like to say, make the record scratch where everybody's like. Did he really just say that? And it happens all the time. That's my passion and that's my purpose in life is to help organizations make their events better. And that will be one of the biggest things that you could ever do to make your event better. Is hiring a professional MC, a professional fundraiser, a professional auctioneer, someone that knows how to do this. It's a specialty, very, very small micro niche. And if you need somebody, let me know. I'll make an introduction. I know who's.