Author:
Daniel P. West
On:
November 26, 2019
Categories:
Auction Marketing,
Best Auction Practices,
AuctionMethod
While managing the @EveryAuction Twitter account, I came across @DoeandHope, which is the handle for Doe & Hope, a seller of rare and unusual antiques. Although they are based in the historic medieval village of Blunham, England, they have managed to...
More Favorable Context A feature of online-only internet auctions that is easily missed is the big difference in context between internet auctions and traditional open-outcry events. No matter how much time and energy the auctioneer puts into presenting items...
Lot-sizes are one of the key decisions affecting the outcome of an auction. Small lot-sizes tend to induce bidder competition and yield higher selling prices, particularly when dealing with a variety of assets and those that appeal to wide audience. However,...
WordPress uses a concept of Roles, designed to give the site owner the ability to control what users can and cannot do within the site. A site owner can manage the user access to such tasks as writing and editing posts, creating Pages, defining links,...
Software as a service, otherwise known as SaaS, is fast becoming a popular choice for businesses when it comes to setting up applications for all to use over the internet. Since the concept of SaaS is a little abstract to grasp, let’s elaborate a little about...
Episode #15 of the AuctioneerTech Podcast, hosted by Aaron Traffas from PurpleWave, was a conversation on Google Hangouts with Russ Hilk from WaveBid, Dwayne Leslie from Global Auction Guide, and myself. We discussed the different marketing services each of...
For a variety of reasons, sellers often seek to protect their interests at auction by specifying a predetermined price that bidders must reach before the auctioneer is allowed to sell. Sometimes that price is known to bidders as a minimum opening bid. In...
The consignor feature has been upgraded. Following is a description of the changes. The upgrade is optional. If you would like to use it, here are the changes you will see. 1. There is a new interface for managing consignors that you can access via a...
We have been updating our reporting features, as you may have noticed. So far we have updated the reports Auctions, Invoices, and Auction Customers. This was our first pass at these. We will be fine tuning the new reports as time goes by so if you have any...
The re-seller certificate functionality has been improved with the following changes on the admin tab of user accounts. This new functionality is optional, so if you would prefer to continue using the current system, just let me know. After you enter a tax...