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We provide the best fundraising consultants
for your charity auctions!
DiNardo
& Lord Auctioneers
believe that our charity auction client’s
fundraising consultant and event planning experiences should be
enjoyable and rewarding. Our
professional fundraising consultants and benefit
auctioneers will
provide you and your organization with innovative fundraising ideas and
the expertise
you need to enhance your benefit auctions creative process,
design, focus,
and fundraising event revenue. Our fundraising consultants will provide
you
with the nation's best fundraising help and tools for effective time
management in reducing pre-event
stress,
enhancing team productivity, and ensuring your ability to meet
established
deadlines
regarding your successful charity auction event.
Please
call us today for a
copy of our Auction Services Packages. In addition to our auction
services package, DiNardo & Lord Auctioneers offers additional
benefit auction consulting service packages outlined below. We are
happy to
draft a detailed
proposal, custom tailored to your specific fundraising event's
requirements.
Fundraising
Consultant Services
Why conduct charity auctions? Statistics
have proven that any successful fundraising event that incorporates a
live auction can realize two-thirds (67%) of the fundraising
event’s income
from just the benefit auction alone! The other one-third of the
fundraising event's total income is based upon the combined revenue
totals from the event's sponsorship, ticket sales, silent auctions,
raffles, and all
other revenue generating devices that are used at your
fundraising
event.
Before our clients begin to utilize our
fundraising consultant, event planner and charity auctioneer services
as provided in our Auction
Services Package, we help them to identify terrific themes and
fundraising ideas in setting realistic goals
for their fundraising auction. As professional benefit auctioneers and
fundraising
consultants, we don't tell your organization or committee what to do.
Instead, we will
provide you with many options, the best fundraising help, and our
experience proven
solutions in helping you overcome the challenges facing you and your
fundraising event. Our job as successful fundraising consultants is to
remove the obstacles lying
in your path,
which in
return fosters a greater flow of creative energy from within your
committee. If you have not
already received our Auction Services
Package, outlining the benefits of our fundraising
consulting, please call us today and we will send it to you right away.
Guest
Development
Guest Development is all about
attracting the appropriate bidder demographic to your
fundraising event. Everything from event theme, fundraising ideas,
event marketing,
event promotions, and
sponsorship are
discussed in this seminar in helping your nonprofit organization or
charity to not only
achieve, but exceed its
financial goals in creating the most
impressive and profitable charity auction or benefit auction
recognized in your
community. This seminar is for those organizations wishing to propel
their locally acknowledged fundraising auction event into a regionally
or
even nationally recognized
fundraising auction event.
Why pay public relations, marketing, or
advertising firms to do what we can teach you through this Guest
Development consulting package at a
fraction of the cost? From the kick-off meeting through
your charity auctions event’s
debriefing meeting,
we will be there for you every step of the way. Once again, your
satisfaction is our mission and goal.
Benefit
Auction Staff Training Clinics
Our Benefit Auction Staff Training Clinics
are nationally recognized as providing some of the best fundraising
consulting available to the non-profit sector. This seminar
will
provide your development and volunteer staff with the individual job
descriptions and
in depth training your volunteer staff needs to confidently undertake
the
responsibilities and duties of
their assigned positions at the charity auction. Our half-day or
full-day Benefit Auction Staff Training Clinics will provide
training for all of the live auction support positions such as ring men
(bid spotters), auction clerk, cashiers (bidder registration, data
entry, & check out personnel), runners, models (hosts), silent
auction table monitors, auction property manager, security, etc.
Specialized personnel training for wine events and wine handling or
support positions can also provided by our sommeliers and wine
education staff if your event requires such
services.
The return on your investment for the
training clinic will be noticed in the thousands of
dollars that your
organization will save each year, rather than contracting these
services
through charity auction companies. However, if you
decide you would rather have
the convenience of these services being provided to your organization
by experienced
fundraising consultants, event planners and or charity auctioneers,
instead of your volunteer
or paid
staff, then DiNardo & Lord Auctioneers will gladly
provide these auction support services for your event.
Event
Planning, Event Management & Charity Auction Design
This fundraising consulting service is
offered to
organizations desiring to further develop their fundraising ideas and
the theme of
the benefit auctions from
the
grass roots beginnings. Our event planners, fundraising consultants and
charity auctioneers will assist your staff to further
enhance your existing charity
auction event in
catapulting it to
its next level of evolution. We provide you with advanced fundraising
help including setting realistic goals, creating event timelines,
forming your
committees, developing budgets, event planning, overseeing venue
logistics, reviewing save
the date notices, creating guest invitations, editing auction
catalogs, and many other aspects involved in the design of
your
fundraising auction.
Benefit
Auction & Fundraiser
Evaluation
What are your benefit auction and
fundraiser
strengths and
weaknesses? Your organization will receive the answers to those who, what, when, where, why, and how
questions in this fundraising consulting service package. Your
fundraising event and charity auction will benefit
significantly from our professional event evaluation when you
ultimately discover what has really worked, as well as what has gone
wrong.
Our experienced event planners, fundraising
consultants and charity auctioneers will provide you with
appropriate critical feedback and fundraising consulting you need. You
will
receive innovative fundraising ideas and relevant
insider information pertinent to your fundraiser and event's celebrity
charity auction. Lastly, a list of the
necessary corrections, outlined in detail, to remedy those problem
areas will be provided as well as an assessment of your fundraising
event's
strengths.
Procurement Development
Perhaps the most requested consulting
service DiNardo & Lord Auctioneers
offers! Our clients are always asking us where they can find this,
that, or the other thing for their benefit auctions. Through our
Procurement Development fundraising consultant service, our charity
auctioneers will help you create and
develop an
ongoing procurement program for your organization.
We will teach you and your staff how
to successfully solicit and procure donations from not only within
your community, but outside of your community as well. You will be
taught specific
techniques from our fundraising consultants and benefit auctioneers in
learning how to navigate
through the “ins
and outs” in successfully procuring donations for your
fundraising event. You will
become adept at overcoming potential donor objections by selling the
benefits
and value of your nonprofit organization in soliciting donor's
contributions,
unique items, sponsorships,
and
possibly endowments. Our “Win Win”
strategy
is revealed in creating your procurement development program.
Once your new Procurement Development
program is created and successfully implemented within your
organization, we
transition into the role of coach and or mentor in assisting our
charity auction clients
further. Our clients ultimately manage their successful program.
Silent
Auction & Raffle Design
During a silent auction typically only 25%
of
the total
audience will render a bid of any kind during this fundraiser! It is
only 5%
to 10% of the
total bidders in the audience that makes up your benefit
auction’s
most viable bidders. Do the
other
75% of those non-participants in your charity auctions audience have
money to spend? How do you coax these
individuals
into
contributing more
money other than the ticket price? This fundraising consulting package
provides your organization with
a comprehensive
overview of both the silent auction and raffle programs that will be
created and implemented as a bidder alternative aside from the live
auction at your fundraising event.
This fundraising consultant service will
teach you how
to design a successful silent auction
and learn how to avoid the common pitfalls normally experienced by
others. Your silent auction’s success will be guaranteed by using our
time proven
strategies and techniques.
In addition to the creation of a highly effective silent auction,
DiNardo
& Lord Auctioneers will design an extremely profitable raffle
program for your non-profit organization as a supplement to the benefit
auction.
Basic state laws are discussed relating to raffles and other gaming
programs. Other revenue generating devices are also discussed and
developed for use in your fundraising event. You will learn how to tap
into your own creativity in designing an outstanding silent auction and
raffle program.
Wine
Auction Design
Have you ever considered a charity wine
auction?
Wine is one of the most searched words on the internet today! Wine
crosses socio-economic, cultural, religious, and political
barriers. As a result of their increasing popularity and record setting
financial results,
charity wine auctions are currently
creating their own unique niche within the charity auction
industry.
In addition to being a respected wine
educator and wine writer Tom DiNardo is ranked as one of the nation's
"Top 4" wine auctioneers. To date he Tom is the only auctioneer in the
United States who has earned his sommelier diplomate credential. Tom
had a previous career in the wine industry and today he is recognized
as one of the
nations pioneering charity wine auctioneers. DiNardo & Lord
Auctioneers has earned their place, as one of only ten expertly
qualified fundraising auction firms, out of 35,000 professional
benefit auctioneers in the live auction industry today that truly
possesses the expertise
required in conducting
charity
wine
auctions. That's less than 1/2,000th of one percent of the total
charity auction industry in the United States that is
providing this
extremely rare service
to the public. Of
those truly qualified wine auctioneers, most are employed by the
major auction
houses. Tom DiNardo's expertise in wine will help
you to create a powerful event and terrific guest experience.
DiNardo & Lord Auctioneers Wine Auction
Design consulting service insures that our clients will avoid many of
the common mistakes that
other non-profit organizations often make while attempting to create a
charity
wine auction event. If revenue is important to you and
your
organization, then you will be thrilled with the results delivered by
our sommeliers and wine educators. You will effectively learn to create
and design
a spectacular wine auction and wine event experience that will break
all previous fundraising auction records achieved by your nonprofit
organization. This fundraising consultant service instructs our clients
in the
importance of the creation of event theme, vendor and sponsorship
solicitation, wine cellaring, sommelier services, wine education,
frommagier services,
chef services, gourmet food selection,
and wine auction procurement services. We will also consult with our
clients regarding the
basic local legal
requirements for wine auctions and wine events in your state.
If you are still looking for a qualified
charity wine auctioneer, then administer the following simple test to
assess
your wine auctioneer candidate’s
qualifications: (1) Ask the benefit auctioneer to pronounce the name of
the
wines you plan on selling in your charity wine auction. (2) Ask your
charity auctioneer candidate
what wine auctions they have presided over without the assistance of an
MC or sommelier. (3) Ask your fundraising auctioneer to describe a
wine's vintage,
the grape varietals,
terroir, etc. (4) Ask your auctioneer what appeals most to them about
their favorite wine or winery and why.
Ring
Man (Bid Spotter)
Services
A professional Ring Man, also known as a
Bid Spotter to
those outside of the charity auction industry, is typically a seasoned
benefit auctioneer. The Ring Man works on the floor (the Ring) as an
extension of the presiding charity auctioneers' hands and arms in
catching the
audience's bids that the charity auctioneer may have missed. The Ring
Man is
also charged with the duties of infusing additional energy into the
event, motivating the crowd to bid,
personally engaging the bidders, and creating bidding wars between
competing bidders.
A good Ring Man will increase the charity
auctions gross revenue by an additional 10% to as much as 40% earned
just in the live
auction alone. It is
truly an amazing experience to watch a good Ring Man and benefit
auctioneer team up together in dramatically increasing the revenue
achieved in a benefit auction. This is
a unique and valuable service that our clients are strongly encouraged
to consider in their efforts to realize maximum revenue earned through
their charity auction. The Ring Man
service fee is more than justified given the huge returns they can
bring to the our nonprofit clients through their tremendous work
efforts and energy.
Charity
Auction
Catalog Services
DiNardo & Lord Auctioneers Charity
Auction
Catalog Service typically saves our clients between 50 to 100 hours of
labor required in the writing of their benefit auction catalog.
Your event's benefit auction catalog not only contains your live
auction item descriptions, but may also contain silent auction item
descriptions in addition to other pertinent fundraising event
information.
Tom DiNardo is a nationally recognized
freelance writer possessing
direct
experience in the creation, writing, editing and formatting of
fundraising auction
catalogs
as used in some of the nation's most high profile charity auctions.
Your fundraisers auction catalog makes an indelible impression upon
your
fundraising event guests. Your charity auction catalog is also the
physical
manifestation of your event's identity.
Although DiNardo & Lord Auctioneers
provides a basic final edit and formatting service included in our
Auction
Services Package, we do not write our client's benefit auction catalogs
unless
we are contracted to do so. If you desire to utilize our Charity
Auction
Catalog
Service, then
please plan on contracting with DiNardo & Lord Auctioneers early on
so that adequate time is allocated to
effectively complete this often arduous task. Once the final draft of
the fundraising auction catalog is completed and delivered to the
client, the
organization then oversees the final graphic design process involved in
selecting font types, color selection, and
design layout before the charity auction catalog goes to print.
Sommelier,
Wine Education and Wine Consultant Services
DiNardo & Lord
Auctioneers now offers sommelier, wine education and wine consultant
services. Sommeliers are professional
wine educators who possess in depth knowledge and expertise about wine
and oenology (wine appreciation and wine collecting). Sommeliers are
also involved in areas such as wine
education, wine consultant services, wine storage, wine appraisal, wine
cellar
management, proper wine service, hospitality service, wine and food
pairings,
viticulture, and enology.
Tom DiNardo is a sommelier diplomate with
the International Sommeliers Guild and a member of the Society of Wine
Educators. Tom previously worked in the wine
industry in both California and Washington, and he is the only charity
wine auctioneer currently in the United States who has earned his
sommelier diplomate credential. He is a freelance
writer for Wine Enthusiast, Decanter,
Sante and
Wine
Adventure magazines
and a full time contributor to Wine Squire.com. Mr. DiNardo is also a
contract auctioneer for ERI wine auction gallery in Chicago, where he
has attained five world records to his credit for the price of wine
achieved in live
auction. Tom DiNardo is a registered master appraiser who specializes
in wine appraisal.
Mr. DiNardo has provided wine consultant
and wine education services to wine
industry professionals, businesses, wine and spirits distributors,
private individuals, insurance companies, and non-profit organizations
alike. Tom has sat on expert wine panels as an educator he has been a
judge
at wine competitions, lead large groups through organized wine
tastings, and conducted certified wine appraisals for insurance and
legal purposes. If your organization is
seeking to create a stellar wine event, wine festival, wine tasting, or
charity wine auction, then you will want to secure
the adept sommelier, wine education and wine consultant services
offered by Tom DiNardo.
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