Author Archives: Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES
About Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES
Aaron Traffas, CAI, AMM, CES, is an auctioneer from Sharon, Kansas. For the last 22 years he's worked for Purple Wave. Aaron served as president of the Kansas Auctioneers Association in 2017 and on the National Auctioneers Association Education Institute Board of Trustees from 2009 through 2013. He is a past instructor at CAI and co-wrote the original ATS and AMM designation courses from NAA. An active contract bid caller, he has advanced to the finals in multiple state auctioneer contests. During the summer, Aaron operates a farm in south central Kansas. Aaron is an active singer and songwriter and the Aaron Traffas Band's latest music can be found at aarontraffasband.com as well as Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon.Capital One’s accessibility fail
Image by taberandrew via Flickr The current website and interface for financial institution Capital One suffers from some accessibility issues. While its source code suffers a little from divitis and classitis (using the DIV and CLASS (X)HTML elements excessively for … Continue reading
New Minnesota Auctioneer Champion
Duluth, MN – A Stillwater man is the 2010 Minnesota State Champion Auctioneer. At the 22nd annual auctioneer championship held in Duluth, Matthew Schultz won the competition in which 27 auctioneers competed. The contest was held last night during the … Continue reading
Auction Video Podcast Episode 5 – Justin Clark from realtimebid.com
Justin Clark shows off his ruggedized, waterproof camera with custom auction functionality and explains what realtimebid.com is and does for auctioneers. This video was recorded in July, 2009, at the 60th International Auctioneers Conference and Show in Overland Park, Kansas.
AuctioneerTech adds new features to suggest and subscribe
Image via CrunchBase For those of you who have followed us from the beginning, you’ll recall that the first version of the site included a subscription feature that allowed users to receive short, plain-text email updates each time we posted … Continue reading
The AuctioneerTech guide to Dimdim presentations
You’re sold. You’ve read something or heard something that tipped you off to the fact that netcasts and virtual meetings don’t have to cost an arm and a leg. You’ve created your Dimdim account and are preparing for your first … Continue reading