Author: Aaron Traffas
Auction item categories add complexity, reduce viewing
How do you categorize items in your auctions? Item categorization is an important, though often overlooked and undervalued, part of a marketing strategy. With Internet bidding providers and auction calendars allowing auctioneers to place items in customized categories – and allowing users to navigate directly to those categories – it’s crucial to consider how to…
Auction Video Podcast Episode 2 – AuctionServices
Stuart Bain from AuctionServices talks with Aaron Traffas from AuctioneerTech about the new Ignite auction software suite. This episode was recorded at the 60th International Auctioneers Conference and Show in Overland Park, Kansas, on 18 July 2009. Learn more about AuctionServices at www.auctionservices.com.
Live blog from Kansas regional auctioneer bid-call contest
12:25 Leaving now for Abilene, Kansas, to the Kansas eastern region bid-call contest. This is our first event with CoverItLive, so we’ll see how it works! More within the hour! 1:24 Nearly to the fairgrounds. 7 contestants to compete. I’ll post a roster when I get there. 1:28 90 degrees today. Going to be hot…
Microsoft releases another emergency update
Image via CrunchBase Last October, we shot out a heads-up regarding an out-of-band update from Microsoft. An out-of-band update is one that is released outside of the patch Tuesday update schedule, the well-known pattern Microsoft has established for releasing updates to its products on the second Tuesday of each month. Today, Microsoft has released another…
theAuctioneerchannel.com to provide video of live auctions and more
We’ve had our eye on recently-launched website theAuctioneerchannel.com for the last several days. A joint venture between Michigan auctioneers Scott Vander Kolk, Jr., and David Helmer, the site aims to promote the live auction industry through videos and blogs. We caught up with Scott Vander Kolk and shot him a few, quick question. What is…