I am new to our school Auction Committee. Last year I was involved but just helped and observed. Now this year I have started to make a few waves and need some back up, so to speak. Our Auction has about 200-250 attendees each year and last year we profited about $35,000. We have few "outsiders" that attend, its mostly people part of the school and parish. I would like to get it so that it is attended by outsiders as we are just recycling money. How is the best way to get this moving in the advertising department?
Also, we have almost 500 silent auction items and over 150 item live auction...my intuition is telling me that this is way to much because when everything is out it looks like a glorified yard sale and a lot of items do not go for their value and a lot are left over because no one bid on them. I am thinking that we should have about 125 quality silent auction items and 50-75 live auction items. What do other auctions do?
