The professional benefit auctioneer is an entertainer, and should look and dress the part. Even a livestock auctioneer, selling in a dusty barn full of stinky cows, should look like a professional — in boots and a cowboy hat, of course. The audience has an expectation to go with every auction specialty and benefit auctions are no exception. Benefit auctions are an event not just a sale and the guests are there for a fun night out.

It takes personality to be a successful benefit auctioneer. He must be gracious and treat the guests like royalty, showing his gratefulness for their contributions. He makes people laugh but takes the event seriously. Everyone present can tell that he has class and charisma. He is outgoing and makes it a goal to meet each person in the room. Because of his magnetic personality, he draws people to him. Just like in elementary school, where he may have been a class clown, he is the popular one. Most auctioneers have an effortless showmanship that just comes naturally.

The professional benefit auctioneer must be knowledgeable about many things, from the items donated at a charity event to the nonprofit organization’s cause. Through his experiences, he is exposed to many different areas of knowledge. “It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.” – Oscar Wilde. Most auctioneers love meeting people from all walks of life.

In my last four articles, I gave four important characteristics of a successful auctioneer:

* Speaker
* Salesman
* Skill
* Style

When picking out the auctioneer for your benefit and charity event, consider these qualities to help you pick the best one. You will know him when you see him!

If you would like free help planning your benefit and charity auction or if you know someone who might benefit from our services, please contact Kevin Rutter, president of Hot Auctioneering, a professional auctioneer, speaker & writer. Kevin is ready to ignite the excitement at your next auction or event! Please visit his website at http://hotauctioneering.com/

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A benefit auctioneer must be trained to have a quality chant. It is a skill that must be improved by much practice. A beautiful rhythmic chant is like music and changes the atmosphere of the event. Often times, there are feet tapping to the melodic rhythm. A professional benefit auctioneer can modify his chant depending on the situation. A slow auctioneer can never chant faster but a fast auctioneer has the ability to chant slower. He can slow down for an audience that needs to hear the prices clearly or speed up to boost the excitement. An experienced auctioneer can be chanting prices and reading the item catalog and analyzing the crowd’s body language at the same time without missing a beat. He is on autopilot, like a pianist that no longer has to look at the keys.

Auctioneer colleges are important. They teach auctioneers the laws associated with the auctioning profession and how to operate as an auctioneer. They can also teach someone what a good chant sounds like, but it cannot impart this skill. It only comes from hard work and lots of practice. The professional benefit auctioneer acquires his skills by attending an auctioneer school and then adding continued education with specialized classes and other sales training, but more importantly by practice and experience.

If you would like free help planning your benefit and charity auction or if you know someone who might benefit from our services, please contact Kevin Rutter, president of Hot Auctioneering, a professional auctioneer, speaker & writer. Kevin is ready to ignite the excitement at your next auction or event! Please visit his website at http://hotauctioneering.com/

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What’s in it for me?

Hard money and private money loans typically offer a return on investment of at least 10% percent per year. This means if you invest in a real estate property as little as 20k per year, you are going to get a return of $2,000 on your original investment which translates into about $167 dollars per month. Compound that into a 100K investment and you could easily be earning $835 dollars per month just for privately loaning your money out. And that is with a very low return of 10% percent.
Is it secure?

All investments have some risk assessment involved therefore you need to assess your situation to decide if private money lending is right for you. Investing in loans secured by real estate offer a higher rate of return and lower risks compared to the stock market. There are no commissions or upfront fees and the borrower is required to place hazard insurance on the property and you will be named on the insurance policy as the mortgagee.

Many times the borrower is required to cross collateralize an additional piece of property giving them much more motivation to pay back their debt in a timely manner. So basically you are investing in the property without the headaches of being a landlord or contractor.

How do you get started?

The most important step in becoming a private money lender is to make sure you have the money to secure this type of investment. You should have at least 20K to loan out and it shouldn’t be tied to any other purpose other than investing. You must then be able to loan this money out quickly and not have a need for the funds for at least a year. If you have an IRA, you will need to roll it over into a “self directed” IRA with a 3rd party custodian.

Do a search on Google and ask friends and colleagues about their experiences with professional private money and investment companies. You can get started fairly quickly once you find a reputable real estate investment company and fill out all the necessary paperwork and lender applications.

James J. Bullock of JDB Financial is part of a small team of active real estate investors and mortgage professionals working together to network with both private money lenders and real estate investors nationwide. To learn more about how you can invest in private money lending options, please visit: http://www.asaferwaytoinvest.com or http://www.asaferwaytoinvest.com/blog

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When you start penny stocks trading career you first need to decide how much you are wiling to invest. You need to remember that this is not a “sure-fire” income opportunity and that it is possible that you may lose everything, so be sure not to invest more than you can afford to lose.

If you have invested all of you cash and your present collection is flat, the only way to buy into rising penny stocks market and get a piece of the action is to either. Use “your own money”, for example money that is not part of your penny stocks investment fund a very bad idea. Or to get on the phone to your broker and see if can sell some of your existing shares so that you can buy into the rising penny stocks.

The first is obviously not really a good thing to do and is more similar to gambling than investment. After all if you couldn’t make a profit with the first group of penny stocks, why do think you could with the second. A more likely scenario is that you are throwing good money after bad, except that this time it is not money that you can afford to lose.

The second, though more sensible than the first, is not really what trading penny stocks is all about. The whole point is to be able to buy quickly if you think that a stock is about to rise. T sells quickly, as well, when the market seems to have to have peaked for your penny stocks, so that you can maximize your profit and sell before the market starts to fall.

The ability to move quickly in response to rapidly rising penny stocks can greatly affect your potential for profits in this most volatile of the financial markets. Keeping a portion of your penny stocks fund liquid will help you to achieve profitability and make the success of your investing venture into the world of penny stocks trading more likely to be a profitable one.

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Why does this happen? Part of it is a person’s philosophy on money itself. Maybe you haven’t put too much importance on it, except for a wish for more. It doesn’t even have to mean people have put thoughts of money in your head, because things like, “We don’t have any money” or “This is what we would do if we had resources” can affect how money comes into your life. There is a good chance you have repeated some of these to your own children.

Everyone has a distinct way of thinking about money, whether you have realized it or not. When the law of attraction, money is used, it means you will experience what you are thinking about. What you are always thinking about is what happens in reality. This doesn’t mean wishes for a million dollars will be put into action tomorrow. However, when the law of attraction and money is set in place, you will think of ways for it to happen. This law behaves the way you want it to, whether it is for the good or bad.

If money is used as a tool to make more, than this will happen. You have to get away from using it to only pay bills. It doesn’t take much to Google “ways to make money by using mutual funds”. If you never think of money in a way that makes you financially secure, this will never take place. This is why your mindset needs to be changed, so the law of attraction – money starts working for you.

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When your auctioneer takes the stage to start the auction, have him select a volunteer at each table and ask them to stand. They will be the “auctioneer” for their table. The real auctioneer will give them 30 seconds to sell the centerpiece of the table for as much money as possible. They can only take bids from people sitting at their table and are encouraged to use an auctioneer chant. After the 30 seconds is over, determine which “auctioneer” raised the most money for their centerpiece. If possible, have a simple award for the “Champion Auctioneer”. If this is an annual tradition, there may even be a past “Champion Auctioneer” in the crowd that can be recognized.

The professional charity auctioneer will start the live auction with the crowd already excited and having fun. Most of them will have already participated by bidding at their table in a fun “mini” auction. It is a wonderful way to get people laughing and happy as the “real” auction begins.

If you would like free help planning your benefit and charity auction, or if you know someone who might benefit from our services, please contact Kevin Rutter, president of Hot Auctioneering, a professional auctioneer, speaker & writer. Kevin is ready to ignite the excitement at your next auction or event! Please visit his website at http://hotauctioneering.com/

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