Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Social media and Proverbs 20:14
We sold lots of real and personal property at live auctions for decades, until our first online (simulcast) auction was held. In that...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 11, 20213 min read
You’re not advertising my auction on Facebook?
We discussed a few months ago the issue of auctioneers not advertising their auctions in certain places because they disagree with that...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 5, 20213 min read
You have a database of what?
An auctioneer told me he had a database of 30,000+ … what? He said, “buyers” but I’m not convinced. In other words, 30,000+ people who...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Nov 10, 20203 min read
Auction bidders, buyers & sellers
Are you as an auctioneer growing weary of auction bidders? They bid and then get outbid and cry foul. They win as the highest bidder...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Oct 21, 20202 min read
Auctioneers and their new fake news strategies
Auctioneers post an immense amount of fake news on Facebook and other social media sites. Yes, “immense” is the word — as in every day,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Oct 5, 20202 min read
You’re not marketing your auction
We’ve held that actually auctioneers only need “alpha” and “beta” (the highest possible bidder and the next highest possible bidder) and...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 8, 20203 min read
Auctioneers, misinformation, disinformation
Auctioneers are typically well-known in their communities, and some are even known regionally or nationally. As such, it’s best we are...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 17, 20202 min read
Can an auctioneer sell something he knows nothing about?
Auctioneers who contract with sellers to serve as their auctioneer to market, promote and secure the highest possible bid need to know...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 3, 20202 min read
Auctioneers checking Facebook for facts?
Facebook for any facts. Clint Eastwood said … the Second Amendment guarantees … the UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute dictates...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 4, 20193 min read
Auctioneers and misinformation …
What that doesn’t mean is that all of that data is factual; nor does it mean that with more users the data generally becomes more...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 24, 20192 min read
First amendment lessons for auctioneers
As someone who’s published a blog for almost 10 years, we are especially attentive to our right to publish and for our content to be...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 4, 20182 min read
Facebook groups for posting auctions?
https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/internet-auction-calendars/. It’s now 2018 and about seven years later from this...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 27, 20173 min read
Auction marketing — do we get what we pay for?
John Schultz via a Facebook post. Yes, this is a newspaper cartoon placed in the Spring Valley Tribune — suggesting for marketing (or...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 20, 20172 min read
Auctioneers recording themselves
For that matter, people at auctions record video and take pictures frequently. They take pictures of the themselves, auctioneers, staff,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 13, 20173 min read
Are all auctioneers … still Republican?
Based upon primarily Facebook — and other encounters with auctioneers around the country, it would appear to me nearly all auctioneers...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 10, 20173 min read
Hiring auctioneers and social media
To paraphrase, he asked … “I wonder how one’s social media presence and activity may affect contract auctioneering and overall auctioneer...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Oct 6, 20163 min read
You don’t know what an “auction” is?
After graduating from The Ohio State University, I attended auction school. Soon after I was working as an auctioneer in the Columbus,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 31, 20162 min read
Large auction crowds, busy restaurants and relevance
Restaurants have to have customers to survive. It’s pretty much a numbers game — the more customers, the more profit and likewise, the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 23, 20163 min read
#AuctionsWork #onlyatauction #NAAPro
Recently, there has been some surprising discussion about the merits of auctioneers using certain hashtags on Facebook and other social...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 3, 20153 min read
I’m going to sell it at auction; what’s it worth?
Selling an oil painting for $500 is wonderful if the seller is expecting $200 and not good at all if the seller is expecting $2,000. As a...
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