Benefit Auctioneer in Olympia, Washington

Benefit Auctioneering in Olympia

Your event should raise more this year than it did last year.

The live auction and the paddle raise are the two moments in your evening that raise the most money, and both of them depend entirely on the person holding the microphone. A professional benefit auctioneer reads a room in real time, opens the bidding where the bidding will actually start, and controls the pace so that the energy in the room climbs rather than stalls. That skill is the difference between a respectable night and a record one, and organizations that hire a professional for it typically raise 15 to 50 percent more than they otherwise would.

Most of that work happens long before anyone arrives. We consult with your committee on which items belong in the live auction and which are better placed elsewhere, on the order those lots should run, and on how the paddle raise is framed and where it falls in the program. Your team knows your donors and your mission better than anyone. We know what a room does once the bidding starts. On the night of the event, we take the stage and execute the plan we built together.

We are Washington based, and we have been producing events in this region since 1994. Whether your gala is in downtown Olympia, out in Shelton, down the I-5 corridor in Centralia, or up on the Olympic Peninsula, you are hiring a company that has worked this market for as long as it has been in business.

Fundraising Consulting

The final number is decided before the doors open.

Professional fundraising consulting covers the entire program your event runs on. The giving levels, the auction lineup, the run of show, the donor education campaign, the scripts, and the production plan all get built in the weeks before the doors open, and every one of those decisions affects the final number. We work with your event committee to review what you ran last year, rebuild the parts that held you back, and design a program that fits your donors and your mission.

We carry the Benefit Auctioneer Specialist designation from the National Auctioneers Association, the industry's professional standard for nonprofit event consulting. Fewer than ten percent of auctioneers in the country hold it. The team that consults with your committee is the same team that takes the stage on the night of the event.

The capital region runs a fundraising calendar built on government, education, healthcare, and the nonprofits around them, with gala seasons concentrated in spring, summer, and fall across Thurston, Mason, Lewis, Grays Harbor, Cowlitz, Clallam, and Jefferson counties. We work with hospital foundations, college and school foundations, arts organizations, tribal organizations, chambers and community foundations, and city parks and recreation departments throughout the South Sound and the Olympic Peninsula. Gala dates in this market fill quickly. Book your auctioneering and consulting team early and give your committee the time to build a better program.

Emcee Services in Olympia

The whole night runs through one microphone.

Every event runs through the person holding the microphone. The introductions, the transitions, the energy between speakers, and the pace of the whole program belong to the MC, and when that person is a professional who works live rooms every week, your audience feels the difference without ever having to think about it. We provide professional emcee and event hosting for fundraising galas, corporate events, award dinners, conferences, and private celebrations.

Olympia is the state capital, and the fundraising calendar here runs on government, education, healthcare, and the nonprofits built around them. Providence Southwest Washington Foundation, Saint Martin's University, The Evergreen State College Foundation, and South Puget Sound Community College Foundation all hold annual events in this market, and the Peninsula adds hospital and school foundations like Olympic Medical Center Foundation and Port Angeles Education Foundation. That is the market we work in, and professional event hosting is part of how we serve it.

When your MC is a professional entertainer who has run hundreds of live rooms, your evening does not stall between segments, your speakers walk into energy instead of silence, and your audience stays in the room for the moments that matter most. We bring that to every event we host in the capital region.

Auction Games

The whole room came to give, not just the bidders.

Revenue enhancers give every guest at your event a chance to participate in the fundraising, not just the guests who came to bid. The right game at the right moment opens up giving at price points the whole room can say yes to, and the energy it creates carries into the live auction and the paddle raise that follow. When more of the room is involved in the giving, the whole evening performs better.

We maintain one of the most comprehensive auction game libraries in the country, with more than fifty revenue enhancers for live fundraising events. Golden tickets, wine walls, heads or tails, mystery boxes, centerpiece games, Last Paddle Standing, and dozens more. When you consult with our team, we help you select the games that fit your audience, your event, and your fundraising goals.

From school auctions in Lacey and Tumwater to hospital galas in Olympia and Port Angeles to fairgrounds fundraisers in Chehalis and Elma, every event in this market draws a different audience with different giving patterns. We consult with organizations across Thurston, Mason, Lewis, Grays Harbor, Cowlitz, Clallam, and Jefferson counties on game selection and program design. Explore the library and bring something new to your next event.

Entertainment for Everyone

The show they never forget.

Clean, interactive comedy and variety entertainment for corporate events, fundraising galas, private parties, and campus shows. Our headline show is volunteer-driven and built from the audience in the room. No two performances are the same because no two audiences are the same, and your guests leave talking about the night they were part of, not just the night they attended.

From holiday parties and sales kickoffs to black-tie galas and company milestones, we perform and produce entertainment across the South Sound, the Olympic Peninsula, and nationwide. Explore what we offer and put a show on your next program.

Specialty Acts

Talent services for your next event.

Comedians, magicians, mentalists, jugglers, fire performers, impersonators, ventriloquists, musicians, speakers, emcees, and specialty acts. When your event needs live entertainment, we match the right act to your audience and your venue. One conversation, one contract, and the right performer on your stage.

We work with event planners, corporate teams, nonprofits, and private hosts from Olympia to the coast and the Peninsula. If you know what your night needs, we can get you there. If you are not sure, that is what the conversation is for.

Where We Work

We go where the giving happens.

Fundraising in the capital region puts you in every kind of room. Benefit events happen in hotel ballrooms, historic homes, theaters, fairgrounds, casino resorts, golf clubs, farms and barns, and community centers, and each one gets its own consideration for sound, sightlines, audience, and the way the program has to run. That work has taken us into every corner of this region, and it keeps us there year round.

The Olympia area is home territory for us. From the capital and its neighbors out to Mason County, the I-5 south corridor, the coast, and the Olympic Peninsula, these are some of the communities we serve regularly:

• Olympia
• Lacey
• Tumwater
• Yelm
• Tenino
• Rainier
• Rochester
• Shelton
• Centralia
• Chehalis
• Longview
• Kelso
• Elma
• Aberdeen
• Ocean Shores
• Sequim
• Port Angeles
• Port Townsend

Beyond the metro, we cover the surrounding region as part of our normal range, and we work events across the state and coast to coast. Wherever you're located, we can assist.

Who We Work With

The company we keep.

For over thirty years we have worked events for some of the biggest names in the world. Major corporations such as Nordstrom, T-Mobile, John Deere, the US Postal Service, and many others have put us in front of their people, and organizations such as Starbucks and Porsche have sponsored our work, all helping to raise money for a wide range of charities, including St. Jude, the American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, the ALS Association, and many more. Whether you are a national brand or a neighborhood nonprofit holding its first auction, you get the same premium level of service.