One day left to bid!

Tomorrow is the last day to bid! I know our web & blog hits usually skyrocket on Tuesdays so hopefully enough photographers will see this in time to place a bid for this awesome cause! 🙂  

Let the bidding begin!

CLICK HERE to bid on us for the Thirst Relief International auction!! 🙂 For some reason, all of the auction listings have everyone located in Ohio, even though we're in Indy so hopefully they'll get that fixed soon. 😉  

One addition to my last post…

If you'd like to bid on me for the Thirst Relief International charity auction but aren't attending WPPI, bid anyway! 🙂 We can do your session via phone, e-mail, whatever works best!

Thirst Relief International Auction

I've had so many cool charity projects and opportunities come my way lately, it's been AWESOME! For those of you who aren't familiar with the Thirst Relief International auction, let me explain….every year, a bunch of top tier wedding photographers who attend the WPPI convention (which is the largest photo convention in Vegas) donate their time for this very worthy cause. Thirst Relief International will be sponsoring its 3rd annual mentor auction this weekend for a chance for the winning bidders to have a one-on-one consulting session with the photographer of their choice during the convention next month to help raise money to provide clean drinking water to people who need it the most. You will have the opportunity to bid on me (a "Session with Hession") to discuss marketing, sales, business management, work flow or whatever else you need help with right now once the auction begins. 

The auction will start this weekend on February 9th at 10 a.m. EST and conclude on the 12th. You can sign up and pre-register now on the auction site, fotoVerite. According to Becker, there was some confusion last year about the way the auction runs. Most people are used to using eBay, which ends at a specific time, so people go in at the last second and place a higher bid (called sniping), not allowing someone else to bid even higher. This auction has an anti snipe feature so the auction doesn't end until someone is not willing to pay any more. Once the auction has ended, if there was a last minute bid, it extends the auction by a few minutes, allowing the person who got outbid, to place another bid, extending the auction by a few more minutes allowing the other person the same opportunity. This goes on until someone is no longer willing to bid higher which is the fairest way to run an auction and most like a real world live auction.

Details of which photographers will be available to mentor will be posted soon on the Thirst Relief blog and of course I'll provide a direct link to where you can bid on me as soon as it's up on Saturday morning and if you read my auction bio closely, my faithful blog readers will be the first to know about an awesome service that we're launching next month, specifically geared towards photographers and business owners. 😉 But, you have to come back on Saturday morning to find out the inside scoop!! 😉 Happy Bidding!!!