Acknowledgments

I wish to convey my profound appreciation to my editors at John Wiley and Sons: to Matthew Davis for his ace navigation throughout the publishing process, Maria Sunny Zacharias for her expert guidance, and Alison Hankey for her superb insights and support of strategic benefit auctions.

I wish to express my deepest gratitude to my mentor Alan Weiss, PhD, the Million-Dollar Consultant. Alan's extraordinary insights inspired me to write this book. His compelling coaching helped me expand my mind-set and move beyond auctioneering itself, providing greater value with high-level consulting and, in the process, powerfully transforming my business and my life.

As a first-time author, I am indebted to a dream team of world-class professionals ...

Get A Higher Bid: How to Transform Special Event Fundraising with Strategic Auctions now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.