"We never had a professional Auctioneer. The committee was very skeptical about spending money to make money, despite what I believed as the Chairperson. Mark met with the committee and went well beyond his contracted role. Not only did he work very hard to raise us a lot of money the night of the Live & Silent Auction, but he guided us with how to price the silent auction items, increments, work the bid sheets, and how to best select the Live Auction items. Needless to say, we raised a 30% higher net profit than we thought. Mark was loved by the committee and extremely fun to work with throughout the process. As the committee said, "He was worth every penny