| Becoming an auctioneer could be a six figure income | | | | full time, however out of the ones that are full time, |
| for you. If you love auctions then this might be just the | | | | over half of them make a six figure income. You may |
| career for you. There are schools and | | | | have to start out part time on the week ends while |
| correspondence courses you can take to learn the | | | | working another job, but as people start knowing you |
| ways of an auctioneer but to me the best way to | | | | and your work, you will start getting more auctions |
| learn about becoming an auctioneer is to work for one | | | | thrown your way. |
| as an apprentice. | | | | Not all auctions you will work will be the kind where |
| You can contact an auctioneer in your area and ask if | | | | you stand up and do the fast talking auctioneer call. |
| you can go along and help for free. Most people will | | | | Some auctions are silent auctions and some are |
| not turn away free help. They will also know if your | | | | sealed bid auctions. A real auctioneer still has to |
| state requires a license or not. About three fourths of | | | | oversee these types of auctions. I have been to a |
| the states in the United States do require a license. | | | | storage building auction where we wrote our bids |
| This usually requires taking a test run by the state and | | | | down on a piece of paper and they were all passed |
| possibly continuing education courses periodically. | | | | to the auctioneer and then at the next auction have |
| Did you ever wonder what all a auctioneer does? Fast | | | | had to raise my hand for the bid. The type of auction |
| talking is the smallest part of an auctioneers job. They | | | | is usually up to the client and how they want the |
| spend time looking at a prospective auction sites and | | | | auction to go. |
| items to be sold and then make a deal with the seller | | | | If you think you are interested in becoming an |
| for their commission. They also have to take photos | | | | auctioneer then plan on attending several types of |
| for advertisements and then start advertising the | | | | auctions. Auctions are listed in the newspaper several |
| auction. This is usually done at least three weeks in | | | | weeks in advance so you will have time to make |
| advance. | | | | arrangements to get off work if you need to. |
| Only about twenty percent of auctioneers are doing it | | | | |