My name is Jill Serin.I have an idea I want to present to your Rotary Club.

We have been doing art auctions for over 30 years and have worked with all types of organizations.

We have come up with a brand new program for the Fall 2009 season.I am wondering if you would like to toss it out there to the rest of your board.

We are suggesting a wine tasting/art auction as a way to make sure our groups fundraising efforts bring them the best success possible.
Here’s how it works:

We make it as easy as we can and do not charge a thing to come and work with you.
I coordinate with you and walk you through, from start to finish, making sure you know
"what to do and when."

Your job is PLACE and PEOPLE...we do the rest. We supply all the color publicity needed to get the word out there.
We arrive with a collection of art, affordably priced and beautifully framed and matted.
We also supply an auctioneer who will entertain and educate all evening long.

We have found a winery that would be willing to supply the wine for our events.

We recommend admission to be put at $25 - $45 per person. Out of this cost $5 will go towards the cost of wine, leaving a $20 - $40 profit per person for the club. If you have 100 people that would be $2,000 - $4,000 profit before the 1st work of art is auctioned.

The art auction is easy, fun, cultural, elegant AND different - an event that won't tie up your members for months and months. It is the perfect event to schedule if you are searching for a way to get the name of your club “out there” into your surrounding community.

We offer a $1,000 guarantee to our groups if they get their 100 people in the room 1 hour into the auction and not one piece of art sells. $2,000 for 200 people and so on We are so sure that if you fill the room, we will be successful at what we do best.

We have also implemented a few exciting incentives for our Fall 2009 groups.

(We realize in order to be successful, especially in this economy, we have to be creative.)

One of them is offering a $2,000 hand signed work of art to every group that gets 100 people in the room that evening. Every person who attends gets a ticket for the work of art. For every $100 they spend, they receive an additional ticket. This has not only increased attendances, it has increased sales!

We also offer our groups the opportunity to involve the youth in their community by suggesting they schedule an "internal art contest" in the weeks leading up to the auction. If they ship us the 5 winning entries, we will frame and matt them and include them in the evening's festivities, a great way to get those parents in the room!

Let me know your thoughts.

Jill Serin, Auction Coordinator

State of the Art

1021 Old Bates Pike

Cleveland, TN 37311

(800) 242-7682

Direct (631) 242-9652
loveartj7@optonline.net

www.state-of-the-art.net

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