LiveAuctioneers PR Services (LAPRS) is a boutique publicity and public relations agency whose sole focus is the antiques, fine art and auction world.
The agency specializes in creating customized and demographically targeted promotional campaigns to publicize upcoming or completed auctions, shows, book releases or product launches to a global audience of editors and readers.
LAPRS is headed by Catherine Saunders-Watson, a respected communications professional who has a stellar 20-year track record as an editor, writer and publicist in the arts sector. Catherine has a thorough understanding of the auction business. She and her experienced team offer services to suit the needs of all auction houses, regardless of size or location.
In cases where a full publicity campaign is not required, clients may opt for a professionally written press release, which they can distribute to their own customer or media list.
How It Works:
After you’ve notified us that you’d like to enlist our services, an editor will contact you to arrange a telephone interview about your auction, antiques show or product. At the time of the actual interview, a request will be made for images and captions (unless your company opts to self-distribute). When the draft release is ready, it will be emailed to you for approval or changes. Upon your approval, the release will be distributed to our highly effective media list, and our web posters will immediately begin uploading it to auction, art and other news sites. Soon you will start to see tangible results, with placements in print publications and on blogs and newspaper websites. Throughout the campaign, LAPRS staff will communicate with you to share news of placements online and in print.
LAPRS is not a mill. Each campaign is a custom production, tailored to suit your company’s particular goals. To ensure quality control, we only undertake a few campaigns at a time. This is why so many clients comment positively about the high level of personal attention they receive from LAPRS staff. The minute we accept a request to create your campaign, LAPRS becomes your company's PR support team, dedicated to your success and always available to take your call.
Elite campaign, which includes:
- Our personal management of a publicity campaign from start to finish.
- We create the press release and captions and distribute the release not only to arts editors but also to daily newspapers, magazines and websites.
- We will personally liaise with any specialty publications, clubs, museums or other institutions whom you wish for us to contact, and supply them with PR materials.
- We guarantee your release will appear on the front page of AuctionCentralNews.com, whose headlines also feed through to LiveAuctioneers’ homepage, ensuring a premier ranking on Google results and maximum exposure to an international audience of proven buyers and bidders.
- You will receive a customized banner ad on AuctionCentralNews.com’s homepage.
To maximize exposure to your own regular buyers, you can also link from your company’s website to the article appearing on AuctionCentralNews.com, or simply upload the story to your website.
When it’s time to publicize your auction, show, book or other antiques or art-related product, you deserve the best — LiveAuctioneers PR Services.
For pricing and additional information contact: Client Services at 888.600.2437 ext. 2 or e-mail support@liveauctioneers.com.
Client Testimonials:
“The New York Times, New York Post, CBS This Morning, The Huffington Post, Associated Press, The Miami Herald, Vogue Italia, Canadian-Latin American-German press agencies, print media and websites-blogs-tweets-Facebook entries worldwide… all writing, tweeting and talking about our January 19, 2013, auction and all because LiveAuctioneers PR Services let the world know about it.
The result: our best auction to date, with 690 registered bidders, 568 bids, 186,000 page views, 20,000+ visitors and $330,000 in winning bids, and all that just on LiveAuctioneers.com! That doesn't include, as a result of your PR work, the record 400+ in-house bidders, phone bidders or left bids that all contributed to a million-dollar auction. The sheer numbers, in terms of sales and bidders, were way beyond our expectations, but you gave us even more, something you can't pay for… EDITORIAL, exposing our auction house all over the world!
You shared our passion about the auction, worked hard (even on nights and weekends) and relentlessly pursued every possible PR lead. We really don't know how to thank you; you have energized and set the new standard for Palm Beach Modern Auctions.
I would recommend your services to any auction house looking to increase their sales or company presence in the auction world.”
—Wade Terwilliger, President, Palm Beach Modern Auctions
"We are writing to commend Catherine Saunders-Watson for a job well done. Not only is Catherine thorough in her work, she pays meticulous attention to detail, which is crucial to the success of our publicity. Her wide range of knowledge has been an asset in getting our company the maximum amount of exposure. The results we have seen as a result of her efforts have been overwhelming.
—Stephen D'Atri, Owner, Sterling Associates Inc.
"This was our first time using LiveAuctioneers PR services and we were a little intimidated by the process. To our relief absolutely no need to be apprehensive. Catherine at LiveAuctioneers marketing walked us thru the whole process from start to finish. She gave us quite an insight to the benefits of sending out a press release and made some great recommendations on how to market our auction. Our annual auction almost doubled in sales from the previous year and we saw a greater number of registered bidders along with a higher sell-thru rate due to the referred targeted clientele. We will definitely be using these services in the future. Thank you, Catherine, and the whole team at LiveAuctioneers."
—Paul Sabesky, Owner/CEO Government Auction
"It's been a week since our New Year's Auction and we have been struggling to find the right words to describe our first experience with LiveAuctioneers PR Services. Fabulous? Beyond expectations? Incredible? Catherine Saunders-Watson is the best thing that's happened to our auction. Catherine has such a way with words, insight of the auction market, and creativity. It went so far beyond our imagination and expectations — we could not believe the response, not just the United States but around the world. We sold $70,000 to Russian bidders and close to $80,000 to China, in addition to the United States and other countries.
We were on TV, radio, in newspapers and magazines, on collector sites, the Internet and on top of the search engines. Fabulous! We had over 70,000 hits on LiveAuctioneers, alone, before the auction. Beyond expectations! Just before the auction we took a late consignment and mentioned it to Catherine. Two days later, it was picked up by major collector sites. Incredible! For Don Presley Auctions, Catherine Saunders-Watson is truly "A SLICE OF HEAVEN." Anyone who wishes to do so can call me personally for a recommendation. My wife Kimberly Presley and I sincerely thank you and look forward to working with you at our next auction."
—Don and Kimberly Presley, Don Presley Auctions
"We had a fine sale thanks to your excellent PR, which brought Channels 6 and 10 from Philadelphia, and the Morning Call newspaper from Allentown. The Daily Local covered us three times, including a Sunday morning above-the-fold front-page story. All in all, a great job!"
—William H. Bunch, Auctioneer & Appraiser
"This is a quick note to let you know how pleased we were with the services provided by Catherine Saunders-Watson. The exposure we received for our April 18th auction was incredible. In today’s economic environment, value for dollar spent is of the utmost of importance to anyone in business. With Ms. Watson’s contacts and gift for promotion this was definitely some of the best money we have spent on advertising in quite some time."
—Chris Featherston, Austin Auction Gallery
"I want to let you know that my first experience with LiveAuctioneers.com PR services went way beyond my expectations!
Catherine Saunders-Watson is a dream to work with. She is extremely responsive, incredibly fast and has excellent creative insight. Catherine put me at ease immediately and always made me feel as if our auction was the most important item on her agenda.
The pre-auction press release written by Catherine was widely received by editors, which enabled us to reach a huge audience and achieve a record breaking price for a Black Forest rarity.
Every investment that we've made using LiveAuctioneers.com services has been worth it, and I am now 100% sold on the new PR service as well.
Thank you so much for another success brought about by the fabulous team at LiveAuctioneers.com!
—Kathleen Pica, Auctions Neapolitan & Gallery
"Our decision to use LiveAuctioneers PR Services to promote our July auction resulted in our best auction yet on LiveAuctioneers. We had our highest number of online bids and bidders, which made a big impact on sales results for both online and onsite hammer prices. It was easy working with LAPRS’s professional staff to get the word out about our auction, and we were especially pleased with the postsale press release coverage. Our sale was a hit, and our decision to enlist the expertise of LAPRS was a big part of the success."
—Barbara Frasher, President, Frasher's Doll Auctions, Inc.
"Live Auctioneers PR services pushed our auction to the next level. Getting a press release published in the antiques, art and collecting media brought our auction new bidders from all over the planet. Catherine helped us write a fantastic press release, gave us advice on media relations and got us the results we needed. Thank you for everything, and we will be using your service again!"
