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West Central Auction Co.

GHL cleanup, bidder tracking and campaign support across five equipment auctions.

Client project in auction operations

Bloomwired-designed West Central Auction five-auction report
Five auctions, buyer history and campaign delivery in one report.

Campaigns with a clearer foundation.

The work sat behind the auction website: organizing contact records, keeping track of bidders and helping each campaign reach an appropriate audience.

The work covered GHL operations and campaigns. The auction website was not designed or built by Bloomwired.

Cleaner delivery, fewer opt-outs.

The supplied report compares campaign rates before and during the work.

Email bounce rate

Previously 7.1%

0.5%

Down 6.6 percentage points

Email delivery rate

Previously 92.7%

99.4%

Up 6.7 percentage points

Text opt-out rate

Previously 2.1%

0.4%

Down 1.7 percentage points

GHL comparison: the six weeks before July 15 versus July 15 to September 23, 2026. Delivery does not verify inbox placement; send counts are not unique people.

What we connected.

Contact cleanup

Cleaned imports and matched returning bidders while preserving contact history.

Bidder and buyer tracking

Connected auction registrations, activity and purchases to useful CRM stages.

Auction campaigns

Built auction emails and texts with audience groups and tracked email engagement.

Sending setup

Configured an authenticated domain and planned the warm-up around auction dates.

Office call routing

Routed office calls to the team instead of the owner’s personal phone.

Reporting people can use

Brought auction results, buyer history and campaign delivery into one report.

Keep the buyer history useful.

Registrations and purchases inform the next campaign.

  1. Match the contact.

    Clean each bidder import and match returning contacts.

  2. Record the right stage.

    Track registration, bidding and purchase status without downgrading established buyers.

  3. Prepare the next campaign.

    Use buyer history and audience exclusions when planning follow-up.

The auction results in context.

About $574k

Invoiced across five auctions

125

Different buyers

40

Bought at two or more auctions

$174,400

Invoiced to 69 new buyers

These are reported results during the service period, not sales attributed solely to Bloomwired. Inventory, pricing and other marketing also influence auction outcomes.

Invoiced per lot

About 2.4 times as much in Fall as on August 5.

Inside the report.

Bar chart showing reported invoiced amounts per lot for the five auctions
The report keeps the auction figures visible, with their dates and units.
Operational comparison of the GHL setup before and after the work
Contact organization, routing and reporting make the behind-the-scenes work tangible.
Read the results report (PDF, opens in a new tab)

Eight pages covering the five auctions, buyer history and campaign delivery.

What this project shows.

A useful CRM reflects what people actually did. Contact cleanup, bidder history and clear audience rules made the auction operation easier to run and report on.

Some imports and campaign steps remained manual. This project brought structure and reusable workflows to the operation.

About these figures

Source: West Central Auction Company’s five-auction report, July 15 to September 23, 2026; GHL delivery dashboard and MarkNet reports, as cited in the supplied report.

These are reported results during the service period, not sales attributed solely to Bloomwired. Inventory, pricing and other marketing also influence auction outcomes.

The report headline lists $574,532; its five displayed invoice rows sum to $574,531. The overview uses a rounded total. Source values are retained below.

“New” means absent from the available registration history since February. New and repeat buyer groups can overlap during the period.

The source records 14,010 SMS link clicks. The work log identifies carrier and security scans, so this is not a verified count of human visits. Automated scans were separated from useful engagement when organizing the CRM.

GHL comparison: the six weeks before July 15 versus July 15 to September 23, 2026. Delivery does not verify inbox placement; send counts are not unique people.

Reported results, July 15 to September 23, 2026
AuctionLotsBids per lotRegisteredBuyersInvoicedPer lot
Jul 15 Summer27416.08942$129,346$472
Aug 5 Christmas in July16612.17644$98,918$596
Aug 27 August16223.77637$117,146$723
Sep 10 Labor Day10419.87338$121,290$1,166
Sep 23 Fall7438.311531$107,831$1,457

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