Any nonprofit running a gala can put a trip to Bali on the auction block without buying it first, and that single idea is what CMO is built around. CMO operates as BlueTree Marketing Corporation and stocks travel and experience packages that charities offer at fundraising auctions on a full consignment basis. The CMO catalogue covers everything from tropical beach trips to live event experiences. The organization pays nothing up front, the package sits in the catalogue, and if it sells the charity keeps the spread. If it does not sell, nobody is left holding an unpaid invoice for a week in Tahoe. That model removes the usual gamble in auction inventory, where a board has to guess whether a donated item will clear its cost.

The inventory leans toward the kind of lots that draw a paddle at a black-tie event. There are exotic vacation packages, with destinations the site names directly: Bali, Lake Tahoe, the Rome, Venice and Florence circuit through Italy, a Kenya trip, and country music event experiences for the audience that wants a concert plus access. Alongside the headline travel lots, CMO supplies silent auction items and raffle packages, so an event planner can fill more than just the live portion of the night. A smaller charity dinner and a large hospital benefit have different needs, and the spread of price points here seems aimed at covering both.

More telling than the destinations is the promise of a guaranteed profit. CMO states the consignment model means the client incurs no upfront cost and is guaranteed a profit, which is a strong claim and the central reason a development director would pick a vendor like this over sourcing donated trips themselves. It shifts the risk off the nonprofit entirely. The fine print on what counts toward that guarantee and the reserve pricing is not detailed anywhere on the page, so a board should request those terms in writing and read them closely.

Support after the package is booked

Putting a vacation package in front of a room of bidders takes more than naming the destination, and CMO addresses that gap with marketing collateral. The company provides package descriptions, high-resolution images and promotional materials so the volunteer running the event has finished assets ready to drop into a deck. For an organization where the auction committee is three people doing this off the side of their desks, that ready-made material saves them building slides from scratch the week before the gala.

The piece worth noting is what happens after the gavel falls. CMO runs a concierge service it calls Blue Glove, which deals directly with the winning bidder on logistics: booking dates, coordinating the trip, handling the back-and-forth that would otherwise land on the charity's staff. This division of labour is sensible. The moment a winning bidder has a bad experience redeeming a prize, the blowback hits the nonprofit's name, not the supplier's, so pushing that workload onto the vendor closes a loop that catches a lot of charities out. CMO also offers a free consultation booking on the site for organizations that want to talk through an event first, which keeps the entry point low for a board that is still sizing the opportunity.

Who this fits is narrow and worth stating plainly. CMO is built for nonprofits running fundraising events, not for individuals shopping for a discounted holiday or for businesses outside the charity space. Someone arriving expecting consumer travel deals will be in the wrong place. For an auction chair, though, the consignment structure answers the question that usually stalls these decisions: what does it cost us if it flops.

Reaching the company is straightforward. There is a phone line, a Miami street address on North Kendall Drive, and a page to book a consultation, all in plain view. Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube links are present too, and none of that is hidden behind a form-only wall, and that counts for a buyer who wants to talk to a person before putting a six-figure event in someone else's hands.

Reputation picture

BlueTree Marketing has been accredited by the Better Business Bureau since 2016, listed under fundraising supplies in the Aventura, Florida area. A multi-year BBB accreditation points to an established operation rather than a pop-up. Beyond that, the public review trail is short. The company's Facebook shows no listed reviews, and there are no Google, Trustpilot or Yelp counts to point to for this specific business.

One caution worth flagging for anyone doing their own homework: a Clutch.co profile with fourteen reviews turns up for a firm called Blue Tree, but that one is a link-building agency, a completely different company, and those ratings do not belong to this fundraising supplier. Confusing the two would give a false read on track record. The honest summary is a solid institutional marker from the BBB and very little customer-voice evidence in the open. That is not damning, but a thorough buyer would fill the gap by requesting client references directly rather than expecting to find them online.

CMO lands in a genuinely useful position for the audience it targets. The risk-free consignment terms do most of the selling here, and the post-event concierge handling closes a practical gap. The years of BBB accreditation count in its favour. The reservation is straightforward: the guaranteed-profit claim deserves scrutiny in writing, and the scarce third-party feedback means a first-time client is partly trusting the structure over a visible crowd of past customers. The published evidence is enough to justify a serious conversation; it is not enough to skip asking for references.

---