OUR STORY • TRINITY, TEXAS • SINCE 2007
From Trinity Auction Gallery to Asset Marketing Pros
The name has changed and the way people bid has evolved, but the people behind the business—and our commitment to buyers and sellers—remain the same.
A Local Business With a Long History
Asset Marketing Pros, LLC—AMP—grew from a business David and Liz Drake started together in downtown Trinity in 2007. Many longtime customers first knew us as Trinity Auction Gallery.
What began as an auction gallery developed into a broader professional asset business. Auctions remained an important part of what we do, but our work also grew to include personal property appraisals, asset evaluations, collections assistance and other services that help clients make informed decisions about personal property.
THE NAME CHANGED. THE PEOPLE DIDN’T.
If you remember Trinity Auction Gallery, you already know AMP. Asset Marketing Pros, LLC reflects the wider range of professional services we provide while keeping the same locally owned business behind the name.
2007 — Trinity Auction Gallery Begins
We started our business together in 2007 in a rented downtown Trinity building with plenty of small-town character. For years, that location was home to Trinity Auction Gallery and the place where customers came to buy, sell, and talk auctions with us.
When that building was eventually sold, we needed a new home. Rather than leave downtown Trinity, we saw an opportunity to invest in another older building and give it a new life.
2014 — A Five-Year Labor of Love
In 2014, we purchased an aging downtown building. We both appreciate the history of Trinity and wanted to preserve the character of an older commercial building while creating a safe, functional, and energy-efficient workplace.
The project became much larger than we first expected. Over the next five years, we gutted and rebuilt the building. We replaced floors and walls, exposed original brick, installed new electrical and HVAC systems, and rebuilt or updated the front and rear walls, windows, doors, interior walls, and restrooms.
It was a major investment in our business—and in the downtown community we had already called home for years.
Before & After: Bringing the Building Back to Life
The goal was not to make the building look new. We wanted to bring back the character of its early-1900s storefront while making it safe and practical for a modern business. These photographs show the transformation.
Watch the Transformation
Take a look back at the renovation that transformed a tired downtown building into the home of Asset Marketing Pros.
2019 — Trinity Auction Gallery Becomes Asset Marketing Pros, LLC
As the building project neared completion, our business had also changed. The name Trinity Auction Gallery no longer described everything we were doing for clients.
We transitioned to Asset Marketing Pros, LLC to better represent the business we had become. AMP could evaluate assets, provide professional appraisal services when needed, help clients work through collections and liquidation decisions, and market property through auction when auction was the right solution.
The transition was a new chapter, not a new company philosophy. David and Liz remained the owners and auction professionals behind the business, serving many of the same customers who had known us as Trinity Auction Gallery.
A Historic Storefront With a New Purpose
The restored building at 156 N Robb St, Trinity, Texas became AMP’s home. We kept the character of the older storefront while creating a facility that could support a modern auction and asset-services business.
The traditional hand-painted signage was part of that vision. Our friend Tricia McCartney painted the storefront sign, helping us retain the old downtown character while introducing the Asset Marketing Pros name.
Then the Auction Business Changed Again
Online bidding had already been changing the auction industry, and the events of 2020 accelerated that shift. What once felt like an alternative way to conduct an auction became a normal and convenient way for buyers to participate from almost anywhere.
For AMP, online auctions let us combine our local knowledge and physical facility in Trinity with a much wider bidding audience. Buyers no longer had to be standing in the auction room to compete for an item.
AMP Today — Local Expertise. Nationwide Reach.
Today, Asset Marketing Pros is still based in downtown Trinity. We primarily conduct auctions online, allowing bidders to participate beyond East Texas while keeping a local presence where customers can contact us, preview auction property when offered, arrange pickups, and work with us in person.
Our work includes online auctions, personal property appraisals, asset evaluations, collections assistance, and professional auction services. We regularly work with coins and currency, jewelry, firearms and sporting goods, vehicles, equipment, business assets, estates and specialty collections.
Technology has changed how bidders participate, and the AMP name better describes the range of work we do today. But the foundation is much the same as it was in 2007: know the assets, understand the market, treat people fairly and find a practical solution.
Visit AMP in Downtown Trinity
Asset Marketing Pros, LLC
156 N Robb St
Trinity, TX 75862
Longtime Trinity Auction Gallery customers are always welcome—and if you have only recently discovered AMP through one of our online auctions, now you know where the story began.
See What AMP Is Doing Today
From our downtown Trinity storefront to online bidders across the country, we continue to connect assets with the people looking for them.