Nonprofits every day are moving away from old school, pen-and-paper bidding, toward automated software solutions. Online bidding puts guests in charge of their own auction experience: they can browse items… Read More »
Thinking Like a Retail Store, Part 2 — The Live Auction
This is the second of a two-part series that helps you maximize your revenue by approaching your gala event as if it was a pop-up retail store. This article focuses… Read More »
5 Fresh Ideas to Revamp Your Nonprofit’s Email Marketing
This post is the second in a series designed to teach the fundamentals of email marketing for nonprofits. These posts are based on the Effective Email Engagement for Nonprofits: The… Read More »
Set Your Auction to “Self-Driving” in 4 Steps
Planning and executing an auction is hard work. There’s the venue, the guest list, the catering, the sponsors—the list goes on and on. There’s one big question we get from… Read More »
Raise More with Engaging Emails
This post is the first in a series designed to teach the fundamentals of email marketing for nonprofits. These posts are based on the Effective Email Engagement for Nonprofits: The… Read More »
Thinking Like a Retail Store, Part 1 — The Silent Auction
This two-part series helps you maximize your revenue and create a memorable experience for your guests by approaching your gala event as if it was a pop-up retail store. This… Read More »
The Auction Control Center
Before mobile bidding, if you wanted to know how much money the auction had made, everyone had to stand around waiting for the report. Sometimes you didn’t even know the… Read More »
Auction Package Description Tips and Best Practices
This information and more comes from our webinar, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Auction Profits. Auction packages are a great way to maximize your efforts and your revenue…. Read More »
The Pros and Cons of Traditional vs. Online Event Promotion
Discussions about whether to use traditional promotional avenues or emerging online resources to promote your event is a hot topic among event planners with potentially high costs. Choose the wrong… Read More »
Find the Silent Auction Sweet Spot Part Two
In the first article of this two-part series, we looked at the concept of choice overload and reviewed some of the pros and cons related to small auctions with few… Read More »