A Successful Online Silent Auction Requires Great Photos of Your Auction Items. Good photos can help a silent auction item sell for more, and bad photos will hurt your chances… Read More »
Live and Silent Auction
Guarantee Revenue with a 50/50 Raffle
One of the easiest revenue enhancers you’ll find is the 50/50 Raffle. It’s just like a normal raffle, but instead of a prize, the organization splits the proceeds with the… Read More »
How To: Write Compelling Auction Item Descriptions
You’ve got some really fantastic items for your auction this year—how are you going to entice your guests to bid on them? You’ve only got a few brief seconds to… Read More »
Top 5 New Fall 2015 Greater Giving Features
This Fall Greater Giving rolled out a brand new interface to Online Bidding (aka Mobile Bidding) and with it ushered a bunch of great new features. With those top new features… Read More »
How To Rethink Your Fundraising Event
Do you wonder if all the hard work that goes into a fundraising event is worth it in the end? We talk with nonprofits all the time who invest tons of hours,… Read More »
The Three Commandments of Soliciting Auction Items
Three Commandments of Soliciting Auction Items There are some general rules to help in your soliciting auction items process: Less is more. Your committee only has so much bandwidth to solicit, procure,… Read More »
How Much is Too Much for Your Live and Silent Auction?
How many items are too many for live and silent auction? Consider going digital for excess items. For a long time the conventional wisdom has been that more auction items equals… Read More »
How to Solicit Auction Hardware: Rent, Buy or Borrow
How to Solicit Auction Hardware for Your Next Event: Buy, Rent, or Borrow The right auction hardware at check-in is key for getting guests smoothly, happily, and quickly into the… Read More »
Woodland Park Zoo Breaks Mobile Bidding Records
We sat down with Lorna Chin, Associate Director, Relationship Data Services and Cortney Bacon, Fundraising Events Supervisor and Jungle Party Manager, to discuss their 39th Annual Jungle Party. They used… Read More »
What to Do and Expect as a First Time Auction Chair
So this is your first time as auction chair this year. Congratulations! It’s a big job, but you’ve got resources to help you. First, though, here’s some food for thought…. Read More »