If every member of the auction team – and their respective committee members – does their job, then ticket sales will have a perennial appeal from year to year. Your Ticket Sales Captain can do a lot to keep that positive momentum going and growing.

By clearly defining every key Team position, and never giving any one person more to do than they can reasonably accomplish (and keep their sanity), you’ll recruit solid team members, pull off a successful event, and keep your volunteers coming back.

The task of the Sign-up Party Procurement Chair is specific and measurable... and fun.

Live Auction Procurement Chair is the “big-game hunter” of the team. This person (together with other Live Auction Committee members) will aim to procure unusual, hard-to-buy experiences to be offered for live bidding on event night.

Leave a legacy of success by recruiting your committee chairs now. Silent Auction Procurement a rewarding and fun position for someone who is naturally social and enjoys networking.

The Auction Chair is the event point person; therefore, selecting the right person to take over next year’s event should be your first priority as this fundraising season draws to a close.

Today’s post provides a clear organizational structure to allow parent volunteers to participate at the level of their comfort while making a meaningful contribution to the cause.

Building your team of auction committee volunteers isn't burdensome if you have a plan in place. This blog series will give you a road map for building next year's auction team… so you can keep this year's momentum going!

In this post, I want to tell you about a couple of the other fantastic features of our software, and how you can use it to further support your fundraising efforts.

In our last blog we talked about the most important pieces of information to have with you on Auction night. In today’s post, we’re adding to that list some equally important details which, in the heat of the moment, could make or break your results.

Online auctions are a great follow-up to the main event, and are a particularly good platform for selling spots in sign-up parties and for refreshing or recombining items leftover from the live or silent auctions.

Event night presents a unique challenge, in that you won’t be at your home computer so you won’t have all the auction-related info at your fingertips. That’s why we email a handy checklist, a few days before your event. It’s also the purpose of this blo…

Fortunately, it is surprisingly easy to find willing volunteers for tasks that are well-defined and require limited time… which is the secret to recruiting next year’s team.

One of the best ways current auction teams can benefit future efforts is to catalog – and pass along in an organized format - key vendor contacts and account information.

Imagine what a difference it would make to go into next year’s auction season with all the knowledge you gained through this year’s experience, readily accessible to the next team? This is the purpose of debriefing.