One of the really great things about this business is working with all of you. Really – think about it. By definition, our customers are people who take on huge jobs to improve their communities. And the overwhelming majority of you are volunteers! And, let’s just put this out there: most of the people who
... continue reading.The most common conversation I have with prospective customers surrounds one particular aspect of our product design: it’s a subscription, which allows you to run multiple events for your organization (no sharing with other schools or nonprofits, please) during the subscription term. This can cause panic (that’s not our intent, I promise!) – I’ve had
... continue reading.Have you checked out DonationMatch yet? I’ll give you a moment. Do come back, though: we have a very cool program going on with them that you will want to know about. https://www.donationmatch.com/ Back? Isn’t that great? I met Renee Zau, the founder of DonationMatch a few years ago, and we have done a few
... continue reading.Happy New Year’s, everyone. Made any resolutions? I have. I did pretty good with last year’s resolution, but that was completely me-focused (I lost 30 pounds). This year, I have decided to focus one of my resolutions on you, to help you as you plan your auctions. I’m going to blog more (seriously, take a
... continue reading.Over at the Winspire blog, they just published a fabulous post on how to deal with one of the biggest sources of auction frustration: managing the guests who are attending your event on sponsor tickets. Specifically, how do you get them to actually be productive, bidding guests? Check it out: https://blog.winspireme.com/4-steps-turn-corporate-table-guests-into-givers-fundraising-strategy Roger
... continue reading.We added something new to the software yesterday to help all of you when you need to tackle some part of the software that you haven’t used before (or want a refresher on) – Guided Tours. There is now a “Take a Tour” button visible when you login from a computer (the tool we bought
... continue reading.You really need to read this blog post from Sherry Truhlar, of Red Apple Auctions: https://www.redappleauctions.com/do-you-have-to-print-the-value-of-an-auction-item/
... continue reading.We’re rolling out new code this afternoon, including an adjustment to our new catalog display. Some of you have been unhappy about the way item titles and the Bid Now/Bid at Event ribbons overlay the item images. Others of you love it. But the people who DON’T love it reeeeeeeeealllly don’t love it – so we’ve
... continue reading.UPDATE: We still don’t have word as to what went wrong at the data center, but all sites are back up and running. For the record, we were down from 11:08 to 11:28, and then again from 11:30 to 11:33 (all times a.m, and Pacific). Our Data Center provider (the company that we contract with
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