Every auction generates data. You probably already review your sales data to gauge the success of your events. But delving even deeper into your data can help you make more money at your auction next year. (Yes, you can have a next auction, pandemic or not. More on that at the end of this post.)
... continue reading.For obvious reasons (we’re looking at you, Covid-19), we’re focusing our blogging on online auctions these days. Many of you are converting your galas to online-only events. While there are many similarities between paper bidding and online bidding, one big difference is how bidders gain access to the event itself. For a gala, your guests,
... continue reading.“Are my online auction settings right?” Our support team sees variations of this question a lot. And we’re always glad to take a look at your site and tell you what we see. But when it comes to whether your settings are “right,” we usually have to say, “It depends.” Every online auction is a
... continue reading.The following is a guest post, from our friends at CharityEngine. Nonprofit fundraising is key for organizations to advance their missions. While your mission is at the heart of your organization1, fundraising is how you work toward that mission. Therefore, your nonprofit should be focused on improving and maximizing your fundraising initiatives as much as
... continue reading.Due to the COVID-19 induced economic downturn, many businesses and families are struggling to make ends meet. And nonprofits are struggling to support their communities during this time of increased need. To fulfill their missions, nonprofits need funds–and fundraising options–now more than ever. We’re hard at work developing new virtual live fundraising tools to help
... continue reading.Many of our customers are converting to online events. We’re hard at work developing new features to enhance the online auction for you and for your supporters. And we rolled the first of these new features out to your site just yesterday. You now have the ability to add a progress tracker (also known as
... continue reading.If you’ve converted your event to an online auction, or if you were planning to run an online auction to begin with, you may be wondering if your set up is correct. The “correct” online set up can depend on a number of factors and may vary from one organization to another. But here are
... continue reading.Some organizations are considering cancelling their gala events due to the coronavirus. That’s a difficult choice to make. And as we mentioned in the email we sent to all of our customers earlier this week: while there are way too many factors involved in this decision to tell you what you should do, we can
... continue reading.As we discussed last week, you can easily convert your gala to an online-only event. And because of the Covid-19 crisis, many of our customers are doing exactly that. Much of the conversion can be done by adjusting some settings at Admin > Site Settings > Online/Mobile Bidding, and then using the Bulk Edit function
... continue reading.Continuing with our Data Month theme, let’s take a look at collecting guest data. What information should you collect from your guests? (We’ll get into the “how” in the next installment.) Before we go any further, we need to make sure we are on the same page with terminology. By Guests, we mean people who have
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