There was a problem at one of my spring fundraising auctions. The event was new, designed to take the place of a more traditional fundraising dinner. For many years the dinner reliably drew 400- 500 guests. The hope was that this new event would attract a similarly sized crowd. It didn’t. At first the planner… Read On >
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The key to offering fast auction checkout is to have guests swipe their credit cards at registration. Here’s how to get guests to hand over their card.
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Let’s get real: You can’t close the silent auction and *instantly* be ready for auction checkout.
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Using bid stickers is one way to make it easy to read your silent auction bid sheets. Here are four examples.
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This is a 3-part blog post, explaining why benefit auctions should identify guests with bid numbers instead of names. The first post looked at the benefits of using numbers in a Fund a Need. Today, we examine using numbers in the live auction. The third post turns to using numbers in the silent auction. +++++++++++++++++« Continue Reading »
Continue readingThis is a 3-part blog post, explaining why benefit auctions should identify guests with bid numbers instead of names. The first post looked at the benefits of using numbers in a Fund a Need. Today, we examine using numbers in the live auction. The third post turns to using numbers in the silent auction. +++++++++++++++++« Continue Reading »
Continue readingWhether guests will be paying sales tax on auction items depends on your city and state. Here’s how a group in Maryland handles its 6% tax.
Continue readingIf guests will swipe their credit cards at check-in instead of at night’s end, here’s how to get guests to hand over their credit card at registration.
Continue readingIf guests will swipe their credit cards at check-in instead of at night’s end, here’s how to get guests to hand over their credit card at registration.
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