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8 Quick Tips to Managing a Fundraising Campaign
Whether it is your first fundraiser or your twentieth, organizing a fundraising campaign can be challenging. From setting fundraising goals to celebrating the end of your campaign, your fundraising campaign could take weeks, months, or even longer. So, what do you need?
Need a Great Fundraising Idea?
Love using your smartphone? So will your guests at your most successful silent auction yet. Mobile bidding at your fundraiser makes everything easier – set up, administration, management and best of all guest access and mobile payment.
The Importance of Charity Auctions
If you are planning a fundraising campaign, and a charity auction is one of your fundraising ideas, you’re not alone. In North America, there are more than 250,000 charity auctions held every year, including live auctions – run by an auctioneer or MC – and silent charity auctions that are often part of a bigger event along with those held online.
Silent Charity Auctions: Fundraising Goes Mobile
For decades, silent charity auctions were paper-based. With bid sheets and pencils in hand, bidders circled the item tables, jostling their neighbours to make the final bids and win the coveted silent auction item. Fast forward a few years, and auction bidders huddled around a shared tablet struggling to place bids.
MobilBid Ranked in Top 7 North American Mobile Bidding Platform Solutions
Recently, we were excited to learn that MobilBid had been included on a list of the seven most popular North American charity silent auction mobile
5 Steps to Setup a MobilBid Virtual Auction
Since its introduction, MobilBid has been used at more than 1000 events, raised millions of dollars, and given fundraisers an innovative, cost-effective mobile bidding platform.
A Guide to the Charity Silent Auction Technology Makeover
Five features fundraisers love about today’s charity silent auctions. Charity silent auctions have been a mainstay of modern fundraising for decades. As popular as they
Has the Smartphone Bidding Technology Rendered the “Dedicated Wireless Network” for Mobile Bidding Obsolete?
The surging popularity of mobile bidding platforms and the advantages of using these systems has dramatically improved not just the streamlining of the silent auction process, but also the results – the monies raised.