Auction Help
Looking for help? Let me assist …
- To have fresh auction ideas served directly to your in-box (yum), instantly receive my Auction Item Guide. It’s stuffed with 100 top-selling auction procurement items to get your creative juices flowing. I’ll add Benefit Auction Ideas, my bi-monthly ezine ($97 value) expressly written for you, the volunteer auction chair ready to hit a new fundraising record. (The e-zine is also where I share my upcoming free teleseminars.)
- Read my auction blog. It includes photos, videos, podcasts, and other goodies.
- Subscribe to my RSS feed (That’s the orange square box on the right. Scroll down if you don’t see it.). When I write a blog post, you’ll be alerted via your feed.
Outside resources, depending on your unique needs
- Foundation Group - This Tennessee-based group has helped thousands of nonprofits with paperwork related to federal compliance, getting or maintaining a 501(c)3 status, provide education, bookkeeping, and so forth. As of October 2011, Sherry Truhlar joined the faculty of 501(c)3 University experts and will be leading webinars on charity auctions.
- Greater Giving- Greater Giving™, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with six satellite offices in the U.S., is dedicated to providing technology solutions to the nonprofit community in order to improve their fundraising efforts. Greater Giving offers a complete event fundraising solution that includes event management software, an online registration and donation service, and on-site payment processing the day of the event. Products and services are available separately or as an integrated solution.
- Tofino Auctions – The original developers of this software were recruited to run a school fundraising auction in 2004 and the other partners found them when THEY were running other school auctions. They offer online auction software, which offers the convenience of (as one example) enabling your volunteers to log in and input item descriptions from wherever they happen to be located.
- AuctionStar - Retail stores use barcodes to easily track merchandise … maybe your benefit auction should, too! I learned more about this cool concept when AuctionStar had me speak in Houston, TX and I got to visit with their clients, who raved about the company’s customer support. Guests use their own barcodes to bid in the silent auction, which makes scanning the winners a snap.
