That Sounds Like a Plan!
Planning and producing a successful fundraising event can be stressful and overwhelming. That Sounds Like a Plan! walks you through the process step by step from start to finish. Whether you're an executive director, marketing manager, board member or volunteer, if you need guidance planning and producing a fundraising event for a small nonprofit, this podcast is for you. Host Alicia Baraga brings you strategies, tips, tools, and information from her 14+ years planning fundraising and awareness-building events for a wide variety of nonprofit clients. Along with sharing best practices, Alicia interviews experts in fields related to events such as marketing, sponsorship, A/V, auctions and more. She answers your questions in Q&A episodes and boosts your confidence through Planner Pep Talks (PPT). If you're ready to streamline your event planning process, grow your audience and raise more money at your fundraising event, hit subscribe and let's get started. Now that sounds like a plan!
That Sounds Like a Plan!
33_Online Auction Basics
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Online, mobile, or virtual auction. No matter the name, they all mean the same thing; an auction conducted over the Internet where people can bid through a website or mobile device. Not paper sheet bidding.
In this episode I share:
- The benefits of an online auction
- What to look for in a platform
- How to structure your planning timeline for an online auction
- Suggestions for dividing the work amongst your auction team
- Tips for adding items to your auction site
LISTENER ACTION ITEM
- Start researching platforms.
- Set up demos so you can see the platform in action. If you haven’t already, recruit your auction team and divide up the tasks.
- Decide who will be the platform “expert” (it should be the auction chair) and have them learn as much as they can about it and teach the rest of the team.
- Create a standard format for how you write descriptions and add items to the site.
LIST OF RESOURCES & SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES
Ep 32_Preparing to Host an Auction
Ep 22_Creating an Internal Event Recap
Download: Online auction platforms for small nonprofits
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