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  • Raise The Stakes: How To Attract Higher Silent Auction Bids

    Raise The Stakes: How To Attract Higher Silent Auction Bids

    Online silent auctions have emerged as an innovative and effective fundraising tool for charity organizations. This digital approach allows for a broader reach to potential contributors and offers a convenient, user-friendly platform for participants to bid on items. When hosting an online silent auction, organizations should strive to maximize the bid amounts to generate as…

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  • SMS For Bidders

    SMS For Bidders

     We talk a lot about the different resources you need to put on a perfect silent auction, or in other words, a great online event where you can sell items to the highest bidder.  We also recognize there are a lot of different scenarios where this type of information is helpful. You might be organizing…

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  • How To Choose The Right Items For Your Online Silent Auction

    How To Choose The Right Items For Your Online Silent Auction

    Silent auctions are a popular way for organizations to raise funds for a cause while allowing donors to bid on unique and valuable items. However, selecting the right ones for your online silent auction can be challenging with so many items. Here are seven tips to help you choose the right items for your online…

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  • The Value of the Four Things in Our Intermediate Package

    The Value of the Four Things in Our Intermediate Package

    You get a lot of good stuff with our starter package – and we’ve talked about that in the past: for example, the capability of accepting online bids in real-time, automatic receipts, being able to add your auction items or select consignment items, etc.   But let’s talk about the add-ons in the intermediate package…

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  • Creative Ways To Promote Your Online Silent Charity Auction

    Creative Ways To Promote Your Online Silent Charity Auction

    Are you looking for creative ways to promote your online silent charity auction? Whether raising money for a local cause or a global one, getting the word out about your event can be challenging. Fortunately, plenty of digital marketing tactics can help you spread the word and maximize donations. Last year, over $326 billion was…

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  • Your Auction: Proper Use Of Reminders And Price Settings

    Your Auction: Proper Use Of Reminders And Price Settings

    At Perfect Silent Auction, we think a lot about how to have the best online silent auction possible. We talk to a lot of people who are responsible for setting up these events, and maximizing what they get out of them for a cause or an organization. So we think about this process a great…

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  • Key Aspects Of A Successful Fundraiser

    Key Aspects Of A Successful Fundraiser

    Fundraising is essential to the success of non-profit groups and organizations. From national entities raising money and awareness for causes to local sports teams and clubs raising funds for equipment and necessities, fundraising can be tricky. People are inundated with financial obligations, so hosting exciting fundraising events that are easily accessible to a range of…

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  • Silent Auctions – A Product Of Our Times

    Silent Auctions – A Product Of Our Times

    Why do people like silent auctions? The answer has to do with the way business gets done these days, and how people like to approach fundraisers or projects for special causes. When you really think about it, the trends illustrate how we have developed commerce in specific ways that have an impact on our lives. …

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  • Sample Web Sites

    Sample Web Sites

    What You See On Our Sample Web Sites If you look back through the past blog posts, at least some of the more recent ones, we talked a lot about the actual features and resources on the site. We’ve gone over some of the basic utility of having this kind of help for an auction…

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  • Three Creative Fundraising Ideas

    Three Creative Fundraising Ideas

    Raising money for your organization can be difficult, especially when the economy is tight for everyone and people have only discretionary income. Discretionary income means that people have only enough extra to give to a small number of organizations rather than as many as they’d like.  When organizations and groups need to raise funds, they…

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