How Online Auctions Work
You can run an online auction to complement your live event and silent auction, or as a stand-alone online auction. Here's how it works - click on the steps below for more details:
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1. Set up your homepage Use our easy templates to customize your auction home page - no html required! |
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3. Promote your event Put your auction website and our tools to work to promote your event, get items for your catalog, cash donations and sponsorships. |
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2. Get auction items Use our tools to organize your team and tasks, find new donors and get donated items from our partner companies. |
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4. Work with your Auction Expert Your dedicated consultant is here to help you, with tips, best practices, and checklists to maximize your auction's success. |
1. Set up your auction home page
- Use our easy templates to customize your home page with your organization's look and feel, logos, and branding - no html required!
- Publish your auction site early to generate excitement for your upcoming event, to solicit sponsorships, item and cash donations, and to stay in touch with your supporters.
- We provide tools to help you streamline your item donation and volunteer management tasks, and to find new donors: templates, best practices, and access to top business donors.
- Add Instant Items to your auction catalog, no-cost items donated by our partner companies to enhance your auction.
- Easily organize and catalog your auction items as they come in, or upload your entire catalog in one step. You can provide multiple images, highlight item donors, and create compelling listings that get results.
- Use your auction website and our bidder email system and refer-a-friend features to promote your event and expand your outreach to your community.
- Activate social media buttons on your auction site, so your supporters can help spread the word.
- Open your auction to our Bidder Community of 290,000+ affluent, cause-minded consumers - an easy way to gain greater exposure for your organization and to drive competitive bidding.
4. Work with your Auction Expert consultant
- Throughout the entire process, your assigned Auction Expert is available by phone and email to provide you with best practices, tips and checklists that will help you create a successful auction catalog. No other auction provider offers this level of personal service!
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Why run an online auction?
Add an online auction to your live event.
