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Sheehan Hubbard
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After all the hard work you put into creating the perfect evening, the last thing you want is for a guest to have a poor checkout experience and leave with negative impression of your event. Take a few simple steps to ensure an efficient and effective checkout process that leaves your guests feeling appreciated. Have [...]
Name one thing that never leaves your guests’ sides. Their wallet or purse? Perhaps, but there’s something else they rarely leave behind—their cell phones. Most people are connected to their cell phones almost 24/7. That’s why BidPal recently integrated cell phone bidding into our offerings for your charity event! BidPal has always had a “mobile [...]
Our nonprofit clients never cease to amaze me with their creative uses of the BidPal device. Used for so much more than silent auction bidding, each unique use helps generate more revenue. One of my favorite examples is using the BidPal device to cast a “donation vote.” A simple voting contest is set up using [...]
Adding fixed price items to your silent auction is a great way to increase revenue. Automated auctions allow guests to purchase items directly on their handheld device—with no extra staffing required! I was recently inspired by some handcrafted “marbleized” ornaments made by sheltered, homeless children in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Each unique Christmas ball was [...]
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Cameron Mahoney
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Raffle Tickets Raffle tickets are a great way to get your crowd involved with your event and raise quite a bit of money. The benefit of a raffle item over a silent auction package is that you are selling the chance of winning an item instead of the item itself, so you can sell it [...]
Welcome! Looking to take your event to the next level? Look no further! Here you’ll find BidPal’s team of experts ready to provide you with fun ideas, practical tips, innovative solutions and, of course, best practices and lessons learned from managing hundreds of charitable events. You’ll hear from BidPal experts in all departments. Want ideas from [...]
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Sheehan Hubbard
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Do you ever wonder which silent auction items are going to make your organization the most money? Will it be the spa package or the restaurant gift card? Here are a few ideas that are sure to be the hit of the event: Hey, batter, batter! Contact your local sports teams for tickets to a [...]
After centuries of monopolizing the silent auction, old-fashioned paper bid sheets have finally met their match. BidPal handheld bidding devices have freed the silent auction from the issues that can make charitable events less enjoyable and less profitable—blank bid sheets, incorrect bid increments, auction abandonment, table hovering, and the checkout scramble, to name just a [...]
