Idealware: A Few Good Online Auction Tools

Idealware has released another in their “A Few Good Tools” series of compact overview guides of online tools for nonprofits. This new guide focuses on tools for running online auctions.

Real-life auctions have a long history in the nonprofit sector and online actions have been a popular fundraising tool for some online charities since the rise of eBay in the early days of the Internet. eBay is a popular tools for running online charity auctions, but there are a wide variety of other web services available to meet the diverse needs of the nonprofit sector.

Idealware’s guide covers the basics of how to organize and run a successful online auction, including:

• planning the overall approach
• acquiring items to auction
• reaching out to those you want to participate
• purchase fulfillment and shipping of auctioned items
• choosing the right tool for your auction

The guide also profiles several of the leading online charity auction service providers such as MissionFish, cMarket, Benefit Events and others.

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Posted by irishg on July 18th, 2007 at 09:29am