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A Simple Way to Improve Silent Auction Check-Out Without Aggravating Bidders
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When your fundraising gala includes a silent auction, your “audience” is all of those bidders. You want to love these people, but they get so demanding when it comes to check-out!
While your volunteers are diligently preparing invoices, your gala guests constantly interrupt them, demanding to know, “Did I win anything?”
The easiest way to solve this hiccup in the process is to use signage.
Watch this video to see good and bad examples of winning bidder boards. Your silent auction will never be the same!
