Nonprofit Auction Tips - eBay Courses - Are They Worth It?

Auctions have long been a staple in the toolkit ofnonprofits to run fundraising auctions. CMarket -
nonprofit development professionals. The emergenceoffers services emphasizing the importance of
of ubiquitous online access have made online auctionsbidders, donors and sponsors, and their respective
an excellent vehicle for nonprofits and charities toroles in a successful auction. Their Website is a
raise funds while engaging stakeholders and othervaluable source of fundraising auction tips.
consituencies in their causes. eBay, the leader************************************
platform for online auctions also provides a numberBefore you purchase any eBay course, find out when
of offerings for running nonprofit auctions. Running athe course was written. If it was written in 2004, for
charity auction on eBay is simple, but getting theinstance, you don't want it. Even though that hasn't
most from your efforts involves developing abeen very long ago, eBay changes so fast that much
strategy and understanding the ins and outs of eBay.of the information will not be relevant. However, if
Luckily eBay provides lots of information on how tothe original issue of the course was written several
be successful using their services.years ago, but the course is updated each year, this
There are numerous eBay courses that are availablewill probably be a good course for you.
on the Internet today. These books and courses areAgain, use care when purchasing eBay courses. They
designed to help you become more successful oncan be quite helpful and enlightening, but only if the
eBay. Unfortunately, not all of these courses areinformation in them is still good. Talk to other eBay
worth the money that you will pay for them. Somesellers - preferably successful ones - to find out what
of them are full of what used to be good informationcourses are recommended.
- when it was relevant - and others are simply junkMichael Saunders has an MBA from the Stanford
information, written by someone trying to make aGraduate School of Business. He edits a site on
quick buck.Fundraising Auction Tips and is president of
************************************Information Organizers, LLC.
In addition to eBay, other vendors offer vehicles for