Increase in revenue 200% School For Life saw an absolutely huge increase in their final fundraising revenue of 200% after making the most of some of the platforms features such as the pre-event bidding. They launched their catalogue a week ahead and locked away 50% of their final total before anyone even stepped foot in the room.
We regularly ask clients for feedback on how GalaBid software and services were received at their event. Here's what the lovely people at CMRI had to say: Who was your main demographic in the room? Corporate groups and affluent professionals. Some were long term supporters of Jeans for Genes and others were being introduced to us.
A little while ago we organised for a prospective client to email some questions to the lovely people at HeartKids NSW. HeartKids NSW are one of a growing list of charities who switched from other electronic systems to GalaBid in 2013 and saw a significant increase in silent auction revenue. They have kindly agreed to let us share their responses to the questions asked. Here's what they said:...
The lovely staff at the Shore Foundation had this to say about GalaBid: Thank you so much for all your support with the Garden Party, we were delighted with how the Silent Auction ran and congratulate you on a very smooth operation.We will certainly recommend your product to other schools and look forward to working with you both again in the future.
SO THEY CAN are an amazing not for profit organisation supporting communities to end poverty. Their key focus is education and building the local economy through micro finance and social business. Here's what they had to say about about their use of GalaBid to run their silent auction....
Children's Cancer Institute Australia's Diamond Ball celebrated 19 years of supporting childhood cancer research this year and the event was a truly inspiring occasion. We had the honour of working with the CCIA staff and Vanilla Bean Events to facilitate the silent auction. I asked Jana Perrino at CCIA, to share some of her experiences of GalaBid along with learnings and tips that would be helpful to other organisations. Here's what she said:...
"WOW! What can we say? Thank you so much to Jasmine and the crowdcomms Team for making our Trivia/Auction night an even bigger success. Having GalaBid as our way of bidding on items enabled us to double our takings. It widened our reach to people that were not able to be there on the night and also share with their friends.The support from your company was absolutely amazing as we only had one week after finding out about your company to get everything online...
2 children's charities, 2 schools, a hospital and a football game!!! August 31st was a big night for GalaBid and the results were outstanding. "Gobsmacked!!" was the word one of the clients used this morning when we discussed the amount they raised. Their silent auction brought in more than 130k, a staggering 40% more than the target...