2011 – A Year in the Life of BiddingForGood

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Another year is over at BiddingForGood, and while we’re already gearing up for a productive 2012, we’d like to take some time to reflect on all the good things that have happened in 2011. It was a busy - but very rewarding - year!

Here are a few of the highlights from the year:

• Launched In-Room Mobile Bidding, which brings the best parts of the online bidding experience – ease of use and heightened competition – into the room. Mobile bidding adds new excitement to fundraising events, and enables supporters to bid anytime and from anywhere, whether they’re attending the event or not. With several successful pilots completed, we’re ready to help more customers “go mobile” with their fundraising events in 2012.

• Completely redesigned BiddingForGood.com, where our Bidder Community of more than 260,000 cause-minded consumers shops regularly, across all our auctions. The results are better searching, better browsing - and better-looking! Our clients who choose to open their auctions to this Community can showcase their auction catalogs and get discovered by our audience of over 3 million annual visitors.

• Produced and presented a treasure trove of educational webinars, in partnership with our new friends at Constant Contact, HubSpot, and PTO Today. We also presented a cornucopia of webinars on our own, including a 5-part series for customers on how to maximize their online auctions, and more.

• In November, we hit the road for a series of luncheons to meet with fundraisers across the country and to talk about new innovations in online auction fundraising – with more to come in 2012!

• Kicked off Goodness in Action™, a place for our customers to share their stories with the other schools, nonprofits, bidders, and businesses that make up the BiddingForGood community. We love hearing about the important work that our customers are doing in their own communities, and we’re looking forward to helping them amplify their impact by showcasing their stories on our site.

• Enjoyed great press coverage! BiddingForGood was widely covered in the media in 2011, with features in or on: The Today Show, NPR, CNET, The Boston Globe, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, SUCCESS Magazine, FOX News Boston, and many more.

We’re looking forward to a great 2012, and to continuing to provide exceptional tools, services, and support that help our wonderful customers run more successful auction fundraisers!