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Make Quarterly Mini Auctions Part of Your Annual Fundraising Plan
Planning a fundraiser takes a lot of effort, as does hosting an auction. Learn about quarterly mini auctions & their many benefits with Bid Beacon.

Make Quarterly Mini Auctions Part of Your Annual Fundraising Plan
Planning a fundraiser takes a lot of effort, as does hosting an auction. Learn about quarterly mini auctions & their many benefits with Bid Beacon.

Product Release: Version 6.5
What’s New? Get ready for Bid Beacon’s latest release which is packed with exciting new features and enhancements! From minor tweaks to the login screen

The Team at Bid Beacon Attended GO WEST 23
Canada’s Event for Event Professionals, GO WEST, held their 3-day conference in Edmonton, AB this year, and our team had the honor to attend as exhibitors!

Charity Silent Auction
Breast Friends in an Edmonton-based charity that fundraises throughout the year to allow breast cancer survivors to live their lives to the fullest. This year, they tried an online silent auction for the first time.

Product Release: Version 6.4
What’s New? With this latest release, we’ve made the guest bidding experience smoother than ever before! With enhanced shareable links, improved in-app navigation, and the

Art Gallery Auction
We are always looking for ways to expand it and one of our biggest expansions was Bid Beacon and introducing that virtual bidding platform for us.

Product Release: Version 6.2
New Look, New Features, and More At Bid Beacon, we know the importance of a great first impression, and we also knew we could do

Product Release: Version 6.1
New Features and More Bid Beacon has been helping event planners, fundraisers, charities, schools, art galleries and non-profit organizations run silent auctions since 2018. Hundreds of bidders

10 Raffle Gift Basket Ideas That Will Always Attract Bids
If you’re looking for raffle basket ideas to attract high bids at your fundraiser, use any of these 10 options from Bid Beacon.

The 5 Steps to Launching a Silent Auction
Silent auctions have the potential to bring in a lot of money for your organization, but you have to be careful about how you set