BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT n SHAKERS & MOVERS
Socially Funded
W
hen hosting a fundraising event,
it is important to provide the best
entertainment and hospitality
to excite your guests and keep
them coming back to your event every year.
Central Florida is a competitive market, with
a lot of high quality charity events. What is
going to set your event apart from the others?
Is your event growing every year or stagnant?
Are you providing enough excitement for
your audience to keep them enthusiastically
coming back year after year? If these questions
don’t have a positive answer, your event may
go stale, or worse, it may cease to exist. The
more your guests are entertained, the more
fun they will have, the more money you will
raise, and they’ll come to your event over
others. These are things that many charities
overlook, as they aren’t willing to evolve and
consider new ideas.
My company, Socially Funded, will help your
event provide a silent auction that is going
to thrive in 2018 and set it apart from others.
Once you’ve created traffic and sponsorships,
the silent auction is the next fundraising option,
and guests expect it. You can’t give it a half-
hearted effort, but you also can’t exhaust too
many resources and ignore sponsorships and
ticket sales. You don’t want to be the event that
has the same 200 people every year with 200
silent auction items. We specialize in running
and enhancing the auction from start to finish,
with no cost for either service. Your silent
auction will be operated by professionals. This
way you can raise more money and put your
resources into more profitable aspects of the
event. There is not one company in the state of
Florida who offers these services at absolutely
no cost and also includes your donations
without taking a cut. Don’t let anyone fool
you. That’s why Socially Funded has made a
difference in the Tampa Bay area with over
100 events on the books for this year alone.
We are also excited to announce that we’re
expanding to Orlando!
Some say, silent auctions have gone stale
because the charity includes the same items in
their auction every year. Many people attend
multiple charity events a year. People see the
same baskets and gift cards. Charities brag
about their local sports team donated items.
If it were 1993, an Orlando Magic item would
be exciting, but it’s 2018. Entertainment and
hospitality is critical at your event, and Magic
paraphernalia is just not enough! Orlando City
soccer generates a lot of excitement, but you
need more! What about people who don’t care
about sports, but LOVE pop culture? Do you
have a framed piece from the latest popular
movie or timeless classic like Star Wars? Likely
not. If you want to have a high quality event,
you need more than donated items. You need
the type of items that they’ve been shopping
for and simply have not been able to find.
Furthermore, you must not forget that Florida
has more transplants than any other state,
and Orlando is an international city, so you
need items that will interest people from
everywhere. The same issue occurs at auctions
in Tampa, where there are more fans of other
NFL teams than the Bucs. That’s why it is critical
that we help diversify your auction and provide
exciting pieces that will take your auction to
the next level and give it a presentation that
looks much better than a flea market. Not only
will we help improve sales of your existing
items by attracting more guests, we will help
raise more money with ours. Most importantly,
we can handle your entire auction from start
to finish, which is critical to the success of your
event. Nothing annoys your guests more than
a dysfunctional registration and checkout
where they wait in line. There are hundreds of
charity events in Central Florida, and you want
your event to be on the ‘short list’ of events that
everyone in the community wants to attend.
Let us help take your event to the next level!
Zach Abel
813.446.5897
[email protected]
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