11 Jolly vacation advertising and marketing concepts to drive gross sales this season

By Kelsey Johnson September 6, 2023

For a lot of companies, the vacation season is the perfect time of 12 months for gross sales. Whether or not you promote giftable crafts or a enterprise course, December is a time when individuals are opening their wallets and making purchases. 

It’s necessary to run promotions to encourage your prospects and potential prospects to spend at your corporation. And across the holidays, you can also make your advertising and marketing actually enjoyable!

Don’t simply ship one other e mail telling folks to purchase your merchandise. As a substitute, attempt one in every of our 9 concepts for eye-catching and interesting vacation advertising and marketing.

Bounce forward to your favourite of our vacation advertising and marketing concepts:

1. Festive email series
2. Email exclusive flash sales
3. Create a holiday gift guide
4. Throw a themed party
5. Offer gift card specials
6. Cross-promote holiday specials
7. Celebrate the 8 days of Hanukkah
8. Create a bingo card
9. Engage daily with an advent calendar
10. Donate to charity
11. Run a holiday referral contest

1. Festive e mail sequence

Create a sequence of holiday-themed emails that supply worth to your subscribers. 

This might embrace present guides, DIY vacation tasks, interactive video games, day by day trivia, or vacation wallpaper for telephones. 

The aim of those emails is to create pleasure and anticipation for the subsequent e mail. That approach when it’s time to ship a gross sales e mail, your emails will stand out from the group.

Right here’s two examples of vacation impressed interactive emails.

2. Electronic mail unique flash gross sales

It’s typically a good suggestion to have a look at what the larger firms are doing and take a chapter from their ebook. 

So check out what the largest on-line retailer does to create pleasure and urgency with their “lightning offers” which they ramp up main as much as black friday and cyber monday. You could possibly promote one or two merchandise at a low worth for a really restricted time – like 24 hours.

Ship out unique flash sale affords to your e mail subscribers. You could possibly even tease out on social media that flash sale objects will probably be unique for anybody who’s in your e mail listing. This could possibly be an effective way to extend your e mail viewers.

3. Create a vacation present information

Shopping for presents for different folks is way tougher than shopping for for your self. Arising with present concepts for companions, youngsters, dad and mom, and buddies is a wrestle for everybody across the vacation buying season.

So create a present information for the vacation buyers most definitely to purchase your merchandise. This AWeber buyer has a inventive “cozy” present information for feminine-oriented merchandise.

You are able to do one thing related, together with merchandise throughout a variety of costs, so prospects know what it’s important to provide, from stocking stuffers to that one large vacation present.

Ensure you ship a number of emails and publish throughout social media, too. As soon as the information is created, you need to drive as a lot consideration to it as doable.

4. Throw a themed celebration

Chances are high, your audience, prospects, and prospects doubtless have rather a lot in widespread. They might need to meet one another — in individual or on a reside name.

So this vacation advertising and marketing concept is to throw your prospects a celebration. It could possibly be espresso or champagne at your store, an unsightly sweater Zoom name, or a donation alternate.

It doesn’t matter what, a reside occasion will get folks within the vacation spirit and permits them to attach. 

There isn’t a higher method to develop a neighborhood than a get-together with nearly or in individual. To spice up gross sales throughout the celebration, provide a reduction alongside the occasion or make a sport that entails your merchandise (see the bingo card beneath).

5. Provide present card specials

Top-of-the-line vacation promotion concepts to make extra gross sales is to supply present playing cards. Virtually everyone seems to be searching for presents for his or her household, buddies, and even co-workers or shoppers. What you are promoting might have the proper present for them.

Have in mind, present playing cards aren’t only for brick and mortar companies that promote t-shirts, toys, or meals. You may create a “giftable” product, it doesn’t matter what you promote.

For instance, when you provide a course for $500, promote simply the primary or hottest video for $25. It could possibly be the proper present, and the prospect to get a brand new buyer.

Or, when you’re a guide, provide an in-depth session or first assembly as a stand-alone product. Your present prospects should purchase it for a buddy or individual of their community. Once more, you possibly can find yourself with a brand new buyer.

Use Canva to create a digital and/or bodily coupon so the individual receiving the present nonetheless has one thing to open.

Cross-promotions are an especially well-liked advertising and marketing tactic, any time of the 12 months, however particularly as a part of your vacation advertising and marketing marketing campaign. Everybody from small companies to massive firms use partnerships to drive extra gross sales.

Right here’s learn how to get began: Discover a firm that sells to the identical viewers as you, however sells a special product. Provide their prospects a particular low cost and have them provide yours a reduction.

Then — and right here’s the perfect half — ship a cross-promotion e mail to each of your subscriber lists. This opens up the chance so that you can market to a wholly new viewers.

Take a look at this instance of vacation advertising and marketing cross-promo between Starbucks and Uber Eats. I’m guessing they offered a variety of espresso and deliveries from these emails.

Cross-promotions might be so simple as a reduction for anybody utilizing a selected code. Or, you may pair it with the bingo vacation advertising and marketing marketing campaign (add merchandise from each firms to the bingo card).

Carry all of it along with a celebration for everybody! There’s no draw back to getting everybody collectively for some vacation cheer. And when you can affiliate it with your corporation to spice up your on-line presence, all the higher.

7. Have fun the 8 days of Hanukkah

Not everybody is aware of concerning the traditions and celebrations surrounding Hanukkah. When you do, take the chance to coach your viewers. Use the eight days to encourage folks to be charitable and be taught extra concerning the Jewish religion.

For instance, the headphones firm AfterShokz despatched this e mail wishing a cheerful Hanukkah to everybody who celebrates and suggesting eight methods to unfold mild this season.

Not each vacation advertising and marketing e mail must be meant for gross sales. It’s an awesome alternative to attach along with your prospects as folks with households and traditions.

Vital observe: At all times bear in mind to be culturally delicate in all your vacation advertising and marketing. When you don’t know the appropriate method to say one thing, don’t say it in any respect.

8. Create a bingo card

Cross-selling and upselling your prospects is learn how to take advantage of gross sales across the holidays. A bingo card might be simply the factor to encourage prospects to make that further buy.

Right here’s an instance bingo card impressed by an AWeber buyer’s Etsy retailer:

Right here’s how one can create your very personal vacation bingo card, utilizing Canva: 

1. Create a bingo card with 9 squares (like a tic-tac-toe sport). 
2. Add small, reasonably priced upsell merchandise or add-on providers to every bingo sq.. You can also make the middle sq. free if you need, or add a very well-liked product.
3. Provide a freebee or low cost when somebody makes a “bingo.” (They will draw a straight or diagonal line by the squares of merchandise/providers they’ve purchased.)

You may create an eye catching bingo card simply utilizing Canva, and embrace it in your emails for a wonderful, enjoyable, and interesting expertise on your prospects.

9. Interact day by day with an creation calendar

Creation calendars are an incredible Christmas advertising and marketing concept to spice up curiosity and gross sales.

After I was a child, our creation calendar merely revealed an image every day (easier instances). However these days creation calendars reveal chocolate, presents, meals and wine, and even promotions every day.

To arrange an creation calendar on your vacation advertising and marketing, you merely want to supply one thing new of worth each day from December 1st till the twenty fourth. Every day might include a special low cost proportion, a small giveaway, or promotions on specific merchandise/providers. 

This AWeber buyer who sells packs of baseball playing cards affords an creation calendar with 24 thriller packs and an decoration for every day.

Be inventive: You may collaborate with different firms to supply reductions on their merchandise, too.

Thriller is the important thing to creation calendar’s success. When you do a digital creation calendar, your prospects and prospects will preserve coming again to your web site each day to see what the brand new particular is. (That is good on your search engine marketing, too.)

10. Donate to charity

Donating to charity (on #GivingTuesday or every other time) is a unbelievable vacation advertising and marketing concept that reveals off your altruism and paints your model in the appropriate mild. 

Along with being a feel-good advertising and marketing tactic, by donating you incentivize charity-conscious prospects to decide on to buy at your corporation over others.

There are just a few of how you might be inventive with donations and likewise make extra gross sales:

1. Provide to donate a sure proportion of all gross sales on a particular day or week
2. Match donations made to a charity you care about (or that’s associated to your trade) on a particular day
3. Provide $X to the charity you care about for each sale made on a particular day or week
4. Donate your services or products to somebody in want with each sale on a particular day

Donate, really feel good, and inform everybody about it in your subsequent vacation advertising and marketing e mail.

11. Run a vacation referral contest

Referrals can typically be the very best method to get new prospects, particularly in a time when folks want to social media for buying suggestions. Persuade your largest followers to say you — and reward them for it.

If you have already got a referral program — e.g. $20 if you refer somebody who makes a purchase order — you may double it for the vacations to $40. Provide 10% off for the brand new buyer’s first buy, too (or extra when you can).

Higher but, flip vacation referrals right into a contest. Whoever sends you essentially the most prospects, social followers, and even merely new leads, can win one in every of your extra worthwhile services or products.

Have enjoyable with this contest. You can also make badges or countdown graphics in Canva, and ship them in your emails selling the competition.

Announce your vacation advertising and marketing concepts with AWeber

Prepared to begin bragging about your profitable vacation promotion? Ship it in an e mail marketing campaign utilizing AWeber. Get started with a free account today.