11 Jolly vacation advertising concepts to drive gross sales this season

By Kelsey Johnson September 6, 2023

For a lot of companies, the vacation season is the most effective 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 essential to run promotions to encourage your clients and potential clients to spend at what you are promoting. And across the holidays, you can also make your advertising actually enjoyable!

Don’t simply ship one other electronic mail telling folks to purchase your merchandise. As an alternative, attempt one in all our 9 concepts for eye-catching and fascinating vacation advertising.

Soar forward to your favourite of our vacation advertising 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 electronic mail sequence

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

This might embody reward guides, DIY vacation initiatives, 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 electronic mail. That manner when it’s time to ship a gross sales electronic mail, your emails will stand out from the gang.

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

2. Electronic mail unique flash gross sales

It’s usually a good suggestion to have a look at what the larger corporations are doing and take a chapter from their e-book. 

So check out what the most important 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 might promote one or two merchandise at a low value for a really restricted time – like 24 hours.

Ship out unique flash sale affords to your electronic mail subscribers. You might even tease out on social media that flash sale gadgets shall be unique for anybody who’s in your electronic mail record. This might be a good way to extend your electronic mail viewers.

3. Create a vacation reward information

Shopping for presents for different folks is way more durable than shopping for for your self. Arising with reward concepts for companions, youngsters, dad and mom, and associates is a battle 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” reward information for feminine-oriented merchandise.

You are able to do one thing comparable, together with merchandise throughout a variety of costs, so clients know what you must provide, from stocking stuffers to that one huge vacation reward.

Be sure 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 potential.

4. Throw a themed social gathering

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

So this vacation advertising thought is to throw your clients a celebration. It might be espresso or champagne at your store, an unpleasant 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 option to develop a neighborhood than a get-together with just about or in particular person. To spice up gross sales through the social gathering, provide a reduction alongside the occasion or make a recreation that entails your merchandise (see the bingo card beneath).

5. Provide reward card specials

The most effective vacation promotion concepts to make extra gross sales is to supply reward playing cards. Virtually everyone seems to be in search of presents for his or her household, associates, and even co-workers or shoppers. Your online business might have the right reward for them.

Take note, reward 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, should you provide a course for $500, promote simply the primary or hottest video for $25. It might be the right reward, and the possibility to get a brand new buyer.

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

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

Cross-promotions are a particularly standard advertising tactic, any time of the 12 months, however particularly as a part of your vacation advertising marketing campaign. Everybody from small companies to giant companies use partnerships to drive extra gross sales.

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

Then — and right here’s the most effective half — ship a cross-promotion electronic 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 cross-promo between Starbucks and Uber Eats. I’m guessing they bought a number of espresso and deliveries from these emails.

Cross-promotions may be so simple as a reduction for anybody utilizing a selected code. Or, you may pair it with the bingo vacation advertising marketing campaign (add merchandise from each corporations 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 should you can affiliate it with what you are promoting to spice up your on-line presence, all the higher.

7. Have fun the 8 days of Hanukkah

Not everybody is aware of in regards to the traditions and celebrations surrounding Hanukkah. In the event you do, take the chance to teach your viewers. Use the eight days to encourage folks to be charitable and be taught extra in regards to the Jewish religion.

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

Not each vacation advertising electronic mail must be meant for gross sales. It’s a terrific alternative to attach together with your clients as folks with households and traditions.

Necessary be aware: All the time keep in mind to be culturally delicate in your whole vacation advertising. In the event you don’t know the appropriate option to say one thing, don’t say it in any respect.

8. Create a bingo card

Cross-selling and upselling your clients is find out how to take advantage of gross sales across the holidays. A bingo card may be simply the factor to encourage clients 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 recreation). 
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 standard product.
3. Provide a freebee or low cost when somebody makes a “bingo.” (They will draw a straight or diagonal line via the squares of merchandise/providers they’ve purchased.)

You may create an attention-grabbing bingo card simply utilizing Canva, and embody it in your emails for an exquisite, enjoyable, and fascinating expertise on your clients.

9. Interact day by day with an creation calendar

Creation calendars are a tremendous Christmas advertising thought to spice up curiosity and gross sales.

After I was a child, our creation calendar merely revealed an image every day (less complicated occasions). 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, you merely want to supply one thing new of worth each day from December 1st till the twenty fourth. Every day might include a unique 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 corporations to supply reductions on their merchandise, too.

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

10. Donate to charity

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

Along with being a feel-good advertising tactic, by donating you incentivize charity-conscious clients to decide on to buy at what you are promoting over others.

There are a number of of the way you may be inventive with donations and in addition make extra gross sales:

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

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

11. Run a vacation referral contest

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

If you have already got a referral program — e.g. $20 once 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 should you can).

Higher but, flip vacation referrals right into a contest. Whoever sends you essentially the most clients, social followers, and even merely new leads, can win one in all your extra priceless 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 concepts with AWeber

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