Oh my, it’s already November!
You get what it means for ecommerce merchants. The holiday season is coming. Pardavimai. More sales than in the years before. So skipping the curtsey: let’s get ready.
Čia yra 20+ ideas for nailing your holiday marketing campaigns. If you have an online store with Ecwid by Lightspeed, all of them can be easily implemented, so make sure you’re using your store at full tilt.
Add a Scrolling Message to Your Homepage
Offering a great deal? Declare it immediately as someone comes to your online store.
To grab customers’ attention and bring the website to life, add a dynamic block with a scrolling message on the front page. Pagal numatytuosius nustatymus, these messages showcase reviews, but you can customize them to highlight any promotion. Here are the step-by-step instructions.
Keep in mind that this feature is available to New-Gen Instant Site users. To try out the New-Gen Instant Site, contact our Customer Care team.
Add a Special Offer Section to Your Homepage
To make sure your offers grab attention, create a special section to highlight exclusive deals. Tokiu būdu, when customers land on your home page, they can easily find seasonal sales, nuolaidų kuponai, or even free delivery. This ensures they won’t miss out on any limited-time deals.
New-Gen Instant Site users can choose from various layouts of special offer sections – here’s how to do that.
If you’re using the legacy version of Instants Site, contact our Customer Care team to try out the New-Gen Instant Site.
Add a Slider with Offers to Your Homepage
A slider, or carousel, is like a cool little slideshow. It shows off one big image at a time, and you can make it go automatically or swipe through manually. Pliusas, there’s a snippet of text and a fancy call-to-action button. You can use a slider to really show off your special products, brag about all the brands you sell, or convince customers why they should pick your brand.
Here’s how to add a slider savo Ecwid parduotuvėje.
Adding a slider is available to New-Gen Instant Site users. To try out the New-Gen Instant Site, contact our Customer Care team.
Add Special Offers to Category Pages
You can also add special offers to your category pages if your discount applies to a certain group of products. Eikite į savo Catalog → Categories, click on your desired category, and add a description.
Show Sale Prices in Your Store
If you’re going to offer steep discounts, make sure all the store visitors are aware of them. Show them what the price used to be before the sale and how much they can save now with ‘Compare to’ prices.
Eiti į Settings → General → Cart and set up the manner your ‘Compare to’ price will be displayed.
To set up the discount for each product, take the Katalogas → Produktai route. Navigate to your product, find the ‘Pricing’ section and set up the ‘Compare to’ price. Save the changes.
Learn more about sale prices in Ecwid →
Beje, if your store is located in the EU, the EU Omnibus Directive requires you to display the lowest product price within the last 30 dienų. Such transparency enhances the shopping experience for your customers. If you’re not sure how to comply, mes jus apėmėme! Here’s how to show customers the true value they are receiving during a sale.
Display a Promo Bar
If you’re using the New-Gen version of our Instant Site, you can easily add promo bars to its front page via dedicated announcement bar blocks – here’s how to do that.
To try out the New-Gen Instant Site, contact our Customer Care team.
Arba, you can use apps like 20+ Promotional Sales Tools arba Announcements bar. The apps offer numerous customization options, like colors, texts, šriftus, and styles.
Run “Buy One, Gaukite vieną nemokamą“ Akcijos
There are many fans of the Buy-One-Get-One(-Laisvas) type of sale. Ecwid makes it possible with the BOGO app from the Ecwid App Market. Get the app and set up the rules.
We’ve talked about BOGO sales in detail in another blog post:
Offer Free Shipping
Free shipping is a bulletproof marketing strategy:
You can set up free shipping for every order or for specific regions in Settings → Shipping & Paimti.
How to set up shipping in Ecwid →
To make the most of your free shipping offer, use it strategically. Pavyzdžiui, offer it on orders over $50 and/or on nationwide shipping only.
„Ecwid“., you can use apps like AOV Progress Bar arba Free Shipping bar to encourage shoppers to add more products to their carts to get free shipping.
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Add Popups and Banners
Imagine a lot of salespeople would work for your online store during the holiday sales. They’d push your deals right when a customer needs it:
- welcoming newcomers with a special offer
- catching those who are about to leave without a purchase with a nice discount
- navigating customers to your bestsellers.
It’s great that you don’t need staff to do this job in your online store. Set up pop-ups for different customer actions: exit intent, scroll, time spent in store, ir tt. The 20+ Promotional Sales Tools will do the sales work for you.
Pop-ups can even hold an engaging contest. Launch the Scratch and Win pop-up to capture leads and grow fans in a fun way.
Offer Discounts on Order Subtotal
This type of sale is based on the expectation that people will buy additional stuff to reach a certain threshold to get a discount.
To run this promo successfully, you should have a good portion of repeat customers that already know your product and are open to ordering more of it.
Set up discounts on order subtotal in Promotions → Discounts.
Set Up Bulk Discount Pricing
Give a hint to your customers that they can buy several gifts of the same type for good money.
Padaryti tai, set up masinė nuolaida. Every next item will be cheaper and Ecwid will automatically calculate the total discount in percent for even more impressive deals.
Create Discount Coupons
Ecommerce merchants love coupons for their flexibility. With their help, you can run a promo on many different terms:
- Give a discount to repeat customers only
- Give a discount depending on order subtotal
- Offer free shipping on specific conditions and more.
Tai veikia taip: you set the rules when the coupon can be applied, Ecwid generates the coupon code (or you can create it yourself, pavyzdžiui, BLACKFRIDAY). Then you share the code on your website, socialiniuose tinkluose, personally via email, by chanting it in the streets, by dropping a bottle in the ocean — the distribution really is up to you, depending on who you want to reach.
You can limit coupons in time (pvz. active for 24 hours only) to run flash sales and last-minute deals.
How to set up discount coupons →
Patarimas: It’s so handy to create, enable, and stop your discounts on the go with the Ecwid Mobile app.
Offer Gift Wrapping
For free or for sale, gift wrapping offered together with a product is a time-saver. You can sell it as a separate product, or include it in Produkto parinktys.
Push Your Deals at Checkout
Share offers and gift ideas at checkout with the Checkout Notices app. Use it also to notify customers about important shipping terms or holiday business hours.
Offer Flexible Discounts Based on Cart Contents
Depending on what you sell and your holiday campaign goals, you may need to create more sophisticated discounts than just “50% off on everything”. Pavyzdžiui, you probably want to offer a special price on shoe care products if they are bought with shoes in your store.
To make your discount apply only to certain products or product combinations, kategorijas, cart amount, local customers, data, customer groups etc., check out the Advanced Discount Rules programėlė.
Highlight Items for Sale with Labels
With Product Ribbons, you can add labels to the products on sale and customize them as you want. Use ‘Hot’, ‘New’, ‘Sale’, ‘Sold Out’, or other custom labels to draw your holiday shoppers’ attention.
Learn more and set up: Get More Eyes on Your Store with Product Ribbons
Show Related Products
Showing related products on product pages or at checkout can increase the time customers spend in your store and result in a higher order value. If you sell supplementary products (pvz. razors and shaving cream), a ‘You May Also Like’ section is your sales machine.
Learn how to set it up: Related Products
Remind Visitors of Recently Viewed Products
The holiday sales frenzy can make customers distracted easily. There are so many deals out there, so many products to choose from. Follow them with the reminder of what products they just checked out as they are browsing your online store.
The Recently Viewed Products app is a free extension that helps you do just that. Choose where to show this section and the number of products you want to display.
Enable Social Selling Tools
Use social media to spread the word and drum up more people. Open a storefront on your Facebook puslapį, sell on Instagramas arba Tik tak to allow customers to buy without leaving their favorite social media.
To quickly share your product pics on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter, turn to Ecwid Mobile.
Add a Linkup to Your Social Media Bio
Sujungti is a free user-friendly link-in-bio tool. It allows you to create a mobile-friendly page with links to all your social profiles, dirbti, turinys, ir produktai. The latter is especially useful during the holiday season so that your followers can quickly find the products they need.
Jei jau turite Ecwid parduotuvę, you can easily add any product from your catalog to your Linkup page — no need to create it again.
Pliusas, Linkup comes in handy if features like Facebook Shop or Instagram Shop are not supported in your country. Tokiu būdu, you can still sell on social media!
Create Urgency and Scarcity
There is a number of ways to cheer up your customers while they are browsing.
Add a countdown timer — because no one wants to miss a great deal. The Ecwid App Market offers the Countdown Timer Popup programėlė. You can display such popup immediately, after a set period of time, on a page’s scroll down or upon site exit.
To create additional scarcity, show customers how much (or not so much) you have left in stock. Eiti į Settings → Design and enable to show stock to customers in the ‘Sidebar’ section.
Paskutinis, choose not to hide products that are out of stock; seeing that some products are sold out creates additional Fear-Of-Missing-Out (FOMO). To show out of stock products, turn off the ‘Hide out of stock products’ in your Ecwid admin, viduje Settings → General → Cart & Patikra puslapį.
Beje, tu taip pat gali enable pre-orders for sold-out items. To start accepting pre-orders for a product, you need to indicate its stock in your Ecwid admin and set pre-orders as the out-of-stock behavior for this product. Once the stock hits “0”, the product automatically becomes available for išankstiniai užsakymai.
Reklamuotis
If your marketing budget allows you to run paid ads, here’re some tools to help you out:
- Remarketing and dynamic ads on Facebook, Instagramas, and Audience Network with the „Facebook“ pikselis (Laisvas!)
- Automated Google Shopping Ads
Offer Gift Cards
A gift card is the single most requested present. Pliusas, 59% of gift card recipients will actually spend more than the amount on their gift card.
You can set up Dovanų kuponai in your Ecwid admin → Catalog → Gift Cards. You can customize your gift card by changing its name, amounts, or image that will be used in the storefront.
Use Product Subtitles
With Product Subtitles, you can describe a product’s advantages right on the product list, pavyzdžiui, a special offer or services available (pasakyti, free shipping or free gift wrapping.)
With subtitles, a product’s benefits are visible right on your storefront, so that customers don’t have to open a product page for details. That helps your customers find the right product faster and brings attention to items with special offers.
Learn more and set up: Highlight the Value of Your Products With Product Subtitles
Improve Overall Shopping Experience
Pagaliau, there is a bunch of features in Ecwid that improve the shopping experience in general, which can’t do anything but good for holiday shoppers.
- Įgalinti Buy Buttons to let customers buy in one click.
- Offer in-store pickup to have fewer shipping issues.
- Write a clear return policy (and other teisiniai puslapiai) and display it properly.
- Add reviews to your products to gain more trust.
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