Why Right Now Is The Ideal Time To Start Preparing For Holiday Sales

As the back to school season wraps up and fall begins its approach, it’s definitely time for business owners to start planning and promoting holiday sales. Starting with Halloween and encompassing Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s, holiday marketing has a long holiday season to span and a short period of time to do it because all those holidays happen within a three-month period.

For small business owners, holiday sales and promotions mean ramping up your online presence via your website and social media profiles. It also means creating print marketing campaigns that help your ideal consumers ring in the holidays. Here are eight simple ways you can get a jump start on your competitors in the holiday promotions and print marketing arenas.

• Want to really stand out at your next small business networking event? Consider redoing your business cards to include holiday imagery. Add a holiday sales discount to your card and it’s sure to get the attention of fellow SBOs, strategic partners, and ideal consumers.
• Create custom images and graphics that build nostalgia and feel-good emotions into your holiday marketing. With our design tool, you can use sepia tones to create a vintage look that transports customers back to yesteryear.
• Choose colors that accurately depict each holiday – that means orange and black for Halloween and green and red for Christmas. Don’t get stuck in the traditional color palette, though. Be willing to take risks that help you stand out in a sea of lookalike holiday color choices.
• Just like certain colors are traditionally used with specific holidays, so are certain images. Embrace the tradition of pumpkins and Christmas trees, but infuse your brand into these images. Try stacking product photos into easily recognizable shapes like Christmas trees and cornucopias.
• Participating in local holiday craft and vendor fairs and pop up shops is a smart way to position your small business products and services in the midst of a huge portion of your target audience during the busiest shopping time of the year.
• Use posters, banners, and signs to encourage early bird sales and holiday discounts. Try adding holiday humor and puns to leave a memorable impression and encourage your target market to shop early.
• Just like early bird shoppers, last minute shoppers can be a small business owner’s dream. With print marketing products that offer suggested gift recipients and product uses, you can bask in last minutes sales that boost your bottom line.
• Make consistency and familiarity work in your favor by creating holiday marketing tools now and maintaining a consistent infusion of marketing moxie throughout the entire holiday shopping season.

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HOLIDAY MARKETING PRODUCTS FOR YOUR SMALL BUSINESS

Holiday sales and promotions are easy to master with our small business DIY design tool. It’s designed to help you market, promote, and advertise your small business with easy to use features and design options. Start marketing your small business for the holidays now and watch your ideal consumers sit up and pay attention.