Tip of the week 43 - 5 tips to approach holiday season in email marketing

Tip of the week 43 - 5 tips to approach holiday season in email marketing



Email marketing drives more brand sales during the holiday season. We are nearing the best season of a year and now is the right time to grab the attention of your contacts who might be glued to the internet for shopping. Send out savvy emails that can increase brand presence and sales this holiday season.


 Here are some ways to help you with successful holiday email marketing:



1. The marketer plans

Plan your email marketing strategies well in advance to make sure that you're connected to your contacts during the holiday season. For this you will have to know the dates of the upcoming holidays. By doing this, you're also taking care of the frequency and timing of your emails ensuring that you're not spamming them. 

 

2. Personalized offers 

Customize single email with the help of merge tags to confirm that you're not missing out any of your contacts. This will help your contacts to resonate better upon your emails. Give offers as holiday gifts to contacts who've been with you throughout your journey and confirm that they're on for the future growth of your brand. 

 

3. Visual appeal

The design of your email plays an important role in building trust and connecting with your contacts. The holiday season brings happiness and this happiness should be retained while receiving and reading your emails too. Use visuals and texts that would cheer them to recollect the positive emotions of their past holiday experiences.

 

4. Choices matter

Remind your customers about the choices that they've made in the past purchases. This will evoke a sense of belonging, in your contacts, with your brand. For this you will have to get the details of their past purchases and browsing history thereby strategizing and evaluating the needs of your contacts.

 

5. Automated emails

To create a series of emails manually and sending them out one by one, as we all know, is a time-consuming process.It's the right time to plan your email marketing goals of the season and craft beautiful emails based on the theme. The rest can be entrusted to automation that helps you to send them out to the right contacts at the right time. [Read: Automation in Zoho Campaigns]


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Best Regards,

Annet Mathews





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