Marketer’s Space - Get Holiday-Ready with Zoho Campaigns

Marketer’s Space - Get Holiday-Ready with Zoho Campaigns


Hello marketers,
Welcome back to another post in Marketer’s Space! Q4 is packed with opportunities to connect with your audience - from Halloween, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year. In this post, we’ll look at how you can prepare your holiday campaigns in advance using Zoho Campaigns.

Plan Ahead

When the busiest months arrive, you don’t want to be caught in the rush of designing, writing, and scheduling campaigns at the last minute. Use this time to plan your content calendar, shortlist key dates, and decide the campaign goals for each occasion.
Zoho Campaigns makes it easy to schedule campaigns ahead of time. You can create and queue your email series now, ensuring they roll out automatically during peak periods. This helps you stay consistent, even when your audience’s inboxes are full of offers.
Let’s look at a few ways marketers can make the most of each scheduling option.

Fixed Time and Time Zone

Choose a specific date and time for your campaign, and Zoho Campaigns will launch it accordingly. This is perfect for global announcements or event invitations where timing matters.
Liam, a B2B marketer for a webinar platform, plans to announce a Cyber Monday webinar at exactly 10 AM EST. He selects Fixed Time and Time Zone to ensure everyone receives the email simultaneously, creating a sense of urgency and excitement for registrations.  

Recipients’ Time Zone

Send your campaign at a consistent local time across regions. If you schedule an email for 9 AM, it reaches each recipient at 9 AM in their time zone.
Ethan’s company sells SaaS tools across the US, UK, and Australia. He schedules his Thanksgiving appreciation email for 9 AM using the Recipients’ Time Zone option - so every customer, regardless of where they are, sees the email during their morning inbox check.
Note: If the recipient time zone isn't identified the default will be your timezone.

Recipients’ Optimal Open Time  

Zoho Campaigns uses past engagement data to predict when each contact is most likely to open emails and sends accordingly. This increases visibility and open rates.
Sara, a marketing manager for an HR software brand, sets her Year-End Offer campaign to Recipients’ Optimal Open Time. Her contacts receive the message during their most active email hours - some in the morning, others in the afternoon - leading to a higher open rate compared to her previous blast.
Note: Zoho Campaigns analyzes engagement from the last five campaigns sent to each contact. If no engagement data is available, the system uses a default time to deliver the campaign within 24 hours from launch.

Experiment with A/B Testing   

Timing isn’t the only factor that boosts engagement - your content plays an equal role. With Zoho Campaigns’ A/B testing, you can test variations of subject lines, sender details, or content layouts to find what resonates best with your audience.
Alex, a B2B marketer at a project management software firm, creates two versions of his Christmas Promotion email. Version A highlights a limited-time discount, while Version B emphasizes a “gift your team” message. He runs an A/B test to 20% of his contact list, and the winning version - the one with higher clicks - is automatically sent to the remaining 80% of the audience.

Reuse and Refresh Existing Templates   

If you’ve already sent campaigns for previous holidays, reuse your templates instead of starting from scratch. Zoho Campaigns lets you clone and edit your older templates in just a few clicks. Update the visuals, change the text, and tweak the offers to fit this year’s theme.
This approach saves time, ensures brand consistency, and helps you keep your designs familiar yet fresh.
Maya, a marketer at a software company, reused her Thanksgiving template from last year to run a campaign. She simply updated the banner, added this year’s discount offer for business plans, and scheduled it in advance. By reusing and refining her design, she launched the campaign in minutes and focused more on audience targeting instead of starting from zero.

Set Up Automations

You can set up Workflows in Zoho Campaigns to handle engagement, follow-ups, and reminders automatically.
Ravi, a marketing manager at a SaaS firm, sets up a “Black Friday follow-up Workflow” in Zoho Campaigns. When a contact clicks on a Black Friday email but doesn’t sign up, the Workflow automatically sends a follow-up offer three days later. This keeps leads engaged while his team focuses on launching the next campaign.

Stay Agile with Ready-to-Use Tools

Zoho Campaigns offers predesigned templates, dynamic content blocks, and an intuitive editor - everything you need to create campaigns that stand out. The key is to prepare early so that when November and December arrive, you’re not designing under pressure but optimizing your campaigns for better performance.
Getting holiday-ready doesn’t have to be stressful. With a little early planning and the right tools in Zoho Campaigns, you can stay ahead, stay organized, and make every festive moment count.

Happy holiday campaigning! 

Regards,
Pearlin Nitika
User Education
Zoho Campaigns Team

    Nederlandse Hulpbronnen


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