Christmas promotion ideas: Have yourself a merry little Christmas campaign

Wrap up the year with your best Holiday promotional campaigns for maximal Christmas cheer for your customers and hopefully Christmas bonuses for yourself and your workmates.

Here are some of our personal favorites from the last few years to get you into the spirit.

Avon kicked off holiday promotions with a classic play on the 12 days of Christmas.

Offering deals on different products and services each day during the 12 Days of Deals campaign is a great example of customer activation at every stage of their journey - acquisition, engagement, and retention. 

Obviously well aware that getting people back in their store means up-selling every time, IKEA came up with this deal last year. 

Offering a 20€ branded store voucher for buying a 30€ tree, although costly in theory, gets your customers to come back in January and has them thinking of you (and creating nostalgic Christmas connections to your brand) over Christmas.

Flaconi offers a coupon code at the top of their website home page with a countdown timer which builds an urge to make a purchase before time runs out. 

Fantastic, because it’s a real timer and you can see the coupon reduce 5% in value daily, creating a feeling of urgency to get the best possible deal quickly! 

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As you scroll further down their page, you find a beauty deal ‘Buy 2, 1 for free’ with a discount code attached. 

This is a good technique because it lets the customer choose whatever they like from a wide range and doesn’t force them to stick to any specific brand or category. 

Also, the filter and sorting can make the purchase funnel more engaging for the user, however, managing the different bundle options, coupons and discount codes can get messy without well-structured promotion software and ultimately lead to very stressed-out developers over the Christmas period.   

Here's another excellent example of retaining customers through a beautifully branded discount program. 

Zalando offers deals on a variety of product categories every day, encouraging customers with the help of its countdown timer, which shows you how long you have before you’ve totally missed out. 

So good luck with your campaigns, and of course if you’d like to see how we would set up these campaigns and many more using our promotion software, simply book a demo with us.

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