Tips and Ideas to Increase Holiday Sales
3dCart posted some informational video with good tips on how to increase traffic, engagements and sales on your web site or blog during this holiday season. This will lead to more followers and better sales.
- Change your design to make it more inviting. better color, holiday colors and influence. Use things like banners, snow, wrapping, bows, Santa hats, dressing up your mascot or icon will work as well.
- Emulate what the retail store do to spice up your look. Start early to give yourself time to complete this added work.
- Prepare your business for the holiday traffic increase. Possibly upgrade to a higher platform in 3dCart to handle higher traffic volumes and server capacity. More features will also be available to you to help increase your sales as well.
- Make up some good deals for products in your store. Daily deals and hourly deals, weekly deals. Black Friday deal or make up your own event. You specify when the deal begins and ends.
- Considering a group deal could be very handy as well. It relies upon several friends opting into the same deal which promotes them to share and spread the word for you at the same time.
- Build a targeted community. Try twitter and following new people that are more than likely interested in your product or brand.
Find this select crowd by visiting twitter and going to your competitors profile and following and engaging with their followers and users. This will turn the # up on your followers. Also engage your brand followers and your industry followers, engage and talk normal instead of being Mr. business in a suit and tie that wants to sign a contract. people like openness and the real experience especially around the giving holiday seasons.
- Tag facebook pages and other brand pages to engage and spread your brand and product. Tag fan pages that are about black Friday and holiday shopping. Post incentives, coupon codes give aways or contests work well. Try a paid solution such as www.wildfireapp.com for your social media campaign.
- Create a separate photo album in facebook for your deals and incentives to be posted to so they stand out.
- Engage your followers and your new followers while utilizing twitter and facebook. Respond to direct messages and comments. Don't be a billboard be up front and act open and normal. Take care of problems as soon as possible and in a generous manor.
- SEO or search engine optimization. Look at tips to ad key phrases or meta tags to index your page better and see results much faster although it is an ongoing process it won't hurt and SEO is considered to be a strategy of marketing.
~ Consider out of all of the traffic you get, most will come from organic Google searches. The TITLE TAG is the most important aspect of your SEO.
~ Use the most relevant title tag that you can use is a good tip to start with. Name your file the same as the title tag as well this will help.
~ Do some Google searches and look at title tags and what other sites and their links link to. Google ranks sites on relevant content.
~ If you sell coffee cups all your tags and titles should reflect coffee cups coffee cups coffee cups to get the best SEO ranks in Google which provides the traffic you need for , traffic, sales and your bottom line.
