Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day are the two events that dominate the retail calendar in February, and both can help increase your revenue. Every online merchant should take advantage of these occasions by offering discounts and running promotions.
Not convinced that you should care about these events as an ecommerce store owner? Check out these stats:
If you’d like to know how to take advantage of these two major events, you’re in the right place. We’re covering some of the best Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day marketing ideas that you can use to boost your sales.
Let’s get started!
Difficulty: Easy
Message type: Popup
Do you offer a simple 10% discount for new customers? A seasonal spin could quickly and easily improve their effectiveness.
Why?
Special events like Valentine’s Day and the Super Bowl provide great opportunities to grow your email list, and they help to increase the urgency.
First, let’s look at a couple of Super Bowl list-building popups.
You can offer special deals that coincide with the Super Bowl:
Now, let’s see a Valentine’s Day popup. The template below hit all the right notes for a vibrant Valentine’s Day popup.
Difficulty: Easy
Message type: Fullscreen
The previous strategy is perfect for non-subscribers. But what about returning customers? You’ll also want to make sure that they know about your seasonal sale.
A promotional fullscreen popup is perfect for that, and it can generate excitement to start shopping.
In our templates, the “Don’t miss out” copy heightens that sense of urgency. And since your message is so large, you can be sure that nobody will miss it!
Difficulty: Easy
Message type: Popup
We recommend that you always have cart abandonment popups running on your site (otherwise you could be throwing away potential conversions).
By making these exit-intent popups seasonal, you can increase the urgency and save even more cart abandoners.
Check out this Super Bowl-themed cart abandonment popup:
It makes use of many highly-effective elements, including:
All of these customizable features work together to make the popup highly persuasive for shoppers who are almost all the way through their customer journey, encouraging them to buy now rather than later.
Difficulty: Easy
Message type: Gamification
People love games— that’s a fact. Our very own statistics prove it, too. For example, our lucky wheel popups have a 13.23% average conversion rate. This is way better than the average conversion rate of simple email popups (5.10%).
If you’d like to achieve greater engagement and increase your sales while building your email list, try this Valentine’s Day-themed lucky wheel popup.
Difficulty: Medium
Message type: Embedded content
You can also promote your seasonal sale in embedded messages throughout your site. This way, they’ll look like a natural part of your website and they won’t annoy your visitors by disturbing the user experience.
You can get started with these ready-to-use templates:
There we have it—the best marketing ideas to boost your sales in February, with ready-to-use templates!
Once you’ve customized some of these great templates and scheduled your Super Bowl or Valentine’s Day campaigns, all that’s left for you to do is sit back and enjoy the events.
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