Christmas is less than two weeks away.  Are you feeling like you could use a bit more cash for the holidays? (Who doesn't?).   Even though it seems like things are slowing down right now – some of my private clients have had their best success ever in the month of December.

And, remember, you can envision and sell a product, class etc. now and actually deliver it in the new year.  Imagine coming into January with a class already on the books.  You will be at least 3 months ahead of everyone else in your niche.

Here are some hints for creating a successful holiday offer.

Make An Offer They Can't Refuse

Create a sale that is so good that they can't refuse. Add a special holiday code to all your products that make them so inexpensive that they feel like if they don't buy them now they'll miss out. This is really easy if you have digital products because you've already spent all the money you will spend on creating them. It costs you nothing to sell them cheaply.

Make The Offer Time Sensitive

Create a feeling of urgency in their need to buy your product by making the offer very time sensitive. “Get this price only for the next 24 hours for New Year's day!” Make it clear that they won't see this offer again, this inexpensively and stick to your word about that. If the deal is that good they won't pass it up.

Use Their Emotions

Use words that will pull emotions from your viewers. Acknowledge that they're busy shopping for everyone else. If your items aren't especially gift items, and you can't figure out how to make them gift items, then why not present them as gifts to the self. Gifts they deserve to buy for themselves. Tell them why this is a good purchase and make them feel good about doing it.

Create a Special Sales Page

Don't skimp out just because you're having a huge sale, create a sales page that is just as good as you'd normally create for your items. Even though you're planning on selling things so inexpensively it makes you cringe a bit, this is an important event and should be treated as such. If you don't market your event as well as you would other events then you won't get the page views and you won't make enough sales to make up for the cheap price.

Tie The Offer to Charity

Finally, a great way to get your customers' attention is to tie the sale to raising money for a charity. Pick a charity everyone can easily get behind, something that is non political and helpful to people. This is where it's important to know your audience well. You could even have a contest leading up to the sale about which charity to support.

By making the offer super good, time limited, emotional and special you will break through their will not to buy anything during the holidays. They won't want to miss out on this once a year opportunity to buy your products and / or services. You won't want to miss out on the opportunity to cash in during the holiday season.

Are you running a holiday offer this year?  If you are, feel free to leave a link and description here 🙂