Valentines Day is one of the top holidays for florists to increase sales and profits, but it's often left to the last minute to prepare your website for the holiday season. In this quick marketing guide we outline the minimum marketing activity that your should do to get your website ready and get people to purchase from you for Valentines Day.
Valentines Day Landing Page & Products
The first and most important task to get done is to create and load your Valentines Day range on your website. If you are a member of one of the relay networks you can use their Valentines Day range, otherwise you can take and prepare your own range of Valentines Day products.
- Click here for a tutorial on adding a product category
- Click here for a tutorial on adding a product
You don't need a huge range for Valentines Day just somewhere between 6 - 12 products is ideal.
Valentines Day Menu Item
It's also time of you to add the Valentines Day Menu to your main navigation menu of your website. You will probably need a hand doing this so give on of our team a call or enter a support request for a team member to do this for you. After Valentines Day we recommend that you keep your Valentines Day range linked for next year, but just link it from the footer of the website.
Valentines Day products on your homepage
Your homepage is most often the landing page for your website and for this reason you should make sure that you have some or all of your Valentines Day products on your homepage. We don't generally recommend that you replace all of your Homepage products with one category as this can reduce the sales conversion rate for non Valentines Day Sales.
- Click here for a tutorial on changing product category for your homepage
- Click here for a tutorial on adding products to your homepage
Valentines Day Banners & Valentines Day Marketing Message
You should have some sort of marketing Theme of Message for your Valentines Day Period and this should be carried over from your website to your physical store. You should have at least one banner created for your homepage and possibly also your Valentines Day Landing Page. They can be the same banner if you like, but they can also be slightly different too. The homepage banner can encourage people to browse the Valentines Day Range whilst the Valentines Day Landing Page can encourage people to buy and not miss out. You can choose a message like: Don't miss out on Valentines Day flowers order by the 13th of February to have the flowers delivered before Valentines Day
Email Marketing for Valentines Day
Email marketing is a reliable mainstay for Valentines Day for florists. However it should be done sparingly. A good timetable would be: 4 weeks before Valentines Day 2 weeks and then 1 week. 3 Days 1 Day A good marketing email should have a compelling call to action more than simply Buy flowers for Valentines Day. Scarcity or fear of missing out works well: Only 20 days till Valentines Day or Book now for your Valentines Day Flowers or miss out Another great example is to offer a discount for people booking flowers 4 weeks out rather than the week before.
Valentines Day PPC Advertising
Target your Google Adwords and Facebook advertising to target people looking for Valentines Day Flowers delivered in your area. You should use the Valentines Day Landing Page with your Valentines Day banner, marketing message and Valentines Day products as the target of your PPC advertising campaign.
Social Media
You should also remember to promote your Valentines Day range on your social media campaigns. The trick here is not be too over the top and annoy people with your Valentines Day promotions. Promote the Valentines Day holiday with banners, links to your website and Valentines Day range or if you have a particularly unique Valentines Day floral arrangement you can link to that too. This is really just the start of you Valentines Day online Marketing ideas for your online florist.