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The season of giving is an exciting time for creatives making money off their work. However, it can be challenging if you don't get the proper e-commerce assistance at your disposal. is here with a guide to boosting and managing your last-minute holiday sales.
Prioritize Your Digital Products for promotions
Delivery is one of the most stressful parts of Christmas orders, from the delays at the post office, to the packaging hassles and the worry that your customers won't get their goods at the right time to enjoy the holiday season.
Set Realistic Expectations
Selling during the holidays can be intensive and stressful. Even if you're eager to accept every request of a potential buyer--you and your customers will benefit when you can say no when necessary and establish realistic expectations.
- For the creator: If you overextend yourself during the holiday season, you could end up burnt-out, overwhelmed, and experiencing feelings of depression. It is also possible that you feel pressure to prioritize your business in favor of having fun with family and friends. To avoid burning out, you can by setting professional boundaries and marking your items as "sold out" once you have completed your Christmas shopping.
- For Customers: Building a successful business takes time, and mistakes occur as a normal element of learning. Although a delayed order surely not the end of the world, you can help prevent turmoil by setting realistic customer expectations. Be sure to inform them as early as they can that their purchase will be delivered after the Christmas holiday. You might even find it beneficial to revise your product descriptions to reflect estimated holiday processing and delivery dates.
Utilize Your Resources
Online shopping platforms such as Amazon and eBay offer a variety of tools built in to assist content creators, influencers, and online businesses prosper. Review the tools you have available and determine how they might help to manage your last-minute holiday purchases. The resources available include:
- Drag-and-Drop Builder: Are you making changes to your inventory of products for the holidays? Make a brand new website quickly using drag-and drop page creator and's template library that is custom-designed to your specifications.
streamline or automate routine Processes
In time, you'll observe patterns emerging within your job. Are there any of these regular processes you could reduce, automate or reduce complexity?
- Design templates for product descriptions to make it easy to design new sale pages.
- Improve order communication by using automated orders confirmations
- Use templates and create templates to create standard email and messages.
- Consider buying a business stamp for the return label, or your logo for physical goods if you are shipping them.
- As mentioned above, automatic delivery is a possibility for digital products.
- Choose a computer system or script that automates any routine element of your business.
While the exact nature of your potential solutions here depends on the specifics of your business requirements, there are a myriad of possibilities of solutions today. It might not sound like something, but the small benefits can be enough making your company significantly easier to run--during the last-minute festive season and well beyond.
Do not be afraid to ask for help
Many content creators dislike soliciting help or assistance. But, you'll likely require all help you can get when it comes to last-minute holiday orders. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you have family members and friends relatives who can assist you to process an influx of orders. They will surely appreciate the opportunity to lend help, particularly when it will mean more quality time spent with you over the Christmas time.