Get Your Shop Ready for the Holidays 🎄

Webinar: Get Your Big Cartel Ecommerce Shop Ready For The Holidays 

Whether it’s your first holiday season selling online or you’ve been at it for a while, you probably know that it’s the biggest quarter for ecommerce sales. To maximize your success and minimize stress, Karen from our support team walks you through everything you need to know to get your shop ready for the busiest time of the year in this robust webinar.

She covers all the basics, including shipping deadlines, discounts and promotions, how to market your shop ahead of the holiday rush, and features and apps available in your Big Cartel shop that will help you increase sales and streamline your shop management. Key Topics Covered: 

• Holiday Shopping Preparation: Learn how to gear up for the busy holiday season with a plan, from packaging to marketing.

• Managing Holiday Shipping: Gain awareness of shipping deadlines and key integrations to ensure customers receive orders on time.

• Setting Up Discounts and Free Shipping: How to use discount codes and free shipping offers to boost sales during holiday shopping days.

• Social Media and Marketing Strategies: Learn how to plan social media posts and marketing campaigns to promote your shop during the holidays.

• Taking Time Off with Maintenance Mode: How to use maintenance mode to pause orders and communicate downtime with customers.

Duration: Approximately 40 minutes

Watch the video to get detailed tips on managing your Big Cartel shop during the holiday shopping season.

Key Moments:

0:26 - Creating a Holiday Plan for Your Shop - Karen teaches the importance of setting up a clear plan for the holiday season to stay organized.

1:19 - Customizing Your Holiday Strategy - Decide whether to go all out or take a relaxed approach during the holiday season.

2:04 - Using Tools to Stay Organized - Tips on using planners or digital calendars like Google Calendar to track holiday to-dos.

5:34 - Key Shopping Holidays - Important holiday shopping dates like Singles Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday.

9:05 - Shift to Online Shopping - Cyber Monday overtakes Black Friday in importance for online sellers.

10:50 - Creating Holiday Discounts - A step-by-step guide to setting up discount codes and free shipping offers for customers.

16:25 - Managing Shipping Deadlines - Key shipping deadlines for carriers like USPS, FedEx, and UPS, and why setting your own deadlines is crucial.

25:12 - Streamlining Shipping with Integrations - How Big Cartel’s shipping integrations help save time.

30:39 - Social Media and Marketing Plans - Importance of planning social media posts and marketing strategies for the holiday season.

37:04 - Cart Abandonment Recovery - Karen explains Big Cartel’s cart abandonment feature to recover lost sales.

38:20 - Taking Time Off Using Maintenance Mode - How to enable maintenance mode to pause orders while you take time off after the holiday rush.

40:03 - Final Takeaways - A reminder to create a flexible holiday plan that fits your business.

Resources: For questions, check out our self-service help center or email us at [email protected]

More on how to create discounts to give your customers incentive to place holiday orders More on inventory tracking to make sure you don’t oversell How to print discounted shipping labels directly from your Big Cartel admin to save time and money! 

Use Mailchimp to leverage the power of email marketing ahead of the holiday rush 

Enable the cart abandonment feature to help remind customers to complete checkout

By the end of this webinar, you’ll have the knowledge and the confidence to optimize your online shop for the Q4 selling season—but wait, there’s more! Head over to our Holiday Selling Toolkit to get the full list of ideas, resources, and available features for your most successful holiday selling season yet.