{"id":4721,"date":"2022-10-27T11:11:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T18:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:49:14","slug":"ventas-navidenas-de-sitios-de-socios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/es\/mm-caracteristicas\/ventas-navidenas-de-sitios-de-socios\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Holiday Sales Promotions That Work Well For Membership Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"Can you hear that?\n\nIf you listen carefully, you can make out the faint sound of those iconic glockenspiel notes jangling in the distance. The time has come. Mariah Carey\u2019s <em>All I Want For Christmas<\/em> is about to dominate the airwaves and get stuck in your head for months.\n\nThat means the 2022 holiday season is upon us \u2013 whether we're ready or not.\n\nBut because you\u2019re such a superstar entrepreneur, your Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and New Year\u2019s promotions are already planned... right? You even have your email copy drafted in a Google Doc, sales page perfected, and social media posts scheduled in Buffer.\n\nIf that\u2019s the case, there\u2019s absolutely no reason for you to read this article. All that\u2019s left for you to do is kick back and optimize your eggnog recipe.\n\nBut in case you don\u2019t have everything quite finished yet, we'd love to share some holiday promotion ideas with you. These are some of the most popular ways our customers create engaging sales for their memberships. Our hope is that you\u2019ll discover one or two strategies here that'll help you finish 2022 strong.\n\nAfter you read this article, you\u2019ll know how to:\n\nCreate coupons, gifts, and special offers for your existing customers\nAttract new members with deep discounts and enticing promotions\n&amp; Increase revenue during the holiday season\n\nPlus, we'll share an easy way for you to track these promotions with a feature that's baked into the latest version of MemberMouse.\n\nHere are 6 sales promotions you can use to promote your membership site this holiday season.\n\n<img class=\"embed-center\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/wpgcbucket\/wp\/2018\/11\/022a74a1-sale-sign.png\" alt=\"sales promotions for membership sites\" width=\"664\" height=\"400\" \/>\n<h3><strong>1. Flash Sale<\/strong><\/h3>\nWho doesn\u2019t love a good old-fashioned sale? Running a flash sale is a great opportunity for you to offer a limited-time discount on some or all of your products and services. The time-sensitive nature of a flash sale helps build hype around your business and can lead to a healthy spike in revenue.\n\nWhen executed correctly, a flash sale can work wonders for your membership site. If you have a list of leads or prospective customers who are on the fence about joining your membership, a time-sensitive discount could provide the perfect motivation for them to join. For example, you could run a special promotion discounting your membership by 20% for all new members.\n\nA flash sale is a valid strategy to employ with your current members as well. If you offer products such as video trainings or digital courses in addition to your membership, a limited-time discount on these products could be very attractive to your current members. By selling additional products to your existing members, you can increase the lifetime value of your customers and overall profitability of your business.\n<h4><strong>How To Create This Membership Promotion:<\/strong><\/h4>\nRunning a flash sale is easy with MemberMouse. To set one up, all you need to do is <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/managing-coupons\/\">create a coupon<\/a> to be applied to the product or membership of your choosing. When you create a coupon for your flash sale, you have total control over which products are discounted and the expiration date of the sale. That means you can run the flash sale for any and all of your products or memberships for any length of time.\n\nOnce you\u2019ve created the coupon for your flash sale, you can deliver it to your customers however you\u2019d like. If your flash sale is targeting prospective customers, you can either send them the coupon code for them to input during checkout or you can simply send them a quick link that takes them directly to the checkout page and <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/pass-data-to-a-checkout-page\/\">automatically applies the discount<\/a>.\n\nOr if your flash sale is targeting your current members, you can choose to display the coupon code anywhere on your site (such as their member homepage). And using the <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/member-decision-smarttag-mm_member_decision\/\">Member Decision SmartTag<\/a>, you can choose to show it only to members who've made certain purchases or not.\n<h3><strong>2. Buy One Get One\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\nThere\u2019s nothing like getting something for free. A \u201cBuy One, Get One\u201d sale is a time-tested promotional strategy that can be easily applied to your subscription business. Think about it: have you ever been enticed to buy something simply because you were offered an additional product for free? What\u2019s more, sometimes the appeal of a free product is greater than the appeal of a discount. So let\u2019s take a look at an example of how you could implement this in your membership site.\n\nImagine that you offer both a la carte products and memberships on your site. If you are trying to sell an a la carte video training or online course, you could sweeten the deal by packaging it with a free month of your membership. If someone is on the fence about buying your course or training, the added incentive of a free month of your membership could encourage them to buy.\n\nThe same scenario also works in reverse: If your main offering is your membership, you could create a more compelling offer by including your standalone course to buyers for free. However you decide to package the offer, remember that giving away something for free or extending a discount to a related product goes a long way in increasing the desirability of your promotion.\n<h4><strong>How To Set Up This Special Offer:<\/strong><\/h4>\nSetting up a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/create-a-buy-one-get-one-promo\/\">Buy One, Get One<\/a>\u201d offer with MemberMouse is rather straightforward. For this example, let\u2019s imagine that you want to give everyone who becomes a Gold Level Member your video course for free. Here\u2019s how to do it:\n<ol>\n \t<li>Create a <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/managing-bundles\/\">free bundle<\/a> for your video course<\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/protect-and-schedule-content\/\">Protect the content<\/a> for the video course pages or posts with that bundle<\/li>\n \t<li>Create a Member Link SmartTag link that <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/allow-members-to-add-a-free-bundle-to-their-account\/\">allows members to apply the free bundle to their account<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Finally, add that link to a confirmation page so that as soon as your customers become a Gold Level Member, they can add the Video Course bundle to their account\n<ul>\n \t<li>You can do this either by creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/create-product-specific-confirmation-page\/\">product specific confirmation page<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Or, you can edit your <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/confirmation-core-page-template\/\">current confirmation core page<\/a> and use the <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/order-decision-smarttag-mm_order_decision\/\">Order Decision SmartTag<\/a> to display your messaging and link to only those customers who purchased the Gold Status bundle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nAnd there you have it! Whenever someone purchases your Gold Level Membership, they\u2019ll be able to access your video course for free. Now you can promote this offer to your current or prospective members. If you ever wanted to stop this promotion, all you'd need to do is remove the redemption link from the confirmation page. Easy as pie! (Mmmm, pie...)\n\nFor more detailed, step-by-step instructions, check out this article: <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/create-a-buy-one-get-one-promo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Create a Buy One, Get One Promo\"<\/a>\n\n<img class=\"embed-center\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/wpgcbucket\/wp\/2020\/11\/1cdf3fe0-member-promotions.png\" alt=\"member promotion ideas\" \/>\n<h3><strong>3. Give the Gift of Your Product or Membership<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe\u2019re just about to enter the biggest gift-giving season of the year. Wouldn\u2019t it be great if there was a way for you to encourage your current customers to give your products or memberships away as gifts to their friends, family, or colleagues? By empowering your current members to purchase your products or memberships as gifts, you improve your chances of capturing profits hidden within your business.\n\nWell, we\u2019ve got some good news for you. There is an easy way for your current members to buy any of your products or memberships and send them to their friends and family as gifts.\n<h4><strong>How To Gift Your Membership:<\/strong><\/h4>\nBe sure to read <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/gifting-functionality\/\">this article<\/a> that goes in-depth about our gifting functionality. But to get you started, here are a few key things to keep in mind when setting up your products or memberships as gifts:\n<ol>\n \t<li>A member can purchase any paid membership or bundle on your site as a gift<\/li>\n \t<li>To do so, your members just need to be logged in to your site<\/li>\n \t<li>Your members do not have to be a member of the membership level they are purchasing as a gift, nor do they have to own the product they plan on gifting<\/li>\n \t<li>Gifts can be redeemed one of two ways: either by the link delivered on the confirmation page after your member buys the gift or via your member\u2019s <em>My Account<\/em> page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nNow you can run a special promotion to your members encouraging them to spread the love and give your products or memberships away as gifts to their friends and family this holiday season.\n<h3><strong>4. Discount for a Set Number of Buyers<\/strong><\/h3>\nThis promotional strategy is similar to the flash sale, but with a twist. Here, you\u2019re extending a special offer such as a discount for a set number of buyers only. The hype and sense of urgency that is created with a standard flash sale can be significantly multiplied when you limit the total number of people who can take advantage of the offer. Here\u2019s how you can apply this sales technique to your subscription business:\n\nPicture that you\u2019re just about to launch a new product or membership level. And, you want to generate some energy and excitement around your offer. As part of your launch sequence, you could announce to your members that the first 100 buyers of your new offering will receive a $100 discount. What\u2019s great is that MemberMouse gives you the power to limit the total quantity of coupons used. So, you don\u2019t have to worry about turning off the coupon once 100 people have used it. MemberMouse takes care of the automatically for you. Let\u2019s take a look at how you could do this.\n<h4><strong>How To Create This Membership Discount:<\/strong><\/h4>\nThe process for creating a special discount for a limited number of buyers is just like <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/managing-coupons\/\">creating any coupon<\/a>. The key difference here is that you choose how many times you\u2019d like the coupon to be used, and put that number in the <em>Limit Quantity<\/em> field. In our case, we want our offer to be valid for the first 100 buyers only. So, that\u2019s the number we\u2019d insert into the <em>Limit Quantity<\/em> field.\n\n<img class=\"embed-center\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/wpgcbucket\/wp\/2018\/11\/1f3b8df5-offer.png\" alt=\"special discount for membership sites\" width=\"445\" height=\"436\" \/>\n\nLimiting the total number of people who can take advantage of a special offer is a tremendous way to build engagement around a sale or promotion.\n<h3><strong>5. Deep Discount on an Introductory Offer<\/strong><\/h3>\nDo you have an introductory product or membership level that you use to get customers in the door? Maybe it\u2019s a low-priced course or bottom-tier membership level. These types of offerings are often referred to as \u201ctripwires\u201d in the digital marketing world. Though, some people \u2013 like legendary marketer <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/podcast\/brian-kurtz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Kurtz<\/a> \u2013 prefer to think of these offers as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.briankurtz.net\/why-blowing-up-your-customers-may-not-be-the-best-idea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\"Welcome Mats\"<\/a> instead.\n\nThe idea here is to make an inviting, low-risk offer that converts prospects into paying customers. If you do have an introductory offer that you pitch to prospective customers, running a special deep discount promotion can be a great way to acquire a fresh set of new customers. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, you have the perfect opportunity to implement such an offer.\n\nFor example, let\u2019s say that you have a Beginner\u2019s Video Training that you normally sell for $20. As a special promotional sale, you could offer this training for $1 instead. Even though you may sacrifice some initial revenue on the front end, you create the possibility of bringing many new customers in the door. Then, when they\u2019ve had some time to get to know you and explore your site, you can offer them an upsell to your core products or memberships.\n<h4><strong>How To Do This With A Product:<\/strong><\/h4>\nWhile you can accomplish this with a coupon, we'd first like to share how to do this by creating a new product. The benefits of creating a new product are that you can track the sales of this product against your full-priced one as well as later on easily assess the LCV of customers who purchased this product.\n<ol>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/managing-products\/\">Create a new product<\/a> for your $1 \u2018Beginner\u2019s Video Training\u2019<\/li>\n \t<li>Be sure to set the associated access to the original \u2018Beginner\u2019s Video Training\u2019 bundle<\/li>\n \t<li>Copy the purchase link for you new $1 product<\/li>\n \t<li>Use that purchase link wherever you intend to promote your offer (in emails, on sales pages, etc.)<\/li>\n \t<li>And if you like, change the product to be inactive when the promotion is over.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<img class=\"embed-center\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/wpgcbucket\/wp\/2020\/11\/3394ed08-holiday-sale-product-promotion.png\" alt=\"how to create a holiday sale\" width=\"445\" height=\"455\" \/>\n<h4><strong>How To Do This With A Coupon:<\/strong><\/h4>\nYou can also accomplish this by creating a coupon with these parameters:\n<ol>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/managing-coupons\/\">Create a coupon<\/a> for your $20 \u2018Beginner\u2019s Video Training\u2019, and apply a $19 off discount<\/li>\n \t<li>Apply the discount to the first charge only \u2014 *Please review <strong><em>Important Reminder<\/em><\/strong> section below<\/li>\n \t<li>In Valid Products, select only your \u2018Beginner\u2019s Video Training\u2019<\/li>\n \t<li>And if you like, set the start and end date for the coupon<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nNow you can run a deep discount promotion on an introductory or \u2018tripwire\u2019 product. This is the perfect promotional strategy for Black Friday \/ Cyber Monday type sales events.\n\n<img class=\"embed-center size-full wp-image-3842\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/wpgcbucket\/wp\/2018\/11\/2444ea41-cards.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"400\" \/>\n<h3><strong>6. Create a \u201cVirtual Gift Card\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\nAs a membership site owner, the holidays are not only a good time for you to run sales and promotions for your business, but also a terrific time to give back to your own members and customers. In that spirit, why not consider giving some or all of your members a gift card they can use on your site?\n\nImagine how cool it would be for your members to see a gift card pop up in their members' area the next time they log into your site. With MemberMouse, you have the ability to create a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/virtual-gift-card\/\">virtual gift card<\/a>\u201d that dynamically displays to the members of your choosing. That means you can create different gift cards for each one of your membership levels. Or, you could simply create one gift card to be sent to all your members.\n\nWhile creating a true gift card with MemberMouse isn\u2019t technically possible (<em>meaning crediting money to a member\u2019s account<\/em>), there is a way to create a virtual one. With our coupon functionality, you can create coupons with a specific dollar amount that can be applied to a future purchase.\n\nIf you'd like additional implementation options and more detailed step-by-step\u00a0 setup instructions, review this article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/virtual-gift-card\/\">\"Virtual Gift Card How-to: 3 Methods Explained\"<\/a>\n<h4><strong>How To Create A Gift Card:<\/strong><\/h4>\nFor this example, let\u2019s say that we want to send all of our members a $25 coupon for them to use on any future purchase. Here\u2019s how you\u2019d do it:\n<ol>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/managing-coupons\/\">Create a coupon<\/a> with a $25 discount<\/li>\n \t<li>If you want to apply an expiration date to the \u201cgift card,\u201d set the end date for the coupon<\/li>\n \t<li>Send the coupon code out to all of your members!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nNow if you want to get really fancy, you can style a graphic that looks like a gift card. Then you could use the <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/member-decision-smarttag-mm_member_decision\/\"><em>Member Decision SmartTag<\/em><\/a> to dynamically display the gift card graphic linking to the coupon code anywhere SmartTags can be displayed on your site. And that\u2019s how you create a \u201cvirtual gift card\u201d for your members.\n<h3><strong>How To Track The Use Of All Your Coupons &amp; Gifts<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/updates\/membermouse-2-4-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MemberMouse 2.4.0<\/a> came a feature that makes it much easier for you to see how many people used a particular coupon. The Coupon Log lets you track all the coupons that have been used on your site, see who used it, and pinpoint the date it was used.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11802\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/wpgcbucket\/wp\/2020\/11\/f33751d7-membermouse-coupon-log.png\" alt=\"membermouse coupon log\" width=\"1200\" height=\"440\" \/>\n\nHere's an article from our support center that gives you all the details about <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/coupon-log\/\">how to use this new Coupon Log<\/a>.\n\nSimilarly, we also created a Gifts Log that lets you track products that have been bought and redeemed. What's cool about the Gifts Log is that you can not only identify your current members who gained access through a gift. You can also see all the pending gifts that have been purchased but not yet redeemed.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11803\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/wpgcbucket\/wp\/2020\/11\/2c804ccf-membermouse-gifts-log.png\" alt=\"membermouse gifts log\" width=\"1200\" height=\"411\" \/>\n\nHere's an article from our support center that shows you <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/docs\/gifts-log\/\">how to use the new Gifts Log<\/a>.\n\nNow you have an easy way to track how effective your membership promotions were during this holiday season!\n<h3><i class=\"fa fa-exclamation-triangle\"><\/i><strong> Important Reminders<\/strong><\/h3>\nNow, before you go off creating a bunch of new promotional offers to test this holiday season, there is one thing we need to remind you of: If you have a product or membership that starts with a trial period, the $0 charge for the trial is considered the first charge.\n\nThat means when you create coupons for products with free trial periods and choose \u201capply discount to the first charge only\u201d in <em>Subscription Options<\/em>, the coupon\u2019s discount will only be applied to the $0 charge for the trial.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"embed-center size-full wp-image-3820\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/wpgcbucket\/wp\/2018\/11\/c46933c6-subopt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"58\" \/><\/p>\nWhat we\u2019re trying to avoid here is having your customers be charged full price for a product they thought they were getting a discount on. If you don\u2019t want to apply a coupon\u2019s discount to all future charges, all you would need to do is create a new product without a trial period for your members to purchase. This way the coupon will take the discount off of the first full-price charge.\n\nAlso, you might run into some difficulties if you want to offer your existing members discounts on their current memberships. This strategy requires a few extra steps and we want to make sure you set things up correctly. If this is something you'd like to try, please <a href=\"https:\/\/membermouse.com\/resource\/submit-a-new-support-ticket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">get in touch with our support team here<\/a>. We'd be more than happy to walk you through this.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11805\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/wpgcbucket\/wp\/2020\/11\/f0372b8c-membership-promotion.png\" alt=\"membership promotion ideas\" width=\"1200\" height=\"431\" \/>\n<h3><strong>Wrapping Up<\/strong><\/h3>\nAre you inspired to create a special offer for your membership site this holiday season? We hope so!\n\nIt\u2019s our mission to help you build powerful and profitable membership sites. If you do implement any one of these strategies, we\u2019d love to hear how it went. Leave us a comment below and share your success with our readers. 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