We hate to mention the dreaded C-word so early in the year, but for thortful it’s all about being as prepared as possible to win those sales!
Please get your designs uploaded by 1st October 2018 to ensure they are considered for our Christmas collection this year.
We look forward to seeing all of your lovely designs soon!
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Sharing can help you to boost your sales, especially around one of the biggest card-buying seasons of the year! We’ve created some Christmas-themed images to help you let your followers know that your cards are available on thortful. Simply use the programme of your choice to slot your own designs into the blank space, and share away đ
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Just right-click or cmd + click to save, and remember to link through to your profile or the card itself when you share!
Share your designs and let your followers know that they can now send some snazzy Christmas socks or a beautifully crafted Advent calendar along with your cards! Simply use the programme of your choice to slot your own designs into the blank space, and share đ
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Why not use one of our captions to make it EVEN easier to share?
My @thortful cards are now available to send with an amazing choccy gift! Get them here > [Link]
Need a pressie AND a card? The folks over @thortful have got you sorted with my designs now available as Christmas Sock Cards.
A card and a gift in one:Â Advent Cards are new @thortful.Â
Be top of the Good List this Christmas and stand out from the crowd with my cheeky design, now available from @thortful as a Sock Card!
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Just right-click or cmd + click to save, and remember to link through to your profile or the card itself when you share!
With the Christmas season already upon us, make sure you’re promoting your thortful cards in order to make the most of the seasonal sales. We’ve got five great tips to help you fly through the festive period and get your cards selling.
1.Plan plan plan!
The key to getting your Christmas merchandising right is planning when to post. Make a schedule, plan some nice posts around your cards and then stick to it. You can even do some research on the best hashtags to use, then pop them onto all of your posts!
2. Time is of the essence
Try to post around once a week, to keep the momentum going, and check what the best timings are to post so as to catch as many followers as possible. Start early, and target those early-bird buyers who are keen to get their hands on your designs, then progress to posts emphasising that âthe time is nowâ, and of course close to the time you can make your posts appeal to last-minute buyers and quote the final posting days.
3. Targeted posts
Make sure that your posts are aimed at a specific group or narrowed down from being generally festive in some way. Generic Christmas themes wonât help you to stand out, so try to think about specific niches. Whether this takes the form of cards for a specific relation or family member, cards around a popular theme (think gin or Star Wars!) or simply funny cards which appeal to a particular sense of humour.
4. Hashtag #thortfulchristmas
Get your tags and hashtags right! First of all remember to tag us @thortful and use our Christmas hashtag #thortfulchristmas to let people know where to get your cards. Use as many hashtags as you can on platforms like Instagram – do your research ahead of time and make a list of relevant hashtags to use on every card post, then add individual hashtags which are highly relevant to your design.
5. Fit your posts to our marketing
Weâll be focussing on the following themes for our marketing, so aligning your own posts with ours will help to optimise.