The SMSBump Christmas Calendar

Get your Christmas cheer ON! Hop through 25 holiday strategies, festive tips and jolly treats - savor them day by day or rush through them all in one dash. We promise not to tell Santa!

Happy December!

Check out what the SMSBump elves have in store for you!🎄 Hear from Maggie who will give you our very first tip for the holiday season. See the video and head over to the rest of the surprises hidden in our Advent Calendar!

Meet the shoppers

The 5 holiday shoppers and the SMS strategies to win them over

Santa has a Naughty or Nice list, and we have a list of the different types of shoppers that will be sleighing by your eCommerce store this holiday season.

Check them out and make sure your marketing strategy has a little bit for all of them.

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Treats from Justuno

You're going to need a bigger sleigh for all your customers and sales after you listen to Justuno's holiday tip, dedicated to growing your conversion rates.

Mark Boyd might not have a white beard but he sure has a lot of eCommerce wisdom to share, including some useful and simple CRO strategies.

Festive pop-ups

Bring the Christmas spirit to your pop-ups

What are the key ingredients of engaging pop-ups? Learn how to create mobile-optimized experiences and grow your subscribers, especially during busy holiday traffic.

Use holly-jolly pop-ups to collect phone numbers and emails onsite, create your own version of Santa’s Naughty and Nice lists and send timely and personalized offers later on.

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Did you know that…

The legend of the first SMS

On December 3, 1992, the British engineer Neil Papworth sat down at his desktop computer and typed out the world's first text message. On the receiving end was Richard Jarvis' mobile phone which, just to give you some perspective, weighed more than 4.5 pounds. The phone chimed, Jarvis picked it up and read: "Merry Christmas". And the rest, as they say, is history...

Treats from Chronos Agency

We don't need Santa to come and tell us this - personalization is both queen and king in the marketing world, and especially around key holidays.

Josh Chin from Chronos agency has a bagful of strategies and tactics how to tailor your customer experience for an even jollier 2022.

Tune in to Santa's playlist

Shine bright with holiday offers

5 engaging holiday offers for record-breaking sales

A good deal is like the perfect gift under the Christmas tree - it instantly grabs your attention, its size doesn’t really matter, and you know you want it the moment you see it.

Go through our guide to learn the 3 key ingredients of every good offer and try out some of our 5 holiday strategies, proven to drive revenue and maximize sales throughout the holiday season.

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What is Santa’s favorite place to deliver presents?
Idaho-ho-ho!

Treats from Gorgias

Even Santa needs a little support sometimes. See what Chris Lavoie from Gorgias has wrapped up for you and learn how to support customers through the holidays and enjoy a steady flow of repeat purchases well into the New Year.

Treats from Ecommerce tech

You know what they say - the more, the merrier, and that doesn't just go for the presents under the Christmas tree.

Derric from Ecommerce Tech has 3 festive tips for you on how to earn your customers' trust for keeps and have great engagement all through 2022.

Christmas Stars: LALA

LALA's mission is simple and straightforward: be unapologetically yourself in the clothes you wear. Led by this motto, the brand's SMS strategy revolves around self-love, delivered in an engaging and casual way. As a result, LALA was able to cross the $1 million mark with their text marketing campaigns and enjoy an average click-through rate of over 25%.

Christmas Stars: Pure & Coco

Pure & Coco is a small, family-run business which is all about helping people understand their skin and treat it with the very best solutions. The store always makes sure their customers choose and buy the right products, and skincare education is at the heart of their SMS communication.

As a result, Pure & Coco enjoy a great level of customer engagement and loyalty, and do everything in their power to get shoppers to return again and again. Especially around special family holidays.

Presents ❤

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Who said gifts? We say gifts!

We want to help out Santa, so we’ve prepared a very special gift for our new users - 3 whole months on our Growth plan to get you started with SMS marketing in 2022.

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Christmas Stars: Slime Glitterz

Slime Glitterz is the place you'd go to for an unconventional but satisfying gift - slime. The brand's interactive approach to customers also shines through their SMS marketing strategy, helping their Christmas campaign generate ROI of 614x in 2020.

Treats from Recart

Wrap up even more sales with Recart's jolly-good tips on omnichannel marketing! Hear Nick Romaya talk about why it's important to be on as many marketing channels as you can to make the most out of the merriest time of the year.

30+ SMS Templates under the Christmas tree

Be the star this Christmas! Twinkle bright with our 30+ SMS marketing templates.

From Santa's List Day all the way to New Year, you have at least 9 festive opportunities to make your customers part of the Christmas celebrations.

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Treats from Social Snowball

Spread the Christmas joy with a holly-jolly affiliate marketing strategy. Noah Tucker from Social Snowball rides in with a bagful of tips and tricks for your holiday referral campaign.

Christmas Stars: Love & Linen

Apparel brand Love & Linen don't leave it to Santa to bring them good results with their SMS marketing campaigns. Instead, they ran an A/B test campaign to determine which holiday message gets the cookie.

Guess which one made it to the Nice List!

Treats from Velstar

Don't let customers wait around for your store to load like kids on Christmas eve.

Katie Evans from Velstar rings the bell on the importance of optimizing your site speed not just for the high-traffic holidays, but all year long. She's prepared 3 quick ways to make sure your website is loading fast and is giving shoppers the gift of great experience.

Christmas Stars: Kiki LaRue

Kiki LaRue views itself as a problem-solver, a life-changer, a community builder. All of this is evident especially in their SMS campaigns.

Always personalized, to the point and giving great value, their text messages are customers' shortcut to good quality and great deals, and as a result have delivered 20x ROI for the brand.

Christmas on Autopilot

Christmas-themed SMS flows to get your sales on a roll

Just as Santa needs his little helpers, any successful holiday strategy relies heavily on automations.

Leverage our powerful SMS Flows to send cheerful welcome messages and quickly turn store visitors into loyal customers. Learn 4 clever ways to reward even the naughtiest shoppers and make them come back to your store this Christmas.

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Christmas Stars: KREWE

KREWE's stylish eyewear is a great present to put under the Christmas tree and they want to make sure their customers know that.

With a creative approach to SMS, the brand has generated over $750 000 in sales from text message campaigns.

Treats from ReConvert

The key to winning customers' hearts for good? You won't find it in your Christmas stocking but we'll gladly share it with you. Proper post-purchase care. Learn the retention basics with ReConvert's Ruth Even Haim.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the SMSBump team!

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