Need help with bonus items for a promotion

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Running a black friday sale coming up. We have some cheap physical items that we can add as a bonus but we only have 10. We'd have to buy/ship them after 10 sales. The cost of the physical items is around $8 and shipping will vary but probably around $5 average.

I also have a digital download as bonus item #2 which is alot cheaper.

Our core offer is a year membership to our music lesson site for $47 (normally $124).

My question is this: How important is a physical item being included in a sale? An option we are looking at is to just give a $10 certificate from a music retailer instead of shipping them a physical bonus item. But something doesn't seem right to me with that. Why not just discount the price to $37 at that point? The physical item seems more tempting to me.

Another option is to just offer the physical bonus to the first 10 and then remove it from the page.

Would love some feedback on this as I don't know which way to go. We are trying to make some money from this but also "over deliver" to ensure that we have a good sale and people actually bite.

Thanks,

Aaron
#bonus #items #promotion
  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    Aaron,

    Don't give away the store. You're in business to make money. Physical items cost you money. Shipping costs you money. That's not your answer.

    I would find a great related digital item that you could add as a bonus but that didn't cost you a penny.

    How about some public domain sheet music? Or a PD book of favorite songs. This kind of gift can be fun to receive and it will not cost your business a penny. Just turn the music into a pdf and deliver it via email to your customers. Public domain music is easy to access.

    Good luck to you.

    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author musicmuseman
      Thanks Steve, Will look into the notation idea
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