It's Christmas - how are you going to make it even more commercial?

by Peter Bestel

Posted: 16 years ago 19 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Seeing as we didn't have summer this year in the UK, a lot of people are already thinking of the next so-called feel-good season, Christmas.
Shops are busily taking down their 'back to school' displays and surreptitiously replacing them with rows upon rows of family sized biscuit tins and huge boxes of chocolates. All this activity goes on despite the mutterings of disgruntled shoppers, desperately clinging on to the last rays of sun whilst doing their shopping in their Bermuda shorts and skimpy tops.

So how are you preparing your business for the festive season?

You might not need to or you may already have it sorted, or maybe you can figure out a new way to capitalise on Christmas.

(Yeah, I know. Christmas is a religious festival and all this commercialisation is devaluing its true meaning. Apologies if you think that way, I don't wish to offend, but this is, after all, a marketing forum.)

If you haven't already, maybe consider dipping a festive toe into a Christmas niche or ten. They may be extremely seasonal by definition, but if you set it up this year, there's nothing stopping you from dusting it off every September and gaining yourself a little extra Yuletide income.

Just a thought.

Peter

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Kim Standerline

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Peter Bestel

Spot on Peter, and the best time to start thinking about Christmas niches etc was probably a few weeks or even months ago.

Never too late to start for the year after tho

Cheers
Kim

p.s call me sad, but I've already started buying pressies

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Peter Bestel

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Kim Standerline

Spot on Peter, and the best time to start thinking about Christmas niches etc was probably a few weeks or even months ago.

Never too late to start for the year after tho

Cheers
Kim

p.s call me sad, but I've already started buying pressies

You're right Kim. Should've been sorted earlier really, but worth a shot.

Peter

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Heather Bestel

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Kim Standerline

p.s call me sad, but I've already started buying pressies

I don't think you are at all sad Kim. Every year I have all my presents bought and beautifully wrapped by the end of November and sometimes October. I have a year long plan that takes away the stress of the festive season so I can enjoy every minute of the season itself. My subscribers get month by month tips so they can join in too. I'm all for a simpler way of life.

Happy holidays!

Heather x

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Scott Ames

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Heather Bestel

Good grief you are organized.

I thought all internet marketers were scatter brains and had ADD.

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Heather Bestel 16 years ago

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

I hate you! :p

I get that a lot!
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Peter Bestel

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Heather Bestel

Every year I have all my presents bought and beautifully wrapped by the end of November and sometimes October.

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

I hate you! :p

And what's more, she is the queen of wrapping presents. They're works of art with cellophane, ribbons - just amazing. Friends bring their presents to her to wrap, she could easily start a nifty sideline (or a good how-to ebook for a Christmas niche says he, desperately trying to bring the thread back on topic!)

Peter

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Heather Bestel 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Peter Bestel

desperately trying to bring the thread back on topic!)Peter

sorry Peter:p
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- Kim Standerline 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Heather Bestel
  
  sorry Peter:p
  
  lol are u 2 sat side by side on separate computers
  
  Peter I think it's probably your turn to make a cup of tea lol
  
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  Peter Bestel 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kim Standerline
  
  lol are u 2 sat side by side on separate computers
  
  Peter I think it's probably your turn to make a cup of tea lol
  
  No, we share one (get off!) and it's my turn now (GET OFF!) Go make the tea like Kim said - Oh I typed that instead of saying it out loud!
  
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  Bev Clement 16 years ago
  
  I have a site which has been quietly ticking away for all of the year :p
  
  Kim if it's any help Rob & I sit side by side on seperate computers. And he always makes the cup of tea for me and coffee for him. He does all the washing up as well.
  
  We have some Christmas articles (religious) for sale on our site which my husband wrote.
  
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  Jean Morgan 16 years ago
  
  It is bad enough in this house with a packet of biscuits around let alone a whole tin full!
  I am dreading the shops for the next 3 months, fortunately we have little family so it is usually not much of a chore doing the shopping and the social comittments are what we want not what we are duty bound to do.
  
  I built my Christmas sites in January so I am hoping for a good autumn with them. All indexed, out of the sandbox and ranking well. Need some more promotion in the coming weeks but I am hopeful that I got it right for others to spend their cash with me.
  
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  Martin Luxton 16 years ago
  
  My aunt used to buy all her Crimble pressies in the January sales and she had them wrapped the same evening.
  
  Peter, it's a bit late preparing for this year's Christmas. I'm getting ready for 2011.
  
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  JohnMcCabe 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Peter Bestel
  
  No, we share one (get off!) and it's my turn now (GET OFF!) Go make the tea like Kim said - Oh I typed that instead of saying it out loud!
  
  Peter
  
  Peter, that's no way to talk to your daughter (looking at the avatars). :p
  
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  Peter Bestel 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe
  
  Peter, that's no way to talk to your daughter (looking at the avatars). :p
  
  Oh you big flatterer John. Did you use a hook to catch that fish or did you just charm it into your net?
  
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  Martin Luxton 16 years ago
  
  John
  
  If you had checked out their respective ages you would have seen that Peter is actually Heather's toyboy
  
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  Heather Bestel 16 years ago
  
  I was being politely quiet!
  
  Heather
  PS. I think I'd better go and put the kettle on.
  
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  Martin Luxton 16 years ago
  
  Heather
  
  I almost didn't post because it was rather ungentlemanly of me to notice. Then again, you don't look your age.
  
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  Bev Clement 16 years ago
  
  Martin, I was talking to Rob about this thread, and said exactly the same, that Peter is Heather's toyboy :p
  
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Stephen Saha

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Peter Bestel

Hey Peter,

Thats a great art and needs real talent.
I feel a gift until its wrapped nicely is incomplete.
It adds a real essence to the present.
After all Packaging does matter in a big way [

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May be you can help her writing an ebook on ...
How toWrap your Gifts in 5 mins!! LOL.

Stephen

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