Practical campaign guides
How to Promote Your Digital Advent or Offer Calendar
Publishing gives your campaign a home. A launch message and useful reminders help customers discover it and know when to return.
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Prepare one clear explanation.
Tell customers what the calendar contains, when the first reveal opens and where they can find it. Explain that they open digital doors and follow links to your shop for purchases.
Prepare a launch image or short recording that shows the actual calendar. Use a visible reveal to demonstrate the experience and avoid suggesting every door contains a discount if that is not your plan.
Connect your existing channels.
Place the calendar link in a relevant website banner or seasonal page. Announce it to your existing email audience and use social posts to highlight individual reveals with enough context to make them useful.
Grow includes website embedding. If you embed a calendar, review it on your site and on a phone before announcing it. Keep one primary destination in your communications so customers know where to return.
Make reminders useful and review the results.
Schedule reminders around meaningful reveals, not just the existence of another door. For a gift guide, explain the shopping need it addresses. For an offer, state the relevant conditions and real expiry.
Tag campaign links consistently in your analytics tools and review code redemptions in your shop. Grow engagement reporting can help you see which offers receive attention; visits and clicks alone do not prove sales attribution.
Put the plan into practice.
Campaign ideas to adapt to your own products, audience and availability.
Plan
Choose a focused sequence.
Start with one audience and one campaign goal. Prepare the products and information each reveal needs.
Build
Make it your own.
Add your branding, images, offer descriptions and destination links. Preview the calendar before publication.
Share
Give customers a place to return.
Publish when ready and share the calendar through your existing website, email and social channels.
See a calendar in action.
Explore our Christmas example for a taste of what you can create for your next promotion.
Before your
first reveal.
Yes. Building and previewing are free. Choose a paid package when you are ready to publish.
No. Doors can contain product stories, practical advice, images and links without an offer code.
No. Send launch messages and reminders through your existing email tools. Grow can send consented signups to a connected Shopify or Klaviyo account.
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