Every year, holiday seasons such as Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Thanksgiving are always the biggest shopping events. As the order volume increases, you may get consumed with menial tasks that don’t make a real impact on your business. And that’s where holiday automation platforms come into play.
Automation is a clear-cut strategy that could apparently free yourself from the mundane tasks and make this holiday season your biggest, most profitable, and easiest ever.
This article will uncover what you can do to ensure you’re getting the most out of your holiday automation for online business efforts.
How to automate your holiday campaigns?
Atom8 is BigCommerce’s first e-Commerce Automation software that works natively in just a few clicks.
Since its launch, hundreds of merchants have already offloaded millions of tasks, millions of hours — to grow bigger, faster. Using a three-step visual builder: Trigger, Condition, and Action, Atom8 lets you put repetitive and time-consuming tasks on autopilot. That way, you can make room for growing your business.
Top 6 automated workflows to make your holiday season easier and more profitable
If you’re already using Atom8 — or just want to take a look at what it can do — we’ve put together the top 6 automated workflows to make your holiday season easier and more profitable.
1. Send “thank-you” & upselling emails after purchase
Data has shown that the average business takes 5 times harder to attract a new customer than to keep an existing one. Thus to retain your customers after their purchase, you should consider doing several strategies at the same time. For example, upselling and cross-selling products consumers might like, creating a loyalty program to encourage repeated (and regular) purchases, or taking them through a lead nurturing email journey. Whatever the tactic is, the goal is to retain your customers, successfully communicate with them, and stay on their top-of-mind.
The workflow below is used to reach out to existing customers. Then you can segment them into specific groups based on product purchased & total lifetime spending, and re-engage them with upsell and cross-sell offers.
How it works:
Trigger: Order placed.
Condition: If the product name includes “iPhone”.
Action: Assign customer to a group.
AND Tag customers on MailChimp.
AND Send “thank-you” & upselling emails to customers via MailChimp.
Click here to see the specific use case of send “thank-you” & upselling emails after purchase in action.
2. Track & reward your top customers with loyalty programs
By showing your tribute to your customers, you can successfully encourage reorders and generate a loyal customer base. This holiday automation allows for segmenting customers based on their total lifetime spending and get them engaged with personalized emails. With Atom8, you can add many attributes to each customer, whereas in BigCommerce’s nature, one customer can only be in one group only.
How it works:
Trigger: Order placed.
Condition: Customer total spending amount excluding tax is:
- Greater than 1000.
- Greater than 500 and less than or equal to 1000.
- Greater than 200 and less than or equal to 500.
Action: Assign customer to the corresponding group.
AND Send email to Customer via MailChimp.
Click here to see the specific use case of track & reward your top customers with loyalty programs in action.
3. Apply discounts to all or specific products/categories
On sales seasons, you’ll want to apply discounts for specific categories. It won’t be exhausting if you have not so many SKUs in stock. However, if you do, it will consume considerable resources. You can eliminate these time-consuming tasks just by one simple and easy-to-set-up workflow on Atom8.
How it works:
Trigger: When 28/08/2020 comes, at 16:00.
Condition: Product category includes “LAST CHANCE”.
Action: Change product sale price.
Click here to see the specific use case of apply discounts to all or specific products/categories in action.
4. Prioritize & feature top-trending products (most viewed, most sold, most reviewed, etc.)
From best-selling to collection-based products, homepage layout to category pages, photography to social proof, e-Commerce merchandising is an indispensable part of any online store.
With this in mind, the Atom8 team has been focusing on helping BigCommerce merchants drive more revenue while creating an easy & convenient shopping experience for their customers. Specifically, Atom8 can automatically change product sort orders based on total views. The lower the product sort order is, the higher it is prioritized on the storefront.
How it works:
Trigger: When product inventory changed.
Condition: Product category includes “Utility”.
AND Total product views are greater than or equal to 2.
Action: Change product’s sort order to 0
(The lower product sort order is, the higher it is prioritized on the storefront).
Click here to see the specific use case of prioritize & feature top-trending products (most viewed, most sold, most reviewed, etc.) in action.
5. Reorder low-stock items and Pause Marketing
When your best-selling product runs out of stock, you’ll want to change this product’s status to pre-order. This gives you some time to rearrange the stock without failing its demand. At the same time, the Marketing team is supposed to get notifications to work on marketing campaigns. Whereas the Purchasing team needs the advice to contact suppliers. With Atom8, all these manual tasks can be executed in just one simple workflow.
How it works:
Trigger: Product inventory changes.
Condition: Inventory level is equal to 0.
Action: Change product availability (Availability option: Pre-order with an expected release date).
Or if: Inventory level is greater than 0.
Action: Change product availability (Availability option: The product can be purchased immediately).
Click here to see the specific use case of change product availability status (Pre-order, Purchasable) based on inventory level in action.
6. Auto-publish content to the website
Promoting multiple sales campaigns on a website at a time is a challenging task. This workflow from Atom8 allows you to automatically & continuously publish & switch banners on a pre-scheduled basis.
How it works:
Trigger: When holiday campaign starts (Triggered by time).
Action: Constantly change multiple themes/ banner ads for different promotion offers.
Click here to see the specific use case of auto-publish content to website in action.
Key takeaway
Remember that the “holiday season” is really a series of sales promotions, from Cyber Weekend to Winter holidays and everything in between. It’s crucial to prepare great inventory management and sales strategies. Lastly, don’t forget to utilize tools & automation for the best results.
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