Whether you already have a spike in holiday traffic or want to take advantage of quarter four, holiday printables are the perfect solution. Scale your blog and affiliate income with holiday printables to boost your email sign-ups and get your audience into your seasonal funnels while they’re ready to buy!
Leverage your holiday traffic with our FREE holiday content planning sheet! It’s the perfect tool to maximize your holiday content to boost traffic, email sign-ups, and affiliate income!
Holiday printables – Those two words form the biggest creativity block for some bloggers.
They think they can’t stray from their regular content. Or their audience will be so busy that they won’t have time to read their holiday posts, let alone download a holiday printable.
Even worse, some bloggers don’t know where to start to actually brainstorm holiday printables!
We’re here to tell you that EVERY niche can create holiday printables, not to mention holiday content.
You can take so many avenues to get you ahead of your competition.
By creating holiday printables, you’re capturing email subscribers in the busiest time of year.
And can you guess where you’ll be come January? Already in your audience’s inbox – nurturing and building trust along the way.
You just need to give that creative block a good ol’ swift kick in the rear and finally dig in. With a bit of help, of course!
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Brainstorm holiday printables
As we said earlier, there are many directions you can take with your holiday printables.
First, we want you to think of:
- Your niche
- Your avatar
What are they struggling with? What do they desperately need help with?
What are they already working on?
These are all the things we think of when trying to help someone leverage holiday traffic.
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The traffic, the list-building opportunities, the income possibilities; all of it can be amplified in the fourth quarter for maximum sales and subscribers.
While we always encourage out-of-the-box thinking, that may not always work for holiday printables.
Absolutely put your own spin on it, but use your audience’s feedback to your benefit.
Survey them in an email. Camp out in a Facebook group (or two) where your audience loves to hang out. See what kinds of questions they’re engaging with and what seems to be their biggest hang-ups this time of year.
Your readers desperately want solutions. If they know someone is willing to listen, they’ll be your biggest source of information!
Niche: Fitness
Generally, the fitness niche is NOT great in the fourth quarter.
People have ditched their diets in favor of turkey and pies. They’re way too busy to keep up with an exercise routine.
And let’s not forget the procrastinators that will “make it up with their New Years’ Resolution.”
However, this is still an opportunity because you’ll use this as a quarter to bump your list so you can sell that fitness routine and diet plan come January.
Our Holiday Template Toolkit is the perfect resource to upgrade your seasonal content and leverage the holidays for maximum blog traffic and email sign-ups!
The best part? They’ll be extra ready for it because you’re targeting people that are slipping from their everyday fitness goals.
Holiday printables for the fitness niche:
- 10-Minute Workout Routines
- Healthy Food Swaps To Make During the Holiday Season
- 7 Ways to Stay on Track During the Holidays
- Gift Guide for the Health Nut
Take those pain points that the holidays created and leverage them to boost your email list.
Then by the time the holidays are over, you can come to the rescue with your fitness content! You’ll be one step ahead of your competition because you leveraged your holiday traffic for future growth.
Niche: Parenting
While the parenting niche is saturated, it’s still possible to take advantage of your seasonal traffic with holiday printables.
What do parents struggle with the most during the holidays? We’re willing to bet that most are VERY short on time and on a strict budget.
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They’re stressed about the holidays, buying presents for what feels like everybody, and cooking #allthethings.
Holiday printables for the parenting niche:
- Holiday Planner
- Holiday Budget Tracker
- The Gift-Giving Plan That Helps You Stay on Budget
- 5 Amazing Holiday Meals You Can Cook in 20 Minutes
Unlike the fitness niche, Q4 is insanely profitable for the parenting niche. We want solutions fast. And, we’re willing to pay for it, which makes tripwires and paid products a breeze to sell.
That’s where your strategically-designed sales funnels come into play.
Related Post: The Ultimate Guide to Designing a Funnel That Converts
Think of your products and email marketing funnels and work backward. Strategically plan how each and every single email sign-up can be scaled.
Start simple. Strategic doesn’t mean complicated!
Niche: Online Business / Blogging
We can confidently say that quarter four is our most profitable time of the year.
Bloggers love to start the new year with new systems, products, planners, tools, the works.
But before that, they want to prepare their own business for quarter four.
They’re finishing up their products, writing holiday content, designing seasonal lead magnets, finalizing email funnels…
Needless to say, bloggers are pretty darn busy!
Related Post: 5 Seasonal Lead Magnets to Boost Your Email List
However, bloggers are busy for a very specific reason – to maximize their Q4 sales to provide for their families. Their blog, their business is their livelihood!
They want printables that will help propel their business to new heights, just in time for the new year.
Holiday printables for the business niche:
- Holiday Content Planner
- Quarterly Goal Planner
- Holiday Traffic Spreadsheet
- Gift Guide for the Course Hoarder
Like the parenting niche, bloggers will happily pay for add-ons in the form of tripwires and products if their ROI is clearly defined.
The most profitable category for bloggers this time of year is hands down, goal-setting. ALL bloggers are planning and mapping out those big, scary goals, so they have a plan of action come January 1st.
While not every blogging niche will have holiday content/traffic to track or even a “problem” with hoarding courses, any blogger can benefit from goal planning!
Common themes for holiday printables
If you’re still in the brainstorming phase, no worries! Start with the basics of a printable.
What’s a printable generally categorized as?
- Planner
- Guide
- Spreadsheet
- Tracker
- Gift Guide
- Ebook
Any printer-friendly document can be considered a printable. Remember the word PRINT.
We’ve had so many bloggers come to us and ask why their printables aren’t converting. The very first thing we check is the overall design and balance of white space.
Printables are meant to be printed!
Too much color deters people from printing because even in grayscale, it’ll use so much ink, which costs your readers money.
Related Post: How to Pick a Holiday Color Palette For Your Blog
Not only that, heavy, overly-saturated documents are less likely to be downloaded, let alone printed.
This is just one holiday printable in our Holiday Content Template Toolkit. Notice our use of white space? It’s a beautiful balance of white, content, and color – perfect for online use or print-outs!
Design a holiday printable
If you’re new to our little corner of the internet, we’re known for easy, done-for-you Canva templates that save you time.
Canva makes designing ALL of the holiday printables listed throughout this post as easy as Christmas pie.
Because we want you to love Canva as much as we do, we created a mini-course to help get you started.
But if time just isn’t on your side, we have a few resources that’ll do the job!
So, how can you work seasonal content and holiday printables into YOUR niche?
Start with our Holiday Content Planning Sheet (see what we did there?) to maximize your holiday traffic, email sign-ups, and affiliate income!
Don’t let another three months of insanely profitable traffic slip through your fingers.
Do something today that your future self will thank you for. This is the final leg of the marathon you’ve been pushing yourself through all year.
Take a breath and dive in; you’ve got this!
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS POST:
- How to Leverage the Holidays for Maximum Blog Growth
- Seasonal Lead Magnets to Boost Your Email List
- FREE Holiday Content Planner
- How to Pick a Holiday Color Palette For Your Blog
- FREE Gift Guide Template
- Holiday Gift Guide Bundle for just $27
Don’t forget to grab our FREE holiday content planning sheet! It’s the perfect tool to maximize your holiday content to boost holiday traffic, email sign-ups, and affiliate income!
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Heidi says
Thanks so much for all these great ideas! I’m so NOT an idea person, so it’s great to have people like you in my life who can give me ideas I can run with! You’re the best!
karafidd says
Aw thank you so much, Heidi! I’m so glad you liked it– Happy to help!