10 Great Hacks to Boost Your Sales this Holiday Season
Tags: webdev, productivity, devops
Published: 2018-09-06 06:28:55

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title: 10 Great Hacks to Boost Your Sales this Holiday Season

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description: 10 best tips o boost your WooCommerce Store sales this holiday season.
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If you want to sell your products and build your customers for long-term then you must have to offer them some advantage that makes them buy your product. As a WooCommerce owner you should have to overlook on all of the marketing aspects including your niche, your targeted audience and of course your product that is your asset and after focusing on all of these things you will start building your store for the Holiday Season.
As we know that launching a WooCommerce store and then managing is not an easy task. Mostly owners miss small things while taking the store online that has a big impact on the revenue as well as the performance of the store during the Holiday Season.

Most customers have a certain expectation from an online store. If these expectations no going to meet then your customer will never return and might share a bad review regarding your product and services.

To help you out, here are </b>10 simple Hacks</b> to prepare your online WooCommerce store for the Holiday Season.

<b>1. Choose Your Platform</b> 

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There are a lot of options in the market but I suggest you launch an online store on WooCommerce. The community around WooCommerce is awesome and also you will find several extensions that help you to make your WooCommerce store perform well.
 
<b>2. Choose Managed WooCommerce Hosting</b>

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Managing your online store is a long-time job and during this phase, you will face a lot of challenges managing your store. Most of the store owners not experience in managing the servers and security-related issues. That is the reason experts recommend <a href="https://www.cloudways.com/en/hosting-woocommerce.php"><b><i>Managed WooCommerce hosting</i></b></a> for launching an online store. All of the issues whether it is related to the server, hosting etc will be managed by the hosting providers. They also ensure you for the regular backups.

<b>3. Fast Speed can Boost Sales</b>

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The speed of your online WooCommerce store is one of the important factors that directly affect your revenue. Slow online stores with a high page load time sour up the user experience even one delay seconds can cause your conversions to drop so optimizing your online stores is necessary to avoid bad user experience.

<b>4. Responsive Design</b>

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Most the sales come from the smartphone in Holiday Season. That is why your store must have a responsive design to ensure that your WooCommerce store is easy to browse.

<b>5. Attractive Design and Layout</b>

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Most of the customers bounce back just because of the messy store. Customers want a shop that is attractive and easy to find thing what they are looking for. Investing time and money for a well-designed store pay them back through high conversions.

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<b>6. Create a Page with Gift Ideas</b>

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Creating a gift page is one of the best ways to boost your sales because a visitors always looking for some good collection of gifts in Holiday Season for their loved ones. Also, you can offer some deals, offer discounts this Holiday Season to attract the customer towards your store to boost your sales.

<b>7. Offer Free Shipping</b>

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Most of the shoppers irritate to pay the shipping amount for their purchases. If possible give them a free shipping in Holiday Season or offer any discount on a specific amount of purchase. 

<b>8. Use Secure Payment Gateways</b>

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Customers nowadays more concerned about their payments and the security of their credit cards. They looking for secure payment gateways that ensure the protection of their credit card. On WooCommerce store you can easily set up a secure payment option through Stripe Payment Gateway or any other extension available.

<b>9. Involve Your Customers</b>

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Boost your sales using social media launching a small campaign for this Holiday Season.  CUstomers use social media as an alternative resource to buy products. This is the best way to engage your customers in the sales promotion process. 

<b>10. Simplify Purchase Processes</b>

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Most of the customers feel annoying while filling in several forms during the checkout process. This Holiday Season, plan to replace your checkout process with a simple one-page checkout.