5 Tips to Prepare Your Content for the Holidays

The holiday season is stressful as it is. It’s even more stressful when you’re a content creator, small business owner or a social media manager and you have less time to plan your content out. That is why we are sharing 5 tips to help you get a jump start on your holiday content strategy so you can enjoy more pumpkin spice lattes and cozy up on the couch being more present with loved ones.

If you want to dive even deeper, join our upcoming webinar on Wednesday, September 27th at 1pm ET called PLANOLY Presents: Prepping for the Holidays with experts Kelsie Exley, entrepreneur & content creator (@sociallykels) & Reza Moreno, Brand Marketing Manager, to help you nail your goals this holiday season.

Now let’s get into it!

What We're Talking About:

How to Determine Your Holiday Goals

Based on your business, brand and niche your goals make look different and be unique to your own focus. But some top of mine goals and examples could be the following:

Growing your follower count by 5% each month from October-December
Posting consistently, whether thats daily or 3x a week
Creating unique posts for each holiday & scheduling them out in advance
Gaining 2x more in revenue (if you are a small business)

Once you set your goals, this will make it easier for you to figure out how to get there and what you need to do to obtain them.

Holiday Content Trends for 2023

Each year, there may be a different TikTok trend that pops up, like two years ago there was the Pumpkin Head TikTok trend. And now that same sound used for that trend is resurfacing, but this time for the Ghost Painting Trend. This year DIY Halloween decorations are trending on TikTok & Instagram.

Before you create content, be sure to check out most recent posts under generic holiday hashtags below to get inspiration and then your FYP will be soon filled with holiday content so then you won’t miss jumping on the opportunity to recreate your own!

#Halloween
#Fall
#Autumn
#Thanksgiving
#Christmas
#Hanukkah
#Kwanzaa
#NYE

As you come across these trends, be sure to add the URLs to sounds/videos to
PLANOLY’s Ideas Manager, where you can save and organize everything in one place. You can create folders to organize ideas (organize by content pillars, campaign ideas, or channel). That way it makes it easier for you to collect your ideas all in one place and can help with when you create content.

How to Leverage Affiliate Marketing This Season

Tis the season of gifting! This is the most important time of the year to share those affiliate codes out, especially as people are going to start purchasing gifts sooner this year. More than 60% of US consumers prefer to buy their holiday gifts online according to fortunly. And with more places to promote a product and buy, such as Instagram and TikTok - 55% of TikTok users have bought something after seeing the brand on the app.

More creators have since joined TikTok Shop, which users can sign-up to be an affiliate in order to do small time product promotions. This is another way for creators to start making money off their videos.

How to Create a Holiday Content Calendar

With Halloween just around the corner, this is the perfect time to create a holiday content calendar or you can just be sure to use our very own PLANOLY’s content calendar for all holidays and even add a note to write down any others you would like to include.

Having this calendar layout in front of you, will help you when it comes to creating content.

Auto-Post and Schedule Your Content

Now that you determined your goals, did your research with TikTok or Reels trends, know what holidays you want to cover, you can then let PLANOLY help do the rest for you. Once you start creating your content, you can then be sure to upload in our multi-channel workspace to schedule on channels like TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube Shorts and more.

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