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Data Opportunities, Holiday Social Media Tips, Acquisition, Q1 Planning Friday, December 1, 2023 It’s a wrap. 🎶When you’re done sharing your Spotify Wrapped highlights on social media and judging your friend’s musical tastes, here are a few newsworthy stories of the day: - Amazon’s partnership with the NFL was a major win, bringing in over 9.6 million viewers who watched the game on Black Friday. Shoppers got a chance to enjoy the game while browsing through shoppable content on Prime. 🏈 💰 - Try these catchy social hooks and get customers to watch your organic content or holiday ad campaigns (examples below) 🎄 - Musk says ‘eff you’ to advertisers like Disney CEO Bob Iger for abandoning X and trying to ‘kill the company’ during an interview at a conference for business leaders. Yikes. - Can you believe it’s almost the end of year? 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Download the [big book of Klaviyo use cases]( to get started today. 📚 [Download Now]( SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS 🍭 Catchy hooks to use for holiday SZN During the busiest time of the year, brands will need a persuasive hook to nab shoppers' attention. Those first few seconds are crucial to stop them from scrolling away. Here are some to make you stand out when creating organic content, ads, or guidelines for influencer campaigns. You can tailor these hooks below to your niche: - Gift ideas that don’t suck ❌ - The perfect gift for the person who says they want nothing 🎁 - Holiday finds that are too good not to share 🤭 - 3 reasons why you should shop at [insert brand name] for the holidays 👍 - The ultimate gift for (x) that you’ve been searching for 💗 - Stop scrolling, we found the perfect gift for this year ❗ - Gift idea for anyone with (x) (e.g. pet, kids, etc.) 🐶 Here’s a TikTok example below with a catchy hook that starts with: ‘This video is for the girl who doesn’t know what to ask for Christmas this year.’ Want to see the whole video? [Click here](. Why this works so well: This is a fantastic way to position your product as a great gift and also spread awareness about any limited edition products or sets you have available. 💡Bonus points if there’s a discount code customers can use to shop as well. Have you tried using any of these catchy hooks? 👀 Let us know how well they worked out by tweeting us at [DTCNewsletter](. BROUGHT TO YOU BY NIFT 👀 Are You Setting Your Q1 Acquisition Goals? We Think You Could Aim Higher Meet Nift, the acquisition channel with reliable customer acquisition costs and consistent growth! With over 40M users exploring new brands, Nift is the top choice for DTC brands seeking a high volume of conversions and lasting value at unbeatable costs! 💎 A top jewelry brand saw 6,976 first-time buyers at less than 50% the cost of paid social. 🎵 A top streaming service gained 33,139 trial subscribers well below their target costs. 🍲 America’s #1 meal kit added an additional 16,472 first-time buyers in just one quarter. Dive into [Nift's case studies]( for some real-deal insights, or [book a demo with a Nift rep]( and jump straight into exponential growth. [See 2023 DTC Brand Case Studies]( Q1 2024 👀 Have you started making Q1 plans??? Q1 might feel far away, but time really does fly. Sooo, now is the time to start making plans for Q1 if you haven’t already! Here are a few things to consider: - What seasonal moments align with your brand? - Valentine’s Day is the biggest gifting holiday in Q1 and the Pilothouse team starts prepping creative for the big day right after Christmas. - One brand that Pilothouse works with 2x’d spend and saw ROAS increase by 7.41% in the 30 days leading up to Valentine’s day. So, it’s ideal to leverage learnings from now until January for Valentine’s Day creative, landing pages, and offers! - Do you have a Q1 product? - If you’re in the health and wellness or beauty spaces, January can be a huge month. - A beauty brand that the Pilothouse team scaled in Q1 2023 saw a 29% increase in Shopify net revenue in January and overall ecosystem efficiency improved by 3% making it a more profitable month for the brand. - Are you planning on launching any new products or variants? - This is the biggest piece to get a head start on especially if you’re ordering samples, making revisions, doing photo shoots, writing product descriptions, creating PDPs, etc. - What are your growth goals and efficiency targets? And what actions do you need to take to hit these? - The Pilothouse team recommends zooming out and planning out your targets for the whole year and adjusting projections as the year progresses. - This can also help determine what key initiatives your brand should launch throughout the year (new products, seasonal promotions, market expansion, etc.) We promise, Q1 will sneak up on ya. Follow these tips from the [Pilothouse team]( to get yourself started off on the right foot for 2024 success. SPONSOR DTC 📥 Promote your product to 160,000 digital marketing professionals DTC Newsletter + Podcast reaches a highly qualified audience of Shopify merchants, eCommerce founders, and digital marketers. [Talk to our team to learn more](. 🌐 SOCIAL SPHERE A big part of why Black Friday and Cyber Monday saw soaring numbers was because of the ever-growing popularity of buy-now-pay-later options. 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