Three Things to do in Christmas Marketing Content

If you're scrambling to put together some last-minute Christmas marketing content and you're short of ideas, here are three great suggestions for Christmas content campaigns.

While it's good practice to have your Christmas content written and posted well ahead of time (after all, it needs to be crawled, indexed, searched and shared to generate traffic to your website), there's no time like the present.

Santa Claus with Alarm Clock, Oleksandr P via Pexels

Even if you miss the holiday season entirely, there's an argument for posting Christmas content in the New Year. You can always backdate it in your CMS so it doesn't show as being published in January, and you never know what traffic it will bring in all year round.

Printable Eurovision Bingo Cards

Well it's Eurovision 2023 week and you know what that means... it's Eurovision Bingo time!

This year I decided it's about time for some new printable Eurovision Bingo cards, so here's the 2023 edition. There are four cards, they all have the same 25 items but in different places, so everybody gets to check them off but (in theory) you should complete different lines at different times.

It's not an exact science and it's just for fun, so don't take it too seriously. I'm not the police of what does and doesn't qualify - how high is a 'very high' note? How long is 'very long' hair? You be the judge.

You can grab a printable PDF of the full set of printable Eurovision Bingo cards from my Google Drive here, or just save and print the images below. (The images you see here are thumbnails so click them, or right-click and choose "Open link in new tab" to get to the high-res versions to print.)

I've done my best - I watched both semi-finals to make certain that everything on these Eurovision Bingo cards should happen at least once on Saturday! I think they're pretty evergreen anyway, so hopefully everyone will have a full house well before the final act performs.

Have fun, get tipsy if that's your thing, and enjoy the show!

AI Copywriting

Artificial Intelligence copywriting has been making waves recently with the launch of AI writing tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT.

I've started to see reports of freelance copywriters using AI to generate pages of content, instead of researching and writing them from scratch.

While I would like to stress that I'm not referring to anyone in particular, or to any specific AI copywriting app/tool (ChatGPT is just an example of the technology), I would like to address this topic just in terms of my own freelance writing services.

CLOSED for Christmas

I am now at full capacity for December orders and (other than genuine emergencies) I cannot accept any further orders for delivery in 2022.

Please feel free to contact me with any orders for January 2023 or beyond - the sooner you send me your brief/enquiry, the sooner in the new year I can start working on your content.

My last scheduled working day before Christmas will be Friday, December 16th, but at this point most of my time will need to be focused on writing to get everyone's content to them with time to post/distribute it.

Thank you so much to everyone who has placed an order with me, whether it was for a single page or a recurring order for outsourced SEO blogs, it's all genuinely and hugely appreciated.

You motivate me, you keep me going, and you pay my bills, and I take none of those things for granted.

Enquiries are of course always welcome - I will have access to emails throughout the holidays and will reply to anything urgent as soon as I can - but orders are now closed for standard 2022 delivery.

Last Posting Dates for Christmas 2022

If you're planning to hire me to write a custom Christmas card verse, end-of-year letter to friends and family, or to write your Christmas newsletter to customers, make sure you leave me plenty of time to deliver your content so that you can get it printed and mailed before the last Christmas posting dates 2022.

That all depends on how you plan to mail your letter and where you are sending it - the last date for international economy to most non-European destinations has already passed!

Royal Mail publish the last posting dates for Christmas 2022 on their Service Update page, so you can check for any changes there, but I've summarised the most important dates for you below.