Sleigh bells ring, are ya listening? Ok, ok, we know the winter holidays are still over a month away, but on the marketing calendar that’s no time. Plus, we already did our due diligence to honor Thanksgiving, have you checked it out yet? If not go do that and then come back.

Great, you’re back! Now let’s get to the business at hand, planning out your holiday marketing campaigns. Americans spend approximately $1,000 on Christmas each year, so we know it’s a busy time of the year for small business owners like you. To help you out, we’ve put together some happy holiday messages, promotions, themes, quotes and even more premade options that you can pop right into your marketing materials.

Let’s get the holliest, jolliest time of the year started!

Holiday Words

Even just a couple of festive words can add some holiday cheer to your email subject lines, promotions or website copy. Here’s a whole list of themed words for you to choose from:

Holiday Themes

To create a consistent experience for your customers, you might want to consider picking one holiday theme and running with it through all your marketing channels. We’ve put together some fun and popular ones that might work for you:

• Winter Wonderland: Think snow, sparkles and cute little woodland critters for this theme! This is all about the magic of the winter season and less about holidays and gifts.
• Santa’s Workshop: Capture all the wonderment of the North Pole with this theme. Emphasize gifts, toys, elves and a sleigh full of goodies.
• Ugly Sweater: The colors and patterns of an ugly sweater theme are undefeated. Greens, reds, fair isle and snowflakes—let your creativity soar.
• Holiday Bakeshop: Nothing brings up holiday memories quite like some homemade baked goods. Lean into gingerbread men and houses, colorfully decorated sugar cookies, candy canes and hot cocoa to pull off this theme.
• Holiday Movie Mashup: Everyone has a favorite holiday movie that they watch every year. Play into that nostalgia with memorable scenes and quotes from a variety of classic films.

Holiday Promotions

Planning on running some fun promotions through emails, on your website or on your social media channels this holiday season? We’ve put together some messaging for you can gain inspo from or just copy and paste them right into your campaigns:

1. 🎁 Shop with us this holiday season and receive a FREE gift!
2. 🎀 Check out our gift-wrapping station next time you’re in store! It’s free when you shop with us! 🎀
3. ‘Tis the season for giving! Refer a friend to us and receive [% or $$] off your next service!
4. Stop in on Small Business Saturday and enjoy complimentary hot cocoa and cookies while you shop! ☕ 🍪
5. Shopping for others is fun, but shopping for yourself is fun too! Enjoy buy one, get on [free or % off] this holiday season!
6. Happy Holidays! Comment on this post and tell us the best gift you’ve ever received to be entered to win a special prize! 🎁
7. FREE SHIPPING today only! Time to start crossing items off your gifting list! 📋

Happy Holiday Messages for Any Business

Get in on the holiday sentiments no matter what kind of business you run! Choose from these general festive phrases:

8. Happy holidays from our family to yours!
9. 🎄Sending some holiday wishes your way this season.
10. Wishing you the happiest holidays and a wonderful new year!
11. Wishing you warmth and togetherness this Kwanzaa.
12. Happy Festival of Lights!
13. May all your holidays be merry & bright. 🎄
14. We hope all your celebrations are truly magical!

Happy Holiday Messages for Service Businesses

Specifically provide a service for your customers instead of selling a product? These holiday messages are for you! We’ve put together some ideas for a variety of popular service businesses here:

15. There’s no place like a ✨clean ✨ home for the holidays! We’ve got you covered.
16. We know what they really want. It’s a gift certificate for [your service.]
17. 🎅 🐾 Get your pet looking their best for Santa Paws! [%] off any groom.
18. Why wait for the new year to hit the gym? Sign up now to get [%] off your membership. 💪
19. It’s holiday card season! Bring the fam into [salon name] for a trim!
20. Bringing you a bundle of joy this holiday season! Bundle any [#] classes to get them for the price of [lower #]!
21. Off to Grandma’s for the holidays? Bring your vehicle in for a tune-up before you head out.

Happy Holiday Messages for Sales

Studies show the top factor influencing holiday shopping behavior is price or discounts, so it probably makes sense you’d be running some great deals to entice customers to shop with you during this time of the year. Check out these sales-themed messages:

22. Santa’s elves ain’t got nothing on us. Shop [%] off AND free shipping.
23. Santa baby, slip some [%] off [product] under the tree for me. 🎄 🎁
24. 🛷 There’s a sleigh full of sales inside.
25. Nail your gift-giving with [%] off the entire store.
26. 🎁 [%] off EVERYTHING—it’s the gift that keeps on giving. 🎁
27. Give more for the holidays with [%] off.
28. 👀 We’ve got exclusive holiday savings inside! You won’t wanna miss out.

Happy Holiday Messages for Retail Businesses

As a retail business, you’ve probably got most of the goods that holiday shoppers are looking for. From gifts to festive apparel to décor, let your customers know that you’ve got exactly what they’re looking for with the help of these holiday slogans:

29. 🥂 Eat, Drink & Merry! We’ve got everything you need to throw a holiday dinner party.
30. Find matching holiday looks for the whole fam right here.
31. We’ve got what’s on everyone’s wish lists.
32. Secret Santa? No thanks. You’ll want everyone to know exactly who these gifts came from. 🎅 🚫
33. What’s left on your gifting list? We can help.
34. 🤗 Something for everyone on your Nice list.
35. Staying home for the holidays? Stock up on all the essentials.

Holiday Quotes

Famous holiday quotes come in handy while creating social media graphics, store signage, greeting cards and more! Feel free to steal some from this list of our personal faves:

36. “Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.” –Mary Ellen Chase
37. “May the Spirit of the Holidays be with you throughout the New Year.” –Unknown
38. “May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah.” –Unknown
39. “Holidays–any holiday–are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.” –Lidia Bastianich
40. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” –Mother Theresa
41. “A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another. And see how its own light increases, as a candle gives its flame to the other. You are such a light.” —Moshe Davis
42. "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear" - Buddy, Elf

Final Thoughts

We know the holidays can be stressful for small business owners like you. Not only do you have a business to run, but you want to be able to spend time with your family and get your own holiday shopping done too. That’s why we put together this list of happy holiday messages, words, themes, promotions and quotes. Use them to cross one more thing off your holiday marketing to-do list so you can get back to what’s really important.

If you’re looking for even more ways RevLocal can handle your digital marketing, give us a call today for a free, no-obligation consultation with one of our digital marketing experts!