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How to plan the perfect online Advent calendar – creative, stress-free, unforgettable!

What's it about?

A digital Advent calendar offers the perfect opportunity to captivate your audience in a creative and emotional way. To ensure your calendar is a complete success, we have 7 valuable tips for you that will help you design your Advent calendar easily, quickly, and effectively. Get inspired and make your calendar the highlight of the Advent season!

1. Define your target audience: Who do you want to captivate?

Who should open your online Advent calendar?

Customers, employees, or business partners?

Each target group has different expectations. When you know your audience, you can create content that truly resonates. This way, your calendar will become a daily highlight!

2. Set goals: What do you want to achieve with your online Advent calendar?

What should your calendar achieve? Increased customer loyalty, higher brand awareness, or simply spreading joy? Your goals determine the direction and content of your calendar. Set clear and measurable goals – this way, you can better evaluate and optimize your calendar's success.

3. The right approach: Tone and style

How do you address your target audience? Casual and humorous or more professional? The right approach ensures that your calendar feels authentic and builds trust.

Align with your company's CI guidelines to ensure that tone and style are consistent.

4. Creative content: The heart of your calendar

Each door should offer a little surprise.

  • Discounts
  • Mini-games
  • Contests
  • Inspirational messages
  • Videos
  • Photos
  • or, of course, combinations of different features

The content should bring joy and spark curiosity.

Plan diverse and engaging content that will surprise your target audience daily.

Our tip: An editorial plan helps you stay organized and create a cohesive theme for your calendar.

5. Interactive elements: More than just opening doors

Make your calendar interactive! Polls, quizzes, or mini-games with high scores keep users entertained and ensure they eagerly return each day. Regular interactive elements increase time spent and engagement.

6. Good design matters: Make your calendar eye-catching

Visually, your calendar should also impress. Use your company's corporate design guidelines and adapt your door calendar accordingly. Pay attention to a compelling choice of images that make your calendar stand out.

Inspired? Try to customize your calendar now or let this tutorial video guide you!

7. Plan ahead: Good content takes time

The most important tip of all: Start now! With 24 doors, you need 24 unique pieces of content – that requires good planning. Start early to ensure each door is well thought out, the content is ready, and creatively executed. This way, your calendar will impress from start to finish

Related FAQs

What is a digital advent calendar?

A digital Advent calendar is an online calendar with 24 (or more or fewer) doors that can be opened one by one each day in a browser. Behind each door can be digital content such as articles, contests, discounts, videos, games, or small surprises. Advantages: It generates regular engagement, promotes interaction and customer loyalty, can be customized, and is easy to share via a website, newsletter, or social media; it also offers a fast, straightforward, and sustainable solution compared to a conventional, physical calendar.

How does a digital advent calendar work?

A calendar is created, filled with content and then published.

What goals can a digital advent calendar be used for?

Digital advent calendars are used to build and keep attention and interaction over several days. In addition, they can be used to generate leads in a fun way for the users.

Can I embed the calendar on my website?

Yes. With a code snippet the Türchen calendar can be embedded directly into your website. This code snippet for your calendar is shown in the editor at Publish > URLs and embed code > Embed Code.