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Promotion days: keeping up when your campaign actually lands

Flash sales and peak shopping days send enquiries through the roof for a few hours. How to make sure every one of them gets answered.

5 min read Alex Carter

The best marketing problem to have is a campaign that works too well. An email goes out at nine, the phones light up at five past, and by ten the queue is longer than anyone can clear. Here is how to be ready for the morning you have been hoping for.

The shape of a campaign spike

Volume typically peaks within the first two hours of a send and tails off through the day. Enquiries are highly concentrated on the promoted products, which makes them unusually predictable — and unusually automatable.

Pre-warm the assistant

Load the offer details, conditions, availability rules and the answers to the obvious questions the day before. Test it with the campaign copy in front of you.

Overflow and callbacks

Route the overflow to the assistant the moment the queue passes a threshold, and give every abandoned caller an automatic callback. Nobody who wanted the offer should leave without a conversation.

Capture now, convert later

Not everyone books on the day. Capture dates, party and budget on the first contact so the follow-up call — human or AI — starts from a warm position.

Review the next morning

Read the transcripts, note the questions you did not anticipate, and update the knowledge base. The next campaign starts better.

A campaign is only as good as the conversations it creates. Make sure you can have all of them.
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