Wix Bookings: Promoting Your Services
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Getting the word out about your services is a crucial part of growing your business. In Wix bookings, there is a suite of tools made specially for promoting your services and attracting clients.
In this article, learn more about:
Sending an email campaign about a service
Create a tailored email campaign to engage with your clients and promote your service. You can create a customized email that perfectly matches your brand - select the colors, choose the text and media etc. You can then choose who to send the email to from your contacts.
To send an email campaign:
- Go to Booking Services in your site's dashboard.
- Hover over the relevant service and click the More Actions icon .
- Click Promote .
- Click Create email campaign.
- Customize your email using the following options:
- Add elements like text, images, videos and links.
- Choose a theme.
- Choose a background.
- Click Next.
- Add participants to the email campaign by:
- Typing contact names in the To: field.
- Selecting a group of contacts by their label.
- Selecting the checkbox next to the specific contacts.
- Click Next.
- Click Publish.
- (Optional) Click Get Link or any of the social media icons to share your campaign on different platforms.
- Click Done.
Sharing a post about your service on social media
Drive traffic and business from social media back to your site using a designer-made graphic featuring your service information to share on Facebook or Instagram.
To share a post about your services on social media:
- Go to Booking Services in your site's dashboard.
- Hover over the relevant service and click the More Actions icon .
- Click Promote .
- Click Create Social Post.
- Customize your social post using the following options:
- Choose a design template.
- Choose a background.
- Add text.
- Add graphic elements.
- Click Next.
- Connect to your social media accounts:
- Facebook:
- Add a caption.
- Add hashtags
- Click Connect and follow the steps to connect to Facebook.
- Instagram:
- Select your country from the drop-down menu.
- Enter your mobile number.
- Click Send.
- Check your mobile phone for your Instagram post.
- Facebook:
- Choose what you want to do:
- Publish now: Publish the social post on your Facebook instantly.
- Click Publish at the bottom right.
- Schedule for later: Publish the social post at a different date and time:
- Select a date and time.
- Click Schedule at the bottom right.
- Publish now: Publish the social post on your Facebook instantly.
Sharing a link to a service
Share a link that brings visitors directly to a specific service page. This drives more traffic to your service to generate more bookings. Share this link via text, email, or directly through popular social media channels.
To share a link to a service:
- Go to Booking Services in your site's dashboard.
- Hover over the relevant service and click the More Actions icon .
- Click Promote .
- Choose how you want to share a link to your service:
- Copy link to your clipboard: Click Copy Link and paste it into another app, for example your email or messenger app.
- Share the link on social media: Click one of the social media icons to share the link directly from that app or site.
Creating a promo video for a service
Create a customized video for sharing on popular social media channels including Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Sharing promotional video content is a powerful way to drive more traffic to your site and promote a specific service.
To create a promo video for your services:
- Go to Booking Services in your site's dashboard.
- Hover over the relevant service and click the More Actions icon .
- Click Promote .
- Click the Next icon on the right to view more options.
- Click Create Video.
- Add video content and text, then click Next.
- Choose the video style, layout, colors and font.
- Click Next.
- Choose if you want to add music to this video:
- Video with music:
- Enable the Music On toggle.
- Choose a music track for your video from the options available.
- Video without music: Disable the Music On toggle.
- Video with music:
- Click Next.
- Decide if you want to include your business information in the video:
- Video with business info:
- Enable the Include info at the end of this video toggle.
- Fill in the information to appear on the video.
- Video without business info: Disable the Include info at the end of this video toggle.
- Video with business info:
- Click Apply & Preview.
- (Optional) Click Back to Editing to make changes.
- Click Save & Share.
- Choose the relevant social media platform where you want to share your video.
- (Optional) Click Download File to save the video to your desktop.
Note:
Your video will be saved under the My Videos tab in the Video Maker, and under Site Files in your Media Manager.
Tips:
- You can customize your services to set the title, description, and image that appears when you share your service on social networks.
- You can also customize your Twitter Settings to display a different text and image for services that you share on Twitter.
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