Striking Email Template Examples to Stand Out at Holiday Season [+Free Templates]

It seems that we, especially digital marketers and email marketers, have reached half of the holiday marketing season, as of December. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday, (and occasionally Saturday for small businesses), having a rocket effect on online sales in the last quarter of the year, were left behind by the end of this week. However, the holiday season is not over yet; in fact the focus of the season will peak by December. Because there is a long Merry Christmas and Happy New Year season ahead of us. Remember that the holiest day for the Christian community is Christmas on December 24, but the shopping season just before the date, is the last big promotion and sales opportunity of the year for both retailers and digital marketers. In this article, we will concentrate on more visual holiday email template examples, Merry Christmas email examples and mockups and a few cases that have already fallen down at the inboxes.

So, let's start!

The Importance of Email Marketing for
The Upcoming New Year 2023

As we all know, email continues to be one of the most effective marketing channels available. With the New Year upon us, now is the perfect time to start planning your email marketing strategy for the year ahead. We have mentioned the emphasis on email marketing several times before, shortly some of the key benefits include the ability to reach a large audience, the ability to track results, and the ability to generate leads and sales.

Let’s face that holiday email marketing is an excellent way to keep in touch with your customers and prospects; plus, it allows you to stay top of mind and build relationships. Furthermore, it is a great way to drive traffic to websites, land pages for shopping or business at all. Finally, seasonal email marketing helps you build your brand in a better way and create a loyal following.

If you haven't been using email marketing, now is the time to start or if you are already using email marketing, now is the time to make sure you are doing it effectively. If you have not yet created your email marketing strategy for the new year, you can review the New Year Email Marketing Ideas article from our previous blog posts.

Attractive & Sincere Happy Holiday Email Templates

Wishing your customers a happy holiday season is a great way to show them you appreciate their business. And what better way to do that than with a beautiful holiday email template? Using a holiday email template is a great way to spread some holiday cheer while also promoting your products or services. Plus, it's a great way to stay top-of-mind with your customers during the busy holiday season.

Holiday email templates can help you stand out from the competition while reaching out to potential customers. Holiday email templates can be used to promote sales, special offers, and new products. They can also be used to simply wish your customers a happy holiday season! 

Let’s dig into some examples: 

Holiday Email Template Example #1

The email marketers’ of the company choose to celebrate the holiday season with its customers by offering a budget friendly membership plan; and of course an illustration of a cute penguin! As you can see there is a CTA button, a deadline and a warning for the offer. 

The text of the offer:

"Get 20 images, 2 videos and 2 music tracks in ONE budget-friendly plan.
Offer valid for single use only.
Offer expires: 12/27/2021"

Source: Newsletter of The depositphotos

Holiday Email Template Example #2

The email of the company offers a game to the recipients by a GIF which is a wheel of fortune, in fact. This is a little bit advanced example though if you’re working with a graphic designer, so why not use a specifically created template to send your loyal customers in order to show them your appreciation? Below the gaming GIF you can see the offer for the clients and an attractive CTA button to make the reader attend to the competition and the campaign.
However, take into account that the email marketers also included a short explanation of terms and conditions for the gaming campaign as well. Source: newsletter of The Hoxton

As it’s seen, Zoom company not only created a special email template for their holiday campaign but also a hashtag to get the attractions. This is a completely email marketing project that covers one more holiday season and offers free advantages to the users with no obligations and rules. 

As you can see no matter in which way you use them, happy holiday email templates are a great way to show your customers that you care for them, besides they help for more engagement, brand awareness and boost your sales as well. 

For more actual examples please check another blog post on the subject Best New Year's Email Templates

Christmas Email Templates For Boosting Sales

Email marketing and using email templates for Christmas is essential because it helps you to ensure your customers feel like they are offered something special for the year ahead. By sending out a specifically created email template with a unique marketing strategy, you can ensure that not only do you have an actual plan, but you're also prepared for the upcoming season. Professional Christmas email templates help your email marketing efforts feel more like a main streamer than a sales pitch. However, keep them as professional as you can, not spammy. Do not forget that no one likes spammy or click-bate Christmas messages! 

Source:  designspiration.net 

When you're emailing your customers about your product or service, it's important to start with a special message like the discount rate. This will show them that you're informing them about the final big sales of the holiday season. Additionally, try to use a message that is both meaningful and visually appealing. 

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You’re not obliged to include a copy of the product or service because this is Christmas; so everyone is familiar with Merry Christmas colors, assets like St. Claus, deers, snowing, trees, gift packages etc. However you’d better include a CTA to get your customers click on the deal and visit your website or landing page, preferably. 

Source: pinterest.com

You can prefer to use GIFs, animated images to get the attraction of your email receivers also. Because this is the most joyful holiday of all on the calendar, people seek ways and opportunities to be happy after all. Avoid boring or ordinary templates. It’s generally important to be simple with the design for email marketing; but remember this is Christmas and everyone needs some fun!   

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When you're emailing your customers for Christmas sales use a clean, and concise language within the template. Additionally, try to use clear, easy-to-read text. Make sure to use clear font styles and avoid using long words. You can also add promotional codes to your messages and templates to improve the click through rates and boost your sales. 

If you're looking for examples of simple greetings please keep reading on…

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays Email Templates Just for Celebration!

Up to now, we gave some examples for email templates which are already used by companies for Happy Holiday and some mock-up template examples to give ideas for email marketing.  As an email marketer you can take advantage of the New Year and Christmas season as a strategy for boosting sales with email marketing which is still the most cost effective method in the digital world. Above all, remember that the holiday season is one of the greatest times to increase the sale rates and using attractive happy holiday email templates may bring success. 

On the other hand, you may not want to sell any services or products to your email contact list. However, you still may want to sincerely congratulate their new year and send your best wishes to them to keep the relations warm. Sit back and relax because the universe of email templates is filled with tons of examples just for celebration. You can choose a template or cute image that suits your company or brand's identity, or you can easily create your Merry Christmas celebration email using just a heading image. Below, we chose the most appealing options for you, which are only for celebration and good wishes. Moreover, if you can't decide what to write as an email body, you can also use the template texts listed under the images.

For more tips on how to start to write a new year email please visit our blog post on How To Write A New Year Email!

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Example #1

Hello, 

With Christmas and the New Year upon us, we would like to extend our warmest and most Joyful greetings to you and yours. We hope that your holiday season is as merry and bright as can be! 

Wishing you all the best now and in the year to come, 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

[Your Signature]

Example #2

Hello!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We would like to extend our warmest wishes to you during this special time. Congratulations and best wishes for a prosperous new year!

[Your Signature]

Example #3

Hello, 

We would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We hope you have a fantastic holiday season! 

Sincerely, 

Your friends at [company name]

Example #4

Hi there!

We just wanted to take a moment to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We hope you have a wonderful time with your friends and family, and we look forward to seeing you in the new year!

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

Example #5

Dear All, 

I hope you have a great year ahead! I hope you have fun and strength in your numbers and celebrate your successes with friends in 2023, also.  We are all in this together. 

Best wishes and Happy New year!

[Your Name]

Wrap Up Your Holiday Email 

Through the whole article, we underlined the emphasis on holiday season email marketing as well as how you can combine the spirit of the upcoming New Year with email marketing along with keeping your tone sincere. It’s obvious that as an email marketer you can wish the best for your customers for the New year and contribute to your business, likewise. Since we have given many tips and suggestions in the previous blog posts, this article is much more visualized with templates, examples and mockups. By using these New year and Merry Christmas templates, you can keep in touch with your customers for 2023 while reminding them that you still have last offerings for them.In addition to all of these, if you are unsure about the correct sentences, you can use the ready-to use email bodies. 

You can try and use Mailsoftly for free in order to send attractive and sincere happy holiday emails, Christmas email templates boosting the sales or just for greetings & celebration intentions! Greet you customers, business associations or just family members and friends by using Mailsoftly! You can sign up for free and use many features such as email listing, contact segmentation or email automation that will be so useful during the whole holiday season!
Try Mailsoftly for free for the upcoming New Year, 2023!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All!