How to Launch a Gratitude Challenge During Thanksgiving or Christmas Season | Done-for-You Coaching Content

Do you need information on how to launch a gratitude challenge? This is a great way to share good feelings and offer gentle guidance at a festive and thankful time of year. The great news is, Wordfeeder has plenty of gratitude themed content, including 30-day challenges, and sets of gratitude articles, that you can customize and publish under your own brand.

Here's a quick tutorial of how to launch a gratitude challenge.

Before you launch, you need a warmup and teaser. Start publishing gratitude articles on your blog, social media and in your newsletter. This will drive traffic and get you signups. Even better if you offer a free opt-in gift download that teaches the benefits of gratitude.

Pick up some articles to include in your opt-in PDF gift, from our Gratitude PLR page here. You can copy and paste them into Canva, or keep it simple and just turn an MS Word doc into a PDF.

Set up gratitude articles and journaling exercises (your content is already written if you purchase the Wordfeeder Attitude of Grattitude 30-Day Challenge) in some or all of the following ways:

• As an autoresponder email series
• As a PDF ebook that clients can automatically download
• As a course that you offer the link to, such as on Teachable

Get your Gratitude Challenge Sales Page ready.

Tell readers and what's included in your 30 Days of Gratitude Challenge, and the benefits. Add an order form and set the product up to sell and download automatically upon purchase. Offer a discount.

Drive signups to the challenge by continuing to share your sample opt-in gift and publishing gratitude content. Each time you publish another gratitude article to your blog, share that link to for people to sign up and get the PDF download that teaches the benefits of gratitude.

Also create a special Facebook group for participants in the challenge to share their journal entries, if they like. Commit to leading a writing exercise a day for 30 days... or not (this is optional, you can just offer the challenge by email alone too.)

Need a set of gratitude articles to offer as the PDF download, or post in your blog to drive traffic? Here's one:

Thankful, Grateful, Blessed - 15 PLR Articles Email Series

Titles:

1. Thanksgiving is More than an Afternoon of Eating
2. Into the Spirit of Giving Thanks
3. Being Thankful is Good for Your Health, Here's Why
4. Getting into a Gratitude Practice: Nightly Ritual
5. Simple, Daily Joys to be Thankful For
6. A Simple Gratitude Ritual for the Nightly Dinner Table
7. Seeking to be Grateful Even in Difficult Times
8. Thankfulness is Contagious, Pass it On
9. Cultivate a Grateful Mindset in Your Kids Sets them on the Path to Happiness and Contentment
10. Thankfulness Does Not Mean Complacent. You can be Grateful Yet Still Strive for More
11. Thankful for Difficult Moments, for the Lesson Will Bring You Strengths
12. Thankful for the People Who Hurt Us, for They Made You Powerful
13. Thankful for the Moments Between the Moments
14. Grateful and Blessed to Have So Many Choices
15. Write an I Love Life List: Let Your Gratitude Flow!

Why More Gratitude Content?

The need for topic-specific articles never stops. The content on your website may start ranking high for a specific keyword or phrase. Then it gradually sinks in prominence as other publishers enter the fold using the same words, and as time passes. So you really must continue publishing articles on a single topic even if you feel like you already talked about that.

Unlike a book, must people won't read everything you publish on your website in one sitting. Instead, they'll be surfing around and then land on your article. From there, they might sign up for your list or purchase a digital product.

Recycling, Refreshing or Reinventing Your 30-Day Gratitude Challenge from Last Year

It's another year. Before you know it, thankful season will be back around again.

Did you launch a gratitude challenge last year, or the year prior? Great, then this could be the year you do it again but with improvement and hopefully new faces on your list who will join the fun.

If you have already created an ebook or journaling course from gratitude content offered here at Wordfeeder, then use new articles on gratitude to publish gratitude content on your blog. This will drive more traffic for the topic of gratitude. Remember that it's cyclical.

On the same blog post that you share your grattude articles, feature the signup link to your gratitude opt-in PDF prominently so that people can sign up and join your list.

Upsell to the gratitude course or challenge in your emails that you send out.

Offer a gratitude challenge product as an email series, ebook or both.

• Write a sales page advertising the challenge. Offer reduced pricing.
  
• You could also open up your Facebook group to taking the challenge together and comparing what everyone's written in their gratitude journals, after they sign up.Whether you do this depends on how much time you're looking to invest.
  
• Meanwhile, use more gratitude articles with PLR rights to post live on your blog and social media. This iwll help get you more sign-ups from people who want to increase feelings of gratefulness.
  
• Publish some of the articles in your blog.
  
• Publish those same articles or different ones, as email teasers to capture interest from your list.
  
• Also post some on social media.
  

Everywhere you post gratitude articles and tips, you can share a link to the sales page where you invite people to sign up for your gratitude challenge.

Can you do this for your business mastermind group? Sure, why not? It's a fun way to connect people, and that's something we really need in the information age. Social media shouldn't always be about talking "at" each other, posting pictures and words and giving an empty thumbs-up.

It should be about connecting, and a gratitude challenge will help you do that. Connecting is what people really crave. Someone will catch your enthusiasm and engagement.

Bring them into the moment and let them know that they're valued. Also let them know about opportunities here for them - meeting new people, sharing their ideas, getting their brand out, coming away feeling satisfied and whole.

Where can you get a really terrific gratitude journaling challenge? 

30 Days Thankful Challenge

Attitude of Gratitude Challenge

What if you already ordered this content but never used it? This could be the year you pull it all together and run a gratitude challenge!

Check your member area for the 30 Days Thankful or Attitude of Gratitude 30-Day Journaling Challenge. Yes, they're two different challenges, each uniquely written. Your challenges will be in the TOP MENU, labeled as such.

Finally, here are some course and ebook-selling resources for you:

Sell ebooks right from Aweber now. It's a new feature of their membership. They offer permission based email list management services and tools including list segmentation, subscriber management, newsletter design templates, HTML and plain text email broadcasts, email autoresponder setup, and digital product selling.

Sell ebooks via e-junkie.com. This is a simple digital product store that works in conjunction with PayPal and is EASY to set up each ebook for automatic purchase and download via email.

To sell a course, your best bet is Teachable. I've done a test of this program and it's really complete.

Your course can include any of the following file forms, all accessible from YOUR admin area and then when your customers check out they get to see and work with the very same files: 

• PDFs of the written portion that you develop

• Video files of tutorials and slide shows that you create

• MS Word files of client assignments, including journal prompts, questionnaires, assessments, goal planners, worksheets and writing essays that you prepare for them

• Image files of helpful pictorials and diagrams that you include
  
  
• ​​​​​​​Quizzes that are built right into the Teachable platform that you configure for each course

​​​​​​​Teachable is incredibly intuitive and all-inclusive.

Try their amazing Teachable free trial. Just start an account and then get some practice in by launching and selling your first course to TEN people of your choosing. Once you do this, you'll know exactly how to create brilliant teaching materials that offer your clients myriad ways to learn.