Thanksgiving marketing with VistaCreate: 35 free templates for your Thanksgiving campaign
As a rule of thumb, the holiday season means more sales for businesses.
But that’s only if you play your cards right and leverage the power of social media marketing to promote your business.
It’s better to start early, too.
In a previous article, we shared our best Thanksgiving social media campaign ideas. Today, we’re taking your Thanksgiving marketing a step further and offering a curated list of the best Thanksgiving design templates for your holiday social media marketing activities.
Enjoy the 35 best Thanksgiving templates for any purpose, from announcing a sale to simply telling your audience you’re grateful for their support.
Choose the template you like best and customize it to fit your business perfectly — it’s simple with VistaCreate!
Free Thanksgiving templates to announce a sale
Traditionally, Black Friday — the biggest sales time of the year — follows Thanksgiving. But it doesn’t mean that you can’t give the shopping frenzy an early start and surprise your customers with great deals on Thanksgiving.
Make sure you differentiate between your Thanksgiving offers and Black Friday offers, though! The easiest way to do so is by including Thanksgiving-related visuals in your designs — pumpkins, turkeys, leaves, and other autumn-inspired attributes.
Here are some of our favorite Thanksgiving color palettes:
And if you want some ready-made design solutions for your Thanksgiving sale announcement, here’s our selection of free Thanksgiving templates:
Free Thanksgiving templates to promote special offers
If your business offers something directly related to Thanksgiving celebrations — especially if you run a restaurant business — don’t miss out on an opportunity to roll out some special offers!
For example, offer:
- A festive menu
- Deals on Thanksgiving dinners
- A limited time only dish or drink
- Free delivery
And, of course, don’t forget to promote your special offer online. Here are a couple of professional-looking Thanksgiving templates just for that…
Free Thanksgiving templates to promote an event
Thanksgiving is traditionally the time to run fall fairs, charity events, and other gatherings that give back to the community.
Here are a couple of fun Thanksgiving events that your business can organize this holiday season:
- A pumpkin carving competition
- A Thanksgiving feast
- A Thanksgiving cooking workshop
- A Thanksgiving cocktail party
- An Autumn harvest fair
- A Thanksgiving movie night
- A Thanksgiving food festival
If your business does host a Thanksgiving event this year, make sure you get more eyes on it by promoting it on social media.
From Thanksgiving dinners and parties to festive fairs and charity concerts, VistaCreate has a free Thanksgiving design template for everything!
Free Thanksgiving templates to provide value
You don’t necessarily have to run a Thanksgiving sale, host a Thanksgiving event, or make any other special offers to celebrate the holiday on social media.
There’s another risk-free, minimal effort way to get involved with Thanksgiving in 2022. Simply offer your social media followers some valuable Thanksgiving-related content — how tos, recipes, listicles, tips and tricks, festive playlists, and more!
Here are a few examples of posts centered around Thanksgiving that you can publish on Facebook or Instagram as part of your Thanksgiving social media marketing campaign:
- X best pumpkin spice latte recipes
- Top songs to play at Thanksgiving dinner
- X best Thanksgiving movies
- Awesome pumpkin carving stencils
- Thanksgiving cocktail ideas
- Little-known Thanksgiving facts
- X best Thanksgiving wishes
It’s up to you whether you go all out and keep your Thanksgiving content available year-round, or make it exclusive and time-sensitive. Depending on your decision, you might want to either opt for a post for your Instagram or Facebook feed, or go for the Instagram or Facebook Story format. Or make it a combination of both!
Regardless of what you settle on, make sure your publications are packed with value and well-designed.
While we can’t help you with the contents of your post, we definitely can ensure your Thanksgiving designs are top-notch.
Customize these Thanksgiving-related social media templates:
Free Thanksgiving templates to say “Thank you”
Last but definitely not least, you can use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to say “Thank you” to your audience. At the end of the day, being grateful for the people that support you (and your business) is essentially the idea behind this holiday.
To make your Thanksgiving social media post more creative, you can…
- Say “Thank you” in many different foreign languages
- List all the business achievements you’re grateful for
- Thank your most active followers
- Thank all the media that featured your business in the past year
- Thank your suppliers
- Thank your team
You can also use the Thank you post to share some behind the scenes of your business and, therefore, further humanize your brand.
Here are several free thank you card templates you can customize for your social media:
Thank you for getting this far! Thank you for using our templates! And thank you for being a part of the VistaCreate family!
