Creating Promotions

You need a NextDoor or CND subscription to be able to create a promotion.

Log in to your account and choose Create Promotion (from your user menu  on the top right of the page, or from your Profile page). You will be taken directly to the promotion creation page as shown in the image below.

Creating a promotion takes just a few simple steps:

1. Provide details of the promotion (title, description, location, dates)
2. Provide details of the pricing (from simple free promotions, to multiple pricing levels for different promotional items or packages you may be offering)
3. Provide job details and others if available (Optimize you promotion to show more benefits you offer to communities)
4. Setup up fields to get more information from buyers if needed
5. Add more images that make your promotion more attractive and complete.

You may want to use your promotion to collect basic marketing info from buyers, or relevant information to help you better manage your promotion. Set up any details you want to collect from clients in the Client Fields section.

Standard information that clients provide are Name, phone, email.

However, if you are running a club or bar promotion, you may go as far as providing specific drinks options for clients to select upfront.

If you are promoting your new Gym in a new neighbourhood, you may want visitors to indicate particular areas of interest / exercises to enable you better prepare before the arrive.

A new Bookshop may be offering free books, but want customers to choose one book from a list. In this case, you may set the title (Sherlock Holmes, and then enter various options for these books., the you click the plus sign, to get a new set of fields. Set a new title, e.g Agatha Christie, and provide options for Agatha books.

The options are endless, for various categories of businesses or service providers.

Set the pricing of your promotional items or services in the Promo Ticket Types Tab,

You can set as many price levels for your promotion as needed.

If you are running a new night club promotion for example, you can set up a free ticket to enable holders get free drinks on a particular date or time.

You can create additional Bronze, Silver and Gold ticket packages by describing extra services or items available for each ticket type.

All you need to do is click on the plus (+) sign to fill in details for a new package or price level.

 While creating your promotion, you may have more images that help make your promotion more attractive and complete. Upload your extra images in the gallery tab. These will appear in the gallery when visitors view details of your event.

Add additional details (like jobs, grand opening date) that make your promotion stand out.

Generally, you can only add additional details after saving your promotion. Once you fill in the promotion details and pricing, hit save/submit. You can reopen the promotion to edit and add additional details.

This is where you optimize your viisibility when people search for your services. ComingNextDoor is about letting communities know the benefits you bring them.

Set Job Vacancies to Yes, so that when users search for promotions that come with job vacancies, your promotion shows up. Same applies to Grand Openings and Discounts. Set these fields to yes in order to appear in search results for these fields.