4 Product Bundles for Couples to Rev Up Your Post-Valentine’s Sales Slump

The adult industry often takes a little nap in the few months following Valentine’s Day with couples all tapped out of spending money allocated to romance. With spring still a few longer, wetter and greyer days and nights away, March and April often bring slower sales, prank calls from kids on half terms breaks and anxious anticipation of summer sunshine. Well, the end of March holds some extra anxious anticipation this year, but let’s put those thoughts on the side for now.

Experience holidays and gifts have been trendy in the last couple of years with more and more people opting for a paintball fight or animal encounter to celebrate a birthday rather than gifting a physical present. Couples also like to gift experiences to each other, something that may last longer in their memory than a single night of fun, something that will keep the fire burning bright, something that promises real joy.

While a vibrator or masturbator can be a great present on its own, we propose that selling a whole experience to your customers can pay out double-fold. So, read on and see our recommendations for how to create a purchasable date night experience by bundling some products together based on various date night scenarios.

The Ultimate Pleasure Bundle for the Busy Professional Couple

Set the Scene: Professional couples working in full time jobs often don’t have time to properly slow down, re-connect and just enjoy each other’s company. This is the sad reality of our modern times that might also contribute to the recently coined “sex recession”, namely that people, on a global level, aren’t having as much sex as they used to.

While Valentine’s Day gave the perfect opportunity for couples to spend some intimate time together without distractions, every workday can provide the chance to unwind and re-focus too. It may seem like a cliché but a romantic night in with candle lit dinner and soft lighting over a freshly made bed still works when it comes to creating a relaxing and erotic environment.

Product Placement: The Earthly Body edible massage candles fit into this scene perfectly, they can provide ambient lighting for dinner, and they’ll come handy for a warming erotic massage with the massage oil created by the candles heat too. To get rid of any traces of stress and work-thoughts, couples can use the Loving Joy VITA massager for a heavenly deep tissue massage before turning their magic wands towards more erogenous areas and immerse themselves in orgasmic foreplay. A good quality lube like the Sliquid Naturals H2O water-based lubricant will go a long way in ensuring that everybody has a comfortable and enjoyable time while a remote-controlled vibrating egg or cock ring can take sex to the next level for couples of any orientation – we recommend the Svakom Elva and the Svakom Winni, respectively.

Of course, not everyone will have a big budget to spend on sex toys, so customise this bundle with products that match your customers’ requirements. Don’t forget to upsell if you come across a big spender though!

The Ultimate Pleasure Bundle for the Kink-Curious Couple

Set the Scene: With the world-wide success of the Fifty Shades of Grey books and films, bondage and BDSM has arrived at the mainstream and it is here to stay. No longer considered niche or taboo, more and more couples find themselves curious about play involving power exchange, sensory deprivation, restraints and impact play.

Post-Valentine’s Day, couples often want to try something completely new in the bedroom, and so many of them will make their first steps in the world of BDSM around or after the 14^th of February. While there are many different ways to start out in bondage, some accessories are must-haves and will look impressive laid out on the bed when the big night comes around.

Product Placement: Beginners to bondage appreciate comfort and safety above all else, so the Loving Joy Under the Mattress Restraint System is ideal for them as it combines the full body restraint that will let them experience real submission with soft, quick-release wrist and ankle cuffs. Of course, beginners don’t have to give up on the luxury of leather either, with the BOUND Nubuck Leather Blindfold they can immerse themselves in sensory deprivation and enjoy the smell of genuine leather while doing so. Adding a Feather Tickler can start off new bondage players in sensation play without having to worry about anything too advanced, or if they are ready to try impact play, the BOUND Nubuck Leather Padded Paddle offers two different surfaces to experiment with.

While these four products should already set your customers up for a great night, they can always add a metal cock ring, a nipple clamp or a breathable ball gag to their pack depending on their interests, curiosity and preference.

The Ultimate Pleasure Bundle for the Couple Hooked on Role-Reversal

Set the scene: Pegging is one of the biggest trends in the adult industry right now, and for a good reason – it lets men explore prostate pleasures while simultaneously offering women the opportunity to experience role reversal. What’s more, sexual role reversal really helps partners understand their other half’s perspective and can help them develop a better understanding of how it feels to be on the receiving/giving end of the stick.

With Valentine’s Day out of the way, couples can try something completely new and daring, and even men might be more willing to experiment too. So, assemble the ultimate peggers’ kit with the following best sellers that will get any gun-shy lady thrusting with gusto.

Product Placement: The most important element of any good pegging session is a harness that fits the wearer perfectly while also holds the pegging dildo firmly in place. The Loving Joy Universal Harness fits UK clothing sizes 4 to 30 and has two interchangeable O-rings for full dildo compatibility. This means that if your customers get hooked on pegging, they’ll be able to change up their experience with new dildos anytime they wish. We recommend the Loving Joy Curved 5-inch Silicone Dildo or the Loving Joy 6-inch Silicone Dildo for beginners as these are slim, non-realistic toys with a super smooth finish that will make insertion easy, and comfortable curvature that will enhance prostate stimulation too. Since the harness has a bullet pocket, add a bullet vibrator for the wearer’s pleasure, any will do, but perhaps the most luxurious option is the Loving Joy Power Bullet, one of the most powerful bullets on the market right now. And, of course, no pegging should be attempted without a good, thick anal lubricant, like Lubido’s anal lube or the Sliquid Sassy to ensure it’s smooth sailing for everyone involved.

If you want to learn all about pegging and find advice you can pass on to your customers about how to prepare for a night of role-reversal fun, read our blog post about it here!

The Ultimate Pleasure Bundle for the Couple that Refuses to Grow Up

Set the scene: Millennials have developed a bit of a reputation – mostly unfairly – to being in a permanent state of immaturity and so young couples these days often reject traditional institutions of romance like Valentine’s Day, marriage and candle-lit dinners and seek out other ways to connect and establish intimacy. Laughter and shared fun goes a long way in building trust and closeness and it can be a great foreplay-initiator that lightens the mood and puts partners at ease.

With so many great novelty products available out there, a bundle like this can help your customers have a a light-hearted, laughter-filled evening of foreplay and sex without the pressure of ever taking themselves too seriously.

Product Placement: With Slube, your customers will be able to start the night with some slippery, gooey fun in the bath. With a variety in colour and fragrance, consumers can decide if they want something exotic and tropical with the yellow, Pina Colada, the green Gin Mojito or red Strawberry Daiquiri sludge or they want to go for something truly unique, fill their tubs with black goo and immerse themselves in the smell of black leather. Once the party of two is ready to move on from the bathroom and dry away the goo, they can put on their best candy underwear and settle down on the bed to play a round of Spicy Dice or Monogamy while they nibble on some Chocolate Anuses. And when it’s time to take things to the next level, just Honk If You’re Horny!

Of course, these bundles – with little modification – are also great as hen party or stag party packs, so why not re-purpose them when wedding season rolls around?!

And that was our Post-Valentine’s Sale Slump Bundles Guide – let us know if you have any other ideas or suggestions on how to shake up slower sales once the Black Friday-Christmas-Valentine’s trinity of holidays are over. Comment below or message us with any other topics you would like us to cover, we would love to hear from you.