Promotions are a great opportunity to flaunt your creativity. Creativity is what gets people talking about you and gets you remembered — which is one of the most important things in marketing. Your promotion can be wacky, an insanely good deal, helping an important charity or non-profit, or any mix of these, but the most important is that it gets people’s attention.
One way of doing this is to have a promotion for a little-known and lesser-celebrated holiday. If you do a little research, you’ll find a gold mine of crazy holidays most people haven’t heard of. Pick one that you can tie into your business or a new product or service, and get your creative juices flowing!
Here are some for the month of April to get the ball rolling:
-Pets Are Wonderful Month
-Community Service Month
-American Cancer Society Month
-National Poetry Month
-National Garden Month
-Thai Heritage Month
-Stress Awareness Month
-National Soyfoods Month
-Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month
-National Pecan Month
-National Soft Pretzel Month
-National Humor Month
-International Guitar Month
-National Welding Month
-April 11: Eight Track Tape Day, Barbershop Quartet Day
-April 13: Scrabble Day
-April 16: National Librarian Day, Patriot’s Day
-April 23: National Zucchini Bread Day, Take a Chance Day
-April 25: World Penguin Day, Executive Admin’s Day (Secretary’s Day)
-April 26: Take Your Daughter to Work Day