Celebrating Holidays

Have you started planning your 2010 marketing calendar?  You should celebrate every chance you get! Here are some great events to build your internal marketing ideas for the whole year!


January 
New beginnings, resolutions, and parties – it’s a great time to share what is new with your patients – you could mail them New Year specials with a paper party hat inside or give them out in your office.

Make sure you put your contact information on the hats – (could be done easily with a stamp.)

New Years Day 1st

Martin Luther King Day 21st

Super Bowl Sunday – in office nfl picks

February 

Groundhog Day 2^{nd –} Get through 6 more weeks of winter with…

Mardi Gras   
Valentine’s Day 14^th – Romance service packages – 2-1 s

Random Acts of Kindness Day 
Presidents Day 18^th

March

National Nutrition Month

Daylight Savings 9^th

St Patrick’s Day 17^th – green things, luck of the irish – could include a prize drawing for services or a game

First Day of Spring 20^th – vernal eqinox is a great time to start a spring special – you can make a coupon for your email list or newsletter recipients that looks like a tulip

Easter

April 

April fools day 1^st – great for jokes and tricks

Tax Day 15^th

Earth Day 22^nd

Administrative Professionals Day 30^th

May 

May Day 1^st

National Teacher’s Day 6^th

Mother’s Day 11^th

Memorial Day 26^th

Cinco de Mayo – Pinata coupon

June 

National Rose Month

Father’s Day 15^th

First Day of Summer 20^th

Paul Bunyan Day 28^th

July

Take it to the beach – bundle or package services that in a beach towel or bucket

 Independence Day 4^th

Parents Day 27^th

August  

Friendship Day 3^rd

Women’s Equality Day 26^th

Back to school  - money saving coupons for parents are always helpful

September

Labor Day 1^st

Grandparents Day 7^th

Patriot Day 11^th

First Day of autumn 22^nd

October

Child Health Day 6^th

Columbus Day 13^th

Boss Day 16^th

Mother in law Day 26^th

Halloween 31^st

Maybe  a treasure hunt for kids around your office?

November 

Good Nutrition Month

Daylight savings time ends 2^nd

Veterans Day 11^th

Thanksgiving Day 27^th

December

Pearl Harbor Day 7^th

Human Rights Day 10^th

First Day of Winter 21^st

Boxing Day 26^th

Kwanzaa 26^th

What successful holiday promotions have you  run?