Celebrate National Try Something New Day!
February 27, 2019
Using social media for your
- Promotions – random holidays are the perfect time for promotions. For example, February 11
th is White T-Shirt Day , so if you have a clothing company where are whitet-shirts available, you could have a promotion for that day. Do a buy one, get one free coupon or give away a whitet-shirt with every $25 purchase. The possibilities are limitless! - Contests – Picking a holiday that’s related to your business and creating a contest around it creates a fun environment for your audience and enables you to get your product to them in some way. Take July 1
st – Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day; if you own an ice cream shop, you could have a contest for people to come up with their best creative ice cream flavor, vote on the best one, and then as the prizegive them some ice cream (or let them create their flavor to try it out). It’s pretty win-win for everyone involved. - Be Part of the Conversation – Celebrating quirky, random holidays on social media makes your business a part of the conversation. Take September 19
th which is International Talk Like a Pirate Day (you might be familiar). This one is a fairly popular random holiday – in fact, in the past Facebook created the ability to change the language of your account to “pirate” just for this day – which means it will be trending on social media the entire day. Simply acknowledging it by posting a quick “Arrgg,matey !” or putting up a picture of your favorite pirate (Jack Sparrow, of course) will get eyes on your business. - Celebrate The Good – It’s a big, bad world out there, so sometimes it’s wonderful to just do or say something nice. There are plenty of holidays that celebrate
joy and the good things, like November 20th which is Beautiful Day. Just posting something, well, beautiful to acknowledge this holiday (or others like it) is a great reminder to your audience to enjoy the good things and a great reminder that your business is run by people just like them. - Show Your Appreciation – There are plenty of random holidays on which to show your appreciation for your customers, such as September 15
th , National Thank You Day. Any day is a good day to say thank you to the many people who help you stay in business, of course, but acknowledging them on days made especially for that purpose will get more people to see your appreciation. Whether you simply post a graphic saying “thank you”, do a giveaway, or upload a quick video, your customers will be happy to know they’re appreciated.
Social media should be fun and it should be creative. There are plenty of ways to get yourself in front of the public, but the use of offbeat holidays will make you stand out. No matter how you use them you’ll be remembered for being part of the conversation and for doing something different from the rest of the crowd. A site we like to use to find these holidays
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