How about a left-handers day arm wrestling match? Give a prize to the winners to include your products and services. Also a good kick-off for Weird Contest Week… Check out the unexpected publicity we received on Left Handers day: Examiner.com talks up Left-handers DayAugust 13th is also National Underwear Day ~ Nat’l Underwear Day event evokes the care-free attitude of Sixties ‘happenings’, when free spirits took control of public spaces as venues for their art, their message. The folks at Freshpair believe that underwear deserves a lot more recognition than it gets. Americans spend more than $13 billion on intimate apparel each year and for that kind of money, Freshpair.com feels it is their duty to tell the world. With National Underwear Day, they’ve taken underwear out of the dresser drawer and into the streets – by sending twenty male and female models out clad only in their finest undergarments. On August 7th, National Underwear Day took Manhattan by storm for the sixth year in a row.
August 13th is the only Friday the 13th in 2010 ~ Here are 13 resources you can use to get ideas for marketing your business:
1. Social Media Sites, 2. Non-related businesses, 3. The supermarket, 3. Churches or other religious institutions, 4. The mall, 5. Disney World (or Disney Land), 6. Watch commercials, 7. Political campaigns, 8.Direct marketing associations, 9. Junk mail, 10. Trade shows, 11. Trade and business magazines, 12. Non-profit organizations, 13. Print advertising in newspapers.
August 13th is the only Friday the 13th in 2010 ~ Here are 13 resources you can use to get ideas for marketing your business:
1. Social Media Sites, 2. Non-related businesses, 3. The supermarket, 3. Churches or other religious institutions, 4. The mall, 5. Disney World (or Disney Land), 6. Watch commercials, 7. Political campaigns, 8.Direct marketing associations, 9. Junk mail, 10. Trade shows, 11. Trade and business magazines, 12. Non-profit organizations, 13. Print advertising in newspapers.
Today is also:
Blame Someone Else Day
Kool-Aid Days 13-15
*August 13th is also the 29th Anniversary ~ Of my company, Eden Florist – last year for our 28th anniversary we hosted a big online contest where all you had to do is sign up and be eligible to win some fabulous prizes such as 28 long stem roses, 28 Hershey’s kisses in a voile pouch, 28 latex and mylar balloons, 28 office products in a basket and more! 28 prizes were given away in all. On our 25th anniversary we hosted a “silver” anniversary and gave away sterling silver keepsakes, including keychains, jewelry, mugs and more. What could you do to commemorate YOUR company’s anniversary?
