Promotional Planning IDEAS Calendar

1-31 – National Win With Civility Month. Stressing the benefits of being civil and courteous to each other in all aspects of life. Can be touted by any business or organization.

1 – Jerry Garcia – Birthday. Whether you like the Grateful Dead or not, it’s difficult to deny their 30-year heritage of fanatical fans, legendary concerts and charitable work.

6 – National Fresh Breath Day. Coincidentally, mints, gum and even mouthwash are available imprinted.

7 – Treasure Your Customers Day. A perfect and unexpected day to give them a particularly nice logoed gift.

9 – Veep Day. Recognizing vice presidents everywhere. Good day for a promotion (in more ways than one).

13 – Alfred Hitchcock – Birthday. A “gimmie” for video stores, TV stations, theatres and any promotion using a mystery/suspense theme.

17-23 – National Friendship Week. You can never have too many friends, in business as well as life.

21 – Hawaii Admission Day. Alohaville became the 50th state today, 1959.

27 – New Moon – At 1:26 p.m., EDT.

31 – Alice TV Premiere Anniversary. The show about a single-mom waitress, insane boss and strange friends bowed on this day, 1976. It lasted nine years – pretty amazing, considering its lame jokes and even lamer scripts. Great opportunity to celebrate how far TV has come since then.

Promotion Planning Dates

August – Cataract Awareness Month
August – Children’s Vision and Learning Month
August – National Immunization Awareness Month
August – National Inventor’s Month
August – Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
August 1st - 7th – World Breastfeeding Week
August 1st – World Wide Web Created -1990
August 2nd – National Mustard Day
August 3rd – Friendship Day
August 3rd – National KidsDay
August 3rd – Sister’s Day
August 4th – Coast Guard Day
August 5th – National Night Out
August 6th – National Fresh Breath Day
August 9th – Sing-Out Day
August 9th – UN International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
August 12th – UN International Youth Day
August 15th – National Relaxation Day
August 19th – National Aviation Day
August 17th - 23rd – National Friendship Week
August 17th - 23rd – National Truck Driver Appreciation Week
August 23rd – Start of the astrological sign Virgo
August 24th – Vesuvius Erupted 79 AD
August 26th – Women’s Equality Day
August 27th – Mother Teresa's Birthday (1910)