Welcome to this month’s “Looking Ahead” feature. Here we’ll review events, occasions, holidays and anniversaries that you can use in an event-driven marketing promotion or campaign in August 2013. It’s a pretty barren month for major holidays. In the northern hemisphere it’s the dog days of summer. In the south it’s the tail-end of winter. […]
Looking Ahead – Marketing Calendar August 2012
Welcome to this months “Looking Ahead” feature where we’ll review events, occasions, holidays and anniversaries that you can use in an event-driven marketing promotion or campaign. Main event is the 2012 Summer Olympics in London which will be in full swing… …having started on July 27 and running (no pun intended!) until August 12. Looking […]
Looking Ahead – Marketing Calendar November 2010
Time to look ahead to November at events that can be used to base a marketing promotion or campaign around. Before that, the big event looming on the marketing calendar is, of course, Christmas and New Year. Well worth getting organised if you haven’t already done so. The big retailers have had Christmas merchandise on […]
Looking Ahead – Marketing Calendar June 2010
Almost half way through 2010 and time to look ahead to June at events and occasions that could be used to build a marketing promotion around. Here in Australia, it’s Winter (June 1 being the “official” start to the season). The Queen’s Birthday long weekend falls on 12-14 June. The Winter solstice occurs this year […]