What’s Next: Best Quirky Marketing Holidays

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No matter where you live in the world you’ve probably heard of Christmas. But do you know when World Human Spirit Day is? The great thing about the world’s numerous holidays and traditions is that they give all of us, no matter what our business or where we live, ample opportunity to find celebrations that tie into our business which we can use to send a specially created greeting card to our customers, advertise a special campaign, or create a quirky promotion.

A cool site to help you find the best holidays for your business is Earth Calendar where you can look up holidays by date, country, or religion. To help whet your appetite here are some hand-selected holidays for the first quarter of 2011.

Holidays January 2011

• 1/1 Saint Basil’s Day
• 1/2 Happy New Year for Cats Day
• 1/2 National Motivation and Inspiration Day
• 1/3/2011 National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
• 1/4 World Hypnotism Day
• 1/8 National English Toffee Day
• 1/10 National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
• 1/13 Rubber Duckie Day
• 1/17 Kid Inventor’s Day
• 1/21 National Hugging Day
• 1/24 National Compliment Day
• 1/29 Curmudgeons Day

Holidays February 2011

• 2/1 Give Kids a Smile Day
• 2/6 Dump Your Significant Jerk Day
• 2/11 Pro Sports Wives Day
• 2/12 Darwin Day
• 2/17 World Human Spirit Day
• 2/18 Pluto Day (Planet Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh)
• 2/20 Love Your Pet Day
• 2/22 World Thinking Day
• 2/26 International Sword Swallowers Day

Holidays March 2011

• 3/1 National Horse Protection Day
• 3/3 I Want You to be Happy Day
• 3/7 National Be Heard Day
• 3/9 Learn What Your Name Means Day
• 3/11 Johnny Appleseed Day
• 3/13 Donald Duck Day
• 3/14 Pi Day
• 3/15 Napping Day
• 3/17 Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
• 3/19 National Chocolate Caramel Day
• 3/22 International Goof-off Day
• 3/23 World Meteorological Day
• 3/25 Pecan Day
• 3/28 Weed Appreciation Day
• 3/30 Pencil Day

Happy Holiday Hunting!

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