June’s here, and with it comes warmer weather, longer days, and a calendar packed with activities. But between the barbecues and pool parties, the content well can start to feel a little dry. We’ve all been there! To help you keep your audience engaged throughout the month, we’ve put together a list of content ideas for June 2024. Let’s dive in!

MONTHLY THEMES

• Beautiful in Your Skin Month
• Effective Communications Month

• Entrepreneurs “Do it Yourself” Marketing Month

  

Even without a marketing team, you can capture attention in June! Here are creative ways 3 business owners, from a baker to a yoga instructor, can use “Do It Yourself Marketing Month” to connect with customers:

1. The Local Bakery Owner (Brick & Mortar):

Theme: “DIY Customer Appreciation Month”

• Social Media Challenge: Create a fun social media challenge for a week in June. Encourage customers to post pictures enjoying your baked goods at home using a specific hashtag. Offer a prize for the most creative post, like a free cake or a basket of treats. This builds brand awareness, customer engagement, and generates user-created content.

2. The Online Yoga Instructor (Service-Based):

Theme: “Free Yoga Flow for Focus & Productivity”

• Live Stream Workshop: Host a free live stream yoga session on your social media platform or website. Focus on a theme relevant to entrepreneurs, like “Focus & Productivity Flow.” During the class, subtly weave in how yoga can benefit their busy lifestyle. Offer a discount on your online yoga class package at the end of the session. This allows you to showcase your expertise, build a potential student base, and provide value without needing expensive marketing materials.

3. The Independent Graphic Designer (Creative Industry):

Theme: “DIY Design Tips for Your Brand”

• Blog Series: Start a blog series titled “DIY Design Tips for Your Brand” throughout June. Share simple, actionable design tips entrepreneurs can implement themselves. This could include creating a logo with free online tools, basic graphic design principles for presentations, or choosing color palettes for branding. This positions you as an expert and attracts potential clients who may need more advanced design services later.

• National Camping Month

WEEKLY THEMES

• National Email Week (June 10-16): National Email Week is a chance to connect with customers! Here are creative email ideas for both a brick and mortar business and a service-based business:

Retail Store:  Celebrate National Email Week by offering a “subscriber scavenger hunt” in-store. Subscribers receive exclusive clues via email leading them to hidden discounts or special offers throughout the store. This encourages email sign-ups, drives in-store traffic, and creates a fun in-store experience.

Financial Planner:  National Email Week email series focused on “Financial Planning FAQs.” Each email tackles a common question subscribers might have about financial planning, like “How much should I save for retirement?” or “What types of investments should I consider?” This educates potential clients, positions the financial planner as a trusted resource, and encourages them to schedule a consultation for personalized advice.

• National Play Catch Week

DAILY THEMES

• 6/1 Stand For Children Day
• 6/1 National Skincare Education Day
• 6/7 National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
• 6/7 National Donut Day: Run a contest on your social media page by asking your followers to post a picture eating their favorite donut.  Put the names of all who participate in a drawing, and award the winner a prize related to your business.  Bonus Tip: Add a high-quality picture of a delicious donut to your post!
• 6/11 National Making Life Beautiful Day
• 6/13 National Weed Your Garden Day
• 6/17 National Eat Your Vegetables Day
• 6/20 National Yard Games Day
• 6/20 World Productivity Day
• 6/21 National Seashell Day
• 6/21 National Take Your Dog to Work Day
• 6/23 International Women in Engineering Day
• 6/23 National Family Owned & Operated Businesses Day
• 6/26 National Day of Joy
• 6/27 National Work From Home Day
• 6/28 National Insurance Awareness Day
• 6/30 Social Media Day: Show appreciation by featuring customer testimonials or reviews on your social media pages. Publicly acknowledge your loyal customers and the positive impact they have on your business. This builds trust with potential clients and shows your appreciation for existing ones.

We hope you’ve found these tips and examples helpful.  If you need help with your content creation strategy and implementation, reach out to learn how we can help!

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We’re thrilled to share your May 2024 content ideas! This month is bursting with themes that cover everything from health and wellness to business and creativity, providing ample opportunities to connect with your audience in meaningful ways.

5/2 – Take a Baby to Lunch Day

We all know that babies, food, and animals are usually highly engaging visual content for social media. On May 2, you can take advantage of “Take a Baby to Lunch Day” by posting a fun picture of you at lunch with (a) your own little one, (b) your grandchild or (c) borrow a friend’s baby for a photo opp! But wait! Go old school and dig out an actual picture of you with your kid at lunch for a Back-In-The-Day post and watch the engagement soar! BONUS POINTS: if you’re in the restaurant business, take pix of all the patrons with their babies OR encourage them to tag you in their posts then share to your stories. Win-Win-Win!!

5/17 –  National Pizza Party Day

#NationalPizzaPartyDay. No reason is ever needed to have a pizza party, but just in case you need one, today’s your day!

Three simple ideas to create engaging content for today:

1. Order pizza for your team and share pictures or videos of them enjoying a slice. This would work perfectly for a LinkedIn post!
2. Shoutout/tag the small business you ordered pizza from! 
3. In the pizza biz? Create some videos of your pies in the process, from stretching/tossing the dough, to pizza peels sliding into/out of the oven, to a slow-motion of the pizza cutter. Make people crave your creation!

Weekly Themes

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We’re back with your April 2024 content ideas! From baking to having fun at work to celebrating all things “small business,” we’ve got you covered.

4/1 – Sourdough Bread Day

If your business has anything at all to do with baking or food, there’s a good chance that you can easily use Sourdough Bread Day in your marketing efforts. But let’s get creative and think outside the box. Consider sharing your personal journey with sourdough and drawing parallels to a process in your business. Highlight the importance of patience required to complete a task and the similarity to the time it takes for sourdough to ferment, or discuss how using specialized equipment can make a difference in the outcome of a project. Regardless of the marketing message you create, be sure to include a pic of your bread for engagement.

4/2 – DIY Day
4/3 – Chocolate Mousse Day
4/3 – Inspiring Joy Day
4/5 – Gold Star Spouses Day

4/5 – Self-Care Day

For businesses offering self-care products or services,  share blog posts, videos, or infographics about the importance of self-care, highlighting how your products or services specifically contribute to mental and physical well-being.  You can also offer special discounts, or organize giveaways, to celebrate Self-Care Day. This not only incentivizes purchases but also highlights your commitment to promoting well-being.

Not in the self-care sector, that’s okay.  Ask  your employees/team members “What does self-care mean to you?” (or something similar) and use their feedback to create content.

4/10 – Work From Home Day
4/10 – Hug Your Dog Day
4/13 – Scrabble Day
4/15 – Take a Wild Guess Day
4/16 – Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day
4/16 – Wear Pajamas to Work Day
4/19 – Refresh Your Goals Day
4/22 – Earth Day
4/22 – In God We Trust Day
4/24 – Administrative Professionals Day
4/25 – Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day
4/28 – Pay It Forward Day
4/29 – Poem in Your Pocket Day
4/30 – Therapy Animal Day

Weekly Themes

April 28th-May 4th: Small Business Week

Use Small Business Week as an opportunity to celebrate, promote, and engage with your audience in a way that encourages the support of small business and strengthens local economies. A few ideas on how to incorporate Small Business Week in your marketing:

1. Promote a special offer: exclusive discounts or promotions during Small Business Week to entice customers to shop locally.
2. Partner with other small businesses in your area to cross-promote each other’s products or services.
3. Share behind-the-scenes photos or videos on social media, highlighting the people, processes, and passion behind your products or services. This can really humanize your brand and build a stronger connection with your audience, something that the giant brands can’t do as well as small businesses.
4. Express gratitude by thanking your customers for their support and loyalty and to emphasize the impact their patronage has on your small business and the community as a whole.

Monthly Themes

We hope you’ve found these tips and examples helpful.  If you need help with your content creation strategy and implementation, reach out to learn how we can help!

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It’s time to spring into a new season of content creation, and we’ve got you covered with ideas and examples to help you with your March planning.  Let’s dive in!

Daily Themes

3/1 – Baby Sleep Day
3/1 – Day of Unplugging
3/1 – Employee Appreciation Day

3/1 – Share a Smile Day

This one is easy. Smile for the camera. Take a selfie and post it. Create a short video talking about what makes you smile. Create a Canva graphic with a big cheesy SMILEY face. Spread a little joy around. The world can always use more! Use #NationalSmileDay when sharing.

3/8 – Proofreading Day

This may sound counterintuitive, but did you know that one of the easiest ways to get people talking about your content is to have a grammatical error? It’s true! The Grammar Police love to take to the Internet when a word is misspelled or the wrong word is used, or punctuation is incorrect. Or course, intentionally using grammatical errors to garner attention may not align with your brand. In that case, WordHippo and Grammarly can help.

3/12 – Plant a Flower Day

Plant a Flower Day is another theme that can be used across industries when approached properly. In the Health and Wellness field? Create content around the idea of growth and nurturing self similarly to the way one would care for a garden. How about those in the fashion industry: engage your followers by encouraging them to share selfies of them wearing your floral designs. Ask them to tag you in their posts and you can then share those posts to your stories. All brands should be seeking user generated content (UGC) whenever possible to increase their reach.

Weekly Themes

Monthly Themes

We hope you’ve found these tips and examples helpful.  If you need help with your content creation strategy and implementation, reach out to learn how we can help!

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