Stress-Free Social Media Podcast
Stress-Free Social Media Podcast
March content ideas
We all know it’s essential to keep our business social accounts active and post relevant and engaging content regularly, but maybe you're struggling with ideas. Welcome to my monthly awareness dates content ideas to give you inspiration for the month ahead.
In today’s episode of the Stress-Free Social Media Podcast not only will I be sharing with you eleven March dates to get you all fired up, but I will also be talking with Kate Raleigh and Sue Robilliard from Soroptimist International Guernsey about how they are celebrating International Women’s Day and World Book Day.
With each awareness day think about how it might be relevant to your business, your clients and the problems that you are solving with your products and services.
Here’s what I cover:
- Walk All Over Cancer Month
- National Bed Month
- National Old Stuff Day
- World Book Day
- Employee Appreciation Day
- National Careers Week
- International Women's Day
- Red Nose Day/Comic Relief
- Mother's Day
- International Day of Happiness
- World Poetry Day
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We all know it’s essential to keep our business social accounts active and post relevant and engaging content regularly, but maybe you're struggling with ideas. Welcome to my monthly awareness dates content ideas to give you inspiration for the month ahead.
Hi, you’re listening to the Stress-Free Social Media Podcast. I’m Nicole Bromley, Digital Consultant at Copper in Guernsey, and I love helping businesses like yours flourish online and get rid of social media overwhelm.
In today’s episode of the Stress-Free Social Media Podcast not only will I be sharing with you eleven March dates to get you all fired up, but I will also be talking with Kate and Sue from Soroptimist International Guernsey about how they are celebrating International Women’s Day and World Book Day.
With each awareness day think about how it might be relevant to your business, your clients and the problems that you are solving with your products and services.
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So let’s start with……
#WalkAllOverCancerMonth raising awareness and money for life-saving cancer research whilst promoting the health benefits when you commit to 10,000 steps a day. So get those trainers on and start walking. For more information and to sign up visit www.cancerresearchuk.org.
Next up is………..
#NationalBedMonth raising awareness of the importance of sleep and how significant a good, comfortable bed is in helping to achieve a good night's sleep. Perfect if you sell beds or are in the health industry.
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#NationalOldStuffDay on 2nd March when people clean out their closets and garages, rediscover old treasures, and declutter their lives. This is ideal if you are a charity or second-hand shop or a business with a sustainable link.
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#WorldBookDay on 2nd March celebrating the message for all children 'you are a reader' to help promote reading for pleasure. If you sell, loan, write or illustrate children's books this is a day not to be missed in your social media content planning diary. For more information on how to get involved visit www.worldbookday.com.
Next up is……….
#EmployeeAppreciationDay on 3rd March which is an opportunity to show your employees how much you value them. Here are some ideas you may wish to partake in:
- Give out fun awards
- Implement an employee recognition programme
- Allow employees time to pursue voluntary work or time to work on an activity or role they have always wanted to try
- Recognise any milestones or victories
- Implement an employee feedback initiative
Next up is……….
#NationalCareersWeek from 6th to 11th March promoting the importance of good career education in schools and colleges. This year’s theme is ‘Empowering Positive Change through Careers Education’ encouraging individuals to take control, explore options and believe in themselves. Locally Careers Guernsey will be helping to coordinate and promote National Careers Week here in the Bailiwick. Here are some different ways employers/businesses could get involved with National Careers Week:
- Workplace tours
- Inspiring students with their subjects
- Skills competitions
- Sector showcase and learning paths
- Sustainability challenge
- Providing information and updates on the impact of automation
- Information about how employers/businesses value differences between people is important to help raise aspirations and support social inclusion
Mid break:
Stress-Free Social Media Podcast is sponsored by Copper, providing collaborative, simple and creative social media solutions to make your business flourish online. For more information visit www.copper.gg.
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#InternationalWomensDay on 8th March is a global day to celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness about discrimination and take action to drive gender parity. This year’s theme is how collectively we can ‘Embrace Equality’ and we are being encouraged to hug ourselves and strike the #EmbraceEquality pose and share on social media to show support. #IWD2023
This leads me on nicely to our guests today from Soroptimist International Guernsey who is hosting a special breakfast on International Women’s Day with motivational speaker and rugby player, Tanya Scholtz. Welcome Kate Raleigh and Sue Robilliard, thanks for talking with me today.
Kate, you are the President of Soroptimist Guernsey, can you tell us more about it?
Sue, you are a member of the committee that is working hard at organising this special event here in Guernsey on Wednesday 8th March, can you tell me about it?
If anyone locally wishes to attend this event, please get in touch with Sue by email on s.robilliard@cwgsy.net or visit the link in my notes. Tickets are £10 and the deadline for bookings is Friday 17th February.
Next up is……….
#RedNoseDay which is back on 17th March for Comic Relief. They have a number of static and flash banners all designed for people to place on their websites, blogs and social media pages to show support. A ‘digital red nose’ facility allows you to upload an image and have a red nose automatically inserted on to it. If your workplace wants to take part you can register for your free fundraising pack at www.comicrelief.com/rednoseday.
Next up is……….
#MothersDay on 19th March celebrating the mother, or mother figure, and the influence of mothers in society. This is perfect if you sell cards, gifts, or experiences or are in the hospitality industry. If you are stuck for ideas you could run a Mother's Day competition (abiding by the social media platform’s competition rules), share a Mother's Day gift guide, highlight your mother, highlight the mother’s in your company, share a Mother's Day quote, get personal about motherhood for you or highlight a Mother's Day event.
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#InternationalDayofHappiness on 20th March calling for happiness to be given greater priority. Why not take time out to do something that makes you happy whether that is getting outside in nature, speaking to a friend, having a boogie or giving and spreading happiness to others. You could also share things that make you happy on social media.
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#WorldPoetryDay on 21st March helping promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry and how it can capture the creative spirit of humankind. To start celebrating World Poetry Day, there are many things you can do including:
- Attending a poetry reading with family, friends or by yourself, you are bound to meet lots of other poetry lovers
- Sharing what you have learnt from the poetry reading with people of all ages
- Looking up poetry recommendations and add them to your reading list
- Writing your own poetry and sharing it on social media
That’s nearly it, but I’ve just got one more awareness day to finish with……….
#EarthHour on 25th March encourages everyone around the world to help #ShapeOurFuture by signing up to switch off your lights at 8.30pm your local time and join a community of millions supporting stronger action on climate change. Maybe you’d like to be a local champion and organise an event to bring your community together for the hour, whether that be virtually or physically. More information about EarthHour and how to register your event can be found at www.earthhour.org.
Outro:
And that’s it for March content ideas! Thanks so much for listening.
If you post content having listened to this, let us know in the comments and keep an eye out for our April Awareness Dates next month.
Happy post-creating.
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