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Colleen Davis

If you’re going to get calendar printing done with your company, you need to do more than just hand people a calendar.

The fact that this will be free doesn’t really mean that much. First, many other companies are going to be doing the same thing, so getting a free calendar isn’t always the most excited or interesting thing.

Secondly, calendars really aren’t that expensive, and there is a very wide selection each year for just about every taste you can imagine. People are not averse to just buying a calendar if they have to in order to get the best one for them. This is a once a year expense, after all, so most are willing to fork over the cash to get something they really like. Who wants a boring calendar on their wall for an entire year?

So what exactly are you doing with your calendar printing? Are you using unique images as the primary hook, or are you including different specials built into your calendars? Maybe using interesting facts or trivia to get people interested?

If you don’t have a theme you won’t have any change of getting people to take a look at your calendar, and what that theme is should be closely linked to who your customers are. Try to find something that appeals directly to them, something they’ll have a strong interest in keeping.

This might be a reference to various elements of pop culture, maybe things that used to be popular back in the day when your customers were younger, or something popular with them now.

Whatever fun facts or trivia you put on calendars needs to relate to something your customers will have interest in. It’s a lot harder to get people to care about something that they don’t have any interest in.

You can, of course, surprise people by giving them something unique that they didn’t know they’d have interest in, but to do something like that you still have to really know who you’re customers are, or just get really lucky, and why leave something like that up to luck?

Creating a calendar good enough to be kept over all the others is far from impossible to do, it just takes a lot of time and research to get right. You can’t just jump casually into it and expect everything to turn out fine, something too many companies attempt to do.

But if you do get to know your customers and you give them something that’s more than just a basic calendar, you immediately have an edge of all of the other companies competing for their attention.

People are naturally going to gravitate towards those they feel know them best. You need to prove to them that you know what they enjoy, and can give them something they’ll gladly keep on their wall for a year.

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