Marketing Ideas Calendar for May, 2017

The month of May is chock full of hot topics to use as ideas-starters for marketing messages & promotions.

Sit down and brainstorm with your spouse, business partners, employees or your kids (or all of them) and challenge yourself to come up with some nifty ideas for in-store promotions, email messages, and social media posts. THIS is how to get more Likes, Shares, and buzz going on about your business.

May Marketing Ideas Calendar for 2017

May is the Month of the Following Topics:

National Military Appreciation Month
National Mental Health Awareness Month
National Brain Cancer and Brain Tumor Awareness Month
Foster Care Month
National Barbecue Month
National Bike Month
National Get Caught Reading Month
National Lyme Disease Awareness Month
National Strawberry Month
National Water Safety Month
Melanoma Awareness Month

These are the Holidays are Recognized in the Month of May, 2017

May 6 – 12
Nurses Week

May 7 – 13
National Tourism Week
National Wildflower Week
Children’s Mental Health Week
National Family Week
Teacher Appreciation Week

May 15 – 21
Police Week
National Etiquette Week

May 21 – 27
National Emergency Medical Services Week
National Bike to Work Wee
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week

Daily Holidays for May, 2017

5/1/2017 May Day / National Mother Goose Day
5/2/2017 National Truffle Day
5/3/2017 National Raspberry Popover Day
5/4/2017 National Star Wars Day / National Weather Observers Day
5/5/2017 Cinco de Mayo / National Military Spouse Appreciation Day
5/6/2017 National Nurses Day / Join Hands Day
5/7/2017 National Homebrew Day / Free Comic Book Day
5/8/2017 National Coconut Cream Pie Day
5/9/2017 National Teacher Appreciation Day
5/10/2017 National Receptionists Day
5/11/2017 National Twilight Zone Day
5/12/2017 National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day / National Nutty Fudge Day
5/13/2017 National Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Day
5/14/2017 Mother’s Day / National Dance Like a Chicken Day
5/15/2017 National Chocolate Chip Day
5/16/2017 National Love a Tree Day
5/17/2017 National Walnut Day
5/18/2017 National HIV Vaccine Awareness Day / National Visit Your Relatives Day
5/19/2017 National Bike to Work Day / NASCAR Day
5/20/2017 National Pick Strawberries Day / National Armed Forces Day
5/21/2017 National Take Your Parents to the Playground Day
5/22/2017 National Buy a Music Instrument Day
5/23/2017 National Lucky Penny Day
5/24/2017 National Scavengers Hunt Day / Brother’s Day
5/25/2017 Red Nose Day / National Missing Children’s Day
5/26/2017 National Blueberry Cheesecake Day
5/27/2017 National Grape Popsicle Day
5/28/2017 National Hamburger Day
5/29/2017 Memorial Day
5/30/2017 National Water a Flower Day
5/31/2017 National Senior Health and Fitness Day