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Military Dates to Remember 2012
The New Year is almost here and we promised to provide updates for our 2012 Military Dates to Remember! Here is the first six months and we will update as the calendar continues to roll! Your military community will appreciate your knowledge of their events. Show your appreciation with marketing efforts, simple “thank yous” from your sales staff and patriotic window displays or website images/pages. Don’t forget your social media efforts too! Nothing like a mention on Facebook or twitter to draw friends, likes and shares! Do you keep up with MilitaryAvenue on Facebook or Twitter? How about our Military Discount Facebook page? We welcome your comments as a partner…
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Military Dates to Remember 2011- 2012
sSay “Thank You” on Veterans Day!We frequently get visits to MilitaryAvenue for folks looking for military important dates! To help, we will again begin placing important dates for the military community for followers to see! Well in advance of the date, so you can reach out and plan to recognize the events appropriately! We will also post on twitter! We are posting through June 2012 and will update as we gather new or updated information! Some dates may not be particular to the military but think of a deployed service member returning after a deployment and enjoying Thanksgiving with their family. Last year there was an empty chair while they…
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MilitaryAvenue Resources for our Partners
Are you using all the available resources of MilitaryAvenue? One of our goals at MilitaryAvenue.com is to connect the military community with your “outside the gates” business. With that in mind we have multiple ways for you to reach the military community and I want to ensure you are using them all! We have many opportunities for businesses around large military population centers to list ads in multiple locations. We allow three free ads within 100 miles of your office. Are there multiple installations nearby? Have you placed an ad at three of them? (Continued)Posted byLeanneonTuesday, December 14, 2010Labels:From the Archives,MAPP Tip of the Month,Resources
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What does your ad convey?
MilitaryAvenue Partners, have you used our Reward Finder? What does your ad look like? What are the thousands of military-families that use our Reward Finder learning about your business? Is your ad up to date? Would you like it to be higher up in the list of discounts for your area? Take the time to review your work! Log-in and make changes. We want YOU to put your best foot forward for our military-community. Some important related articles:MilitaryAvenue Partners: You too can be a General – How you can have your discount listed higher for your installation & category Military Rewards and How to Win the Hearts of the Military Community…
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What Does Your Storefront or Website Tell the Military Community? MAPP Tip!
Last week we were traveling to Ft Riley, KS to attend and help support a special military spouse event. As always we featured our partners and what you bring to the military community! Our first night stop was near St Louis and we had a few minutes to tour Historic St Charles and get dinner after a long day on the road. As we walked the street taking in the shops we jumped when we saw this store window! We had limited time, were tired and had just been window shopping but this sign pulled us to the door! Does your sign or website do that? Does it say “Welcome”?…
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Putting Your Best Foot Forward
On the first of every month MilitaryAvenue Alerts is published to thousands of members of the military community around the country. These are service-members and spouses, the decision makers, that are interested in the latest & most up to date military-discount and -incentive in their area, your area! Do you keep your MilitaryAvenue ad up to date? We want to keep our military families interested in receiving Alerts and do not want to be ‘grabbing their attention’ with out of date ads. Therefore, the most up to date ads are listed first in the Alerts email that is sent out each month. A great action-item to add to your electronic-calendar…
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My Answer to a Realtor’s Question about Reaching Out to the Military Community
I recently had the following email request from a realtor in the Ft Knox, Kentucky area: I have several builders in the area as well as clients that really want to get something going with the Ft Knox military community. What are we not doing that we should be doing? Here is how I responded! I hope you find it helpful and it is applicable to business owners/marketing outside of real estate too! First, what you are doing right is reaching out to the military community! Your ad at MilitaryAvenue has now been opened XXX times in the last year during a major recession! I can give you some recommendations…
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Tips: MAPP Tip of the Month
Images! Don’t they send a message? We see a million a day and some stick to us like velcro! This restaurant’s message caught our attention as we drove by during a weekend trip. If we are ever back in the area and need to stop for a meal I know they will be our choice. Why? Their message was clear and they reached out to say thank you to veterans. How do you send your message to the military community nearby? Do you recognize them? Thank them? Does your message resonate with their needs? I am so impressed with one of our Partners who reaches out to her military audience…
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Tips: MAPP Tip of the Month–Events at Your Local Installation
We are making exciting progress connecting you, our MilitaryAvenue Partners and your military community. We are using social networking, media coverage, blogging and outreach programs at several installations and much more! But one of the most exciting ways we reach the community is through you, our Partners! One partner who has been instrumental in opening doors is Main Street Pet Resort and Day Spa at Ft Leavenworth! The owner has been our advocate and spent time spreading the word about us to her friends, fellow business owners and the installation as well! How has she done that and why? First, she was connected with her military customers in her business…
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Tips: Your Military Rewards and How to Win the Hearts of the Military Community
I or another staff member review each ad that comes to MilitaryAvenue as part of our approval process. I also frequently provide recommendations to our Partners who we want to be successful reaching the military marketplace! Our military experiences provide a unique perspective and we like to share those with you! After several years I have seen some great Rewards and some that do not meet our criteria for a free ad. The basics of the Reward include: 1. Must have a dollar value or percentage off and be a unique offer to your military community. 2. Think of it as a coupon that a service member would bring in…
