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National Military Appreciation Month and Military Spouse Appreciation Day
Happy May Day! Are you ready for it? May, that is. So many activities begin this month for the summer! Warmer weather arrives in much of the country and we head outside to work, play, travel and celebrate. Two of the best known celebrations this month are Memorial Day (May 28th) and Armed Forces Day (May 19th). Gaining quickly in national recognition and deservedly so, are Military Spouse Appreciation Day and National Military Appreciation Month which is the entire month of May! As a business interested in marketing to the military you should be announcing these events and sharing with your military customers that you do appreciate them! One example…
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Is Your Military Discount up to date?
Attention Attention AttentionAttention to the Details … Every day we share the best of your military-discounts on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. On the first of every month MilitaryAvenue Alerts is published to thousands of members of the military community around the country with your ad shared with your community.Your ad is visible to the Military Community on MilitaryAvenue.com at your base or post 24/7.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? Your ad should not be stagnant, just like a business-marketing plan isn’t stagnant; otherwise it will not…
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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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Going Viral with MilitaryAvenue and CNN – “Tell Your Story”
Do you see the byline in this image taken from a CNN live broadcast? MilitaryAvenue.com was featured in a midday story on Military Spouse Appreciation Day last month! May was Military Appreciation Month and many businesses responded with some great support to the military community! Did you know about Military Spouse Appreciation Day? Armed Services Day? Memorial Day? We received some great coverage from CNN on Military Spouse Appreciation Day with our blog on 101 Ways to Thank a Military Spouse! When they made contact about our blog and talked about it live on CNN, we jumped a bit with excitement! CNN recognized that we were supporting this great group…
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Great Examples of How to Reach Out to the Military Community
Why are some businesses successful at reaching out to the military community? Fantastic Sams shows their colors!We just attended a special event for military spouses at Ft Knox, called a Field Exercise that was a wonderful time! It brought together 300 Army spouses (most had seen their soldier deploy multiple times – some up to six times) and provided them an opportunity to learn coping skills and laugh together about military life and its challenges! AWNHosted by Tara Crooks and Star Henderson of Army Wife Network, the Field Exercise also gave away some wonderful gifts! Super Military SupportersMilitaryAvenue.com was there as a sponsor and coordinated with three local businesses to…
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June Featured Military Reward – Coldstone Creamery
We just celebrated Memorial Day and that means summer is here! With summer comes a special need for ice cream in this military family! So when the votes were tallied it was easy to understand why we chose Cold Stone Creamery – Point Loma as our Featured Military Reward for June! Their Military Reward says: 15% off your entire order (excluding gift card purchases) when you show your active duty or retired military ID. Cannot be combined with any other offers, discounts or coupons. Their ads can be seen at Point Loma Naval Base, San Diego Naval Base and San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot on MilitaryAvenue.com under our Ice…
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Military Dates to Remember April – June 2010
We decided to post this blog series a bit early this quarter due to the all the events and to give our Partners a chance to plan your recognition efforts for your military community! This blog is a series of quarterly blogs to keep you aware of military events so we can help our military Partners and community stay connected! Just as you can find the military community working hard anywhere in the world we work hard to find new ways to help you reach out! One of our recommendations has been to stay in tune with the military community events in your local area. This quarter is jam packed…
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Memorial Day is May 25th, 2009
I began this blog with an image search and that brought tears to my eyes. I found one image of a young woman laying on a grave at Arlington National Cemetery grieving for her lost fiance killed defending his country. There are many other images and stories of countless others, too. I could not show that particular image as I felt it would somehow violate the trust and relationship that was demonstrated by her grief. Business blogs are not normally emotion filled but on this Memorial Day what are you doing to recognize those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect you and your family? Show the military community…
