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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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Month of the Military Child and The Community That Serves Them
“What we hear repeatedly from military kids is that they need people in their community to know what they’re going through.” – National Military Family Association You are the community that can support our military-members and their children. As a MilitaryAvenue Partner we know that you hold the military family in high-regard. So what can you do to help the military child? Get to know them, collectively and individually. The National Military Family Association has created a great tool-kit that you can download for free. It has some fabulous tips that they devised by talking to military-kids. I think you will glean a lot of great information from it that…
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Welcome New MilitaryAvenue Partners
Not a MilitaryAvenue Partner Yet? Join us today! http://www.militaryavenue.com/ListWithUs.aspx As a good business practice, the MilitaryAvenue Team is reviewing some of our standard communications to be sure that we are still at 100%! We just recently updated our “Welcome Letter” from our co-founder, Dale Kissinger, and thought… I bet all of our partners would like to review some of our suggestions. So without further adieu here are some great tips to reaching out to our Military Community! Greetings to our new MilitaryAvenue Partners from the Team at MilitaryAvenue.com! We want to expand upon your Welcome email from our co-founder, Dale Kissinger. We realize your time is valuable! So bookmark this…
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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 Partners–Thinking!
Keep up with Your Marketing (and see what others are doing as well) Are you aware of new business trends? Had some coffee/tea and ready to stimulate your marketing approach? Who is your competition? What is new? When is the best time to offer a sale to the military community? What did my marketing due to for sales this month? All questions for a savvy business person to stay on top of and aware that change is inevitable! We strongly recommend that you maintain awareness of the military community’s needs and the cycle of business opportunities with them. How do you monitor your ad(s) to meet these changes? One method…
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Ft Sill, Altus AFB & Sheppard AFB Partners: Spouse Field Exercise coming your way!
Crooks & Henderson are coming to Fort Sill, Oklahoma! A wonderful evening of spouse pampering, tips for deployment, and a night out for well-deserved spouses of deployed-military members.April 23 or April 24, 2009A Seminar For Military Spouses· Themed Care Package Ideas· Deployment Survival Tips & Resources· Networking· Giveaways· Fabulous Gift Bags· Complimentary Meal, Dessert, & MoreAs a MilitaryAvenue Partner how does this affect you? MilitaryAvenue is a proud sponsor of this event and we will be in attendance! If you are a partner at Fort Sill, Sheppard AFB or Altus AFB we are going to *print* your reward and hand it to the spouses at the event. UPDATE YOUR REWARDS…
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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: Keep up with Military News–The 2009 PCS Season is in High Gear
The Permanent Change of Station season is in high gear! Despite the bad news on the economy, the stock market downturn and the political events in DC, military personnel are still relocating into your area! Like many Americans the economy can effect the lives of military personnel due to spouse employment difficulties, impact on long term savings but one third of the military will still relocate in the next 6 months. By now most have orders and know where they are moving this summer which for family reasons is the heaviest relocation timeframe. Even if the member moves ahead due to the school year or spouse job requirements, the spouse…
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Tips: Do you like Free Advertising? Read Some Ideas How!
Don’t you like free things? We all do and particularly in a tough economic time. How about free advertisements for your business in the form of a media article? Do you do anything interesting for the local community or nearby military installation? When the Department of Defense media discovered we had created a new section on the site they wrote a great story about MilitaryAvenue’s Answers military connection and sent it worldwide. For Free! Why not call your local paper or TV station and make some media contacts? Tell them what you are doing and how it benefits the community. With the Inauguration over, this time of the year can…
