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Gear Up For New Promotions in January, 2008

January 7th, 2008 at 08:59pm Lorie Obernauer

You may be looking forward to some quiet time after the holiday rush is over. But with 7 weeks between Christmas and Valentines Day, there’s lots of opportunity for some fun promotions to boost your sales in January.

Here’s a list of events that you can promote with your gift basket business.

• January 9: Elvis Presley’s Birthday. Include some CD’s in your basket along with Elvis paraphernalia. The official Elvis Web Site has lots of ideas for other items you might include in your designs.

• January 15: In honor of Pizza Week, join together with your local pizza shop and put some pizza gift certificates in your baskets and showcase a basket in that shop!

• January 19: National Popcorn Day. Make an entire gift basket of flavored popcorns!

January is also National Hot Tea Month, National Soup Month and National Book Month. Please share your ideas for baskets you could design for these special occasions.And of course, don’t forget that Super Bowl XLII will be held on February 3rd. Buy your football baskets and snacks to be ready for this ever popular event.

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