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I am a firm believer in using any excuse to put a little fun into my work day. Do you want to be just another coffee shop on the block? Why not by a little creative and add some fun to your café. I have listed a few daily events for the coming month of December that are “out of the norm” for you to use as a reason to market yourself as a “fun place to be” that is looking for customer participation and any reason to celebrate good things. I also have listed the web site that I use for these dates and the page from which I pulled these December events.

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So have a little pow-wow meeting with your staff to come up with some creative ideas to promote not only some of these events, but your café’s “fun attitude” and ever changing environment. Try to find ways to get your customers involvement with these events so that they will start to look forward to your next one. Offer prizes for involvement. We all love a little recognition for our actions, so offer me a prize and I’m all over it!

I hope these calendars will produce (or return) a little creativity and inspiration for you and your staff. Remember the excitement and pages of ideas you had before you even opened your doors? I hope that you never loose this passion to not only offer your customers great service & products, but to offer them a little bit of your self and your passion for what you do, not to mention a fun place to be!

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Today, November 29, 2006 is “Electronic Greetings Day”. In other words, send someone an e-mail hello.

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November 30, 2006 is “Stay Home Because You’re Well Day” (Don’t tell your boss about this one!)

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December 2, 2006 is “Coats for Kids Day”. Have a local coat drive.

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December 5, 2006 is “Bathtub Party Day”. Use your own imagination for this one!

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December 7, 2006 is “National Cotton Candy Day” & “Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day”

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December 12, 2006 is “Gingerbread House Day” & “Poinsettia Day”. Make it a kids day with the gingerbread house building, or contact a local florist or garden center to set up a Poinsettia selling stand.

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December 16, 2006 is “Barbie & Barney Backlash Day” (don’t tell the kids this one!) & “National Chocolate Covered ANYTHING Day”. I don’t think you will need help with this one. However, call UMG, we have lots and lots of chocolate covered thingies!

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December 21, 2006 is “Humbug Day”. Offer free coffee to all your grouchy customers.

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December 26, 2006 is “National Candy Cane Day”. Probably the day after X-mas to rid of all the extra candy canes that did not sell! Good day for a Candy Cane Latte.

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December 28, 2006 is “National Chocolate Day”. Need we say more?

So here is the web site that I used for this info. The main page is www.brownielocks.com. Click here to go directly to the December 2006 calendar page. You can also work your way into every month for 2007 from this page. Give me a call if your creative brain waves are not functioning properly, I can offer some more ideas.

So get off your stagnate wagon and have a little fun!!

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