quirkybookcoversmNeed some creative inspiration to plan a fabulous and inspired year of marketing activities?  Check this out — The Quirky Marketing Calendar: 365 Ways to Grow Your Business Using Zany and Non-traditional Holidays.  The projects and ideas in this ebook will help you create your own unique marketing calendar that you can use year after year even build upon and improve as the years go by. What makes this book different is that it includes ideas for 365 holidays and at the end of each chapter is a comprehensive list of little-known national and international holidays that you can use to come up with even more marketing programs for your company.

In addition to 12 months of marketing ideas, there is a comprehensive resource section including media contacts, press release distribution sites, podcast, video and social media resources and much more. And there is another feature this book has that other editions did not – several forms you can use to jump-start the programs you create for your business.

If you have found yourself running out of ideas to promote your business, if you have come to a standstill with your marketing department, if you ARE the Marketing department of your company, if you need some fresh ideas to grow your business… then the 2010 Edition of Quirky Marketing Calendar is just for you.  For more information, go to this link. And put some FUN into your business marketing this year!

Thank you Heidi Richards Mooney for the opportunity to contribute content about DIY publicity to this year’s effort.  If ever there was a tool in the marketing “wow” chest that can be used for quirky marketing and so much more, DIY publicity is it.   Get into action and share your 2010 success stories please!