Marketing Content Ideas for March

The days are getting longer, seasons are changing and there is plenty going on in March to keep us going. Let us help you keep your social media content on track as we head into the spring season.

National Days for March

1st – St David’s Day

1st – Shrove Tuesday/ Pancake Day

2nd – Ash Wednesday

3rd – World Book Day

4th – 13th Winter Paralympics

7th – British Pie Week

7th – 13th Food Waste Action Week

7th – 12th National Careers Week

8th – International Women’s Day

14th – Commonwealth Day

17th – St Patrick’s Day

17th – Holi

18th – Global Recycling Day

18th – Comic Relief

19th – St Joseph’s Day (patron Saint of moving)

20th – Spring Equinox

20th – International Day of Happiness

20th – World Oral Health Day

21st – World Down Syndrome Day

21st – World Poetry Day

26th – Earth Hour

26th – Epilepsy Awareness/ Purple Day

27th – Mothering Sunday

27th – Clocks change

30th – World Bipolar Day/ Vincent Van Gogh Day

Social Media Post Ideas for March

Health & Wellbeing Post Ideas for March

Spring Equinox occurs around 20th March where we see an increase in daylight hours and warming temperatures in the northern hemisphere, surely, it’s not a coincidence that it is also the UN’s International Day of Happiness? Share some positive vibes with your customers or maybe you are launching new products for spring. There are lots of health awareness days for you to get behind in March World Down Syndrome Day on 21st, Epilepsy Awareness Day/Purple Day on 26th. It is also Ovarian Awareness Month and Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and the 30th sees World Bipolar Day #WBD also the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh Day who was diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. It’s a lifelong mental health problem, affecting your mood with symptoms from mania to depression.

National Days

Get your leeks, daffodils, and shamrocks ready. St David’s Day or Dewi Saint in Welsh, the Patron Saint of Wales is on 1st March, and St Patrick, The Patron Saint of Ireland is celebrated on 17th March, if you have Welsh or Irish connections, or your products are sourced or inspired from there, show your heritage on those days. International Women’s Day is 8th March and this year’s theme #BreakTheBias together forging a world where differences and values are celebrated. Show your support and be part of the movement. Mothering Sunday falls on the 27th, a special day to show love, gratitude and appreciation to all mums. If you are in the gift business work around some promotions or special products at this time of year so customers can spoil mum with your products. Head to our Mother’s Day blog in our news section for more inspiration.

Food & Drink Post Ideas for March

Kicking off the month is British Pie week (7th – 13th), celebrating the beloved British since 2007. If you are a food or baking business you could ask your customers to share their favourite pie, maybe run a competition for the best-looking pie. Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday (1st) is the traditional feast before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday (2nd). Do you know why it’s called Pancake Day? Engage with your customers and see if they know. (Shrove Tuesday was the last opportunity to use up eggs and fats before embarking on the Lenten fast and pancakes are the perfect way of using up these ingredients).

Also in March is Food Waste Action Week, food waste is one of the largest contributors to climate change, but it is one where we can all start to make a big difference by adopting small changes in our behaviour. Share your thoughts and ideas on changes you plan to make to your business. Staying with the green agenda it is Global Recycling Day on 18th, governments and organisations around the world are taking direct action. Learn about #RecyclingHeroes. What are your business or personal goals to help support climate change? Once again Earth Hour will take place globally (8.30 pm local time), this year on 26th March. In 2021 192 countries and territories came together to show they care for the future of their planet and it trended in 42 countries across Twitter or Google search, now that’s a lot of reach! #EarthHour.

Fun Post Ideas for March

Red Nose Day is back for 2022 on Friday 18th March. Comic Relief continues to make a difference in the lives of millions of people across the UK and around the world. Find out how you can get involved, it is always a good week for fun & silliness (we could use some of that after the last few years) and meet the new ‘noses’. Share your ideas and ask your customers to support you in your fundraising. 2022 celebrates 25 years of World Book Day on 3rd March always a great one for children/ educators to get involved for #WorldBookDay and similarly World Poetry Day on the 21st is the occasion to honour poets, promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry, and link poetry with other arts such as theatre, dance and music.

National Days

How to schedule social media posts

This is a question we are asked frequently. Our approach would be…

Look at your social media content plan for the month ahead.
Be clear on which social media channels your customer is spending time on. Once you’ve made this decision you can then decide which type of scheduling tool you might need. For example, if you’re only using Facebook try scheduling within the Creator Studio.
If you have multiple social media channels to schedule on there are many options out there. The popular ones tend to be… Hootsuite, Buffer, Agropulse.
Experiment and see which one you prefer. Remember don’t just schedule and run. The time you have saved scheduling ahead can be used to engage with your audience and monitor any inbox messages.

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