There are many ways you can use calendars for your business or event. With a little ingenuity, a print calendar can be used as month by month or quarter by quarter advertising. Are you counting down the days to a big event or sale? Use a print calendar to inform customers or attendees and build excitement for the upcoming event. Here are some creative ways to use business card and postcard size formats to create promotional print calendars.

One clever way to use promotional calendars is in the format of a business card. Business card printing is very inexpensive and a print calendar can easily be made with front and back printing. On the front, display the current month and year. To make your name and contact information pop out, use a middle value solid color background and fill in the calendar with white font. Then position your name, contact information, and logo in brilliant black and/or color which will instantly pop in the otherwise monochromatic color scheme. Change the background color from month to month for variety. On the back of the business card, add a space for notes and in fine print the previous and following month. As you are calling on customers to leave these cards, you can circle important dates or make a quick note regarding a follow-up issue. Or you can leave the note space blank for customer use.

 A fun way to inform customers and potential customers about an upcoming event is with a postcard format calendar. For retail businesses, this could be used for the Christmas season. “Only 45 more shopping days until Christmas!” Start your calendar with the date of the campaign kickoff, November 10th for instance, and continue to the date of the event. This postcard format print calendar can be customized to promote any business. Travel agencies for example could count down the days until summer. The postcard format is inexpensive to produce and to mail out to your customer list. You can also hand them out to customers who come through the store.

 The possibilities for the use of promotional print calendars are endless, so get creative and increase your return on investment today with your own customized print calendar!