{"id":804,"date":"2024-05-14T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/?p=804"},"modified":"2024-05-14T12:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:24:19","slug":"turn-your-promotion-into-an-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/turn-your-promotion-into-an-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Your Promotion into an Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It gets tiring just running ads for different products, specials, free this and that and so on.<br \/>\nA nice variation is to turn your discounted offer, giveaway or special deal into an \u201cevent\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2><b>What is an Event?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>An \u201cevent\u201d is just a special promotion with a catchy name and (usually) a defined time frame.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s say you want to promote a new product. For example, take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-mLRzMKyXTI\">Gustavo Fring in Better Call Saul when he introduces their brand new \u201cSpice Curls\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To introduce \u201cSpice Curls\u201d they could just run a bunch of ads: \u201cIntroducing our awesome Spice Curls!\u201d But that just amounts to showing a bunch of ads featuring their Spice Curls.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Spice Curl Month<\/h2>\n<p><\/b><br \/>\nGus has a brainwave. &#8220;Let&#8217;s create &#8220;Spice Curl Month&#8221; and really make an event out of it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><b>\u201cIn honour of our new Spice Curls we\u2019re holding \u201cSpice Curl Month\u201d<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>The ads could be much the same:<br \/>\n&#8211; Spice Curls as a new thing to order<br \/>\n&#8211; Spice Curls as a side with other orders (4, 5, 6 different ones\u2026)<br \/>\n&#8211; Spice Curl Gift Cards<br \/>\n&#8211; Buy One Spice Curl order, get another one FREE,<br \/>\n&#8211; etc.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 40%; padding-right: 10px; font-size: 11px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Borealis Grille\" src=\"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/images\/for-blog\/spice-curls-jesse-walt.jpg\" alt=\"null\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>So let&#8217;s say we have a <b>Spice Curl Month.<\/b><br \/>\n&#8211; During Spice Curl Month Spice Curls are 50% off.<br \/>\n&#8211; On Mondays during Spice Curl Month <b><i>Buy One Order of Spice Curls Get Another One Free.<\/b><\/i><br \/>\n&#8211; On Wednesdays during Spice Curl Month a <b><i>Free Order of Spice Curls with Every awesome Pollos Hermanos Chicken Dinner.<\/b><\/i><br \/>\n&#8211; On Saturdays <b><i>Buy 2 Orders of Spice Curls and Get Another One Free.<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nAnd so on&#8230;<br \/>\nThis is a perfect way to add some spice to your promotions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It gets tiring just running ads for different products, specials, free this and that and so on. A nice variation is to turn your discounted offer, giveaway or special deal into an \u201cevent\u201d. What is an Event? An \u201cevent\u201d is just a special promotion with a catchy name and (usually) a defined time frame. Let\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[147,146,145],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-promotion","category-social-media","tag-gus-fring","tag-promotional-events","tag-spice-curls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownpromotions.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}