203728 Resource 149176 155860 155860 1210519540423 1210519540423 Controlled Home Based Businesses: Mother's Day Presents Marketing Possibilities

Small businesses and entrepreneurs tie-in Mother's Day with promotions and public relations

Okay, so it’s Mother’s Day, and we’re all placing phone calls to our mothers, honoring significant females in our lives, and boosting the floral business with our credit cards. It’s a great day, and women everywhere feel recognized for the time and energy they spend mothering and nurturing children.It’s also a day that has become big business. Greeting card companies, florists and restaurant owners are thrilled with this occasion, as it brings in big bucks to bottom lines. I glanced at the paper today and saw specials going on at grocery stores, car dealerships and shopping malls, all in honor of mothers and the money that they and their relatives spend.I also saw home businesses, like photographers, jewelry makers and purse designers, trying to tie in their goods and services to this weekend of appreciation. If your home business has anything to do with moms, relatives of moms, or products and services that moms enjoy, you’ll be interested in the following, as provided by the U.S. Census Bureau:<ul><li>The idea of Mother’s Day started in 1908 with Anna Jarvis of West Virginia, honoring her recently departed mother who had hoped that sometime there would be a day to commemorate all mothers. </li><li>By 1911, every state observed Mother's Day and three years later, Congress made it a national event. </li><li>There are nearly 83 million mothers across the U.S. </li><li>Each year, about 4 million women have babies. </li><li>Of those, teen mothers have 435,000 children, and women 40 and older, 112,000. </li><li>The odds of a woman delivering twins are one-in-31. </li><li>More births occur in August than any other month, and Tuesday is the most common birthday. </li></ul>So if you have anything at all to do with mothers and the markets they represent, you’ll want to start planning a promotion for next year! Mother’s Day is a booming business, and whether you like it or not, it’s an opportunity for big sales! Now, when is Father’s Day? 10 application/xml false entrepreneurs home based businesses marketing mother's day public relations small businesses Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mfmomper 98.220.94.255 false true false false true 189572 false false true false false false true 149176 blog blogsite/FreedomVoice/web