Cabin Fever Cottage Opening
Use this as a chance to promote everything in your area that could provide an outing. Great for bed and breakfasts, inns, and hotels with special weekend packages, restaurants, bars, hardware stores.
Cabin Fever
Spring is in the air and summer just around the corner. Planning on opening the cottage, or holiday getaway time is coming up quickly. Use this as a chance to promote everything in your area that could provide an outing and/or diversion for those restless souls who can’t stand to be cooped up at home for long.
Directions:
1) Targets for this type of page/section can be all the entertainment-related businesses including theaters, nightclubs, comedy clubs, dance halls, dinner theaters, restaurants, sports arenas, etc. Also good are area bed and breakfasts, inns, and hotels with special weekend packages. Travel agencies with weekend or special winter packages and bus tour companies with shopping trips to offer or area tourist attractions. Museums, parks with winter activities, can also benefit from some added promotion here. Retail businesses can use the Cabin Fever theme to clear out any remaining winter merchandise or introduce some new, cheerful spring products. Schools with evening classes, home centers with “How-To” seminars, craft shops with “make-it, take-it” or other instructional sessions are naturals to include.
2) This type of promotion can be used from spring through summer. It can be a broad-based promotion or concentrated on one or two of the above target categories.
Alternative:
1) Have a Cabin-Fever Contest. Draw the consumer into the businesses by offering a Cabin Fever Cure trip and have the sign up in the businesses involved.
2) Targets for this type of promotion can be all the entertainment-related businesses including theaters, nightclubs, comedy clubs, dance halls, dinner theaters, restaurants, sports arenas, etc. Also good are area bed and breakfasts, inns, and hotels with special weekend packages. Travel agencies with weekend or special winter packages and bus tour companies with shopping trips to offer or area tourist attractions. Museums, parks with winter activities, can also benefit from some added promotion here. Retail businesses can use the “Cabin Fever” theme to clear out any remaining winter merchandise or introduce some new, cheerful spring products. Schools with evening classes, home centers with “How-To” seminars, craft shops with “make-it, take-it” or other instructional sessions are naturals to include.
3) Draw a winner at the end of the promotion. This type of promotion can be used from spring through summer. It can be a broad-based promotion or concentrated on one or two of the above target categories.