Marketing Ideas for March 2025

March is packed with fun opportunities to connect with your customers and try out some fresh marketing ideas. From celebrating Dr. Seuss Day to diving into MAR10 Day or even going green for St. Patrick’s Day, there’s something for everyone this month. There are a bunch of creative ways to keep your audience engaged. Let’s make March a month to remember with exciting events, promotions, and a whole lot of fun!

2nd

National Read Across America Day (Dr. Seuss Day)
- An event created by the National Education Association, it is designed to encourage children to read. It’s also Dr. Suess’s birthday soo… (sorry)

“Today’s a day that’s quite a sight, Dr. Seuss’s birthday — oh, what delight! So grab your hat and spin a tale, Paint a picture, or set sail. In a world of dreams where you invent, Take a moment for a creative event. With words that rhyme and stories so bright, Let’s celebrate with joy and light!”

Or just set up an event that promotes reading or works with your local library for a cross-promotion

3rd

World Wildlife Day
- Started in 2013 by the UN, World Wildlife Day is a take on the international protection of Wild Fauna and Flora in 1973. This day is more encompassing by using the theme, “Sustaining all Life on Earth” This is a good day to prepare for Earth Day in April (22nd). By setting up a month-long donation or tournament series that concludes on Earth Day can be a great marketing campaign that can do some good for the Earth.

4th

FAT Tuesday aka Mardi Gras
- Mardi Gras is the party before Ash Wednesday. It has an extremely long history and all roads lead to New Orleans. Many restaurants and late-night establishments host some sort of party. There is room to host a non-alcoholic party of gaming or friends.

7th

Employee Appreciation Day
- Take this day to take a moment and show appreciation to your staff. It can be as simple or complex as you wish to appreciate them. Hosting an in-house party to sit down and thank every staff member in person will go a long way

8th

International Women’s Day
- This day is to celebrate the social, economic, and political achievements of women from around the world.

9th

National Barbie Day
- Happy Birthday, Barbie! Introduced in 1959 at the American International Toy Fair in New York (now known as the New York Toy Fair) Ken was introduced two years later at the same fair.

Daylight Savings
- Spring Ahead! Clocks move ahead one hour. At the time of writing this, incoming President Trump has talked about ending daylight savings, so this may be removed if that comes true. Source: CNN

10th

MAR10 DAY
- All hail the original King of video games. Mario has been a wildly popular and successful character, brand, and franchise of Nintendo since 1985. Nintendo officially started to recognize this holiday in 2016. This is a great day to feature Nintendo and specifically anything Mario. Sales, tournaments, stream the original game? All great ideas. There is no limit on the creative marketing and branding to this.

Chuck Norris’s Birthday
- The day Chuck Norris decided to be born.

11th

National Organize Your Home Office Day
- Every year on the second Tuesday in March, National Organize Your Home Office Day is usually set to cleaning and tidying up your work from home areas. Many business owners tend to take their work home as they continue to plan, pay bills, schedule, and email later into the day to keep working on their business. Take today to clean up and organize your paperwork and remember to gather everything you need for the upcoming tax day, your accountant will be thankful.

12th

National Plant a Flower Day
- Spring is around the corner and depending on where your business is located, you may already be feeling some of the fresh warm air. This day can be a focal point of a month-long campaign for Earth Day or as a stand-alone community service. This is a key reminder also as warm weather is coming and people begin to start thinking about spring activities and vacation planning.

14th

National PI Day
- Not to be confused with Pie Day, (we will eat pies anyway) this is a fun day to celebrate the math constant value in math of 3.14159. There is a lot of creative marketing and events that could be done. Having a slice of pi? Pizza or Pie. Trivia, pie eating contests, or even a spot it game of every instance of pi seen throughout a day.

National Potato Chip Day
- America’s #1 snack food. Small giveaways or work with local chip distributors for some sort of cross-promotion. If you have a cafe in your business, add a handmade chip to your menu if you don’t already offer it.

17th

St. Patrick’s Day
- Green Beer, Parades, and celebration of Irish heritage and culture. This day is generally more of a rowdy day than a celebration. St. Patrick’s Day is also celebrated by more countries in the world than any other single-day celebration or festival. Don’t forget to wear green today.

19th

Let’s Laugh Day
- 24 hour jokes. Adorable baby laugh ringtones. Anything that adds humor to your day and social media reach. Ask for jokes, tell jokes, or share from your favorite comedians.

20th

First day of Spring
- Welcome Spring!

Hufflepuff Pride Day
- As a part of a series of Harry Potter series house days this week, consider looking at each day to promote specific items, color items such as black and yellow for the best house, Hufflepuff, or host a specific event around the house today. End the week with a grand dinner from the movie in the great hall and award prizes to each house.

21st

Slytherin Pride Day
- As a part of a series of Harry Potter series house days this week, consider looking at each day to promote specific items, color items such as black and green for Slytherin or host a specific event around the house today. End the week with a grand dinner from the movie in the great hall and award prizes to each house.

22nd

Gryffindor Pride Day
- With the series continuing today, Gryffindor may be your most popular day due to the popularity of the movies and books of Harry Potter. If you’re making this a week-long themed event, continue to look at events and prizes to your customers based on houses. Tie all events today to Gryffindor or however you think your customers will resonate with your event.

23rd

Ravenclaw Pride Day
- With the last house concluding today, make sure to look at promoting your end event or announcing house winners, prizes, or whatever your plan is.

25th

Tolkien Reading Day
- The day that Frodo destroyed the Ring. This day is dedicated to Tolkien and his work. There is plenty of marketing and events that can be held on this day. From a book reading to War Gaming with Middle-Earth by Games-Workshop

26th

Red Cross Giving Day
- Every 4th Wednesday in March is a great day to come together and give to the Red Cross, which helps support urgent humanitarian needs. This would be a great day to run a fundraising event. If you want to look at your local charities instead of the Red Cross, today is a great day for that.

Live Long and Prosper Day
- Birthday of the late Leonard Nimoy, star and one of the heroes of the Star Trek series. The actor was beloved by the Star Trek community. The response to, “Live long and prosper.” is “Peace and long life.”

27th

Scribble Day (Not Scrabble Day)
- Celebrate our youngest artists or those of us who can’t draw a straight line with a ruler. Our beloved scribblers. By adding eyes to any scribble, you make a simple scribble come to life.

30th

National Pencil Day
- Its original meaning is to explore old writing tools and appreciation for them. Today makes a good day to explore two types of possible events in your business. A drawing class, drawing with pencils, having your role-players draw their characters. Use today as a possible think tank for dungeon masters to explore possible dungeons, traps, or campaign ideas. You can also explore deeper into the art and host a large paint-and-take for your wear gaming miniatures. Lastly, look at hosting an art show from your community.

31st

National Crayon Day
- Celebrating a day dedicated to crayons and the impact of their importance to art and creativity. Introduced in 1903 by Binny & Smith as a cheaper alternative to expensive art supplies to now, where 12 million crayons are produced daily. If you sell crayons, this is a great day to feature them. If not, it’s still a great day to bring some in and host an event. Here is a link to Crayola with some free print-at-home sheets.

World Backup Day
- While this isn’t a day-to-market or brand, it is a great day to actually back up your sales data. Depending on when you file your taxes, your accountant or bookkeeper will very much love you if you keep a backup of your records in case of a hard drive failure. While cloud storage is all the rage and mostly secure, most of them are behind a paywall. Physical hard drive prices are very inexpensive and I recommend keeping a backup in a cloud service and an additional backup on an expensive hard drive, just in case. Talk to your legal counsel for advice on what specifically you should keep beyond basic accounting transactions.