Put the sizzle in your promotions – Click the “Ideas” button in Step 2 when designing your offer to access great promotional ideas. You’ll find our hand-crafted, attention-grabbing headers for Mother’s Day and every holiday this summer.

Re-commit to growing your email list – Did you know Fanminder now enables you to send offers to your email list? The crush of business during summer holidays means renewed opportunities to capture email addresses from new and existing fans. The fastest way to do this is by giving your fans a BIG offer for giving you their valuable email address. And don’t forget to replenish those paper forms or add a countertop fishbowl. Above all, ensure your staff is motivated and monitored to ask every single fan for their email address.

Use a Fanminder Theme – Make your offer stand out from the crowd by choosing from dozens of unique and attractive themes, including four new summer themes.

Summer-ize each promotion – Combine a summer theme with your product or service. So you can sell “Wine for Backyard BBQs”, “Tire Rotations for the Classic Summer Road Trip”, or giveaway “Free Sunscreen with Purchase”. You get it.

Take the Road Less Traveled – Celebrate more, ahem, unique holidays like Nerd Pride Day (5/25) or Men’s Health Week (6/11).  Just click the “Ideas” button on Step 2 of Design Your Offer.

Dress up the rest of your marketing for summer – Add summer pictures and brighter colors to your website, marketing brochures, and signs.

Test new price promotions – If summer is a slow month for you, test out a “10-15% off month of June”.

Get up to speed on summer events in your neighborhood – Summer’s a time for festivals, street fairs and carnivals in towns across the country. Identify those events and their dates so you can take most advantage of them. You can bring your business to those events by renting a table. Or simply plan to soak up traffic by holding a sidewalk sale or placing banners in your window when car or foot traffic are the highest.

Food + Event = Summer Customer Appreciation Day!!! ‘Nuff said.

Fly the Flag – Besides demonstrating your patriotism, you’ll draw passerby’s attention.

Give a summer gift – haven’t you ever picked up that free summer beach bag at Macy’s? You can giveaway a gift card, or some other package, a guidebook, better servicing – whatever would be appreciated by your fans.

Lazy Friday Afternoon – People love goofing off of work on a beautiful summer afternoon – so give them a reason to do so! Hold an extra-early happy hour or special sale between 3-5pm on a Friday.

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More ideas from around the web:

startupnation’s 9 Sizzling Summer Marketing Ideas

OneIms 7 Summer Marketing Tips

The U.S. Small Business Administration’s 5 Hot Small Business Summer Marketing Tips

This means that unless your email is automatically configured by your service provider to look good and work well on a phone, then you risk 1 in 5 of your customers not seeing and acting on it.

StreetFight Mag, March 23, 2012

DIY Marketers, February 27, 2012

The Point of Sale News, February 23, 2012