As we march into spring, the timing couldn’t be more perfect to start something fresh and new! Many social themes run throughout this month, such as Women’s Day, St.Patrick’s Day, Mardi Gras, and more.
March is the ideal time to test new marketing ideas and infuse new initiatives into your marketing plan before the summer hits. The first day itself begins with the positivity of World Compliment Day.
So, in this article, we have more than 50 March marketing ideas that can get your brand the visibility it deserves.
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50+ Creative March Marketing Ideas (With Examples!)
The following section(s) have a plethora of themes that your marketing team can use to set a game plan in motion. To make the whole deal easier, we have divided the whole of March into sub-sections according to different concepts.
Here goes.
Women oriented themes
March is National Women’s History Month. With Women’s Day celebrated internationally on March 8th, the whole of March is dedicated to celebrating women and the historical impact of women in our society.
Check out how sheheros.org honors icons like Sally Ride, Margaret Mead, Judy Blume, Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, Amelia Earhart, and Jane Goodall with this beautiful illustration.
March marketing ideas for Women’s Day and Women’s History Month:
- Take advantage of Women’s Day and create social media posts in the week following March 8th featuring various women who have impacted your business.
- Invite top female influencers for a live session on your Instagram. This will be inspirational and show that your brand cares about cultural moments.
- Create impactful social media posts and campaigns and insert your brand into the conversation. Check out how Sesame Street used its character in the iconic World War II poster, “We Can Do It!”
- Highlight Girl Scout Day on March 12th by celebrating the achievements of Girl Scouts and their contributions to community service and leadership.
- Ask your audience which famous woman inspired them the most, and feature the most popular vote on your social media posts.
- Share insights about the women behind your business.
- Dedicate your posts to women who have impacted your industry or niche. Also, use the right hashtags to highlight these posts. Popular hashtags for this month are #WomensHistoryMonth, #WomensHistoryMonth2025, #womeninhistory, #internationalwomensday, #herstory, #womensupportingwomen, #shapetheworld, #feminism, and #womensrights.
By celebrating women, one-half of the demographic is won over. Keep these tips in mind while deliberating a marketing plan for the month of March.
Also, go through some great ideas for fun social media engagement posts.
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National Reading Month
March is the national reading month in the United States in honor of Dr. Seuss. If you’re a bookstore owner or a library, this month is a goldmine for you!
Other notable literary occasions in March include National Pi Day on March 14th, World Poetry Day on March 21st, and World Theatre Day on March 27th. These events provide an excellent opportunity to integrate reading and marketing efforts.
Most people have lost touch with their reading side for whatever reason it may be. Your company can encourage consumers to pick up their reading habits right where they left them off.
March also happens to be the National Craft Month, which is a fantastic opportunity to combine reading and crafting. Why not encourage your audience to dive into craft books and try out some fun, creative projects? Encourage your fans by sharing their work and giving them a shoutout like Laika studios did in the post below!
Brands in the educational space can particularly benefit from these events, as reading plays a crucial role in their deliverables.
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March marketing ideas for National Reading Month:
- Create a 31-day reading challenge and encourage your audience to stay consistent. Ask your audience to dedicate 20 minutes every day for the whole of the month to reading and share their reading habits while you do the same.
- Invite a famous author to guest speak at your store locations or live on Instagram.
- Host a ‘What are you reading now’ audience poll and create a giveaway for the most voted book or author.
- Interact with your audience and give them fun activities to try out with their children. Check out how Elinor Wonders Why encourages activity in their National Reading Day post.
- Share your favorite book and encourage the audience to share theirs while tagging your business.
- Set up a downloadable list of favorite books/audiobooks on your website and encourage your audience to head over to the website to access the list. These could also be books in your niche.
- You can also organize a “recite pi” competition on National Pi Day, and encourage your audience to share their favorite poems on World Poetry Day.
Capitalizing on a positive habit and encouraging users to do the same can help positively impact your brand and showcase your brand in a completely new light.
Get lucky with St. Patrick’s Day
Everyone loves it when luck is on their side. Who wouldn’t want to get lucky? The luck of the Irish, celebrated on March 17th, can be lucky for you as a brand too!
St. Patrick’s Day marketing ideas for the month of March:
- To encourage user participation in the festivity, create a St. Patrick’s Day hashtag and invite the audience to post anything related to the event with this hashtag.
- Run a ‘Who’s feeling lucky’ pop quiz on your social media and reward the winners with a special discount.
- Offer incentives to customers wearing green to your shops and offer extra rewards for tagging your business and sharing pictures on their socials.
- Run a special social media contest where users can test their luck. Have them tag others in the comments and choose a winner randomly!
- Set up a green-themed pop-up and offer special discounts on all green products.
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Everyone loves St. Patrick’s Day! This super fun and laid-back holiday is nothing short of a celebration. To utilize it to the fullest, use these marketing ideas to make it more amusing and lively!
Join the March Madness
March Madness is a pretty big deal for basketball fans as it celebrates the NCAA Men’s Division 1 College basketball.
Whether your audience (and you!) are sports fanatics or not, it is best to get on the bandwagon and utilize March Madness to your fullest marketing advantage.
Also, March Madness is definitely not a one-day event; it can be a campaign for the entire month of March.
Some cool marketing ideas for #MarchMadness:
- Start by creating a fun tournament for your products. Create a poll for two of your best-selling products and have the audience vote. The winning product can have a massive blowout sale for the week!
- Run a “Pick Your MVP” Giveaway. Let customers nominate their favorite product or service from your brand. Pick a random winner and give them a freebie or discount on their chosen item.
- Run a March Madness Sweepstakes. Customers can enter by tagging friends, signing up, or making a purchase. Winners get discounts or freebies. A great example is Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt, which teamed up with Hershey’s to promote a limited-time Reese’s flavor and offer Final Four tickets through the Slam Dunk Sweepstakes.
- Offer discounts for people walking in and wearing the patron team’s winning colors.
- Host a basketball trivia contest on your social media and reward the winners with special discounts.
- Post polls on game nights featuring the competing teams. Give a special discount to customers who supported the winning team. Drop surprise deals like “Game Night Deals” right before tip-off to encourage last-minute purchases.
- Host game nights at your stores and make it a fun event with offers for those who show up!
- You can collaborate with other brands and launch limited-time merch. Check out this collab between Overtime and Buffalo Wild Wings.
People love businesses that have a fun persona and team spirit. March Madness is one event where you can showcase your fun and sporty side while taking full advantage of the festivities.
Here is how this brand has capitalized on the competitive team spirit.
Even if you are a brand that has nothing to do with sports, March Madness is the perfect setup to show your diverse participation and use it to your marketing edge.
#HealthConscious — National Nutrition Month
Whether you are in the food industry or fitness industry or not, National Nutrition Month could be great for you.
People have become more health conscious, especially after COVID-19, and this might be the right time to showcase your healthy initiatives as a brand.
March marketing ideas around nutrition:
- If you run a blog, promote healthy eating habits and healthy living in general through the blog.
- Create fun, eye-catching posts that educate your followers on the advantages of eating nutritious and healthily.
- Include specific content for events like National Cereal Day on March 7th and National Peanut Butter Day on March 1st (March is also National Peanut Month!). Here’s an example from Cincinnati Zoo to get your creative juices flowing.
- Run a hashtag contest encouraging users to post their healthy habits and tag your brand. Choose two random winners every week and offer them a discount.
- Promote healthy products from your brand and offer a special discount exclusively for the month of March.
- Share the latest healthy food trends and encourage your audience to stay consistent with their healthy eating habits.
- If you are in the healthcare industry, run a free online health consultation. Tie up with a healthcare provider and provide useful health tips.
- Create health awareness with the right hashtags and share research-based health facts on your social media. Take this health coach’s post on the benefits of turmeric, for example.
Educating your audience on healthy eating and lifestyle habits creates credibility for your brand, no matter which niches your brand belongs to. If you are in the healthcare, food, or fitness industry, National Nutritious Month is the right campaign to run for the entire month of March.
Of course, remember to use the right hashtags and other digital marketing best practices to help create the connection needed!
Off to a fresh start – the first day of spring
As we get over the dull, gray winter and into a colorful, blossoming spring, it is in human nature to be excited for the summer months to come.
The first day of spring is the perfect time to push this idea and use promotion and sales to excite people for the following summer months!
Our expert tip — use the change of season to set the tone for the rest of the summer months! Check out our spring email templates to liven up your emails!
Spring-themed marketing ideas for March:
- Start by creating a beautiful Instagram theme with posts that pop and create a feeling of joy. Parks, gardens, and florists can share images and videos of their blooming flowers to mark the arrival of spring and draw in visitors. Bryant Park does exactly that with the post below.
- Create a spring clearance sale on all winter goods. Create or join a hashtag such as #ByeByeWinter and encourage users to use the hashtag.
- Offer an “Extra Hour” Flash Sale. Run a limited-time sale tied to Daylight Saving Time on March 10, and encourage customers to take advantage of the extra daylight with special discounts. But it’s not just about sales, check out how Pepco, a utility company connected a seasonal event to its messaging.
- Encourage people to do outdoor activities in nature. Tie in World Wildlife Day on March 3rd to emphasize wildlife conservation. Ask your users to share photos of them spending time outdoors with a hashtag and promote them on your page.
- Observe World Water Day on March 22nd to raise awareness about freshwater resources. Promote activities around water conservation and sustainable practices.
- Create spring-themed videos or posts and update your socials. Include messages about Earth Hour in late March to encourage energy conservation.
Spring is an exciting time for everyone. It is the perfect time between the too-cold winter months and the too-hot summer months. Use this exciting time for your marketing gain and promote this period efficiently with the right techniques.
Spring cleaning for clean freaks
Now that spring is here, out goes the old; in comes the new!
Spring cleaning might seem mundane, but it can be a powerful marketing idea.
How?
- It starts with you. Declutter your feed and start a fresh theme that is clean and appealing.
- Push your audience to declutter as well. Create posts encouraging them to declutter, both digitally and physically.
- Create a declutter challenge where one item per day is donated or thrown away by your audience.
- Make it fun with a spring cleaning challenge. Ask your audience to sign up and give them one cleaning task per day. Encourage your audience to post the completion of the task by tagging your business and the relevant hashtag.
- Use ‘organize your home office day’ on March 14th to your advantage! Have a before and after photo contest and reward the best makeovers with an exclusive coupon. Or let the audience be the judge and have a poll.
- Host a home/office makeover contest. Make it more exciting with a giveaway and a hashtag.
- Encourage your customers and followers to clean up with a free downloadable checklist on how to declutter.
- Create a variety of posts educating the audience on how to declutter mentally and physically.
- Link the decluttering theme with Earth Day on April 22nd, promoting sustainability and environmental consciousness.
Decluttering is important, and we all know it. Encouraging your audience to declutter during the spring months helps prepare them for summer and portrays that you are a brand that promotes emotional and physical well-being.
We ❤️ our employees – Employee Appreciation Day
Employees are the main components of the business. The audience loves a business that takes the welfare and well-being of its employees seriously. It showcases a culturally, humane, and socially responsible brand,
Are you such a business? Employee appreciation day might be the ideal theme for you to showcase this characteristic.
Here are some ways you can celebrate your employees and run some great marketing campaigns in March:
- Showcase some behind-the-scenes action. Introduce the backend of your business and encourage your employees to share their life stories on your social media.
- Show the human side of your organization. Encourage each employee to share what makes them unique to your organization only through our social media handle.
- Host an employee day out on the Friday of every week with an outing or a fun team activity and promote it on your social media.
- Host a fun event such as a pop quiz themed on the organization or employees and ask the audience to guess the answers.
- Host a series of team-building activities that can also be showcased on your socials.
- Gift your employees something small and meaningful to show appreciation for the hard work they do daily. Let the audience choose the gift!
Here is how this tech company has learned to appreciate its employees and created a fantastic post right on the theme for employee appreciation day.
A small gesture can go a long way. An appreciated employee is also a happy employee, which will result in more happy customers. Apart from genuine appreciation, it also showcases our brand as a humane thought leader who cares for and loves its employees!
Aww, so cute! – International Puppy Day
Who doesn’t love puppies? When it comes to marketing, promotion comes in all shapes, forms, and sizes. The same can be said for puppies!
Here is how these cute furballs can help in your March marketing plan:
- If you are a pup-friendly business, encourage your users to drop in with their pups and offer a special incentive for those who do.
- Encourage your users to post photos with their fur buddies tagging your business.
- Show off your office pup and make special videos centered around the pup.
- Host a pup adoption drive at your store to encourage users to own a pup and cultivate relationships.
- Share posts on the positive effects of having a pup and how important this relationship can be.
Small business shoutouts
March is right between the end of winter and the beginning of summer. Use this prime time to promote local businesses and small outlets.
Here is how you can promote local small businesses in March:
- Tie up with a small business and cross-promote your products. This cross-promotion can help a small business grow while also promoting yourself as a socially responsible business owner.
- Host a giveaway every few weeks with the most loved products from a local store. Help promote these products through your socials.
- Encourage your audience to buy locally. Create a contest where your audience purchases locally and encourage them to promote one local business every week or month on their social media while tagging your business too.
- Host a poll with popular local and small businesses from your region. Let the audience pick one local business to promote and feature every week.
A gentle nudge to a small business might be the biggest push they need!
It also boosts your brand as a socially responsible company and makes a positive impact on the audience. Keep in mind to use the right hashtags while prompting another business!
Here is how Showwiz has smartly created a post in the form of a challenge to promote local businesses 👇🏻
Wrap Up
March is a super fun month with lots of exciting holidays to look forward to. It is a great time to connect with the audience and set a solid foundation for your marketing.
With the fresh spirit of spring, everyone is as ready as ever for a change. Create a content calendar that caters to new marketing goals and make sure to keep it fresh and lively.
If you liked any of these March marketing ideas, share them in this blog post and tag us! If you have better ideas, let us know in the comments.
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