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HUG Your KIDS Day

Monday, July 15, 2013

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Hug Holiday Idea Kit for Companies and Organizations

WHY? 3 Benefits



1. EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
It shows you care about your employees and their families. Staff members who feel appreciated and cared for work harder AND smarter for you.

2. GROW SALES
It shows you care about your customers, and their most important concern, their  families. It can be part of your Customer Service offering too,. Customers who feel appreciated and cared for buy more AND refer more.

3. COMMUNITY SUPPORT
It shows you care about the members of your community, and their  families. Community members who feel appreciated will support you.

For more info, contact us!

   


All Companies and Non-Profit Organizations can benefit from having an event for Global Hug Your Kids Day, including:

  • Businesses

  • Families, especially those who want to honor a lost child or loved one

  • Hospitals, Children's Hospitals, Doctors, Pediatric and other Child-Oriented Medical Practices, and Pediactric Dentist practices

  • Summer Camps and Day Camps

  • Year-Around Schools, Summer Schools, and Pre-Schools

  • Churches

  • Non-Profit Organizations

  • City, County and State Governments

  • International companies and organizations

    Please let us know about your event so we can add it to our 2011 Holiday Calendar. Then we can cross-promote each other's events too, because everyone has friends in other cities who love their kids. The media will love seeing a big list of Global Hug Your Kids Day events and that's good for all the events.

Ideas to Grow Your Business By Participating in Global Hug Your Kids Day

What's unique about Global Hug Your Kids Day is we don't need to raise money! We don't do research or look for cures. We just want to get more kids and families hugged - and hugs are free! Yet churches and other faith organizations can use the holiday to increase fellowship, or just have some fun.

Speaking of free, there is no charge from Hug Your Kids Day Headquarters to have an event. We'll even help you publicize it on our website! We'd prefer that you have the event for free, or at cost. If you raise money or donations, please use it for a worthy cause. Just let us know, and we'll help you publicize that too! The holiday is already on the official holiday calendar. Our goal is to generate hugs! We'd love you to plan a simple event in your church or town to encourage families to hug.

It's OK to hold your event a day or two before or after before the official holiday. Obviously, we ask that events be wholesome in nature. Please do not offer alcohol if children are present. Check with your local city or county for other guidelines. If you want to partner with a local service organization, church, club, family members, or neighbors, that's great. The "Hug Your Kids" message fits all religions, cultures, lifestyles, and ethnicities.

For city-wide events: we prefer it not promote any particular religion or lifestyle, but rather, just hugs. For all events, we encourage a tolerant and welcoming attitude unless the event is just for your members. Contact us to discuss your ideas and let's work together!  

       
                   Photos from "One-Minute Hug" in Red Bluff, CA in memory of Tommy Bedell

To Improve Productivity and Show Your Employees That You Care About Them 
  1. Send out an email or a flier to your employees announcing Monday, July 18, is Global Hug Your Kids Day and encourage them to hug their kids or loved ones before or after work that day. Explain how they can fight stress in the workplace with hugs at home!
  2. Have a competition to see which team had the highest hug-rate. Men vs. Women? Accounting vs. Sales? Remind them that everyone who gave a hug - and got one back - is a winner.
  3. Set up a place on your Intranet or on the Web or Facebook where your employees can post a photo of them hugging their kids or loved ones. Maybe have a contest for cutest hug photos. 
  4. Have a BBQ or other event where they bring their families and make a YouTube video, perhaps with our song Hug Your Kids Today, playing in the background. Post it on YouTube and send us the link! Click here for more information.
  5.  If you're near Reno, or another city with a city-wide Hug event, encourage your employees and their families to attend. Maybe ask them to wear a company t-shirt.
  6. Let us know about your plans and we'll help you publicize them. Contact

To Grow Sales and Show Your Customers That You Care About Them 
  1. Have a sale or promotion based on the holiday.  For example:
  • A RESTAURANT could run a promotion:
     If you hugged someone today, come in for a free side salad with your order!
  • A HOME DECOR STORE/ GIFT SHOP/ FURNITURE STORE could have a Hug Your Kids Day Sale.
    They could send out email coupons to their mailing list, invite their customers to bring their kids to the store,  take a photo of the parents hugging their kids, post those photos on her Facebook site, offer to email the customer a copy of the photo, and give them a coupon to shop in the store that day - a Monday!
  • A PHOTOGRAPHER could have a promotion for family photos,
  • A PRESCHOOL or PRIVATE SCHOOL could invite their families to come in for a photo of them hugging, either as a big group hug or individually.
    To get more students, you could offer a day of kids games or kids crafts, to get new families into your business.
  • A CAR DEALERSHIP could invite families to come in for a photo of their family in the car of their choice and offer a small gift or a hot dog.
  • A HOSPITAL could invite the community to link arms around their building for a Hug Your Kids (Hospital) Day. What a great video or photo event!
    1. Post it on your sign out front: Happy Hug Your Kids Day! or Hug Your Kids Today! or Have You Hugged Your Kids Today?
    2. Send out an email or a postcard to your customers or use it for a bag stuffer announcing Monday, July 18, is Global Hug Your Kids Day and encourage them to hug their kids or loved ones before work that day. This idea works if you're in online marketing or diect marketing.
    3. Have a competition to see which customers, or groups of customers, had the highest hug-rate. State vs. State? North of the Highway vs. South? Remind them that everyone who gave a hug - and got one back - is a winner.
    4. Set up a place on your Intranet or on the Web or Facebook where your customers can post a photo of them hugging their kids or loved ones. Maybe have a contest for cutest hug photos.
    5. If you're near Reno, or another city with a city-wide Hug event, encourage your customers and their families to attend. Maybe ask them to wear a company t-shirt.
    6. Let us know about your plans and we'll help you publicize them. Contact
    To Get Good P.R. and Show Your Community That You Care About It

                                          
                   photos from "The Art of Hugging" event. Original painting by Terri Bieber of Katy, TX.
    1. Post it on your sign out front: Happy Hug Your Kids Day! or Hug Your Kids Today! or Have You Hugged Your Kids Today?
    2. Send out a press release to your local newspapers, radio, and TV stations announcing Monday, July 18, is Global Hug Your Kids Day and encourage them to spread the word.
    3. Invite an artist to paint a Hug-themed painting while a speaker talks about the importance of Hugs. Then have a live auction of the painting and give the money to a charity - or donate it to us.
    4. Set up a place on your Intranet or on the Web or Facebook where people in your community can post a photo of them hugging their kids or loved ones. Maybe have a contest for cutest hug photos. "Podunk Families Love to Hug Their Kids."
    5. If you're near Reno, or another city with a city-wide Hug event, encourage your employees and customers -  and their families-  to attend. Maybe ask them to wear a company t-shirt for their photo.
    6. Put on your own community event. Have a photographer take a photo of everyone hugging their kids, and one big hug where all parents hug their kids. 
    7. Let us know about your plans and we'll help you publicize them. Contact

    More Event Ideas

    Big Hug Photo - Invite families to gather and take a group photo of parents hugging their kids! This works great for schools, churches, sports teams, and other occasions when families are already together.

    Big Hug Movie - Take photos of families hugging and put them together in a movie. You can use our song,or add your own. Then let us and the local media know.

    Hug Your Kids Balloon Release - Have pink, blue (and camo?) balloons that famlies can personalize and then release all at once. Can be in celebration of their children or in memory of children/ loved ones who have died.

    Hug Your Kids Movie at the Pool - Invite families for a Big Hug Photo at the local pool at dusk and then get in the pool and watch a movie shown on a nearby wall.

    School Supplies Drive - To benefit your local schools or other needy group.

    Hug Your Kids Pancake Breakfast - or Dinner - Families have to hug before they get their food.

    "Hug Dog" Feed - Sell hot dogs but call them Hug Dogs. Maybe have someone dressed up like a hot dog and kids get their photo with it.

    Hug Your Kids BBQ - Invite families for an old-fashioned BBQ with sack races and more.

    Hug Your Kids Night at the Baseball Game - Invite familes for a big hug photo and then to watch a local baseball team play.


    For more ideas, or to discuss your ideas, or questions (or answers!) contact us today!     

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