September Post Ideas

Social Holidays are an excellent way to:

1. Make use of Trends

2. Get ideas on what to post

3. Show off your personality

4. Join in on the fun!

Here are the September Holidays you may find interesting with a few ideas with them. There are specific ideas for each day but also more general tips to post around any day. It's worth it to look at each day, even if the day doesn't interest you.

Month

• Gum Care Month: Great for health care! Show us how you take care of your gums

• Better Breakfast Month: Share pics to your stories of your yummy looking breakfast, share a recipe for a healthy breakfast, ask your audience their favourite breakfast

• Women's Friendship Month: Show off your besties! Have a girls trip (because, you know, work!) You HAVE to spend some time with your friends in the name of growing your IG account! Post pics, and tag your friends.

• National Family Meals Month: Show your audience that your family is important to you! Show off those family meals, give some recipes, tips on how to include your kids in making the meals

• National Sewing Month: Do you know how to sew? Show us your skills! This one is especially great for creators. I can sew but hate it, I'd post a pic to my stories of the button that REALLY needs to be sewn on my sweater but hasn't been.

• Self-Care Awareness Month: This one is a biggie! Self Care is something that's being talked about a lot this month. Tell us how your service or product will help with self care.

• Alzheimer's Awareness Month: My amazing friend has a mom with Alzhimer's. This one's for her. Raise awareness for the causes that are close to your heart.

• PCOS Awareness Month: You can use awareness months to raise awareness but also to reach your target audience! Show us how your services can help people with PCOS.

Weeks

5-11

• Suicide Prevention Week: Show your support of suicide prevention in your posts and your stories. This is a big and very important topic right now. Tell us your story or a story you know. Tell us how you got through the isolation.

• Waffle Week: On the lighter side, you can post about your morning waffles this week! How to make them, your favourite waffles (Leggo my Eggo! - who remembers that!?). You can even show off your waffle weave shirt or material! Use these holidays creatively.

12-18

• Housekeeper's Week: If you own an office and have someone who cleans it, now's the time to say a HUGE thank you! You can promote their small business too. We don't always get to celebrate the people behind the scenes, this is your chance!

• Learn @ Work Week: I love this one! I love to learn. Show off what you are learning. Not only does it give you a chance to talk about what you do, but how great you are at it too!

19-25

• Forest Week: Show off your walk in the woods, a picture of the beautiful forest near your house, the forest you saw on vacation. This is a chance to use pictures of you outside of work.

• Clean Hands Week: Now this is a biggie right now. You can promote good hygiene here, and a cause you believe in. Make a fun video of you washing your hands and getting to work. It's a fun angle to show off what you do.

• Farm Safety & Health Week: I live around a ton of farms so this may seem a bit more important to me than others. However, if you sell any kind of food, you can showcase the farm it came from this week.

26- 2

• Banned Books Week: Show off that banned book you are reading! I love to show the books I'm reading because I love it when people I like also share their books. It gives me an idea of what to read next. The banned books also gives it a bit of danger! Here is a list of some classics that have been banned LIST HERE. Poll your readers on how many of the banned books they've read.

Days

Sept 3

• Lazy Mom's Day: This one is close to my heart! I'm a lazy mom and proud of it! I'd love to say my house was clean but I'd rather say my kids were happy! Show us how lazy you actually are and how happy your kids because of it!

Sept 4

• Eat an Extra Dessert Day: YES! Show off that yummy dessert and normalize eating good food because people who love food are the best people!

Sept 6

• Labour Day: Show off your holiday plans. This is a fun one because we are all celebrating as much as we can before school starts. Or maybe NOT celebrating because we are getting ready for school! I am! What about you?

Sept 7

• First Day of School: Show off your back to school fun! Or not! Show us what you are doing today. I don't regularly show my kids faces as I want to give them the choice of privacy. I may use this day to talk about my choice of not showing my kids faces amounts the myriad of child faces.

Sept 8

• World First Aid Day: Have you done your first aid certificate? Now's the day to re-use those photos and show off your certification.

• Literacy Day: I love this day. Once upon a time I worked at a literacy council. I saw first hand how important literacy skills are and how many people have very low literacy skills! It's a day I will be raising awareness for for sure!

Sept 9

• Weiner Schnitzel Day: I am a proud german and I will use this day to show off who I am! I can show you my love for Schnitzel (it runs very deep- this love).

Sept 10

• Stand up to Cancer: So many of us are effected by cancer. Show us how you are standing up to cancer today. It's a great way to raise awareness and post in your stories, especially if you've done a run.

• Suicide Prevention Day: We already chatted about this in the month section. If you want a specific day to post about it, today's the day.

Sept 11

• 9/11: It's a big day for many of us. You can post a memorial picture here.

• Grandparent's Day: Show us granny and gramps! If you are the granny, show us those grand babies

Sept 12

• Chocolate Milkshake Day: "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard" No! Not that kind of milkshake. I love these kinds of days. I love bringing in treats for the team in the excuse to take pictures but also to show them they are appreciated. Buy your team some milkshakes. If it's just you, remember you ARE your team!

Sept 13

• International Chocolate Day: I am a chocoholic! I would love to get some chocolate today. Post some chocolate today. Or you can even promote a small business that sells chocolate! This is great to access another section of your audience (want to know more- contact me!)

• Celiac Awareness Day: Post them GF treats! Show off your baking skills, tell us about your Gluten Free journey, raise awareness for Celiac's Disease! It's something people are still unaware of!

• Roald Dahl Day: Now this is one of my most favourite author ever! I just finished reading his autobiography of sorts called Boy. He's a children's writer but he's amazing! You may know him by the book Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, or Matilda

Sept 14

• National Colouring Day: Ooohh I want to post a colouring page! I love making adult colouring pages or Mandalas. They are so beautiful and fun to create. Make one and give it away for free to your people.

Sept 15

• Online Learning Day: Show us your online learning experience. It's a great way to show your experience. I've done a lot of online learning and it's a God send for mom's! It's levelled out the playing field tremendously! I've been able to get my Master's Degree and even attend MIT all from my living room!

Sept 16

• Guacamole Day: Who doesn't love guac? Today you gotta have some tacos! Post your pics of your guacamole and you can even share your recipe. Food is universal! Everyone eats! It's a perfect topic.

• Tattoo Story Day: Show us your personality and show us your tattoos and why you got them. I'm thinking about the trend where people show their dog and what they are named after. You can riff on that trend and show your tattoo and a pic of why you got it.

Sept 17

• Patient Safety: How are you keeping your patients safe? What measures do you have in place? Show off how awesome you are in safety measures

• Military Family Appreciation Day: Know someone in the military! Today's a great day to thank their families. We live right near a base and we can see what it's like for the families! They deserve more than a day to be appreciated!

Sept 18

• Chiropractor's Founder's Day: Do you see a chiropractor? Give them shout out today! Show us how you take care of yourself by visiting a chiro. If you are a chiropractor, give us a history lesson!

• Cheeseburger Day: I think I might be channeling Jimmy Buffet today - "Cheeseburger in Paradise" Hmmm who else wants to eat a burger in Florida now too? BBQ a cheese burger, get some for your team, celebrate this great food today!

• Gymnastics Day: Show off those moves today! Can you do a cartwheel? Can someone on your team!? You might get some entertainment today if you try out some gymnastics (but please don't get hurt!)

Sept 19

• Terry Fox Run: Show off your running! Support someone who is running! How are you going to celebrate this Canadian today? Did you know that Terry Fox has raised over $850 million for cancer? Can you imagine? What if he hadn't run? One person REALLY can make a difference.

Sept 21

• Batman Day: My little guy is obsessed with Batman. He love his batman shirt. Watch a movie, show us your comic book, show off that batman shirt.

• International Day of Peace: Show us how you are spreading peace today. Post a peace sign, give us a quote to promote peace.

Sept 22

• First Day of Fall: PSL Day! Oh wait! I mean fall! Show us the fall cozies! Post a photograph of a falling leaf, give us some fall colours, at the very least get some pumpkin spice.

• Hobbit Day: Show your inner nerd by posting about a hobbit. My hobbit story is I ate hobbit breakfasts and lunches when I was pregnant, I called them that so no one would ask how many breakfasts I'd eaten that day - just hobbit breakfasts.

Sept 23

• Day of Sign Languages: Be inclusive. Can you sign? Do you know someone who can? Are your posts inclusive to deaf people? Adding captions is a great way to be inclusive.

Sept 24

• Love Note Day: You can write a love note to you, to your friend, to your SO. Anyone! Post a pic of your love note (just the outside if you don't want people to read it). Do something nice for those you love and show us.

Sept 25

• Museum Day: Post a pic of your visit to the museum. Show off your inner history buff. Go to an online museum, post what you learned.

• Comic Book Day: show off your collection, make a comic book, create your post in the style of a comic book,

• Lobster Day: Yum! I use a metaphor for a lobster in teaching people about posting. You don't always have to be explicit in the post, you can somehow tie your business into the theme of the day. Just use the theme as a jumping off point for ideas.

• Psychotherapy Day: There are a few jobs that I'd love to do and psychotherapy is one of them. Today's the day to celebrate your therapist! Normalize mental illness and talk about the great people who help us.

Sept 26

• Daughter's Day: Show us your daughter or your mom! Tell us how they inspire you.

Sept 27

• Queen's Birthday: Wish Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth a Happy 95th Birthday Today. In our dental office we make queens all the time. We put crown on people regularly 😂

Sept 28

• Good Neighbour Day: Today's the day to celebrate your neighbour! It's especially awesome if you have a brick and mortar business. Your neighbours might also have your people too! Give them a shout out today! Added benefit is they might share your post and their audience will see you too & next time they visit your neighbours they may just stop into your business.

Sept 29

• Coffee Day: Hmmm speaking of which, I could really use one right now. Posting awesome coffee pics is ubiquitous with Instagram! Are you even a real instagrammer if you don't have a picture of your morning coffee? I might just post about the effects of coffee on your teeth on this day for my dental office!

Sept 30

• Podcast Day: Tell us about your podcast, your favourite ones to listen to, once that pertain to your business.

• Orange Shirt Day: Wear your orange shirts in support of #everychildmatters. Post pics of your team in their orange shirts today.

Whew! That's a long list! My arms are getting sore from typing! Hope you found some inspiration! Tag me in your posts so I can comment on your awesomeness!