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The SMB Social Media Post Calendar 2022

Written by Joshua | 10/29/21 8:31 AM

Key Dates & Inspiration for SMB Social Media Posts 

There may be a few weeks left in this year, but if you haven’t already now is a great time to start planning your social media posts for next year. Creating special promotions standard practice for many company's it can create a unique twist on standard promotions. It also takes advantage of any social media users who are searching the hashtags.

To help you with this, here is rankingCoach’s extensive holiday calendar for all the events SMBs should consider posting.  Along with some great examples of businesses find ways to link in products and offers in fun and engaging ways. 

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Interesting Days for Social Media posts: January 2022

 

Saturday, January 1st: 

New Year’s Day #NewYearsDay 

 

Friday, January 7th

I’m Not Going To Take It Anymore Day #ImNotGoingToTakeItAnymoreDay

Saturday, 8th January 

Elvis Presley & David Bowie’s birth anniversary #ElvisBirthday & #BowiesBirthday

 

Monday, 10th January 

Peculiar People Day #PeculiarPeopleDay

Monday, 17th January

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day #MLKDay

 

Thursday, 20th January

Get to Know Your Customers Day #GetToKnowYourCustomersDay

Monday, 24th January

National Compliment Day #NationalComplimentDay

Friday 28th January: 

Data Privacy Day #PrivacyAware

 

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Interesting Days for Social Media posts:

February 2022 

 

Tuesday, 1st February  1st February  

Chinese New Year #YearOfTheTiger

 

Wednesday 2nd February

Groundhog Day #GroundhogDay

Friday, 4th February

World Cancer Day #WorldCancerDay #WCD2022

Sunday 6th February 

Super Bowl LVI #SBLVI

 

Wednesday, 9th February 

World Pizza Day #WorldPizzaDay

Monday, 14th February

Valentine’s Day #ValentinesDay

 

Sunday 20th February

Love Your Pet Day #LoveYourPetDay

 

Monday, 21st February 

Presidents’ Day #PresidentsDay

International Mother Language Day #MotherLanguageDay

Monday, 22nd February

Darwin Day #DarwinDay

 

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Interesting Days for Social Media posts: March 2022

 

Friday, 4th March 

National Employee Appreciation Day #EmployeeAppreciationDay (USA)

Monday 7th March 

National Be Heard Day #NationalBeHeardDay (USA)

Tuesday, 8th March 

International Women’s Day #BeBoldForChange #InternationalWomensDay

 

 

Sunday, 13 March 

Daylight Saving Time begins #DaylightSaving (USA)

Tuesday, 15th March 

World Consumer Rights Day #WCRD2022

Thursday, 17th March 

St. Patrick’s Day #StPatricksDay

Sunday, 20th March 

First Day of Spring #FirstDayofSpring

Monday, 21 March 

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination #IDERD

 

 

Sunday, 27th March

Academy Awards #AcademyAwards

Summertime begins (EU) #Summertime

Mother's Day 2022 (United Kingdom) #MothersDay 

 

 

 

Interesting Days for Social Media posts:

April 2022

 

Friday, 1st April 

April Fools Day #AprilFools

 

 

Sunday, 10th April 

National Siblings Day #NationalSiblingsDay

Monday, 11th April

National Pet Day #NationalPetDay

 

 

Saturday, 16ht April 

National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day #PJDay

Sunday 17th April 

 Easter #HappyEaster

 

 

World Poetry Day #WorldPoetryDay

International Day of Forest #WorldForestDay

Friday, 22nd April 

Earth Day #EarthDay2022

Saturday 23rd April 

World Book Day#worldbookday

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Interesting Days for Social Media posts:

May 2022

Sunday, 1st May 

May Day #MayDay

Labor Day (outside of US) #LaborDay

Wednesday, 4th May

Star Wars Day #StarWarsDay #Maythe4thBeWithYou

 

 

Thursday, 5th May

Cinco de Mayo #CincoDeMayo

Friday,6th May

National Nurses Day #NursesDay (USA)

Sunday, 8th May

Mother’s Day #MothersDay (USA)

 

 

Sunday,15th May

International Day of Families #FamilyDay

Monday, 30th May

National Creativity Day #NationalCreativityDay #CreativityDay #CreativityEveryday

Memorial Day #MemorialDay #MDW

Interesting Days for Social Media posts:

June 2022

 

Friday, 3rd June

National Donut Day (USA) #NationalDonutDay

Wednesday, 8th June 

Best Friends Day (USA)  #BestFriendsDay

World Oceans Day #worldoceansday

 

 

Sunday, 19th June

Father’s Day #FathersDay

 

 

Tuesday,21st June

First Day of Summer #SummerSolstice

International Day of Yoga #InternationalDayOfYoga

Thursday, 30th June 

International Asteroid Day #AsteroidDay

Interesting Days for Social Media posts:

July 2022

Monday 4th July 

Independence Day (United States)

 

 

Thursday, 17th July 

National Ice Cream Day (USA)  #icecreamday 

World Emoji Day #WorldEmojiDay

Friday, 18th July 

Nelson Mandela International Day  #MandelaDay

Friday 29th July 

International Tiger Day #internationaltigerday

 

 

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Interesting Days for Social Media posts:

August 2022

Monday, 8th August

International Cat Day #InternationalCatDay

 

 

Tuesday 16th August 

National Tell a Joke Day #NationalTellAJokeDay

Friday, 19th August 

World Photo Day #WorldPhotoDay

Friday, 26th August 

International Dog Day #InternationalDogDay

 

 

Interesting Days for Social Media posts:
August 2022


Thursday, 1st September 

World Letter Writing Day #WorldLetterWritingDay 

 

Sunday 4th September 

Beyoncé’s Birthday #happybirthdaybeyonce #beyday

 

 

Monday, 5th September 

Labor Day #LaborDay

 

Sunday, 11th September 

National Day of Service and Remembrance (USA) #PatriotsDay

 

Tuesday 13th September 

International Chocolate Day #internationalchocolateday

 

 

Sunday, National Grandparents Day #NationalGrandparentsDay

 

Wednesday, 21st September 

International Day of Peace #PeaceDay

Thursday, 22nd September 

First Day of Fall #FirstDayOfFall

 

 

Interesting days for social media posts: October 2022

Saturday, 1st October

International Coffee Day #InternationalCoffeeDay

World Smile Day #WorldSmileDay

 

Sunday, 2nd October

Mahatma Gandhi Birthday #HappyBirthdayGandhi 

Monday, 10th October 

World Mental Health Day #WorldMentalHealthDay

World Homeless Day #WorldHomelessDay

Monday, 25th October 

International Artist Day #internationalartistday

 

 

Sunday 30th October 

Daylight savings time (EU) #Daylightsavingstime

Monday 31st October 

Halloween #Halloween

 

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Interesting Days for Social Media Posts: November 2022

Tuesday, 1st November

World Vegan Day  #WorldVeganDay

 

 

Sunday, 6th November 

Daylight Saving Time ends (USA) #DaylightSavings

Friday, 11th November Friday

Veterans Day #VeteransDay

Thursday, 24th November

Thanksgiving Day (US) #Thanksgiving

 

 

Friday, 25th November 

Black Friday #BlackFriday

Saturday, 26th November

Small Business Saturday #ShopSmall

 

 

Monday, 28th November 

Cyber Monday #CyberMonday

 

Interesting Days for Social Media Posts: December  2022

 

Tuesday, 6th December 

St. Nicholas Day #StNicholasDay

 

 

Saturday, 17th December 

 Super Saturday #SuperSaturday

Sunday, 18th December 

 Hanukkah Begins #Hanukkah

Wednesday, 21st December 

First Day of Winter #WinterSolstice

 

 

Saturday, 24th December

Christmas Eve #ChristmasEve

Sunday, 25th December 

Christmas Day #MerryChristmas

Saturday, 31st December 

Jan New Year’s Eve #NYE

 

 

 

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