The 5 Best Company Calendars: Ideas to Keep Your Customers Connected

Working from home isn't easy - and neither is staying connected with your customers while your brick-and-mortar shop is closed or under restrictions. Fortunately, you can keep your brand's name front-and-center for 2021 with a custom company calendar. Check out these five great company calendar ideas to get your creativity going.

The 5 Best Company Calendars: Inspiration for Your Business

A calendar that represents your company all year is perfect for helping your business stay connected to customers and clients - but where do you start? Here are five great themes and ideas you can use:

1. Highlight employees
2. Company history
3. Manufacturing processes
4. Animals at work
5. Fun facts

Here's a closer look at each.

1. Highlight Employees in Your Company Calendar

Use your next calendar to highlight your employees - and mix in your products or services for good measure. Choose one department or group for each month. For example, you might highlight your IT department in January, creating a collage of people working; maybe you choose to highlight customer service reps in February, showing them working over the phone and with customers who come into your store.

Related: How to create the perfect custom calendar

2. Put the Spotlight on Company History

Tell your company's story through photos. Start with the earliest photos you have, whether they're old black-and-white captures or they're much more recent. Put your photos in chronological order, with the oldest in January and the newest in December. You can add context by writing a short caption for each photo, and you can include important dates for company milestones on the calendar's pages.

3. Cover All Your Manufacturing Processes (and the People Who Make Them Work)

People are naturally curious about where the products they love come from, and you can highlight all your company's manufacturing processes through a custom photo calendar. Choose photos of people working throughout your facility, your most impressive machinery, and people enjoying your finished products to create a truly memorable corporate calendar.

Related: How to make a personalized photo calendar for the new year

4. Animals at Work

Even if you didn't have "Bring Your Dog to Work Day" every month before the pandemic (also: why didn't you have "Bring Your Dog to Work Day"?), think about hosting something like that now. There's a good chance your company is operating with less than a full staff, but that may be even better - ask the people who are coming in to bring their pets for some candid shots of what happens in the office. When was the last time you didn't look twice at a calendar with a cute animal's face on the cover? If you're anything like us, you pick them up and look at every picture - and that's what your customers will do, too.

5. Fun Facts

Get intellectual with your clients and customers by adding fun photos with interesting or obscure facts for your next company calendar. Ideas for the topics can come from anywhere - you can even ask your Google Assistant or Siri to lend you a hand by saying, "Tell me some strange facts." Check out these ideas for inspiration:

• Flamingos bend their leg at the ankle, not the knee.
• Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.
• You can't hum while you hold your nostrils shut. (And you just tried it.)
• Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel.
• Queen Elizabeth II's cows sleep on waterbeds.

If you're a local professional, you might also check out Atlas Obscura to point out odd places around your hometown. You can build your whole calendar around strange places to visit within a day's drive.

What Are Your Best Company Calendar Ideas?

What kinds of company calendars have you created - or which ones have you held onto? We'd love to hear your thoughts, so feel free to snap a photo of your favorites and tag us on Instagram (we're @Mixbook). Your ideas can inspire others!