By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 11/14/2015
Via Diamond’s Previews website (which duplicates content from other Diamond websites) comes news of an interesting new sales incentive: paper sculpture! Have your customers build their own Deadpool with these fun promo items from Marvel. Each of the releases (parts 1 – 6) are a specific part/piece of Deadpool. When finished, the approximate size of […]
By: Megan Smith,
on 4/16/2015
With summer just a few weeks away, our focus is on our upcoming summer reading program for children. How can we best ensure children are engaged and actively involved in our program? This year we are trying a few new ideas to encourage participation for our younger readers.
A Little Recognition
This year we are returning to offering certificates for children who have reached a certain milestone of participation within our club. Our Community Relations Department is creating these certificates for children to receive after they have read for twelve hours during the summer, in addition to receiving a free book for reaching this mark. Do you use certificates as a way to recognize participation in summer reading?
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Write it On the Wall
To tie in to our superhero theme this summer, our Community Relations Department is creating a super reader banner for each of our eight locations. For those children who have reached the twelve hour mark for reading this summer, cut-out images of superheroes will be available. Children will have the opportunity to write their names on one of these images and place it on the super reader banner. We hope this will encourage children to find pride in their participation and that they will be encouraged to return to the library to find their name on the banner during repeat visits. These super reader banners will be prominently displayed in our library locations and will help us promote our summer reading program to more participants as we market this program. Do you publicly acknowledge your youngest participants in any specific way?
Pick Your Prize
While we hope the opportunities for children to receive a certificate and recognition for their summer reading accomplishments will encourage future participation, we also have the goal that children will find more ownership over their reading by choosing their own incentive. For their first and second prize this year, children will have the opportunity to select a prize from a range of options. We hope that giving children some ownership over their choice of incentive will appeal to our diverse and wide age range of summer reading participants, and that this opportunity will encourage their interest in participating in summer reading in the future. How do you encourage your young participants’ involvement over their summer reading incentives or experiences?
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This year we are hoping that our ideas to encourage individual achievement, recognize their participation, and encourage ownership in choosing their incentives will inspire increased engagement and participation in our summer reading program for children. Please share your ideas to engage your children and encourage participation in this year’s summer reading program in the comments below!
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I think this is a pretty great promotional gimmick. I was impressed with the quality of the free Iron Man paper doll components–especially given the questionable quality of Marvel’s overpriced print comics. The Iron Man doll parts seemed well designed and printed and were a lot of fun to put together.
Unfortunately my retailer must not have ordered enough of all the right titles, so my Iron Man only has a head/torso and a right arm.