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How does your business handle Black Friday?‌ 👀‌

isabelle — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:43:44 GMT

Heyyyyy Seller Community! ✨THE HOLIDAY SEASON IS HERE!

Next week is Black Friday, in which many stores/businesses offer highly promoted sales. We're wondering how your business handles Black Friday!

Do you open early? Do you increase your staff? What kind of sales or promotions do you offer?

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HerasCharms89 — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 18:27:48 GMT

I remain open all the time. I also Offer discounts for private parties booked and offer 2 gifts instead of one for the hostess.

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JJS1 — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 18:38:34 GMT

We don't do Black Friday, we have what we call Red Wednesday. We close early on Tuesday and go thru the entire store and mark down everything we can. Red Wednesday, we open earlier and close later than normal. Then we give our employees Thursday-Sunday off to enjoy how they want.

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WestwindMarine — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:00:00 GMT

We close and allow our technicians and staff a four-day weekend! 😍

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Thevioletfox — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:18:26 GMT

We're online only - so open 24 hours anyway, but we're using Square's discount codes to offer coupon codes to shoppers for Black Friday! We also used Square Online's stories to create a Holiday Gift Guide that we've been pushing on social media.

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pessosices — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:28:32 GMT

Great question, @isabelle !

We're seasonal and closed in the winter, but we do a nice long Holiday eGift Card sale from Thanksgiving through New Years. It's a great way to bring in some extra income during the winter months, even with the 10% discount that we give. We send out an Email Marketing campaign or two, and a bunch of social media posts over that month and a half time period, and it always works really well!

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CobbStreet — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:46:07 GMT

We actually don't do anything for Black Friday. Our focus is on Small Business Saturday which is the BIGGEST day out of the year for us. We open early, stay open late, everyone works and we usually offer 20% off storewide so we can pass along the savings to our customers who love to support local, small businesses. Sometimes we offer grab n go breakfast items and I have been know to prepare mimosa's for customers to get the day started!

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CLW — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:32:54 GMT

We do Black Friday, but more of an emphasis on Small Business Saturday. We open an hour early and stay open later, and do lots of fun things. We partner with local coffee shops & bakeries to offer refreshments, have a Prize wheel that customers spin when they check out - they can win anything from free swag, discounts, gift cards etc., and do a big give-a-way for a $250 gift card for one lucky Loyalty program participant - every purchase thru the weekend earns an entry. AND, this year we are selling raffle tickets to a basket of items all contributed by local small businesses, and the proceeds go to providing an exceptional Christmas to a local struggling family. I am SO EXCITED to be able to showcase other small businesses in our area and give back to the community!

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pipsoriginal — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 02:52:43 GMT

We close by employee vote and avoid the insanity.

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Minion — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:09:05 GMT

Honestly I don't do any huge crazy savings. I usually run sales throughout the year for online orders, and for Black Friday in particular , I only offer a small discount off future bedliner/undercoating appointments that are booked and pre-paid. Maybe I'm just greedy 😂

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aisjunkremoval — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:26:38 GMT

We stay open and offer discounts for referrals

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KandieS — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:06:29 GMT

We are online however, discounts will be given out on ALL orders on Black Friday.

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HC_Charlie — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:53:19 GMT

In the past I've run big newspaper ads with tons of discounted items and specials. That really didn't bring in as much new biz as I'd hope for, so the last several years I've only selected some items and offered discounts on those (mostly stock items with largest quantities available). This year I've run an ad in the local Coupon Clipper with an online discount, so I'm on the fence about offering much more beyond that. I think being a small boutique business my customers will shop anyway regardless of any great discounts; they understand as a small biz we can't give deals like a larger corporation can give.

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Blessyourhearto — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:33:06 GMT

We run sales all day and open at 8:00 am rather than 10:00. It's one of our largest retail days of the year. Our customers really do support our small business and we are so thankful for that on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday as we always extend the sales over to the next day as well!

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Danksy — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 02:01:50 GMT

We're running discounts on all products...than we'll be doing sales all weekend and wheel spins for Cyber Monday

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Franco — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 03:03:24 GMT

We have always been closed on Black Friday so that our staff can spend additional time with family and friends after Thanksgiving. We know we could do quite a bit of business on Black Friday but we don’t care! Our staff deserves paid time off.

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cashaber — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 04:48:52 GMT

I sell PRE CUT Christmas trees we get slammed on black friday!

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Mirgarden — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:25:11 GMT

We just keep up the same good work we've been doing the other 364 days of the year.

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DinaLRosenberg — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 13:24:11 GMT

Black Friday/Small Biz Saturday is our business anniversary- we actually opened on Small business Sat 3 years ago 🙂

For this Black Friday we're doing: 20% off entire store from Friday through Cyber Monday in store and online

we aren't going to have extra staff but we'll make it work 🙂

last year that weekend was huge so we're preparing for another monster weekend.

for our out of state friends we'll be holding our weekly live sale Friday night and offering that 20% off to them, too.

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KMSnativeplants — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:18:51 GMT

I close for the day 🙂