| “Did you finish your shopping?” This time of year, that phrase is not quite so much small talk as it is panic inducing. |
How Brands Can Win Last-Minute Christmas Shoppers
5 Lessons for Big Brands from Small Business Content Creators
This Friday, millions of people will be shopping. And millions of people won’t.
Every year, it seems more “conscious consumers” opt out of Black Friday and into the Small Business Saturday/Shop Local movement, started by American Express in barely post-recession 2010 to keep Main Street alive. Almost a decade later, the movement has proven its value: a recent survey found that among consumers who plan to shop on Small Business Saturday, 96% said the event “inspires them to go to small, independently owned retailers or restaurants that they have not been to before or would not have otherwise tried.”
The New Rules for Black Friday, and How Brands Can Capitalize
Folks, Black Friday has arrived.
We’re going to assume you aren’t frantically checking your phone or your calendar to confirm, because if you’re like most shoppers in the United States, you’ve started holiday shopping already. Some of them—an increasing number, we might add—began the journey this summer, with a little something we know as Amazon Prime Day.