Putting your best foot forward is key to successful marketing in any industry—but it’s particularly so in the footwear category.

If you’ve made it this far, we have good (maybe bad?) news: that will not be the last of our shoe puns in this blog. Proceed with glee if groan-worthy jokes are right up your alley.

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.

With each new blog entry in our series on power tool shopping and product marketing trends, we’re getting deeper into the holiday shopping season. It’s hard to believe, but we’re almost there.

Sorry to scare you. But we don’t control the calendar.