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Hi {{First Name | Friend}},
We are 16 days out from Black Friday. 🤩
Which means the window for strategy changes just closed. Anything you have not locked in by this week is not going to help you on the 28th. I’m sorry, friend 😔
That sounds harsh. It is not meant to be. It is meant to help you stop reacting and start sequencing.
Because here is what I see most ecommerce owners do between now and Black Friday. They panic. They start testing new ads. They add new email flows. They change their checkout settings because they heard a podcast. By Nov 25 their whole system is in flux and the algorithm has no idea who to show their ads to. Anything new? It’s too late!
The brands that win Black Friday do the opposite. They lock their plan early, they stop touching it, and they spend the final week watching, not tweaking.
Today I am giving you a plan to do exactly that. Three buckets. What to lock this week. What to lock next week. What to leave completely alone between Nov 20 and Dec 1.
If you ran the Funnel Audit Worksheet last week, this is what you do with the leak you found. If not, you can go review it here.
Let’s start.
THE BOOST: The 18-Day BFCM Readiness Plan
Three buckets. Each one is a clear window.
BUCKET 1: Lock this week. Friday Nov 15 at the latest.
This is the foundation. If this is not working by Friday, nothing else matters.
Confirm your Meta pixel AND Conversions API are firing on every page. Test in Events Manager, not just in Shopify.
Audit your abandoned cart email flow timing. If it does not fire within one hour, fix it this week.
Test your checkout on mobile Safari AND mobile Chrome. Different browsers, different bugs.
Check mobile load speed on your top three product pages. Under three seconds is the standard.
Confirm inventory on your top sellers covers your expected BFCM volume. Order gaps now, not Nov 20.
Set up a Shopify low-stock alert for your top ten products.
BUCKET 2: Lock by Thursday Nov 20.
This is campaign setup. Done early, your system runs itself through the sale weekend.
Build and schedule your BFCM email sequence. Teaser Nov 24. Early access Nov 26. Main send Nov 28. Extended sale Dec 1.
Build your retargeting ad for anyone who visited in the last 30 days. Different angle than your cold ad.
Finalize your BFCM landing page and preview it on desktop, mobile, and tablet.
Lock your discount strategy and update your welcome popup to reflect it.
Write a response-ready document for your customer service team covering the questions they will get.
Schedule your organic social content for Nov 24 to Dec 1 so nothing competes with your campaign.
BUCKET 3: Do not touch. Nov 20 to Dec 1.
This is the hardest part of the plan. Once you lock the above, you have to leave your system alone.
Do not change ad creative within 72 hours of a sale weekend. Meta resets the algorithm every time you edit a creative.
Do not add new email flows. A new flow needs ten to fourteen days to warm up. Launching one during BFCM competes with your main send.
Do not experiment with new audiences or product bundles. You will not collect enough data to know if the test worked.
Do not launch anything you have not tested. A broken checkout step during BFCM costs more than the test would have earned.
Do not change your checkout settings, shipping rules, or tax configuration. Any change can cause unexpected behavior under high traffic.
If you are reading this and you can already tell you are behind on Bucket 1, that is okay. Start with ONE item from Bucket 1 this weekend. Just one. Fix it. Move to the next. Do not try to do all six at once.
If Bucket 1 is already locked and you are mostly in Bucket 2, you are in good shape. Focus on the email sequence first. Email will drive more BFCM revenue than any single ad change you make this month.
If you are mostly in Bucket 3 already (everything locked), congratulations. You are the exception. Your job for the next three weeks is to not touch anything.