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Andres Alla December 04, 2024 at 02:22 AM

How long is everyone running their BFCM and when do you switch into Christmas offers?

Joel Jackson December 04, 2024 at 02:24 AM

As long as CAC stays low ;) last year we flipped it off on Dec 6 because we had too much demand.

Andres Alla December 04, 2024 at 02:37 AM

@Joel Jackson My only concern is from branding perspective and how it would seem to existing customers that we keep running BFCM, even though we’ve been hammering everyone with “ending tonight” lol.

Or are you simply not too worried about that and more focused about utilising the low CAC and scaling as much as possible?

Joel Jackson December 04, 2024 at 02:45 AM

My perspective is always that anyone buying from us in two years hasn't heard of us today anyway. So our tactics today don't matter all that much for future brand impact.

But everyone does "Oops, we extended our sale!"

Andres Alla December 04, 2024 at 02:48 AM

Interesting perspective, i like it. Thanks for sharing!

Thijs Roelofs December 04, 2024 at 10:22 AM

We did it till yesterday. Switch to Christmas on 12th of December

Rose Mayo December 04, 2024 at 04:01 PM

we flipped off from CM yesterday morning and are on a lower tier of sitewide sale til shipping cutoff - we've used a similar strategy for a few years now

Rose Mayo December 04, 2024 at 04:01 PM

gets a lot less competitive as bigger places end sale