Once again, today is Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and a lot of Americans are sitting around, still digesting their turkey & trimmings, and figuring out how to spend their weekend. I’m home with my family this Thanksgiving, and enjoying a coffee while many price minded American shoppers are taking full advantage of Black Friday sales in a hurting US economy.
Black Friday, like many other traditional shopping trends, has made its way from the brick and mortar chaos to, well, online shopping chaos, with hordes of other stuffed shoppers looking to relax today, or work off the 5,000 calories of bird consumed yesterday.
Black Friday Sites
If you’re planning your Black Friday strategy today, check out Black Friday Online Deals. Also, the blog bfads.net (black friday ads) may come in useful. bfads.net is one of several sites working to index all the sales in all the Black Friday circulars, along with coupons for BestBuy, Wal-Mart and Sears. Other similar services include BlackFriday.info and BlackFridayAds.com.
One newer and more (excuse me for this) Web 2.0 oriented Black Friday site is BlackFriday.fm which includes Black Friday shopping tips and videos, Twits on Black Friday and affiliate links to Black Friday deals online.
Given that the majority of the links are via affiliate ads, I’m assuming that these sites really clean up during the last week of November. Is Black Friday a part of your online marketing strategy?
I’m quite new to affiliate marketing but I agree that some of these sites must make the bulk of their sales at this time of year!
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Here in South Africa we haven’t got a thanksgiving feast, but the shoppers are hitting the malls, allthough less so than in the past. The economy is visibly on the slowdown.
Black Friday is listed in Dante’s Inferno, it is on the 5th level of hell!
Black Friday web shopping is suddenly becoming a lot more attractive since Friday this year,
Sadly, a Wallmart employee was killed when the crowd broke down the doors during their opening for the Black Friday sale this weekend !
No more fighting the mobs for me, or mine.
The deals on the internet are usually much better anyway !
Tom
Like a note: Black Friday Ad for Black Friday 2008, with a complete listing of the Black Friday ads and Black Friday ad scans, along with online coupons.
Black Friday is by far the best day of the year to find the best deals. Thanks to the internet, shoppers are now able to shop on Thanksgiving Day and can avoid the long lines and bitter cold temperatures.