Black Friday and Cyber Monday Coming Soon

I can really have you sitting pretty this holiday season, but you must follow a few directions and you can’t let Cyber Monday or Black Friday pass you by. After everyone has eaten their turkey dinners on that Thursday we call Thanksgiving in late November. Once all of the holiday football action is over with and we know who all the winners and losers are. It will be time to take a nice little nap and prepare for a long day on Friday. This will be the first stop on our holiday savings trip and this is the day we refer to as Black Friday.

Not sure what Wal-Mart or some of these other 24 hour retailers might do at midnight on Thursday night, but if they do plan to have some bargains at 12:00 Midnight, you will want to make sure to be there. This means going to sleep at about 4PM on Thursday afternoon and getting a good 5 or 6 hours of sleep in. Once you arrive at a Target or Wal-Mart sale, this will officially kick off the Black Friday holiday. You don’t want to go back home either (if you can help it). Try to leave straight from the Wal-Mart store and go to a place that will have a 3AM or 4AM opening on Black Friday. This is very important that you follow these directions to a “T”. Go ahead and arrive early. Be sure you get out of your car, so you can go grab a spot in line at the front door, if there is a line forming. If not, just start the line yourself! It might seem a little strange at first, when you are the only one outside standing by the door, but by the time those front doors open up, you will be the most envied person at that store’s front doors; while you go in a few minutes early or they give you a head start and make the others wait 5 or 10 minutes on it. There are some stores that will reward the first person or the first 10 people in line and give them a little boost over everyone else.

Now the store you go to 2nd, assuming Wal-Mart, K-Mart, or a Target Super Store is your first one at midnight, may not be a store you are all that excited to be at. If I gave you a choice of any store to have the first spot in line at the door; which one would you choose? If one of the Best Buy locations is your first overall choice for an early arrival on Black Friday, then you are just like 95% of all of the other shoppers. Every year people plan to be at one of the big electronic stores and since Circuit City hasn’t been doing that well, it has left Best Buy at the top attraction on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Now remember when I said to follow my directions to a “T”? Well this is the part you will have to trust me on and if you do, I think you will have the best holiday shopping ever!

What we want to do on Black Friday is to avoid Best Buy and Circuit City. Don’t close the door on Radio Shack, because they might be in a position to help those disappointed shoppers who didn’t get into a Best Buy store in the first 1 or 2 hours of opening their doors up. It really all depends on how much attention your Radio Shack location will draw in the wee hours of the morning Friday. I do want to make one thing clear. I am not avoiding Best Buy because its a bad store or company. Simply avoiding it, because this is where everyone else will be and I can be making the rounds at several stores!

You will still have to use a little common sense and make some of your decisions based on the holiday budget you have to spend on Black Friday. If you can come up with $3,000; then that would be a super fun event with that much cash to splurge. If your not taking more than $1,000, you probably won’t have that best shopper in the world feeling. You really need at least a grand and more than likely, you will still have money left over to buy you a steak or a hibachi dinner at one of the Japanese Restaurants. Don’t worry if you don’t have the thousand bucks right now, because I don’t either. Now is when we start eating a little cheaper, driving a little less, and spending less of our money and we will begin to build up a little next egg. We still have a full season (3 months) to start saving up for this one very special Friday in late November.

Now about the common sense. If  you see a broom and mop set that comes with a gallon of floor cleaner and you know they sell this cleaner for $5 a gallon on normal days, but this Black Friday they will give you the 1 gallon cleaner, a new broom, and a new mop for just a buck ($1). Well this package is probably worth 7 or 8 dollars at least, so picking one up for a dollar is totally fine. What if the store has 100 of these sets to sell and no limits to the number of sets you can buy. Well these might make a few nice holiday gifts for people at work or distant friends and relatives that you normally send some little gift to them. You may pick up some extra sets of this one dollar deal, but you really need to have some idea on where these brooms and mops are going, so you don’t end up with a dozen of these in a hall closet somewhere. An important rule to remember is to not over buy, because you never know when the next great deal might be around the corner.

You can win on Black Friday and be the kings of all shoppers. Just stick to a few basic rules and you might want to start jogging a little or running, so you will be in good physical shape for your hustling adventures on Black Friday.

*Save $1,000 or More Now for the Black Friday Shopping Budget. $3,000 Would Buy Every True Bargain You Will Find Before Noon Time.

*Avoid Best Buy, Circuit City, or Any Other Retailer That is Attracting Big Crowds

*Don’t Go Around Picking Out Gifts for the Family Members

*Buy the Best Bargains and Cheapest Deals Every Time (don’t over buy an item, but multiples of 2 and 3 are encouraged)

*Don’t Be Scared to Start Black Friday in the Wal-Mart Parking Lot Thursday Night

*Go Browse the Stores a Week or 2 Before the Big Day / Keep a Memory of the Prices To Compare Later

*Find a Partner! The Husband and Wife Teams Who Split Up and Take Certain Stores Are the Really Big Winners on Black Friday

*Don’t Waste Time Learning About New Products. If It Appears Cheap or the Sign Says 60% Off. Just Grab It and Figure Out What It Does Later!

*All Items Bought Should Be Snatched Up Swiftly and Continue On…

*Don’t Be Ashamed To Run or Jog In the Stores. Get To the Checkout Lines Fast and Get Out.

*Try To Visit 10 Stores or More; While Giving No Store More Than 30 Minutes of Your Time Freely. This Means 30 Minutes of Shopping and Browsing Time and Not Actual Time From Walking In and Walking Out.

*Don’t Let Any One Store or One Shopping Item Take Away Your Attention or Time Away From All Other Products and Stores That Will Be Participating in the Festivities.

*Tell Friends and Relatives Now About Your Intentions, So You Don’t Meet Up with Them That Morning and Waste Time Chit Chatting.

*Avoid All Angry, Loud Mouth, or Honking Vehicles. A Disagreement or Argument Will Only Slow You Down. This Isn’t About Whose Right or Whose Wrong. This Is Your Day To Not Give Anyone The Time of Day.

*Watches and Cell Phones Are Not Needed. Leave Them At Home or in the Car.

*Bring a Cooler & Ice for Cold Drinks. No Time To Eat.

*If Your Shopping Places Are Not Close To Your Hometown. You May Not Be Familiar with Roads and Parking Lot Designs at the Stores and Malls. Do All of This Recon Work When You Go For a Price Check on Some of the Items a Week or 2 Before. This Attention To Fine Details Can Save 1 Hour or More Over a 4AM to Noon Time Shopping Spree

Now these are some of the tips for you to have the best Black Friday ever in 2010! When and if I come up with any more tips and tricks to add to the list, I will be sure to keep it updated. Please feel free to offer your suggestions too and I will get your ideas up on the board too, for all of us Black Friday Warriors to see!

Remember, I don’t have to run faster than the bear. I just have to run faster than you!

Now let’s talk about the 2nd biggest shopping day of the year. This will be on the Monday that follows right after the fun we are going to have on Black Friday.  Then it all equals out to a ton of people online and the majority of them visiting the places where you go to shop online. You can actually set your watch by some of these Cyber Mondays.

Like for instance, in the Eastern USA most employees and especially those in the office will be working a 9 to 5 schedule. A lot off these employees on the East Coast will begin taking lunch breaks at 11 AM . A big portion of them will have a small meal or snack and they will eat for the first 15 minutes of their hour long break. Once it gets to about 11:15 EST; the numbers start to light up all over on the World Wide Web. Just like it was a well planned out system by a bunch of people who wanted to shut down the Internet systems of the World or at least the ones in this country.

The 11:15 a.m. Cyber Monday shoppers are the first ones who really make that Monday appear like no other day of the year, in terms of the World that exists online. Now those taking lunch breaks at 11 on the eastern side will keep the traffic levels high as the lunch breaks will continue to cycle around to 2 p.m. est. By the time most lunch breaks have ended  back East, the employees on Pacific time are only beginning to take their 11 a.m. PST lunch breaks. So as some of the traffic starts to exit offline up and down the Atlantic Coast of the USA; all of those office workers with access to a computer and want to do a little online shopping, will keep the traffic numbers up when they start appearing online up and down the Pacific Coast of the USA.

Now if you thought these lunch breaks was well planned out, all across the country, then check this out. As the last employees clock their self back in from the West Coast States, as they cycle through all of their lunch hour breaks by 2 p.m. in the afternoon local time. The 5:00 o’clock whistle is a blowing loud and hard back east, for everyone to go home. When it look like the Internet Highway was going to get a break, the work day has came to an end on the Eastern Coast, so now the workers who didn’t have access to a computer on their lunch breaks, they begin to fill up the Cyber World and it’s just a non stop, heavy online traffic, for a lot of the big name websites; which the Cyber Monday crowds will be flocking too.

Remember all of those electronic stores and other high traffic places, I wouldn’t let you go to on Black Friday?

I look forward to working with many of you this Black Friday and again online for Cyber Monday in the latter portion of the month of November.