If people are landing on your site from social media, a podcast, or an article you wrote elsewhere, they’re walking in with a certain level of awareness. If what they find doesn’t align with where they just came from, you lose them.

In my mind, Black Friday had always been boxed into the “revenue-boosting” category. You know, where you knock Q4 goals out of the park, grab those last-minute wins, and bask in the glow of high-conversion chaos. But this idea of it being a marketing opportunity? That made me pause and rethink everything.