 on Black Friday. 

How? Well, think about it. It's the day after Thanksgiving, and tons of soccer moms are planning to start their Christmas shopping, especially toys and gadgets for the kids. Every year, they keep seeing their shopping budget rise and they want relief.

On Black Friday, it's pretty much a level playing field in terms of attracting these types of shoppers to your business. Every business more or less has the same inventory of Mattel, Hasbro, Tonka toys. So for Soccer Mom X who's looking to shop on Black Friday, it's a tossup. However, if you offer a "door buster" sale where you're undercutting the competition and selling those toys 20%-40% off, all those moms will flock to your store because you just saved them a buttload of money.

So that's how Black Friday used to be. It was a quiet, uneventful thing where retail workers mentally prepared themselves for the huge turnout, management cheered because the store was "in the black," and Christmas shoppers saved money on gifts. 

All of a sudden a few years ago, the *media* took a few generous doorbuster deals and completely blew them out of proportion. Then before you knew it, "Black Friday" wasn't this quiet, uneventful affair where shoppers saved on their Christmas shopping. It was now this explosive annual extravaganza that was all about seizing the opportunity to buy 32" HDTVs and shiny new XBoxes for $175. 

Then the whole thing just kind of snowballed into this unofficial materialistic "national holiday", and now you have all these retailers using Black Friday and Brown Thursday to attract suckers not smart enough to realize that they're not getting any special deals off anything and that they're being taken advantage of.Friday Night Vibes...And Gearing Up for the "760!"
This time, though, I am headed to beautiful Palm Springs! Earlier this week, I chatted about how I was going to be participating in one of the largest conferences for influencers and entrepreneurs - The Altitude Summit. While I am, definitely, a little nervous, I cannot wait to immerse myself in all things "Fit4Janine" for the next 5 days. And, to quote my marketing team again, "your goal is to make as many friends as possible!"
My main goal in the next 24 hours is to pack! I am falling WAY behind on being proactive with this! I guess it feels like I just unpacked...
Real quick, if you have been to Palm Springs, and can give me any recommendations on places to check out, let me know! You know I love a good cocktail and meal!
My current status, though, is not so bougie. I am in my loungewear, in front of my computer, and icing down my legs and ankles. Yes, the inflammation and edema is real people, and I am doing what I can, holistically, and medically, to help the cause. Nothing like a doctor's appointment this week to hear a scale weight that was, in my opinion, not registering. Seriously, my lifestyle has not changed that much with the exception of going from more low impact to high impact exercises. There has been such an upswing in the past 4-5 months - I mean, I know I have not felt great for awhile now - that it was decided to put me on a diuretic to see if that would help decrease the swelling, puffiness, and overall water retention while, possibly, balancing my hormone levels. Blood work in 2-4 weeks to see if my thyroid meds need adjustment, or if there is something else going on right now.
And, let's take a wild guess as to where all of this is stemming from...stress, more stress, a bout with birth control, AND spraining my ankles.
"Acute inflammation is one that starts rapidly and becomes severe in a short space of time. Signs and symptoms are normally only present for a few days but may persist for a few weeks in some cases." FYI: Acute inflammation is good; it's the body's immune defense. Without it, infections, wounds, breaks, SPRAINS, etc. would never heal.
Chronic inflammation, on the other hand, "can last for several months and even years if the body fails to eliminate whatever was causing an acute inflammation or an autoimmune disorder that attacks normal healthy tissue is mistaking it for a pathogen that causes disease."
*While I like to think of myself as a doctor - no, not really, "Medical News Today" has been one of my go-to sources for information, as well as about 100 other sites.
Holistically, though, I am using essential oils, using a sauna and getting massages on the regular, icing, and totally changing up my workout routine. Once I get through this next week of travel, I am going to concentrate on more of an anti-inflammatory diet AND I don't think I can wrap my head around intermittent fasting for 16+ hours. That was something else I was recommended. I already do about 12 hours; and when you place a limit on my eating window that just feeds the whole mentality of "all or nothing." Just my opinion. I know it works a great deal for many, and endocrinologists are touting it big time but still...ugh. This may be one of my last lines of defense.
The moral of this story? Maybe my body just needs a few more days in that California sunshine. LOL. While that will be nice, although I will be working, the moral is to never underestimate how smart your body works. Obviously, my body is giving major push back and I hope I start to feel like myself in the next few weeks/months.
I mean, I need to be on top of my game if I am to be a "force to be reckoned" with in the influencer, world, right?
Keep you posted on how this goes, and more on my trip will be COMING SOON! So much content I will be bringing you! Cannot wait!It's time to make the offering. Talk to Samsonas again.
Samsonas is going to use this obelisk and has asked you to use one in another location. Go to the left side of the Vishikas Great Hall and make an offering to the obelisk there.Let’s start with a couple of quick definitions.
The frontend of your business involves what the public sees: Marketing, sales, and customer support services.
The backend of your business is…everything else. Accounting, distribution, and delivery. Engineering, finance, human resources, inventory, and manufacturing.
Your business depends on all of these systems running well — and on your integrating them well enough that everything runs like a well-oiled machine.
With a customer-first attitude, it can be tempting to dump all of your resources into the stuff that your audience sees (i.e., the frontend). After all, your business isn’t anything until you have customers, right?
Let’s talk about why this strategy won’t work.
They say you can spend money in two ways: Make more, and spend less. Your backend operations will be VITAL in finding clever ways where you can save money in order to increase your overall revenue.
Your people are your greatest asset, right? You need to make sure that your staff is happy, 100% of the time. Human resources, IT, maintenance, and managers: They may never interface with your clients, but they keep your workers happy and productive during their day-to-day.
Ultimately, your business depends on what’s beneath the surface. That might not seem like the fun part of your business to invest in – but it’s the part that will do the most work for you. As you’re putting together your business goals, make sure to spend some time investing in the systems and backend of your operation.
It’ll make everything in your business work a LOT faster and smoother.
Did you know that when you do an 80/20 audit of most businesses, 80% of the profit is in the backend?
That just goes to show how important it is not to let these integral parts of your business go to the wayside. Optimizing the backend of your business is the key to increasing your profits. It’s also the key to unlock insights about your competition.I think that's all part of the heat in that kitchen.  In my personal opinion there is physically nothing about Koreans that make them better Starcraft players then non-Koreans.  It comes down to all of the external factors, with one of the major ones being that it's easier for a Korean to live (and focus on their gameplay) in Korea then a non-Korean.

Edit: I giggle at seeing downvotes to this comment. "How dare you claim that Koreans are human beings and not cybernetic organisms designed to play Starcraft!"This is the place for Stackz users to share their wordlists. The quality of every list has been reviewed manually. However, MindDate Software can not guarantee the lists to be fully error-free. Lists can be opened in read-only mode with an evaluation license with the Stackz Flashcard Organizer on the PC or with PocketStackz on the Pocket PC. The lists can be used with PalmStackz after converting the the palm format. Saving the modifications to an archive file is only possible with a full license.
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