It’s November 2nd, and if your month still isn’t planned, you’re not as late as you think
You can plan the whole of November in one afternoon if you do it in the right order, and most of the stress comes from doing it the other way around
Start with the three dates that actually matter: early access around the 17th, Black Friday on the 27th and Cyber Monday on the 30th. Put those on the calendar first and everything else works backwards from them
Then lock your offer before you write a single email. When the offer keeps changing, every email has to be rewritten, and that’s how teams end up writing copy the night before
The two weeks before early access are for warming people up. Send a few emails at full price that give your list a reason to open, a story, a best seller, a customer review, and then a teaser that invites them onto your early access list
While that’s going out, update your welcome, cart and checkout flows so they sell the same offer as your campaigns. If someone joins on Black Friday and gets a 10% off welcome email, you’ve just undercut your own sale
If you write everything this week, design next week and schedule it all by the 16th, Black Friday week becomes the week you watch it work instead of the week you build it
And if you’d rather not do it alone, we freed up room for 3 ecom brands. We’ll make you 3 BFCM campaigns ready to send, audit your account and give you a full retention strategy, before you pay a cent
DM me “BFCM” and I’ll send you the details
And not any generic emails but ones like these 👇
I bought some stuff for my mom from Guess in Dubai a long time ago
They took my email for the order confirmation, like every other store
And they’ve been emailing me ever since
Cross-sells, upsells, new drops, stock updates, etc..
And the best part, they’re built around what I bought, plus the stuff that matters in Dubai like 2-hour delivery
This is peak email marketing, from a brand whose customers mostly walk into a store
And you’re running a brand fully online, where the only place people find you is your site, and you’re still not doing email marketing
NGMI
Black Friday is 28 days away and a lot of founders think it’s too late to fix their email
It isn’t, if you spend those 28 days on the right things:
1. Check where you land. In Promotions or spam? Fix that first, start every send with your 30-day engaged segment
2. Lock one main offer your customers get in 3 seconds. Klaviyo brands with the smallest discounts grew the most over BFCM 2025 (+14% YoY)
3. Speed up your welcome, cart and checkout flows. In a 5-day sale, the cart email lands in 15 minutes, not tomorrow
4. Swap the current pop-up for “Get early access” and during the sale days restate the same offer
5. Plan early access, Black Friday and Cyber Monday first, then build everything around them
None of this is complicated, it just keeps getting pushed to “next week” until it’s November
So we freed up some room on the team and opened 3 spots for ecom brands last minute
We build your 3 BFCM campaigns for free, audit your account and give you a Q4 and Q1 growth plan
Once the 3 spots are gone, that’s it
Book here: BFCMq4.com or DM me “BFCM”
When the founder keeps triggering his own abandoned cart just to see the emails again
Flows set up delivered perfectly ✅
25 days after this post and email is now 40% of this brand’s revenue
We’ve been working with them for about 55 days
The agency before us had it at around 18%
And it’s only the beginning, there’s still so much left to build for this brand
Post purchase email we made for Veyrah
This email isn’t selling a product, it’s selling a lifestyle
A routine that defines you
It lands right as the customer is getting their first order, when they want it to work really bad
so we invite them to grab the whole setup and finish what they started
and here’s the move most brands miss
they get cheap with the discount on round two
but these people already bought, they already trust you, so being generous here is a no-brainer, it’s how a one-time buyer turns into someone who stays
and in Q4 this hits different
you’re about to get flooded with first time buyers, an email like this plus a couple follow ups is what keeps them around instead of letting them go cold after one order
everyone’s obsessed with getting new buyers
barely anyone works the ones they just got
that’s the whole game right here
Client came back after seeing the results of couple flows we made for him
Now that he is 100% sure we can scale him
It is really possible to get him to 60%+ attribution based on my experience with these type of brands
Will share this again in 30 days!
In a few weeks your traffic is going to spike, and so will your abandoned carts
Q4 shoppers compare, hesitate, and leave to “think about it” more than any other time of year
Every one of those carts is a buyer who got all the way to the edge and stopped
Your abandoned cart flow is what goes and gets them back, and most brands haven’t touched theirs since they set it up
Here’s how to audit it before the rush, email by email
Email one, send it fast, within the hour, just remind them what they left and make it easy to come back, hold the discount here
Email two, the next day, answer the objection that actually stopped them, is it worth it, will it fit, how’s shipping and returns
Email three, bring in proof, a review or a photo from someone who bought the same thing, trust closes more carts than urgency
Email four, now the nudge, real urgency or a small incentive, this is where a discount earns its place, not in email one
And the part most brands miss, abandoned cart and abandoned checkout are two different moments, someone who entered their details and left is warmer and deserves their own faster sequence
Three quick checks, open every email on your phone, confirm your product images and prices pull in correctly, and space the timing out instead of firing five in a day
Someone already decided to buy, your only job is to remove the last reason they didn’t
A quarter million in 30 days traced back to email
Here’s the setup behind it that most brands never run
When you send paid traffic to a pre-sell page, an advertorial, a listicle, a quiz, most brands disable the popup completely
The thinking is “don’t interrupt the page,” so they cut email out of their highest-intent traffic entirely
We do the opposite
On those pages we run a tailored popup, longer delay, different behaviour, timed so it completes the page instead of fighting it
Then we send that signup into a welcome series built for that exact page, fires faster, speaks straight to the pain point that brought them there
Now you’ve got a real funnel, from the ad, to the page, to the popup, to a welcome series that actually matches why they came
And here’s the part founders miss, this doesn’t just lift email revenue
Those leads now flow through the rest of your system too, checkout, cart, browse, post-purchase, plus every campaign you send after
And when the popup is built right, it completes the page instead of annoying people, so your conversion rate on the page goes up, not down
I almost didn’t send it
The designed campaign was still stuck in review, another round of edits, waiting on approval
All I had ready that day was a plain simple email in a draft
Every instinct said wait for the polished one
I sent the simple one instead, and it held its own against the designed campaigns we’d worked hard on that month
Not because design doesn’t matter, it does, it carries a lot of the revenue
But plain text has one big advantage, it’s fast, it goes out the day you think of it, no review cycle
Don’t go silent just because the designed email is stuck in approvals
Everyone keeps saying they've run out of things to send their customers
I don't buy it, you just think every email has to announce something
So here are 100 campaign ideas, sorted into the 5 types of email that actually sell
TEACH, answer what they actually wonder about
1. How to use your best-seller the right way
2. The mistake most people make in your category
3. A myth in your niche, and what's actually true
4. What's inside the product and why it matters
5. How to choose between your two most-confused products
6. A quick-start guide for first-time buyers
7. The reasoning behind how your product works
8. How to get more out of what they already bought
9. A common problem you solve, explained simply
10. "Is this right for me?" answered by use-case
11. How to make your product last longer
12. The difference between you and the cheaper option
13. A routine your product fits into
14. Your 5 most-asked support questions
15. What to do if it doesn't work the first time
16. A seasonal how-to for this time of year
17. The one thing buyers wish they knew first
18. How to pair your product with something they own
19. A quick "do this, not that"
20. Debunking a trend your category is obsessed with
PROVE, let other people do the talking
21. One detailed review, built into a whole email
22. A real customer before-and-after
23. A screenshot of a glowing DM
24. What your reviews say about who loves this
25. A customer's full story
26. Photos from real buyers
27. A press mention or feature
28. A skeptic-to-believer story
29. Your most-reviewed product and why
30. Expectation vs reality
31. Several short customer wins in one email
32. A video testimonial
33. Your community's favorite way to use it
34. An honest review that names a flaw
35. Numbers that build trust (units sold, reorders, rating)
36. Founder picks a review and breaks it down
37. A customer's update months later
38. Why people keep coming back, in their words
39. An expert's genuine take
40. A wall of one-line quotes
CONNECT, show the human behind the brand
41. Why you started
42. Where the brand is headed
43. Behind-the-scenes of how it's made
44. A mistake you made and learned from
45. Meet the team, one person at a time
46. The story behind your best-seller
47. A day in the life of running the brand
48. A personal founder update
49. What your brand actually stands for
50. A packing or shipping look behind the curtain
51. Answering a question a customer emailed
52. Why you priced it the way you did, honestly
53. A cause your brand supports
54. The hardest lesson of the year
55. A thank-you with no ask attached
56. A sneak peek at what's next
57. A "we messed up" email that owns it
58. The inspiration behind a product
59. Reader question of the week
60. A reflection tied to the season
SHOW, put products in front of people without the hard sell
61. New arrival
62. A bundle built around a theme
63. Staff picks this month
64. 3 ways customers use this
65. A gift guide for an upcoming occasion
66. Back in stock
67. Best-sellers, ranked
68. A product you think is underrated
69. A seasonal edit
70. "Complete the set" cross-sell
71. A limited-edition drop
72. The product people forget you sell
73. A collection lookbook
74. "If you liked X, you'll love Y"
75. A bundle's price-and-value breakdown
76. A behind-the-design look at a new product
77. A starter kit for new customers
78. The perfect gift pick
79. A curated pick for a specific customer
80. A fresh take on an old favorite
SELL, the direct ask
81. 24 to 48 hour flash sale
82. VIP early access for your engaged people
83. A first-time-buyer offer
84. Free gift with purchase
85. Free shipping threshold push
86. A bundle at a better price
87. Last chance before an offer ends
88. A seasonal sale
89. A replenishment reminder, time to reorder
90. Low-stock urgency on a popular item
91. A win-back offer for lapsed customers
92. Buy one get one, framed as completing a set
93. A loyalty or rewards reminder
94. A nudge for people who browsed but didn't buy
95. A birthday or anniversary offer
96. A "price going up soon" heads-up
97. Spend more, save more
98. A subscriber-only offer
99. A gifting push before a gifting season
100. A final-hours countdown
Don't send these in order, rotate across the five so you're never only selling, that's what keeps people opening and protects your deliverability
Save this, you've got months of campaigns right here
The most important email in your whole account is one you’ll never actually write
It’s your popup
Think about it, every subscriber you have, every automated flow that makes you money, every campaign that converts, all of it starts the moment someone types their email into that little box
Get the popup wrong and everything downstream has less to work with
And here’s where almost everyone leaves money on the floor, the lazy “10% off, join our list” box
It works a little, but it attracts the exact wrong person, the discount hunter who subscribes, grabs the code, buys once, and never opens an email again
A good popup does something different, it speaks to why someone came to your site in the first place
Instead of “10% off,” try solving their actual problem, the guide that helps them choose the right product, the quiz that points them to what fits, the offer tied to the specific thing they were already looking at
You pull in someone who wants what you sell, not just someone who wants a discount
Same popup slot, completely different quality of subscriber, and it compounds across every email you’ll ever send them
Your list is only as good as the door people walk in through
Spend more time on that door than you think it deserves
If you’re just getting serious about email, Black Friday being six weeks out might feel like you’ve already missed the boat
You haven’t
Six weeks is enough to build something real from scratch, you just have to start today and follow the order
Here’s the plan, week by week, whether you’re fixing an old setup or building your first one
Week 1, this week, set the foundation, if you don’t have a list yet, get a popup live so you start collecting emails, and make sure the basics are in place so your emails actually land (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, your platform walks you through these), then decide on your offer
Week 2, build your flows, at minimum a welcome sequence for new signups and an abandoned cart sequence, these two alone will carry most of your automated revenue, you don’t need all ten to start
Week 3, start sending, even one good campaign a week at full price, you’re not just selling, you’re warming your list so they recognise you in November
Week 4, write and design your Black Friday emails now, the tease, the announcement, the reminders, while you have time to think
Week 5, open early access to your most engaged people and keep showing up so they stay warm
Week 6, schedule everything, test your links, preview on mobile, so Black Friday is just execution
You don’t need a perfect, years-old email program to have a good Black Friday
You need to start today and not stop
























