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A “doorbuster” is an item sold at a special discount price for a limited amount of time or in a limited quantity.

Who coined the term doorbuster?

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Happy Black Friday, Carnies.Ā 

šŸ—£ļø Brands are riffing on the newĀ Kendrick Lamar ā€œMUSTARDā€ meme.

šŸ¤” Walmart is the latest toĀ roll back DEI policies.

šŸ§¹ HowĀ the Wicked marketing blitzĀ took a page out of Barbieā€™s book.

šŸ” McDonaldā€™s isĀ shaking up the (Mc)Value MenuĀ for the first time in years.

šŸ„£ Why is social media abuzz overĀ Kraftā€™s gluten-free mac and cheese?

šŸ“± How brands can make the most of their BFCM and holiday texts.

  • šŸ’” According to our poll, 36% of marketers are running SMS campaigns for brands this BFCM.

šŸ›’ TikTok isĀ quietly testing product links in posts.

šŸ”— Btw, hereā€™s where each social platform stands on external links.

šŸŽ Fwd thisĀ holiday gift guide for marketersĀ to your boss.

āš ļø New data shows the number of new mobile internet usersĀ is stalling.

What We Learned

Monday: Manually updating meta descriptions, refreshing outdated content, and generating FAQs for every new page is extremely time-consuming. Most teams canā€™t keep up, leading to missed SEO opportunities and inconsistent site experiences. Here’s how to automate your website management with AI.

Tuesday: Whatā€™s the best strategy for keeping up with the time-consuming work of link building, along with the million other marketing tasks you have? Just outsource it.Ā Done right, you can still acquire links youā€™d be proud to show your boss, or your client, with minimal fuss. Seriously, test it out with 20% off FATJOE’s services. The sale ends on Cyber Monday!

Wednesday: TikTok has shared a three-step process to create impactful short videos that connect with audiences and drive conversions. Hint: Kick off your video with a question, a bold claim, or a relatable statement.

We Know How to Scale

50+ years of space flight. Iconic missions from the Sun all the way to Pluto.

When tasked with creating a graphic showcasing Redwireā€™s flight heritage, Carney faced the challenge of condensing no less than the span of the solar system and a half century of history into a graphic that fits comfortably into a single slide.

Creating a true scale map of the solar system would reduce the planets to mere pinpoints, or take something the size of a dry lake bed.

So, we took a different approach.

Carney for Redwire

For the sake of visual interest and clarity, we hit on the idea of bringing Earth front and center. This was not a case of revoking the Copernican Revolution, but rather an acknowledgement that Redwire HQ is after all right here on Earth.

That makes Earth the center of their flight heritage and the vantage point from which all of us peer out toward the cosmic horizon.

Bringing Earth into the foreground also gave us theā€¦ wellā€¦the space (pun intended)…to showcase a large number of missions in earthā€™s neighborhood: climbing the ladder from missions in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) all the way up to Lunar missions.

And since Redwire hardware supported the New Horizons mission, yes, even Pluto got invited to the party.

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Spiced Gin "Black Friday" Cocktail

Ingredients

  • 2.5 oz bombay sapphire gin
  • 1/2 oz fresh orange juice
  • 1/2 to 3/4 oz allspice dram
  • 1 oz coffee syrup
  • A tiny pinch of salt
  • A few drops of Molasses Bitters
  • Smoked star anise and fresh sage for garnish

Spiced Gin Black Friday Cocktail

Check out Healthfully Ever After for instructions.

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Did Ya Know?

Answer: James Cash Penney.

The word first appears in a J. C. Penney ad printed in Alabama’s Tuscaloosa News on January 13, 1949.

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