1) Came into the office to examine Black Friday results for our e-com company http://PulseTV.com : We FORECASTED a 10% reduction over last year as Gmail delivery has had issues. Results?
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2) Black Friday increased 60.6% over 2017 Black Friday sales. So why was our forecast so frickin' wrong? (happily I might add).
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3) We do not know why sales were over our projection...And this is extremely important, we took inventory based upon our FORECAST. So we ran out of several products...
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4) BUT, when we ran out of the product folks came in to buy, they were diverted to a special "Black Friday" page with at least 16 other killer offers. So we had a plan for our forecast being wrong...
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5) And we have a plan when we take too much inventory. This is why I say, Go ahead and make your forecasts, but always assume they will be wrong and plan contingencies WHEN they are wrong.
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Looks like you buy direct from overseas but if you're not you can establish drop shipping from a vendor or elongate shipping times. Also, you can raise prices.
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