Hey awesome ones! Hey awesome ones. Heather here and Bill here this time and
we're in that new area. I don't know if you saw the video...actually why don't we
just put the link up for the video up there.... where we we already have a little
studio in one of our bedrooms and now we have made another three parts to do in
our basement. This is kind of like the interview area...podcast area and another
area where we're going to show like our top ten lists and we're gonna give you
the facts Jack or Jacqueline, whatever the case may be. Exactly whatever so now today this is the very first video
in this little area and what we want to do is we're....we just love Black Friday
and Cyber Monday, fantastic and shopping online is where it's at. We want to give
you ten of our top tips for really the biggest deal days...right... oh absolutely by
far-- in most countries the biggest deal days Black Friday Cyber Monday. When
is Black Friday in Cyber Monday Bill? Around thanksgiving, U.S. thanksgiving. It's a Friday and a Monday
It's actually....this wasn't in the script. It actually is....the Black Friday is the
Friday after the American Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday is the following Monday
but you did pretty good there. Let's get on with the video. It all starts in just a few seconds.
So whether you're looking for the latest fashion items or beauty or tech items
even vacation packages, airline flights, housewares, kitchen items....what am I
missing Bill? I think you covered most of it but maybe items for the pet like
Hurricane .We got a lot of things for...well not for him but for pets....fashion
for men. I've got some things on there as well and how about sports items too
there's a lot of sports items that you can get as well. So this is the time to
get your list ready whether it's for yourself or maybe something you
want to get in the next six months or maybe it's a gift for somebody as well
and the nice thing about shopping online is you really avoid those crowds and
you're not a fan of crowds. Actually neither am i so let's get going with tip
number one. So the number one tip is start planning early. You know maybe you
do have a vacation that you want to go to maybe four months from Black Friday.
Write that down...write down that you might oh maybe you want to buy some new
skis or something...write that down...really forecast into the future....your TV is
going...write that down...get all of those items that you think you want to buy
because we're talking about deals 50% 70%. I mean there's door Crashers that
are like unbelievably cheap and you really really benefit from them so get
all the stuff written down, even gifts as I said for some people and get ready now
for number two. So tip number two is figure out your favorite stores. You know
what are the favorite stores that you like to shop at and then go and check
and see what their URLs.....or NOT because Bill and I we've been working for months
on a big surprise for you guys. Really really excited about this...we have found
stores...of course ... Bill do you want to just start setting it up here and
we're going to show you what we've got here. Check this out......
So we know ourselves how frustrating it can be to you know think of all of
the stores that are out there, what are their URLs and everything else and
especially when it's a busy day like Black Friday or Cyber Monday. So what we
created was awesomeonlinestores.com You just put it up there....it's
awesomeonlinestores.com easy to remember
and we've already done the homework for you like here we have and of course
vacation stores, beauty stores, sports places, office, some of the major
department stores, Disney things, for baby, gift baskets....oh there's so much,
there's even things for....men, clothing for men and women. So the whole idea with this
for you guys is we're really like a portal. We have done the work for you as
far as finding the website URLs. Now they are mostly...well they're pretty well all
U.S. American landing places but we're going to show you later on in the video
how you can get to your country for pretty well most of them anyway and as
you probably saw there, there are so many different kinds. We've got Airlines, we
have hotels, we have vacation packages, amazing fashion stores, high-end,
lower-end..... what else....we have....we have office items....electronics
and tech stuff like mentioned earlier. Absolutely and also because Amazon is
such a big player in this in such a great online shopping site we actually
have you landing on the electronics or actually landing on you know, certainly
books for an example. So you don't have to go looking all over the place to
land there and we really, you know we're really really proud of this and as you
probably know we don't do a lot of sponsored videos. People ask us like
every day we get emails and that sort of thing and we get them in the comments
too, a lot of them are spammed out, but you know we get asked for collagen
pills and face stuff and to be honest with you I don't want you guys to
be the guinea pigs for those things.... unless it's a case of wine.....somebody
wants me to try a new high-end wine. But you get the drift right? So we figured out a
way...like we really have to think to ourselves....how do we stay in business
doing these videos twice a week and this is it guys. This is like our main source
unless we get a big make up sponsor that I really love and trust but
this is how we do it. So if you do land on these landing pages and you do buy
through that....I'm entitled to tell you, I want to tell you that we do make
a little bit of Commission and from all the stores you pay exactly what
everybody else does and thank you so much for that. The other thing about this
awesome online store site is the fact that there are a lot of earlybird Black
Friday and Cyber Monday deals. They're probably out right now. So if you're
saying oh my gosh you know I'm gonna be really busy on you know after
Thanksgiving or whatever. So yeah go check them out right now and also don't
forget we're keeping the site up 365 days a year...thats a whole year...yeah it's a whole
year and that's gonna be good for Christmas shopping it's going to be good
for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, birthdays all kinds of things so and
when you land on the homepage which we're doing in most cases and even on
the Amazon landing pages you're going to see right away what they are offering,
what kind of sales they've got, so take a look at those stores, familiarize
yourself and and bookmark it because I think it's a real great go-to place. Good point
the bookmark, I was gonna bring that up. Yeah great minds think alike. Okay all
right, I think we're on number three now. I think so, now I just want to add a
little bit to that as I said yes there's great sales on Black Friday a lot of
them call them door Crashers I don't like web Crashers.....
sound of web crashing but anyway they're door Crashers and they usually start on
midnight of Black Friday which is of course is the day after Thanksgiving
right at the midnight point. I'm also finding there's a lot of early bird
stuff too, though but pretty soon this could be yeah not Black Friday...Black
Thursday or Black Wednesday the way things are going.
Like you say...it's just check early you know I mean obviously you might be busy
on the Thursday but if you have a moment just check out the ones you bookmark.
Have a look and maybe it is on early. There you go and the other thing that I
want to mention is of course the number three. Bill if you could just
show them on the website here, how we get to changing the currency and also
changing your country. So let's take a look at the stores here for an example.
We have ....most of these are going to land on a North American country,
....let's just go... and wherever you are many times
it'll show where you're at, in my case I'm in Canada and it is everything in
Canadian, but let's just say that it's not showing that and you want to pick a
country. Go ahead and look at all the countries....there's probably a hundred
here and let's say that I wanted to go to the UK and my currency I want in
British pounds.Just click on the British pounds and now I can shop. You're going
to see now in just a second that it changes up. Let's look at some women's
fashion and it's going to switch over. Everything is going to be available.....
there it is in British pound. So that is the way that you can shop
internationally and it's really easy to do. well by the way if they don't have a
currency converter for the website what you might want to do while you're
shopping is open a new tab. Just google it you know to your dollars or your
pounds or whatever it is. Exactly and so if it's like five dollars you know
exactly what you're paying in your currency. So those currency conversions
are really really handy. Number four is know whether they are
going to include duty charge or surprise you at the door with it and
usually this is under the shipping section just go to the shipping section
sometimes it's at the bottom where you click it's all over the place with these
sites and really really read it because again sometimes they'll say duty is
included other times they'll have a middleman you know that will be
doing it and they're going to keep your things at customs for just a little
short time because they are I guess bonded in everything and they
actually show the duty on just before you check out, but then there's that kind
of nasty one where they will not show you anything. They might hold it up at
customs and they also might knock on your door and say you owe us some money
for duty which is not really a great thing to happen. Which has happened to
our daughter, you know yeah was paid at the door or you don't get it. Yeah
exactly so those are the kind of things. Now if you're really, you know my gosh,
I've I've really looked at this store I mean a lot of them are onto this
now and they really are being clear with it in the shipping instructions, but if
you don't see it, there's always a 1-800 number and get to the bottom of it and
again this is all in the pre-planning stage but you don't want to miss this
step for sure .Yeah all right so tip number five is figure out whether that
store will send a gift to somebody else. So Bill if you can just show us on the
computer here. We have several places on our site here where you can find maybe
flowers or gift baskets. You can usually even write out your own message for the
card and have it shipped to somebody else and now some stores
will also make sure that...you know.... they send it off as a gift to somebody
else as well. So that's it. That's a really good thing to find out with the
sites. So this is great this gift-giving thing because you know is it's nice to
save money, but it's also....love saving money, but don't you love saving time and not being
around all the hoards of people and lineups and cash register lineups all
that kind of stuff. So this is a really good tip I think. What's the next one. So
tip number six is...think outside of the online shopping box. That's a good one. I
remember you know we were anticipating Black Friday and all that sort of thing
and we just kind of looked at each other and we went let's plan a Caribbean
vacation and where did we go Bill. We went to Turks and Caicos. Oh it is white sand
and turquoise water absolutely beautiful, but we saved a bundle. We saved on the
flight remember that... yeah and we also saved on you know the the hotel, the
whole bit. So yeah I think you know sometimes you just come up with an idea
and you go, yeah let's see if we can get a good deal and if it works for us
financially let's go for it and it certainly did. Now the other thing is
when I talk about...go outside the online shopping box, we also have a business, so
there are you know, you'll see in these stores that we have here that there are
places like and we may be buying a domain or a website help or emails or
something along those lines and they've got like 35 percent off. So those are the
type of things if you have your own business or a small business or you're
self-employed, don't forget to check those out as well. So number seven is
know the delivery times and the delivery rules. That's a good one. Yeah especially
when you're getting you know...you might be ordering around December the 20th and
just thinking well of course they're gonna get it in time for Christmas for
me. They have cutoff times, so you've got to know when you get into those kind of
days or before, when they're cutoff times are. The other thing are the delivery
rules and again maybe you live in an apartment building and
you're not too sure if they can deliver to you. Sometimes most of the time they
just leave a card, yeah and you have to pick it up elsewhere. That's generally
what happens, but maybe you're on an army base or something like that and it's
restricted. They don't deliver at all. So if you're in those kind of situations
check the delivery times, delivery rules as well. So talking about shipping, I got
some great news for you. Generally during the Cyber Monday, Black Friday and the
Christmas season, a lot of these stores they offer free shipping.However we have
learned details...oh yeah...yeah there's a little word probably details with an
underline underneath it and it might say free shipping on $50 or $100 or $150.
So you might not even get up to 150 dollars. So make sure....what is the
differences in the details or something like that? Check the details.
Absolutely and of course this happens all year round for a lot of
these stores too. So they might have...I think Amazon for an example a lot of
times if you buy $25 you get free shipping and on most items, not all
but most and so that's a year-round thing. So it's really good to familiarize
yourself with all of that. Now if you live in a remote area that might not
apply to you. So again you know another country...that sort of thing. So you do
want to make sure that if you are in that outskirts kind of thing, whether it's
a country or a remote area, you check it out and yeah absolutely. So number nine
is....know what kind of payments they take. Do they take l, do they take a debit
card, do they take one of those prepaid credit cards? Sometimes they don't right?
Yeah, yeah that's true. I would always you know if I was gonna wait up until
midnight, which we have done to get some of these web
Crashers or door Crashers....always have your credit card backup ready with your...
you know the actual card, so when it always is gonna ask you for that code,
usually the CVV code it's either on the front or the back. So make sure you're
ready to go with your payment, your payment type. So the number ten tip is...
just to relax. You know if you're not, but if you're not an avid online shopper
you might be really really nervous. Yeah it's like, oh my gosh, who am I giving the
credit card to. All right well let me tell you something. There are so many
security measures nowadays. I mean online shopping has been around for like 20
years and so there are so many great checks and balances with online shopping
and when you think about it, we hand over our credit card to the gas station
attendant, to somebody in a restaurant, like we don't, you know we're giving the
actual credit card to people. So there are a lot of checks and balances and the
other thing about relaxing with the whole thing is, pretty well...all the time...
you can return something, you know if it doesn't fit, if you just don't like it.
Like even some stores when you buy make up for an example, they will say
yeah they'll be saying.... you don't buy makeup but they'll say beside it you
know this item is returnable. So really kind of understand that and what I do is
if I don't like something, I just bought some slipcovers the other day. I did not
like them and I just put them back in the box sent them back. I paid for
shipping but I got my shipping money back and I also got a
full credit for the item on my credit card and it happened in like a week or
two. So it was pretty good and a lot of these stores they know they want you
to keep coming back to their stores, so the refund policy is excellent. And in
case you think we forgot....it's time for the cuteness factor.
Yes Hurricane. If you're regulars watching our channel all the time you
know we generally have the cuteness factor. He's here just to say thank you
to all of our subscribers and hey if you're not a subscriber we do videos
like twice a week and all you need to do is press the subscribe button and also
click the bell as well and we really really hope that these 10 tips help you
not just for Cyber Monday and Black Friday but all year round for your online
shopping and don't forget to bookmark the awesomeonlinestores.com where
you can have all those stores really at a glance right. That's the perfect part
of it all, in one place. And the next thing to remember too is maybe it's been
a long time since you braved Black Friday and you just hated the crowds and
you're just like, oh I don't do that at all.
Well sit at home be in your PJs and just do your shopping from there and save
yourself a ton of time and a ton of money. So we really really are so happy
to help everyone and I guess it's time to close out here and until next time,
relax, enjoy the season and keep it awesome. Keep it awesome!
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