What if your best Black Friday sale happened two weeks before Black Friday? This week's throwback comes from the very first Ecom Founders Q4 Summit, featuring Ezra Firestone. Ezra has been building ecommerce brands for 20 years, owns Boom, Overtone, Smart Marketer, and Zipify, and does over $140 million a year across his businesses. In this talk, he walks through his exact Q4 playbook from strategy all the way down to execution. Listen as Ezra breaks down why he launches his Prime Day sale alongside Amazon, why he opens Black Friday two full weeks early (he calls it Silver Friday), and how he plans specific peak days around Thanksgiving, actual Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Green Monday, and even a countdown to New Year's sale that most brands ignore completely. He also covers his merchandising framework built on incentive, deadline, and ownership benefit, why threshold based discounting beats a flat markdown, how he builds an early bird email list through video view campaigns before the sale even starts, and the exact elements every holiday sales page needs, from the Johnson box to the countdown timer to product page upsells. Whether you are building your Q4 calendar right now or just want a resend worthy post purchase flow, this episode is full of tactics you can put to use immediately. --- Triple Whale is the AI operating system built for modern commerce. We help you see what's actually working in your business, what's not, and what to do next. Then we take action for you — pausing the underperforming ad, generating the next batch of creative, flagging the inventory risk before it hurts your bottom line. Learn more at https://www.triplewhale.com/ --- Nik will be hosting the upcoming 2026 Ecom Founders Q4 Summit, taking place on September 24th in New York City. To learn more about the event, check out: https://ecomfounders.com/q4 --- Want more DTC advice? Check out the Limited Supply YouTube page for