You’re Not Competing With Amazon. You’re Competing for Attention.

How small businesses compete and win during Prime Day, Target Circle Week, Walmart Deals, and every major retail sale event.

Let me start with the most freeing, most exciting thing I know about Amazon Prime Day, Target Circle Week, Walmart Deals, and every major retail sales event. You are not competing against the retailers themselves.

You’re competing for attention.

And here is the best part. Attention is far more accessible than most small businesses realize.

Every time Amazon, Target, Walmart, and other major retailers launch a massive sales event, millions of consumers enter buying mode. They are actively researching products, comparing options, watching creator recommendations, opening emails, scrolling social media, listening to podcasts, and making purchase decisions. That is not a threat. That is an opportunity.

The small businesses that win during these periods are rarely the ones with the lowest prices. They are the ones with the clearest message, the strongest customer relationships, the most visible personalities, and the most connected marketing strategy. At Parlay Collective, we often remind our clients that major sales events create momentum across the entire digital marketplace. The businesses that benefit most are not necessarily the largest. They are the most prepared.

The goal is not to outspend Amazon. The goal is to capture a portion of the buying intent that already exists. That requires a combination of visibility, community, strategic promotion, creator partnerships, paid media, email marketing, customer retention, and personal storytelling and face of the brand visibility.

The businesses that consistently grow through these sale periods are rarely relying on a single channel. They are stacking multiple touchpoints together. Their social media supports their email strategy. Their email strategy supports their live selling efforts. Their creator partnerships support their paid advertising. Their personal visibility strengthens every customer interaction. This is where long term growth is built. Not from one sale. Not from one viral post. But from creating a marketing engine that continues working long after the sales event ends.

And perhaps most importantly, remember this. Consumers are increasingly choosing brands that feel personal. They want connection. They want expertise. They want to know who they are buying from. The retailers can offer convenience. You can offer trust. And trust remains one of the most valuable currencies in business.

So let me walk you through exactly how we do it. Below are the strategies my team at Parlay Collective uses. I am not going to keep them vague. You will get the real examples, the scripts, the day by day plans, and the words to actually say, because surface level advice never grew a single business. And while many of these examples reference product brands, I am going to show you exactly how service based businesses can run the same plays, because this is a growth strategy, not a retail trick.

Keep in mind these are in no particualr prioroty order so grab your coffee or my favorite a martini, and let’s talk strategy and get to work.

The Mindset That Makes All of This Work

Before a single tactic, I need you to internalize this, because every strategy below hangs on it and it is the line between feeling defeated and feeling unstoppable.

The big box stores compete on three things. Price, convenience, and scale. That is their entire game, and the wonderful news is you never have to play it. Here is what so many people forget, and it changes everything. Price is not actually what most people want from YOU. Research shows 82% of consumers say they are highly willing to support local and small business owners, and when you ask shoppers what they value most about small businesses, they say it is the personalized service and the quality and craftsmanship they cannot get from a big retailer. And here is the stat I want framed on your wall. About 42% of Americans say they are willing to pay MORE to shop small and support their community.

People will pay more to buy from you. Not because you are cheaper, but because YOU are the value. Your expertise is the value. Your face, your story, and the trust you have built are the value. This is why a brand with a real face and personality behind it has a structural advantage during these events, and why owned media, the email list, the text list, the audience you actually control, is the most important asset on your balance sheet. We are not racing the giants to the bottom on price. We are becoming the clearest, most trusted, most visible option in our customer’s life. Every example below is built on that one foundation.

Start 30 Days Before the Sale, Not 3 Days After

Here is the hard truth I tell everyone I work with. The brands that win Prime Day, Target Circle Week, and Walmart Deals are not the ones who hustle hardest during the event. They are the ones who quietly built the runway 30 days before it started.

A sale week is not a launch. It is a harvest. You cannot warm up an audience, grow an email list, brief creators, produce content, and build trust in the 48 hours before the giants go live. So map your calendar backward from the event. Around 30 days out, lock your offers and your hero products or signature service, and start seeding content and growing your owned list. Around three weeks out, brief and gift your creators so their content is ready to post when intent peaks. Two weeks out, write and schedule your email and text sequence and your blog content. One week out, start the teasers and the waitlist. Then during the event itself, you are not scrambling, you are simply turning on a machine you already built.

For a service based business this matters even more, because you are selling expertise and trust, which take time to establish. A coach, a med spa, a designer, or a consultant should spend those 30 days publishing helpful content, sharing client wins, and filling a waitlist, so that when the broader market is in buying mode, you have a warm audience ready to book. Preparation is the strategy. Everything below works ten times harder when it sits on a 30 day runway.

1. Host Daily Lives, Keep Them Short, Real and Fun

During a major sale week I want you going live daily, but keep it tight, no more than 20 to 25 minutes. The goal is not a three hour telethon that drains you. The goal is to connect like a real human and to put a real, familiar face at the center of the brand, whether that is you or someone on your team who loves being on camera. Be authentic. Do not push, push, push. Walk in with one question every time. How can I be a resource to the person watching right now?

Let me make this real and easy, because “go live” on its own is too vague to actually help you. Give every live a theme. Monday is your “What’s New This Week” first look where you unbox fresh arrivals on camera. Wednesday is “Style It Three Ways” where you take one piece and show it three different ways. Friday is your “Happy Hour Live” where you genuinely make a cocktail or mocktail, share the recipe, and chat while you sell. The drink is not a gimmick, it is the warmth that makes someone stay. Here is an opening you can borrow so you are not frozen and dry mouthed on camera. “Hey hey, come on in, grab your coffee or your wine, no judgment. I am so glad you are here because I have three things I am obsessed with this week and one of them drops to a flash price in about fifteen minutes, so don’t you dare leave me.”

Service based businesses, this is your moment too. A med spa owner can go live demoing a treatment and answering real questions. A business coach can run a daily 20 minute live teaching one quick win and inviting people into a sale week offer. A photographer can go live editing a session and previewing a styled session promotion. The product is different, the play is identical. You, on camera, being a trusted expert.

This is not just feel good advice, the numbers are wild. A normal online page converts at about 2% to 3%, but a well-run live shopping event converts anywhere from 9% up to 30%, which is up to 10 times higher. In fashion and beauty some live events hit conversion as high as 70%. On top of that, 71% of shoppers say they trust a live host more than a written review, and live events lift average order value by 12% to 15%. The U.S. live shopping market is projected to hit $68 billion by 2026. The small businesses that get comfortable on camera now are going to dominate in two years. Pick a consistent time, tell them when you will be back, and make it an appointment.

2. Run Daily Big SALE Items and Use a One Hour Flash Window

You do not have to put your whole store or service menu on sale, and you should not, because that is how you hit record revenue and zero profit. Instead, run a single daily Big SALE item. Switch it up daily, and here is the magic. Let your community pick it. When people feel like they voted, they show up to see if “their” pick won, and they are far more invested in buying.

Here is a real week. Monday morning, post a story poll that says “You pick tomorrow’s flash deal! The striped dress or the linen romper?” The winner becomes Tuesday’s hero. Then build named moments so there is a rhythm people learn to wait for. Markdown Monday. Two for Tuesday. Wishlist Wednesday, where you discount the single most saved item in your shop, which is also a quiet piece of analytics telling you exactly what your audience wants. Flash Friday for your boldest deal.

Then put one item on a genuinely deep deal for a one hour window only, and promote the hell out of it. Tease it in the morning, count it down at the top of every hour, and go live the second it drops. That hour does two things. It forces action NOW instead of “later,” and we know later means never. And it creates a daily spike of buzz all week. Service businesses can run the identical play with a 24 hour booking window. “The first five people to book this week get my VIP package at the sale rate, link is live for one hour.”

This works because scarcity and a ticking clock are conversion fuel. In text and email programs, flash sales with countdown urgency and restock alerts are among the highest converting sends out there, with some converting at 24% to 39%. You are running your own focused little Prime Day, on your terms, with your margins protected because only one item is ever deeply discounted at a time. Keep a “tomorrow’s mystery deal” tease alive all week, because anticipation sells almost as much as the deal.

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3. Throw a Fun In Person or Virtual Event

If you have a storefront or a studio, this is a superpower Amazon literally cannot touch. Host a fun event, and do not blow your budget trying to throw a gala. Lemonade, a signature cocktail, cookies, and a fun giveaway is the entire recipe. You are giving people a reason to leave the house, walk through your door, and feel something good with your brand attached to it.

Run a Sip and Shop with sparkling lemonade and 20% off for the first hour. A Bring a Friend night where both people get a gift, which doubles your foot traffic for free. A cookie decorating table for the kids on a Saturday so moms can actually browse. A charity tie in where a portion of sales goes to a local cause. For service businesses, the event version is a workshop or an open house. A salon hosts a styling masterclass, a med spa runs a botox and bubbly night, an interior designer hosts a “design your space” Q and A, a fitness studio runs a free community class with a sale week membership offer at the end. Same warmth, same trust, applied to a service.

No physical space? Run the energy online. A shopping party live with a giveaway for everyone who comments a word, a weekend pop up with a local partner, or a private early access night just for your email list.

Here is why a forty dollar spread of cookies is the smartest money in retail. Experiences create loyalty in a way a transaction never will. About 65% of revenue comes from repeat customers, and existing customers convert at 60% to 70% versus just 5% to 20% for a brand new prospect. Just capture it. Photos, video, tag everyone who came, and let that content keep selling long after the event.

4. Partner With Another Brand

This is wildly underrated. Support other businesses and share your audiences. Find a brand that complements you instead of competing with you, and do something together. The giants play a cold zero sum game with one winner. You and your fellow small businesses get to play a team sport where everybody scores.

Run a joint giveaway where entry is follow both accounts, tag two friends, and save the post, with each brand throwing a product into the prize bundle. You both wake up to hundreds of warm new followers. Do a bundle swap where a boutique tucks a local maker’s candle into every order and the maker includes a coupon to the boutique. Co host a live where you cross promote to both audiences at once. For service businesses, partner adjacent. A wedding photographer teams with a florist and a planner for a referral trio. A nutrition coach partners with a fitness studio. A bookkeeper partners with a business coach. You each get introduced to a pre-qualified audience that already trusts the person making the introduction.

This works because you are buying access to a warm audience for the price of coordination, and these are exactly the right people. More than half of American consumers shop locally as a conscious choice to support their community, and $68 of every $100 spent locally stays in the local economy. Pick a partner whose customer is YOUR customer but whose offer is not your offer.

5. Partner With Creators and Influencers

This one is near and dear to me, because it is literally what we do all day at Parlay. Partner with creators. The right creators are incredible community builders. Have them genuinely use your product or experience your service and share it honestly. The most important word is RIGHT. This is not about follower count. A creator with 8,000 deeply loyal followers will outsell a creator with 80,000 strangers every time. It is about trust and fit.

Now let me debunk something that gets repeated everywhere, because it is costing people real growth. The whole “just gift it and hope they post” approach needs to go. Gifting product with no agreement is not a strategy, it is a wish, and more often than not you get nothing back. Free product does not guarantee a post, it does not guarantee effort, and it does not guarantee the kind of intentional content that actually converts. So let us treat creator partnerships as exactly what they are, a business transaction. You are investing in someone’s audience, their trust, and their talent, and that is worth paying for.

So invest and make a real offer. Creator partnerships can start as low as $500 and scale up from there, and when you choose the right person the conversion is real and the community you build is even more valuable. This is not an expense, it is a growth channel, so approach it like one. Set a budget, make the offer, and build the relationship as a true collaboration from day one.

Here is how to do it well. Lead with a clear, simple brief that spells out your objective, never a word for word script. Do not tell a creator exactly what to say, because their audience follows them for THEIR voice, and the moment it sounds like your ad copy it stops working. Instead, hand them everything they need to do it brilliantly. Share your line sheets, your products, or the details of your service, tell them the one specific goal you are after, whether that is sales on a hero item, sign ups, or bookings, and let them tap into it as a genuine resource for their own audience. Give them the what and the why, then trust them with the how. Service businesses run this exact same play. A med spa books a paid collaboration with a local lifestyle creator to feature a signature treatment. A coach runs a paid campaign with a creator around one specific offer. You are paying for reach, trust, and conversion, and that is money well spent.

The numbers make the case. Influencer marketing returns an average of $5.78 for every $1 spent, and top campaigns see $18 or more per dollar. On average it delivers around 11 times the return of traditional digital advertising, and more than 70% of brands earn at least $2 back per $1. The industry boomed to roughly $32.5 billion in 2025 for exactly this reason. A recommendation from a trusted creator feels like advice from a friend, which a big retailer cannot manufacture at any price. Finding and vetting the right creators and turning this into a repeatable, paid system is the part my team lives for.

6. Run Podcast Ads and Stop Relying Only on the Algorithm

Up on my soapbox for a second. Stop relying ONLY on the algorithm. If social is your only channel, you have built your business on rented land, and one algorithm change can tank a month. Diversify. Podcast ads are a favorite underdog channel because they are intimate, trusted, and most competitors are not there yet.

You do not need a celebrity show. A local lifestyle podcast, a mom podcast in your city, or a niche industry podcast can be gold because the audience is tight and devoted. The best format is a host read ad, where the host talks about you in her own words. Hand her honest talking points, not a stiff script. “I just found this boutique and I am obsessed, I have lived in their striped dress all summer, and right now they are running an incredible sale, use my code.” Service businesses, the same applies, and it is often even stronger, because a trusted host endorsing your med spa, your coaching, or your studio to a local audience is a referral at scale.

The power here is attention. A remarkable 71% of podcast listeners say they pay attention to the ads, far above other digital formats. Campaigns drive an average 10 point lift in brand awareness and a 6 point lift in purchase intent per Nielsen, and 54% of listeners say they are more likely to consider buying after hearing a brand on a podcast. Ads read by the host deliver 68% higher brand recall than pre recorded spots. Give the host a unique code so you can track it, and let her tell her people about something she genuinely loves.

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7. Run Meta Ads and Pay to Play

I already hear the objection. “But organic reach!” Organic is wonderful and you should never stop nurturing it, but during a major sale week the timeline is flooded, and hoping for free reach is wishful thinking. This is the moment to pay to play with Meta ads across Facebook and Instagram, and put your face directly in front of warm, ready to shop people for pennies.

Build it in layers, not as one cold blast. Your warmest audience is people who already visited your site, watched your lives, abandoned a cart, or engaged with your posts. Retarget them with your sale, because they just need the nudge. Then run a lookalike audience that Meta builds from your best customers to find fresh faces who resemble the people who already love you. For creative, skip the stiff product shot. Use a 15 second clip from a live, a real customer raving, or a quick selfie video of you. Real and human beats polished and corporate on Meta right now. Service businesses advertise the offer and the transformation, a free consult, a sale week package, a limited number of spots, with you on camera as the trust anchor.

The numbers hold. Meta ads average a return on ad spend of about 2.8 to 3.7 times depending on industry and targeting, with online retail conversion often in the 9% to 12% range and a cost per click sometimes as low as fifty cents. Start with a budget you are comfortable with, point ads straight at your lives and flash deals, and let every channel feed the next. That stacking is where the compounding lives.

8. Build and Use Your Email and Text List, the Owned Media You Control

This is the channel I want every one of you obsessed with, because it is the one you truly own. If the algorithm vanished overnight, your social following would vanish with it, but your email and text list is yours forever. During a major sale week your owned channels are gold, because you land directly in someone’s inbox or palm with no algorithm deciding if you are seen.

Here is a real sale week plan. Send a teaser two days before with a subject line like “Something big is coming Thursday.” Send the kickoff the morning the sale starts, leading with your story and best looks, not just a coupon. Send a daily “today’s flash deal” email at the same time each morning so it becomes a habit. Save text for the time sensitive punches. “It is LIVE! Today’s flash deal is the linen dress, 30% off for the next hour only, tap to shop.” Add a “we go live in 10 minutes, come shop with me” alert, and a final night last call. Service businesses run booking driven versions. “Two consult spots left at the sale rate, they close at midnight.”

The returns are almost hard to believe. Email returns an average of $36 to $42 for every $1 spent, and strong online retail brands have averaged as high as $79 per dollar. Text is even more immediate, with a 98% open rate, 82% of people reading within five minutes, and an average return around $71 per $1. Build that list everywhere, all the time, at checkout, at events, on lives, and in your bio with a real reason to join. The bigger your owned list, the less you are ever at the mercy of an algorithm again.

9. Launch or Promote a Loyalty and Rewards Program

The giants want the transaction. You want the relationship, and that difference is your long game. A simple loyalty program turns the rush of a sale week into customers who return all year instead of vanishing the moment the deals end.

Keep it simple. A points system where a dollar earns a point and a hundred points unlocks a reward. A punch card where the tenth purchase is on you. A VIP tier where your best customers get early access to every sale, which makes them feel like insiders, and people spend to stay insiders. During the event, your hook is double points all week. Service businesses run loyalty as packages and memberships. A med spa membership, a coaching retainer, a “book six sessions, get the seventh free.” Recurring relationships beat one off transactions every time.

The data is almost unfair. Loyalty members buy more often and spend more, with about 81% purchasing more frequently and 76% spending more. Members generate roughly 12% to 18% more revenue per year, and a mere 5% bump in retention can lift profits by 25%. Since it costs 5 to 25 times more to win a new customer than keep one, every sale week shopper you convert into a member pays you back for years.

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10. Compete With Bundles and Exclusives, Not Discounts

You will lose a straight price war with Amazon, Walmart, and the big retailers every time, so do not step into that ring. Change the game so there is no fair comparison. You do that with bundles, gift sets, and exclusives they cannot get anywhere else.

Build a curated “Summer Essentials” bundle with the dress, the sandals, and the bag for one price. The moment you bundle, price comparison becomes impossible, because there is no identical bundle to check on Amazon. Offer a gift with purchase on orders over a set amount, which lifts average order value without discounting the product. Drop a limited edition item only available that week. Create a “build your own bundle, buy three get one free.” Service businesses bundle brilliantly. A signature package that combines services, a “VIP day” intensive, a limited number of sale week spots with a bonus that is only available during the event. You are competing on value and uniqueness, which protects margin and raises order size at once, and it leans directly into why people seek you out, the unique offering they cannot find at a big retailer.

11. Put Real Faces and Real Stories at the Center of Your Brand

I could argue this is one of the most important ones, and it is almost free. This is a small business advantage, because while the big retailers are screaming BUY BUY BUY, a small business gets to show up with real, human faces, and that contrast is magnetic. People do not just buy products and services anymore. They buy the person behind the brand. The community. They buy the trust. The personalized experience. Now hear me, the shopper want it personalized and about them. Monograms are the

Consumers are increasingly buying from people before they buy from companies. The founder, the owner, the creator, the expert, and the personality behind the brand often become the strongest conversion asset a business has. People want to know who they are supporting. They want to know who is behind the recommendation. They want to know who built the business. Visibility is no longer optional. It is one of the most valuable business assets you can build.

Here is where I want to challenge the old advice, because in my professional opinion you do not have to be the face of your own brand. If you love being on camera, wonderful, lean in and be the face. But if that is not you, that is completely okay. What your brand needs is a face, not necessarily YOUR face. You can build that visibility through creators, trusted team members, brand ambassadors, paid models, and the right partnerships, and then grow your community around those people. Delegating this is not a cop out, it is how you scale. A brand that depends on one person doing everything stays small. A brand built around a system of faces and storytellers can grow and eventually run without you in every single frame. So decide what role you actually want to play, then build the team and the partners to carry the rest. This kind of visibility is the one thing on this list a big retailer can never copy.

However you cast it, the moves are the same. Show the behind the scenes, the orders packed on the kitchen table, the happy chaos of delivery day, the late night steaming dresses or prepping for clients. Tell the story of why the business started, the fear and the leap. Introduce your team by name and let them have a personality. Post a “meet the maker” reel, share a customer win and what it meant. Put real faces on the lives, the emails, the ads, and the podcast reads, whether that is you, a team member, or a creator who genuinely loves what you do. Remind your community that when they buy, they are supporting real people who know their name. For service businesses, the expert is often the draw, so make sure a trusted, knowledgeable face is always front and center.

This is the emotional engine under every statistic in this post. 82% of consumers want to support small business owners, and so many will happily pay more to do it (Empower). They are already rooting for you. They just need to be reminded there are real, beating hearts on the other side of the screen. Do not whisper your story. Tell it loudly. Tell it often. Tell it proudly.

12. Build Content Assets Before the Sale Starts

Here is the strategy that separates the small businesses that chase one good sale from the ones that build a compounding business. Before the event ever begins, build content assets that keep working long after the promotions end. Ads stop the moment you stop paying. Content you own keeps generating attention, traffic, and trust for months and years.

So in your 30 day runway, create the durable stuff. Write a blog post or an editorial gift guide that targets what people are already searching for during these events, things like how to shop a sale without overspending, or your roundup of the best finds for the season, optimized so it ranks and pulls in organic traffic right when buying intent peaks. Start or send a newsletter, a real one with personality, whether on your own platform or a Substack style channel, because a newsletter is an owned asset that builds authority and a direct relationship no algorithm can interrupt. Build Pinterest content, because Pinterest behaves like a search engine and a single pin can drive traffic for years. Stockpile creator content and your own short videos in advance so you are not creating in a panic mid event. Create simple landing pages and SEO driven articles that live on your site and keep ranking.

For service businesses this is how you win the long game. A coach who publishes a weekly newsletter and a few strong blog posts becomes the trusted authority people remember when they are finally ready to buy. A med spa with an SEO article on a popular treatment captures search traffic every single month. This is the difference between renting attention with ads and owning attention with assets. Both matter, but only one keeps paying you after the sale ends.

13. Track Everything So You Can Do It Bigger Next Time

You cannot grow what you do not measure, and a sale week is a goldmine of data if you actually capture it. The small businesses that scale these events year over year are the ones that treat each one as a paid experiment that teaches them exactly where to put their energy next time.

Set it up so every channel is trackable before the event starts. Give each creator and each podcast a unique discount code so you know precisely what they drove. Use tracking links on your emails, texts, and ads so you can see which message actually converted. Watch the numbers that matter, your email and text list growth, your return on ad spend, your cost to acquire a customer, your average order value, which live and which flash deal sold the most, and which content brought people in. Then write it all down the week after, while it is fresh, in a simple document you can pull up next year.

One of the biggest things that make me cringe is I see businesses measuring revenue alone. Revenue matters, but so do the leading indicators. How many new email subscribers did you gain? How many new text subscribers? How many first time customers became repeat customers? Which creator drove the highest average order value? Which ad generated the most qualified traffic? Those insights often become more valuable than the revenue generated during the event itself because they help shape every future campaign.

That single habit is what turns a chaotic sale week into a repeatable revenue system. Next time you will know which creators to work with again, which days converted, which offers to lead with, and where to spend a bigger budget with confidence. This is exactly the kind of long term system my team helps brands build, so each event compounds on the last instead of starting from scratch.

You Got This

Let me leave you where we started, because it is the whole point. You are not competing against Amazon, Target, or Walmart. You are competing for attention during the exact moments your future customers are already paying it, and attention is far more accessible than most sellers believe.

The small businesses that win these events are not the cheapest. They are the most prepared, the most visible, and the most connected. They built a 30 day runway. They put a real face and personality at the center. They stacked their channels so social fed email, email fed live selling, creators fed paid media, and content kept working after the sale ended. They competed on trust, which is the most valuable currency in business and the one thing the giants cannot offer.

So do not go quiet the next time the giants roll out a sale. Build your engine, turn it on, and capture your share of the buying intent that is already in motion. You do not have to be the biggest to win these events. You have to be the most prepared and the most YOU.

You got this!

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This is the work I care about most, at Parlay Collective and beyond, helping businesses build long-term revenue systems instead of chasing one off campaigns, from personal visibility and creator partnerships to paid media, owned channels, and the content assets that keep working long after the sale ends. However you choose to build it, the principle holds. Prepare early, put real faces and real stories on the brand, nurture the relationships, and treat every major sale event as a chance to grow something that lasts. Don’t bash them! LEARN from them!

As always, I hope my insight helps you navigate your business with more clarity, strategy, and confidence as you continue building and scaling your brand online. One of my favorite parts of this space is being able to share real experiences, real data, and real perspective with fellow entrepreneurs, business owners, and content creators who are trying to grow intentionally in such a fast moving digital landscape.

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Sources

Amazon Prime Day figures from Digital Commerce 360 and About Amazon. Live shopping conversion and growth from Awisee and Savings.com. Influencer marketing returns from Amra and Elma and Sprout Social. Podcast advertising from Westwood One and AdResults Media. Meta ad benchmarks from Trendtrack and WebFX. Email and text returns from Omnisend email, Omnisend SMS, and Sakari. Loyalty and retention from True Loyal and Stampme. Shop local sentiment from Capital One Shopping and Empower.