Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about selling on Amazon
Frequently Asked Questions
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We have always launched our own products without doing giveaways, using PPC only. We will show you how to do it, and be with you each step of the way. It’s not only about how fast you rank, it’s about if you are able to maintain that rank afterwards. This is where a targeted PPC campaign will win each time over giveaways.
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It’s easy to set up a PPC campaign but it’s all about relevancy. Relevant keywords bring sales, irrelevant keywords eat up your budget. So it’s important to ‘audit’ your advertising sales reports and make changes to these keywords. We do this for you, weekly, for 30 days. We analyse your advertising report and make recommendations on what changes to make to optimize your ACOS.
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The Golden Questions! In a nutshell, we will help you to choose whether to target a “high sales – high competition” keyword, which will require you to sell more units but brings in more sales to you once you rank, OR, a “lesser competitive” keyword, which will require a lower number of sales but is often easier to maintain your rank on Page 1. Click on our live support chat, and our friendly staff will talk you through on your own specialized launch strategy.
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During the initial ‘Launch’ period, the aim is to get your sponsored ad to page 1. Once your sponsored ad is on page 1, buyers need to start buying your product. You now need to start outselling your competitors in order for your organic rank to move up. If you don’t maintain the equivalent organic sales of your competitors, then it will slowly lose rank over time. This is where an optimized listing is so important. We suggest that your price, photographs and listing (title and bullet points) must always be optimised.
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We have experience in creating thousands of winning product listings. The secret is to research the keywords that your exact competitors are ranking for, then use those keywords in your listings. The keywords used more often by buyers would appear in the title, and those used less often in the bullets and back-end keywords.
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Yes - this can be frustrating. The reality is that the listing itself “belongs” to Amazon. As the seller, you have an influence over what the listing can say, but typically you need to have Seller Central approve your changes. We can help guide you in this process. If you have Brand Registry, then changes you make are usually approved instantly.
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A well-managed PPC Campaign aims to target a desired ACOS. This is easily done by our automated software. Any keywords that are suffering ACOS above your target will have their bids reduced. Any keywords achieving a profitable ACOS are left alone. The net result is, over time, your ACOS comes down and down.
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We work directly with you, and your own personal objectives. How long it can take for a PPC Campaign to regularize is dependant largely on your own risk appetite. We try take a measured and calculated approach to changing bids. Small changes, made often, that will cause a less drastic swing in sales and ACOS. We know it takes at about a few weeks to notice a difference, about a month to see ACOS coming down and between 2-3 months to be fully optimized.
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Our bidding technique is simple - yet effective. We identify all Search Terms that result in sales and isolate them. Then we can target each of those Search Terms individually with bids that bring the ACOS down. We run a smaller Research Campaign for you that continually hunts for new converting Search Terms.
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There is more to our Product Validator than just products that are difficult to launch. We also have experience in identifying products that are not allowed to be sold as FBA, or that you are unable to use Sponsored Ads. We also quantify for you the keyword search volume that product could achieve, and how many sales it would require to reach Page One.
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Our Photoshop experts need the highest resolution photos you can send. It doesn’t require a professional photo shoot. Just well-lit high resolution photos taken with your cellphone should do the trick. Also, we give you hints, such as you take your product photos in the bathtub, which has all white backgrounds and good lighting.