2. Jeff Cohen
I am your guide, not a guru.
Ecommerce since 2007
Amazon since 2013
3. ● 55,000 Licensed Users
○ Serving 1P Sellers, 3P Sellers, Brands and Agencies
● $753M in Attributable Advertising Sales
● $120M in Annual Advertising Spend Managed through Ignite
● 1M+ Emails Sent Daily via Feedback Genius
● $13B in Gross Sales Facilitated by Seller Labs Products
Who Is Seller Labs
4. What We Won’t Cover
• Basics of PPC
• Terminology
• Campaign Set up
https://www.sellerlabs.com/offers/ppc_course_lesson_1/
5. What We Will Cover
• Strategy and setting goals
• Get Retail Ready
• Are ads required
• How Amazon ads work
• Data driven decisions
• Common pitfalls
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6. Strategy
You need to use the same data-drive strategy to achieve your goals
Every ASIN has to perform at an established velocity and performance.
Your catalog is divided into three parts and you MUST manage based
on established ASIN strategy.
So, where do you start?
8. Reaching Your Goals
How am I going to take <Current Sales> to <Goal> in one year with my
current catalog?
• Analyze the data
• Interpret the data
• Establish strategy
• Work backwards from your goal
9. • Located in Business Reports
• This report is going to be the
foundation for establishing goals
and strategy
• Sessions (traffic to your ASIN)
• Sessions percentage (sales
conversion)
• Buy Box % and Sales
• DOES NOT REPORT PROFIT
Detail Page Sales & Traffic
by Child Item Report
Business Reports
11. Sessions:
minimum of 1K per
month
(97MM unique
visitors to Amazon
and you’re fighting for
traffic).
Session
Conversion:
minimum 10%;
30% is good;
less than 10% is BAD.
Profit:
You MUST establish a
profit range 10-50%.
Buy Box (resellers): Establish a floor for BB share.
ASIN Strategy
12. 1,000 Sessions @
10% conversion =
100 units per
month
100 units per
month
x $29.99 ASP
$2,999/month
$35,988/year
20 ASINs x
$35,988/year
$719,760 in
annual GMS
ASIN Strategy Example
13. • Sessions – Increase sponsored products, update keywords/search,
off-Amazon advertising
• Session Conversion – Fix detail page, images, bullets, title, product
reviews, adjust pricing, run promotions
• Buy Box – Adjust pricing, run promotions, FBA, stop selling
• Profit – Stop selling when you can no longer maintain profit range
All ASINS are not created equal.
Not Meeting Goals
15. HEAD SELECTION = TOP 20%
• Most important ASINs in your catalog
• 80/20 Rule - Pareto Principle
• Generating 80% of your sales
• High velocity ASINs
• Profit can vary – 10% - 50%
• High competition
• Never run out of stock
• Never get suspended
• This is your goal for every ASIN
Head Selection
16. TORSO SELECTION
• The middle of your catalog ~70%
• This is where you start making adjustments
• Business can sustain stock outs, ASIN suspensions
• Slower velocity
• Profit range tends to be consistent
• ASINs can either improve with making adjustments or
• ASINs are ending life-cycle and heading to tail
Torso Selection
17. THE TAIL
• The bottom 30% of your catalog
• Why are you selling?
• Tail section is C.R.A.P. (Can’t Realize Any Profit) ASINs
• Must eliminate CRAP as these ASINs have run through its
lifecycle
• It’s time to stop selling!
Tail Selection
18. Establishing Your Strategy
This strategy can be used for wholesalers, arbitrage, and private label.
The strategy is a starting place. It doesn’t have to be the same.
You just need a strategy!
20. Some Advice...
Stop thinking of your business as a business that is going from
$12MM to $40MM.
Start thinking of your business as a $40MM business that is
underperforming and you need to make changes immediately.
21. It’s All About The Data!
Every ASIN needs its own STRATEGY.
1. Account Health - The basics
2. Sessions - Traffic is key to success
3. Sales Conversion - >10%
4. Buy Box % - Products won’t sell without BB
5. Profit - A business can’t grow without cash
6. Sponsored Products & Brand - Always on Advertising
7. ACoS - How much is it going to cost to sell the product?
8. RoAS - What’s the return on ad spend?
30. Brand
● Bose
● Apple
● Sony
Use
Case
● running
● gaming
● web
Product
Attribute
● noise canceling
● bluetooth
● foldable
Demographic
● kid
● toddler
● male
Keyword Strategies
31. Best Practices
1. Identify your objective (launch, organic, steal market share)
2. 250 bytes for keywords, 150 characters for the title
3. Consider synonyms, spelling variations, abbreviations, and alternative names
4. Exclude ASIN, brand name or other brands
5. Skip “stop words”: a, an, and, by, for, of, the, because, with
6. Avoid subjective/temporary terms: best, prime day, new, cheapest
7. ABT - Always be testing
8. Check Keywords - ensure your keywords are indexed
32. Bring Content to Life
1. How it's brewed? iced, french press, instant
2. What flavor? Vanilla, caramel
3. Where is it grown? French, Colombian
4. How much caffeine? extra strong, high caffeine
44. Reviews - Getting Your First Review
• Early Reviewer / Vine Program
• Promote via your own list
• Discounts / Promotion (beware!)
Pro Tip: Set up an email auto responder to message
clients and provide additional customer service.
53. Guess which are the
sponsored ads.
Is this good? Is it bad?
It doesn’t matter.
It is the way it is, and if you
want to play, you have to pay.
Advertising is required!
55. The perennial classic, the
go-to-ad for most PPC
advertisers. Super rich in terms
of options and strategies but
not your only option so don’t
limit yourself.
Sponsored Products Ads
56. Formerly known as Headline
Search Ads, SBAs require
Amazon Brand Registry.
If you own your brand, being
able to offer SBAs in your ad
mix is reason enough to
register your brand (but you
should do it anyway for
protection and perks). Don’t
sleep on SBAs as the
placement is great and the
competition is substantially
less than for SPAs.
Sponsored Brands Ads
57. PDAs can cross categories and
get your products in front of
new buyers who might not have
found you otherwise.
Amazon nails it: “What makes
these ads unique is that they
displayed based on relevant
products, product categories, or
audience interests. Product
Display Ads show within
product detail pages to surface
either complementary or
competing products.”
Product Display Ads
64. Determine Your Target ACoS
Determine your business goal.
Are you willing to spend a lot or a little?
Passive or Active?
Know what your “break-even” is for your product.
How much can you spend on ads and still be profitable?
65. Determine Your Target Advertising Cost of Sale
If profit margin for a product is 30% after fees + overhead + other
costs,
Break even for that campaign is 30% ACoS.
Thus, if your ACoS is less than 30%, you see profit.
66. Advertising Cost of Sale ACOP
= Ad Spend ÷ Total Sales
$300 Ad Spend / $3,000 Sales
= 10% ACoS
67. ASIN Level - ACoS
Account Level - ACOP
Know Your Goal
Sales Efficiency
Brand Awareness
Know Your Numbers
71. What We Found
276 Advertised ASIN's in this report
(Of 361 offerings in Business Report)
Roughly 3/4 of catalog advertised (76%)
3% of Customer Search Terms were ASINs in this period (Very healthy)
72. What We Found
1511 Unique Targets (Keywords)
87% of Spend went to Keyword targets (not auto targets)... yet 76% of
clicks
Potentially $1100 in wasted spend (really not bad at all!)
$225 in ASIN targets with $0 sales
73. 3 Sales in 30 Days
4% Conversion Rate
Follow The Data