Amazon pay per click (PPC) campaigns are one of the more stable ways of drawing business to your products. It can drive Amazon customers to you without breaking your budget. Once you get to a certain number of products and campaigns though, it makes sense to automate your Amazon sponsored product campaigns.

The most significant factor for automation is looking at how much time optimizing your ad campaigns takes up in a week. It doesn’t matter if it’s on account of the many products or in-depth campaigns. If you find yourself increasing how much time you work just to get through it all, it’s time to automate.

What You Need to Follow This Tutorial

Ideally, you must have a product or products established already on the Amazon platform. The product page should have high-resolution images that the ad campaign can use. This product should also have a beautifully written page. Within the writing, you should check for the keywords used in the ad campaign. It should also have at least three reviews on it for maximum effect. All these items mean the product has the highest chance of being bought once we get buyers onto the page.

Since we’re talking about automation, we need data to feed the program. Since you know about Amazon PPC, we’re assuming you’ve been running campaigns already. This means you have data on your earlier keyword bids in your Seller Central. This historical data removes the learning curve for most automation services. Thus, the price of the transition will be reduced.

Step by Step Instructions

Step One: Decide How Much Control You Want

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We recently sat down with Joseph Hansen, who is an Amazon growth expert and one of the original co-founders of the Prosper Show. His company Buy Box Experts helps brands grow their businesses on Amazon.

When do most sellers realize that they need help and that they can no longer do everything on their own?

Most sellers come to us when they reach $1 million dollars in sales. Some businesses come to us before that but most have reached that threshold or have far surpassed it. Our typically engagement is with a mid-market brand with top line sales ranging from several million to a few hundred million dollars.

What makes sellers pull the trigger on getting outside help?

When a private-label seller or brand starts to sell around a million dollars a year on the Amazon channel, they have found that business is a lot more complex than they thought it would be and they realize that they’re not able to keep up with everything. They also feel that they’re becoming an expert at critical things, like marketing, slower than they would like. They may be very good at sourcing products, or at product design or at marketing on their own website. Their core competence is one or a combination of all of those things, and Amazon isn’t their core competence.
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Ready to learn the ins and outs of Amazon branding strategy so you can totally crush your competition?

In today’s competitive Amazon marketplace, branding is the end-all-be-all topic of discussion when it comes to standing out and creating a sustainable business that allows you to scale your product line, your revenue and of course your customer base.

Dayana Mayfield (head of marketing at Refunds Manager) recently sat down with Andrew Maffetone, director of marketing and operations at Seller’s Choice, full service marketing agency for Amazon Seller’s.

Watch the video–we did have a couple tech glitches, sorry!–or read on for all our takeaways from this talk with Andrew about Amazon FBA branding.

This blog post has been created by Teikametrics: The world leader in leveraging data science and machine learning to automate advertising on Amazon. They’re offering Refunds Manager followers exclusive, early access to their new Retail Optimization Platform, Flywheel.

It’s no secret that Amazon has become a major destination for online shoppers. No matter what you’re shopping for, Amazon has become the go-to source for everything from toilet paper to sporting goods, clothing to toys for your kids. In fact, nearly 45 percent of all product searches start on the Amazon marketplace.

Before Amazon came onto the scene, there was no central marketplace for online retailers to access fulfilment and advertising services. Today, Amazon sellers have access to these advantages and more, and sellers who know how to use all the tools that Amazon offers are better equipped for success than those who don’t.

With that said, the world as an Amazon seller can be difficult to navigate, and it is important for online retailers to know the ins and outs of the ecommerce terrain. One of the most important aspects of financial understanding is gross profit. Most business owners feel that they have a firm grasp of what profit is. However, fewer might realize what exactly gross profit is, how it’s calculated, and why it is so important to Amazon sellers.

What Is Gross Profit?

Gross profit is the total amount of revenue that a company makes after subtracting its direct costs. For Amazon sellers, gross profit takes into consideration all of the expenses associated with selling on Amazon, including:

• Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
• FBA fees that Amazon collects from sellers. These include fees for services like shipping, pick & pack, order handling, and storage.
• Costs associated with being an Amazon Sponsored Product
• Amazon seller’s fees, which Amazon charges per product, depending on the business category. Usually, this fee is about 15%.
• Other marketing costs, like promotions or Amazon advertising spend

Many Amazon sellers focus solely on profit, but gross profit is actually the more important metric to identify and understand. Let’s explore this further.
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Today on the blog we’re talking about how to know if you’re ready to launch your next Amazon brand. Is it time to take on something new? Or is your new idea just a distraction, and should you focus on your existing brand instead?

As an entrepreneur, these are important questions. Many entrepreneurs get about a thousand ideas a minute, so it’s up to you to know which one to pursue.

If you’ve had some success on Amazon and are wondering if it’s time to diversify, this post is for you.

The strategy behind building brands (instead of just launching products)

Before we dive into the criteria, let’s first take a moment to review the strategy of brand building, as opposed to selling random products that seem to be a good opportunity.
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Have you heard of Amazon sellers using third party logistics companies (in addition to using FBA)?

Do you think those sellers have lost their minds? Amazon offers storage and order fulfillment, so why would an Amazon seller use a third party logistics company, or 3PL?

Most sellers assume that 3PLs only need to be used for channel outside of Amazon, such as your own Shopify store.But with increased Amazon fees (especially long term storage), more and more FBA sellers are turning to 3PLs to help them save money.

We surveyed a few successful Amazon sellers who learned the hard way how to save money when working with 3PLs. Read on to learn more.

What is a third party logistics company?

A third party logistics company helps ecommerce entrepreneurs with storage, order fulfillment, shipping, and customer service issues like exchanges and returns.

This allows the entrepreneur to focus on growing their business, building their brand and increasing demand for their products, rather than worry about the nitty gritty details of order fulfillment, which is mainly time-consuming, low-skill labor.

What do 3PLs do?

Depending on the deal you make with a 3PL, the company might handle only storage (so you’re not shipping everything from your supplier to FBA) or they may also handle order fulfillment (if you are a multichannel seller).

Here’s a list of what most 3PLs provide:

• Ecommerce order fulfillment / pick & pack
• Long term storage
• Shipment receiving from suppliers
• International freight and customs clearance assistance
• 2-day or 3-day delivery (at an additional cost to the customer)

Why would an FBA seller want to use a third party logistics company for their Amazon business?

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