11. Start With The Product
Selling at $10 means your ACoS is 20%
Selling at $30 makes it look far sexier
PPC Spend (CAC) Sales (RRP) ACoS
$2.00 $10 20%
$2.00 $20 10%
$2.00 $30 6.7%
$2.00 $40 5%
$2.00 $50 4%
13. PPC Is Not Linear
Competition drives CPC’s
ACoS tends to be high on low cost products
Develop a keyword strategy to fit the bugdet
14. Head Keywords
These keywords will start to mount up fast
Units Head Keywords Avg CPC
1 Competitive Keyword (1) $3.99
2 Competitive Keyword (2) $2.66
3 Competitive Keyword (3) $2.44
4 Competitive Keyword (4) $2.10
5 Competitive Keyword (5) $1.99
15. Long Tail Keywords
These ones will help reduce your overall budget
Units Long Tail Keywords Avg CPC
1 Long Tail Keyword (1) $0.90
2 Long Tail Keyword (2) $0.85
3 Long Tail Keyword (3) $0.80
4 Long Tail Keyword (4) $0.75
5 Long Tail Keyword (5) $0.70
6 Long Tail Keyword (6) $0.60
7 Long Tail Keyword (7) $0.50
8 Long Tail Keyword (8) $0.40
16. Again…PPC Is Not Linear
The goal is to reduce conversion costs
Find long tail keywords that convert
Look to make up lost search volume
Use Amazon’s Auto Campaign Data
17. *
80/20 rule - Less is more…
Get Amazon to validate your ASIN
Patience of a saint
Remove the desire to tweak
18. Try changing the background
color, font colors and add in
different photos or icons.
Waiting is
boring….
22. Here are some strategies you can try on
your own campaigns…
1. Stacking Auto Campaigns
2. Rotating Auto Campaigns
3. High and Low Method
23. *
Stacking Auto Campaigns
What you will need for this experiment:
1.Excel
2.Buckets of patience
3.A notepad to document each change (Bread crumbs)
4. A text file to keep all your negative keywords (Wash
list)
24. *
Stacking Auto Campaigns 1.1
Goals
1. Raise conversions
2. Reduce budgets
3. Find new long tail keywords
25. *
Stacking Auto Campaigns 1.2
Eventually your campaigns will look something like this:
1. Campaign 1 (0.20 / 10.00)
2. Campaign 2 (0.40 / 10.00)
3. Campaign 3 (0.60 / 10.00)
4. Campaign 4 (0.90 / 10.00)
***Play with daily budgets (high velocity category)
to find sweet spot…
26. *
Stacking Auto Campaigns 1.3
How it works…
1. Set up an Auto Campaign and set Daily budget
and Bid.
2. Run for at least 48/72 hours but highly
recommend 7 days (Amazon reporting has a
time lag) -we want to qualify the data as best as
possible.
3. Download a Search Term Report and open in
Excel
27. *
Stacking Auto Campaigns 1.4
4. Check for random keywords; cut and paste each
phrase into Amazon search and review for
relevance.
***Example; let’s say you sell an organic product for 22.99 and
everything on the page is a chemical based product with the average
price of 5.99.
28. *
Stacking Auto Campaigns 1.5
Note: random keywords can convert and will
convert so reviewing data with this method is
important.
Create a text file and dump all non relevant
keywords (wash list)
Add keywords as negative Exact Match.
29. *
Stacking Auto Campaigns 1.6
Document this without fail –
•Date and changes made
•Observations
•Record ACoS, Clicks and Impressions
***Over a period of time you should notice the
Budget reducing through weeding the reports…
30. *
Stacking Auto Campaigns 1.7
Tuning your listing
Review your wash list
Revise your Title (be careful)
Revise backend keywords
*** This is to help Amazon with serving the most
relevant keywords
31. *
Stacking Auto Campaigns 1.8
Phase 2 – Setting up Auto Campaign 2
Setup new Auto at higher CPC and set daily
budget
Review wash list from Campaign 1 and add as
Exact Negative Match
Run report after 7 days
Optimise for relevancy as before
32. *
Stacking Auto Campaigns 1.9
Phase 2 – Things to watch out for…
Auto 1 can dip after Auto 2 intro (algo sways to
higher CPC) Ranging from 15-20% reduction
Review Negative Match for blockage
(impressions/clicks)
33. *
Stacking Auto Campaigns
Recap
1. Campaign 1 (0.20 / 10.00) - Week 1
2. Campaign 2 (0.40 / 10.00) - Week 2
3. Campaign 3 (0.60 / 10.00) - Week 3
4. Campaign 4 (0.90 / 10.00) - Week 4
*Play with daily budgets (high velocity category) to
find sweet spot.
**Check negatives for blockage
***Review drop off rates post intro to each
Campaign
34. Rotating Auto Campaigns…
1. Similar process to the Stacked
Campaign
2. Rotate each day (same time)
3. Don’t turn off; reduce bids instead
35. *
Hi Lo Method
1. Run an Auto with high bid (3.00-5.00) and daily
budget (20.00), this is to find high comp keywords
2. For long tail switch to a low bid between 0.25-
0.50 for a couple of weeks.
3) You may either keep your low bid campaign
running or Switch to a bid in the middle; extract the
winners & losers.
36. *
Hi Lo Method Cont…
4) Download a recent Search Term Report (SC >
Reports > Advertising Reports > Search
TermReport > Request Report)
5. Repeat the validation process for optimising
your keywords and validating your listing as per
Method A & B.
Author: Brian Johnson PPC
TroubleShooting Forum
37. Recap…
Think about baking in PPC (Sourcing
Stage)
Don’t Push The Bolder (ACoS Hell)
Reduce Tweaking
Tune Your Listing Using Auto Campaigns
Diversify Your Keyword Portfolio
1.Spent first half of my career in the music industry, travelled the world as a DJ and made records all day
2.In 2008 I raised money for a music startup
3. This is where I developed my love of COR and PPC
4. Which lead me to FBA in March 2015
5. My partner I, are here on a sourcing mission to scale up ready for Q4
1.Today I am offering a look at PPC through a different lense and hope you guys can get value
1.You won't need to be as smart as him!
1.Nor him
1.We are looking at baking in PPC from the beginning. But like any form of marketing the product needs to be front and center - As the saying goes " You can't polish a turd"
2.This will require you to be discipline
3. And plenty of patience
1. There is no point in pushing the bolder up the hill when there is no reason to. Getting your product hypothesis right up front is essential...
1.You can spend a lot of time fighting the competition in a high velocity market or pick a different product.
2.It is that simple...
1. How you think is important
2. We know everyone is looking for more
3. Most people will double their ad budget without fixing conversions.
The most common question asked today regarding Sponsored Ads
1.Let's start with the product
2. Column one is our Customer Acquisition Cost
3. Two, Is the retail price on Amazon
4. And three, id the Advertising Cost of Sale
5. At $10 you are pushing against the tide
6. At $30 you can boost to anyone that listens you have an ACoS under 10%
The moral of the story is don't make hard work of something when there is a lesser path to resistance
1. Of course PPC is not linear
2. Competition drive up Cost Per Click
3. Although, generally low priced items have a higher ACoS than products at premium price points
4. Setting a keyword strategy is essential
1. Your head keywords will start to blow through your budget if not managed correctly.
1. However, blended with long tail variations can help bring down your overall budget, making it easier on your to make PPC a channel of profit rather than break even on lost leader...
1. Again, I must stress PPC is not linear
2. The goal is to reduce conversion costs
3. Make sense of the long tail
4. Make up low impression volume
5. Use Amazon's own data
1. 80/20 - Less is more
2. Use the Auto Campaign to tune your listing
3. Remove the inconsistency of tweaking
4. Develop your patience muscle
1. Now we wait
2. But waiting in boring
1. Here is a an Auto Campaign with a low bid
2. Low ACos
3. With zero optimization
4. It is easy and common to dismiss auto campaigns as junk data, but it is great for tuning your listing so Amazon can understand your product...
1. This pertiular campaign has no Negative Keywords.
2. Maybe we got lucky?
1. Here is another one
2. Low bid
3. 10% ACoS
4. Minimal optimisation