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How Optimizing Our Amazon Listings Boosted Our Conversion Rate by 10%

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Andrew Maff explains how to optimize Amazon listing titles, descriptions, bullets and keywords to make a big impact on your business for free

This post is by Andrew Maff, Director of Marketing and Operations for Seller’s Choice, a full-service digital marketing agency for ecommerce sellers. Before joining Seller’s Choice, Andrew worked as the Digital Marketing Director for top Amazon seller Think Crucial.

If you sell products on Amazon, you’re probably wondering if there’s anything you can do to help increase your sales.

The good news is that tweaking your product listings has very tangible benefits in that regard. The bad news is that it’s going to take some very real effort and work on your part. While I worked as the Director of Marketing for Think Crucial, that was one of the biggest challenges that I faced.

Think Crucial had its own very successful ecommerce site and we wanted to have the same success on Amazon. We had over 2000 SKUs with 900 parent listings so we knew there was more potential for us. To accomplish our goals for our Amazon listings, I decided to focus on four concrete areas: product titles, descriptions, bullet points, and keywords.

The end result? Page views increased by 44%, sales by 30%, and conversion rate by an impressive 10%. That’s a lot of business impact. We optimized everything possible including images, titles, bullet points, product descriptions and on some listings, Enhanced Brand Content.
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How to Make Amazon’s Customers Your Customers Using Facebook Ads

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Anthony Lee explains step-by-step how to use Amazon buyer data to create targeted Facebook ad campaigns, and go direct to customers

This post is by Anthony Lee, COO of SixLeaf (formerly ZonBlast), the first and largest product launch and ranking service for Amazon sellers.

When sellers start offering their own private label products on Amazon, their goal is usually to build an independent brand. They aim to use Amazon as a springboard and, in the future, make most of their sales through their own website.

The problem is that a lot of the training programs and advice available to online sellers doesn’t explain HOW to grow your brand beyond Amazon. There is just a common notion that once your brand becomes “big enough” it will naturally happen. It doesn’t work that way.

In this post, I’m going to talk you through some practical steps which really work to build your brand. You’ll find out how to leverage Amazon buyer data to find your customers on Facebook, and target them with Facebook advertising campaigns.

By doing this, you can direct existing customers, and other buyers just like them, to products on your own webstore, and build a really robust, independent brand.

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How To Optimize Amazon PPC Campaigns and Find Untapped Keywords

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Franz Jordan explains how to optimize your cost per click and reveals the best method for finding long-tail keywords with untapped potential

This post is by Franz Jordan, CEO of Sellics, a powerful all-in-one tool that combines everything sellers need to be successful on Amazon.

Amazon Sponsored Products has proven to be a very effective channel for sellers and vendors looking to increase their sales velocity on Amazon. In 2016, the number of sellers using Amazon PPC globally doubled, while the number of clicks on PPC ads grew by over 150%. This growth has continued, as between second-quarter and third-quarter 2017, Amazon’s Sponsored Products ads grew by another 52%.

With more sellers leveraging Amazon PPC as part of their marketing strategy, it raises interesting questions about the market saturation of keywords on Amazon’s ad platform, and whether there still lies untapped potential for sellers to bid on lucrative keywords with a low cost-per-click (CPC). After all, bidding on keywords with negligible competition means you are driving very low-cost traffic to your products.

As an Amazon seller, you need to ask yourself how you can take advantage of the current PPC landscape to (a) lower your overall CPC and (b) leverage the untapped keyword potential in Sponsored Products to buy more traffic for your products at a low cost.

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Can I Buy Amazon Reviews? Everyone Else Seems to Be Doing It!

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Buying reviews is against Amazon’s rules. But are there ways around this? And is it worth the risk? Matthew Ferguson reveals all.

Have a question for us? Send it to questions@webretailer.com. Readers’ Questions are in partnership with Emanaged and Online Seller Consulting.

Question

I have my own private label beauty brand and have been selling products on Amazon for the past five years.

I monitor my competition closely and it seems that over the last month, they’ve been getting a lot of reviews, far more than I’m getting even though my product has higher sales. I think they must be buying reviews.

I thought that doing this was against Amazon’s Terms of Service, so how are my competitors getting away with doing it?

Personally, I’m worried about the risks of getting caught. I’ve heard about Amazon suspending sellers for buying reviews and I don’t want this to happen to me. But, I also don’t want my competitors to be using this against me.

Do you know if there was a way that I could do it too without getting caught? Or even a way that would be treated less harshly by Amazon if I do get caught? I don’t want to do this if the risk of being suspended is too high.

— Grace, CO, United States

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eBay Sales Down? Here’s How eBay Might Be Working Against You

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From algorithm updates to site outages and random testing, there are many ways that the mechanics of eBay can cause your sales to fall.

There is one question that sellers ask more than any other: “why are my eBay sales down?”

One month your orders are flying in and then, all of a sudden, sales just fall off a cliff. You didn’t change anything on your listings, and there is no obvious cause like the time of year, changes in fashion, or the release of new products onto the market. This leaves sellers stumped, unsure how to react, and left hoping that their sales will pick up as quickly and inexplicably as they dropped.

So why does it happen? Very often sellers, at a loss for any other explanation, blame eBay, concluding that the marketplace simply doesn’t like them anymore. While eBay may not be deliberately sabotaging your sales, the notion that your sales are suffering because of their actions, or changes that they have made, could well be true.

In this post, we are going to explore ten ways that eBay could be working against you, causing your sales to drop. These reasons are based on logic and observations about how eBay’s algorithms appears to work, but it’s important to remember that the only people who know exactly how these algorithms operate are eBay themselves.

Let’s take a look at why your eBay sales are down.

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