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Amazon 301: Advanced AMS Strategy & Analytics
A Brand Strategy Webinar
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Today’s Presenters
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Jonathan Laverentz
Product Marketingfor Brand Solutions
ChannelAdvisor
Jason Smith
Client Strategy ManagerDigital MarketingChannelAdvisor
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Amazon 301: Advanced AMS Strategy & Analytics
Amazon 101 & 201 Recap
Advanced Strategy and Analytics
The ChannelAdvisor Solution
Takeaways
Q&A
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TODAYWE’RETALKING ABOUT
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Digital Marketing on Amazon
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AMAZON 101 WEBINAR RECAP
3 Types of Ads
Protecting Your Brand
Non-Brand Traffic
Organizing Your Campaign
Optimization
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Sponsored Products Overview
▪ Automatic or Manual (Keyword) Targeting
▪ Visible on Amazon Search and Product Pages
▪ Clicks sent to Product Page
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Headline Search Ads Overview
▪ Combination graphic and text-based ad unit
▪ Visible on Amazon Search Pages
▪ Clicks sent to Category or Custom Landing Page
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Product Display Ads Overview
▪ Product or Interest-based Targeting
▪ Visible on Amazon Product Detail Pages
▪ Clicks sent to Product Pages
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Building a Non-Brand Campaign
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What is “Non-Brand Traffic”?
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BRAND
GoPro
GoPro Camera
Buy GoPro Cameras
GoPro Hero5 Black
NON-BRAND
Wearable Camera
HiDef Camera
Garmin Camera
Pro Go Kart Driver
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How are people searching for my brand?
What are our high level product categories?
Which products are most popular?
Expand outside of Sponsored Products!
THINKABOUTTHIS
Building a Non-Brand Campaign
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Building a Non-Brand Campaign | Campaign Settings
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• Use a [Brand]_[Product Category]
• Manual Targeting setting critical to ensure tight segmentation of Brand Traffic
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Building a Non-Brand Campaign | Targeting
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• Target General Category Terms, Phrase & Exact Match Types
• Be strategic when adding ASINs
• Include relevant misspellings
• Align bids with campaign objectives
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Organizing your Campaign Structure
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Organizing your Campaign Structure
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Consider leveraging different top line categories within your inventory
Leverage data from your brand strategy to focus on high-conversion products
Use competitor and product terms to acquire non-brand traffic
WHATTOTHINKABOUT
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Brand/NB Segmentation – Keep it Separate!
Don’t Forget Naming Conventions (include ‘non-brand’ in campaign name)
Use Consistent Delimiters
Avoid Dates in Naming
A COUPLEIMPORTANTSTEPS
Organizing your Campaign Structure
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Reporting Best Practices
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Building a Non-Brand Campaign
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REPORTING BEST PRACTICES
Reporting is Painful
Pull Deep Reports and Archive Often
Leverage Naming Structure to Pivot Data
Analyze Advertised Products' Performance
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AMS Strategy & Analytics
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Amazon 301
Ad Type Performance
Keyword & Product Matching
Advanced Bidding Techniques
Advanced Reporting
Advanced Strategy
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ADVANCED AMS STRATEGY & ANALYTICS
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Amazon 301: Ad Type Performance
ChannelAdvisor AMS data collection has given us advanced insights into potential ROI for AMS ad types.
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Amazon 301: Ad Type Performance
ChannelAdvisor AMS data collection has given us advanced insights into potential ROI for AMS ad types.
Sponsored Products – 7% aCos
Headline Search – 17% aCos
Product Display – 24% aCos
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Amazon 301: Keyword & Product Matching
Always remember to match appropriate products to targeted keywords in your account.
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Amazon 301: Keyword & Product Matching
Always remember to match appropriate products to targeted keywords in your account
Do not advertise a very niche product on a very broad keyword.
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Amazon 301: Keyword & Product Matching
Always remember to match appropriate products to targeted keywords in your account
Do not advertise a very niche product on a very broad keyword
On longer tail keywords, focus on driving users to more specific products that match their search interest.
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Amazon 301: Advanced Bidding Techniques | Goals
Before launching your campaigns, determine what your goals for the AMS programs to focus strategy
• Branding – Increase impressions and reach users searching for similar products
• Revenue – Consider having looser ACOS goals to drive higher top-line revenue
• ACOS – Focus bidding on top selling products and longer tail keywords to drive lower funnel conversions
STRATEGY
ACOS
REVENUE
BRANDING
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Amazon 301: Advanced Bidding Techniques | Bid Calculation
• Evaluate performance and make data driven bidding decisions
• Consider using our Target Bid model to set bids
Keyword 1:20% x ($19,679.08 / 1,587) = $2.48
Keyword 2:20% x ($109.47 / 127) = $.17
Keyword 3:20% x ($63.6 / 50) = .2544
Target Bid = Target aCos x Revenue / Clicks
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Amazon 301: Advanced Bidding Techniques | Freq. & Attribution
• Often, once campaigns are live, advertisers are anxious to make optimizations. Your budget should dictate how often bid optimzations are needed
• Adjusting bids before enough data is collected or too frequently can actually have a negative impact on your performance
• Make sure to allow a few days after clicks are occurring for revenue to be attributed in the campaigns from those clicks
<$10k Bimonthly
>$30k
Daily
$10k – $30k Weekly
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Amazon 301: Advanced Reporting
ChannelAdvisor’s custom reporting gives you visibility into nuanced performancewithin the account. And helps you better understand the bidding optimizations that we are making.
Because of AMS’ developing interface, reporting is a strenuous task. If not done consistently it will result in lost performance metrics and less insightful optimizations.
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Amazon 301: Advanced Strategy | Competitor Brand Terms
• Once your primary campaigns are set up, consider going after competitor brand terms to reach your target audience and bring consumers to your page
• This strategy increases brand awareness within your vertical and also a great driver for new customers
• Constantly monitor your own brand’s search results to make sure your competitors do not own your brand space
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Takeaways
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Amazon 301: Takeaways
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Paid Advertising is dominating the Amazon SRPTHETOPFIVE
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Amazon 301: Takeaways
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Paid Advertising is dominating the Amazon SRP
You need to be there
THETOPFIVE
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Amazon 301: Takeaways
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Paid Advertising is dominating the Amazon SRP
You need to be there
Don’t let competitors steal your customers!
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Amazon 301: Takeaways
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Paid Advertising is dominating the Amazon SRP
You need to be there
Don’t let competitors steal your customers!
Be organized and build your campaigns for the future
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Amazon 301: Takeaways
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Paid Advertising is dominating the Amazon SRP
You need to be there
Don’t let competitors steal your customers!
Be organized and build your campaigns for the future
Know your own goals and bid strategically
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Amazon 301: Next Steps
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Keyword Management
Bid Management
Product Targeting
Budget Management
Campaign Management
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