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Sep 27, 2023 • 37min

Episode 253 - How to 3x Product Sales With Amazon Influencer

Liz Saunders knows the Amazon game well. She was the Chief of Staff for Jungle Scout as it grew from under 40 employees to a few hundred. And the founder of Fluencer Fruit. Through software, coaching, and services, she helps brands and influencers maximize their results with Amazon’s Influencer program. The Influencer game is still early at Amazon, but right now, it’s free for brands to participate in and driving some compelling results. Take This Case Study:An Amazon product with no change in ads, no improvement in organic rankings, and no change in ratings saw a 45% MoM increase and a 3x YoY increase in sales - ALL From Influencer content. Do I have your attention now? Check out what Liz and I discuss in this interview: How you as a brand can qualify for the Influencer Program (good news - it’s pretty simple).How to attract and recruit the right influencers for your brand.Where does influencer content show up, and how do you influence the best placements?The difference between the Inspire and Discover Feed on Amazon.How to use Influencer and Amazon Lives.Plus more!
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Sep 20, 2023 • 55min

Episode 252 - Triple Your Ad Spend While Improving Profitability with Amazon DSP

Amazon DSP is a misunderstood platform. Heck, even the name is confusing! The Amazon DSP we’re referring to in this episode is the Demand Side Platform. Not to be confused with Amazon’s other DSP - Delivery Service Provider (the independent contractors who deliver your Amazon packages). Amazon DSP Ads are a way to target shoppers on and off Amazon with highly relevant image and video ads based on Amazon’s behavioral shopping data.No one has more shopper data than Amazon. But Amazon doesn’t publish that data or allow anyone to use it unless…you advertise using Amazon DSP.DSP is one of the most powerful advertising platforms I’ve ever encountered. But it’s also commonly misunderstood, and it is advanced. This is not for beginners. There are a lot of ways to waste money with it. But there are a few ways to accelerate growth. Here’s a look at what we discuss:The top mistakes advertisers make when running DSP ads.The top 3 strategies for accelerating growth with Amazon DSP.Why running DSP remarketing only and testing too small will likely fail.What it means to have a DSP “seat” and why they are so rare.How one seller tripled their DSP spend and accelerated growth by 35%, all while lowering their TACoS.Understanding DSP attribution and why it’s a hotly debated topic.
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Sep 13, 2023 • 44min

Episode 251 - Advanced Amazon Strategies That Will Double Your Traffic & Conversions

Your Amazon listings are probably NOT as optimized as you think. Your products likely aren’t merchandised as well as they could be either. In this episode, Brandon shows you how to find obscure keywords to dramatically grow your sales and rankings. He also shows you how to merchandise your product to fly off the shelf. We also talk about AI, competitor research, new product development, and what it will take to get ahead and stay ahead on Amazon. Brandon is in an elite club of 8 figure sellers on Amazon. His brands will sell over $ 30 million this year on Amazon, and he’s targeting over $ 50 million in sales next year. Here’s a look at what we discuss:The two main factors that impact ranking on Amazon: 1. Performance and 2. Relevance and how to improve BOTH.How to find obscure keywords that you can rank for quickly to boost sales.The 2 biggest mistakes sellers make when it comes to merchandising and how to fix them easily.How to get feedback faster and easier on product designs so that you don’t waste time or money on products or merchandising that’s likely to fail.How to use AI to quickly synthesize what your competitors are doing well, what they’re doing poorly, and what you should do about it.Using AI to get a clear picture of your ideal buyer.How stacking small changes can allow you to double or triple sales year over year.
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Sep 6, 2023 • 47min

Episode 250 - What You Don’t Know About Your Customers Is Costing You

Post-purchase surveys can teach you a lot about your customers, and no one knows that better than my most recent guest, Trevor Crump. Trevor is the co-founder of Bestie, which is one of the fastest-growing post-purchase apps on Shopify. We talked about the key questions you should ask your customers and how you can turn their answers into extra cash! Make sure you give this episode a listen to learn key things like...The 3 questions that need to be on your post-purchase survey. Where your customers are coming from (because we all know how hard attribution can be). What Trevor has learned from running one of the most popular post-purchase survey apps on Shopify. Plus, some of the most surprising things surveys can reveal. 
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Aug 30, 2023 • 43min

Episode 249 - Amazon Lives, Amazon Influencers, and Driving $7 Figures in New Sales

Gracey Ryback, an A-List Amazon Influencer, began her journey on TikTok by talking about products she loved. Soon after, she started hosting Amazon Lives. To date, she has driven seven figures in new sales for various products on Amazon. I first met Gracey when we both spoke at SellerCon in Austin earlier this summer. Her presentation was amazing, and I immediately knew I had to get her on the show.If you’re like most of the brands I know, then you’ve likely never tried Amazon Lives, or if you did, you did it as a brand and got little to no traction. The good news is that your competition likely isn’t using Amazon Lives or Amazon Influencers either... so you have a potential edge.Here’s what Gracey and I discuss:Advantages of Amazon Live with an A-List Influencer vs. Live as a brand.How to show up on the Amazon home page with your Amazon Live.How to find Amazon Influencers to work with that fit your brand.TikTok Shop - how it works, how to leverage for growth on and off Amazon.How to fully leverage influencer content.What is the influencer marketing mindset, and why is it critical for success in influencer marketing?How creative control may be killing your results with influencer marketing.#influencermarketing #amazonlives #tiktokshop #digitalmarketing #digitaladvertising
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Aug 23, 2023 • 42min

Episode 248 - 8 Top Email Tests + Making All Channels better with Email & SMS

FREE RESOURCE: OMG's Ultimate Email Marketing Testing Checklisthttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mt6eOX2wxCM61uhGc0WoSVWSlemUJRP0T9mfgBk2o-M/edit#gid=1837668272How can you triple your results from Email & SMS? Is crafting a single captivating subject line the key? Does discovering the ultimate promotion hold the answer? Likely not.Making huge improvements is all about finding dozens of small wins, stacking them on top of each other, and letting the improvements compound.In this episode, Nick Flint, our Email Strategist at OMG, breaks down 8 Email & SMS tests you need to run right now! We talk about how Email & SMS can improve EVERY other channel. We’re talking Google Ads, YouTube ads, Facebook, Amazon - ALL made better by leveraging Email & SMS.Here’s a peek at what we cover. Why opt-in rate is NOT the key metric, you need to measure for your opt-in pop-up. (And why that spinning wheel might be doing more harm than good.)How making some prospects “work for it” can increase purchases and email engagement.Should you show your price in emails or make people click to see the price?How Everyday Cali used a creative “break our site” offer to drive engagement and get solid customer feedback.Plus, much, much more…
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Aug 16, 2023 • 41min

Episode 247 - How to Create a 6 Star Experience on Amazon with Tomer Rabinovich

Tomer is a speaker, an Amazon Seller, the host of the Top Dog community, and the author of "Ride the Amazon Wave." We recently met when we both spoke at SellerCon in Austin.Tomer has a unique approach to getting 5-star reviews and scaling sales on Amazon. No, this does not include buying reviews, begging for reviews, or doing anything that toes the line of Amazon's TOS. He is all about surprise and delight. And I couldn't agree more! I learned things from Tomer about reviews that I haven't heard ANYWHERE else…and I've been doing this for a while. Here's a look at what we cover:Why the raw number of 5-star reviews for you or your competitors isn't what matters most, and how to shift your focus to the 5-star review RATE instead.Why 4-star reviews hurt your listings.5 keys to a 6-star experience on Amazon that you probably have yet to think of.Creative ways to delight customers without spending more. Why offending some customers can be a good thing.Thinking about every element of your product as an "experience."
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Aug 9, 2023 • 42min

Episode 246 - Triple Revenue with "Challenge" Based Marketing

What if you could find one strategy that, if properly executed, could:Triple your revenueBuild a hyper-engaged community around your brandGet feedback on exactly what products to launch next (and create anticipation around the launch of new products)Create an ongoing, repeatable marketing vehicle that improves CAC and LTVEstablish a content machineSounds too good to be true? That's exactly what creating "Challenges" did for Alicia Reynoso and her fiancé. They went on to build a "60-Day Hydration Challenge" around their brand: Live Infinitely.They leverage their challenge to grow from a mostly Amazon brand, to 50/50 Amazon and Shopify, to having a successful exit.In this episode, Alicia and I dive into the why behind "Challenges" and what it takes to make them successful. #eCommerceEvolution #ChallengeBasedMarketing #LiveInfinitely #AliciaReynoso #eCommerceTips #CommunityBuilding #CustomerValue #BusinessGrowth #RevenueBoost #HydrationChallenge
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Aug 2, 2023 • 49min

Episode 245 - Forget CRO, Focus on CVO with Drew Sanocki

Drew Sanocki has successfully turned around 8 and 9-figure eCommerce brands not once, not twice, but 5 times. Among his successes are AutoAnything and Karmaloop. Drew is also the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Post Pilot (direct mail made for DTC and eCommerce). He knows the strategies behind what it takes to succeed in DTC better than almost anyone I know. Here’s a look at what we cover:Jay Abraham’s 3 ways to grow any business. New Customer Acquisition (NCA) is only ONE way to grow your business and is almost certainly the most expensive way.Why Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) can be misleading and why focusing on Customer Value Optimization (CVO) matters more.What all failing eCommerce brands have in common and how to avoid the death spiral. The principle of optimizing before you multiply. Using direct mail for retention, remarketing, AND new customer acquisition.#Podcast #Ecommerce #DrewSanocki #PostPilot #EcommerceStrategies #CustomerRetention #DataDrivenDecisions
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Jul 26, 2023 • 45min

Episode 244 -CRO Strategies To Accelerate Growth with Nirav Sheth

Whatever you do, don't mention "Growth Hacking" to Nirav Sheth. Trust me, he's got something even better! Nirav is the CRO mastermind driving success for some of the fastest-growing and most loved DTC brands like Molekule, Mack Weldon, Athletic Greens, Four Sigmatic, and more.He has a truly unique and effective way of approaching optimization that defies all traditional CRO norms. It all begins with understanding what we should test and what we shouldn't based on the dollars behind it. What we cover: How an eBike company turned the tables on their "add to cart" rate, resulting in a jaw-dropping $12 million impact. How a shoe company reworked its mobile experience to simplify and improve conversions. When to run quizzes, when to not, and when to ask more questions instead of less (this will likely surprise you).How to think about CRO from the customer's perspective in terms of "micro journeys."Should you go headless? Why Nirav thinks it's usually a bad idea, and when to consider it.

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