Amazon has announced a new and improved FBA capacity management system to help sellers manage their Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) inventory. The new capacity manager is designed to give sellers greater capacity limits, more control, and visibility over their inventory and supply chain. The easiest way to keep sales consistent is by consistently being in stock. Not only will it drive more sales but it will also make it easier to plan your cash flow in the future. Lastly, by managing your inventory correctly you will save money by not overpaying for storage fees.
How to Set Up an Amazon Merchant Fulfilled Shipping Template
As a seller on Amazon it is important to properly know how to set up an Amazon merchant fulfilled shipping template. The Amazon merchant fulfilled shipping template is the settings on the back end of Amazon Seller Central that Amazon sellers can create and assign to product listing offers that indicates the price and shipping expectations for Amazon customers. When Amazon shipping templates are set up correctly, Amazon customers have clear expectations when their order will arrive which will make for a better customer experience, more repeat business, and better Amazon product and seller reviews. For sellers, when the merchant fulfilled shipping templates correctly, the right amount of money is charged to the customer for shipping and the correct time is allowed for sellers to pick, pack, ship and time allotted for delivery. If an incorrect strategy around the shipping template is implemented, it can create a poor customer experience through a lost buy box, late delivery, incorrect charging of shipping, or unappealing merchandising offer to customers. This post we will touch on different strategies for Amazon merchant fulfilled shipping templates, Amazon shipping settings automation, and how to set up an Amazon merchant fulfilled shipping template on Seller Central.
How to use Amazon Listing Quality Dashboard and Reports
As an Amazon seller, knowing how to use the Amazon Listing Quality Dashboard and Reports is crucial to the success of your business. The listing quality dashboard and report help sellers identify and fix listing issues affecting discoverability, detail page experience, and customer returns. Not only does it help improve the customer experience, but it can also impact your product's visibility on the site which ultimately can help drive more sales. The dashboard can help identify category or item-type-specific attributes that are missing from submitted product information. These attributes may be unique to the category and difficult to discover without the dashboard. Submitting this additional information helps Amazon.com and customers better understand your product.
How to Decide Your Amazon Ads Budget
A question we often get from clients is how to decide your Amazon Ads Budget. Deciding your Amazon marketing budget for sponsored advertising is an important question to answer for brands and manufactures selling on Amazon. For new product listings and brands that are just getting started, advertising is essential for gaining traction and visibility. Existing brands can use an Amazon Ads budget to reach new customers and audiences that have not yet been exposed to your brand or reach shoppers at the moment they want to make a purchase. Failing to set a correct Amazon Ads budget strategy can leave your business without a clear sense of direction or resources required for selling on Amazon to be successful. This post will help you decide your Amazon Ads budget by offering a few different methods that your brand can implement including starting with a small budget and ramping up, calculate a percentage based off of previous months sales, and set a budget based on company sales goals.
Amazon Ads unBoxed 2022 Key Learnings
This blog post covers Amazon Ads unBoxed 2022 Conference Key Learnings. Account Managers from Goat Consulting attended the 2022 Amazon Advertising unBoxed conference to learn about new Amazon Ads products and insights into Amazon Advertising strategies. The conference covered some actionable best practices and different techniques to try to reach specific goals like driving awareness, sales, and loyalty.
How To Create and Update Amazon Product Listings With Variations
Variations on Amazon provide convenience for customers by allowing them to view multiple related products on a single product detail page. Variations are what link products of various colors, sizes, etc. together on Amazon. The variation types Amazon offers to Sellers and Vendors include Size Name, Color Name, Pattern Name, and Scent Name just to name a few. Multiple levels of variation can be created to increase the number of products included in a variation (a Size Name x Color Name variation type for example). When considering variation strategy it is important to understand what variations types you have access to, how the products in your catalog are related, and how the individual listings or ASINs are currently set up on Amazon.com. In this article, we will cover the benefits of creating a variation, some basic terms, and concepts related to variations, how to set up a variation from scratch, and how to edit an existing variation.
Amazon Sponsored Brands Video Builder
Amazon Sponsored Brands Video Builder is a new self-service Amazon Ads tool for Amazon Sellers and Vendors to create Sponsored Brands video ads. Brands are able to use their image assets to create short video ads directly on the Amazon Ads platform instead of having to create and provide the video themselves. This tool helps brands focus on what you do best, such as developing new products and serving customers. Amazon customers are able to discover and engage with your brand. Videos in particular are a great way to explain product features and value propositions compared to still images alone. This post will cover what the Amazon Sponsored Video is, the requirements needed to create a Sponsored Brands Video, and how to create an Amazon Sponsored Video.
Sign Up for Amazon Buy with Prime To Grow Your DTC Business
This blog post covers a new way to grow your direct-to-consumer (DTC) business: Buy with Prime. Buy with Prime empowers merchants to grow their DTC online store by providing shoppers fast, free shipping with transparent delivery times, free returns on eligible orders, and a seamless checkout experience millions of shoppers know and trust. Goat Consulting is proud to be a Buy with Prime Agency Partner and in this post we will cover what Buy what Prime is, Buy with Prime Requirements and how it can grow your DTC business.
How To Check If You Are Enrolled in Amazon Brand Registry
The purpose of this post is to help you understand how to check if you are enrolled in Amazon Brand Registry. You may have been selling on Amazon for some time or find yourself in a new role at a brand or manufacturer and it may be unclear if your products sold on Amazon are brand registered. Brand Registry offers many merchandising, brand protection, advertising, and reporting tools. It is important to know if your products are brand registered, and enroll your brand in Brand Registry if you find you are not. Using the Brand Registry tools will help you sell more products, make better decisions using Brand Registry data, and provide a better shopping experience for your Amazon customers. We will discuss a few methods to better answer your question of “Am I Brand Registered?” including checking the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website for an active status, attempting to enroll in Brand Registry, and checking areas on Amazon to see if Brand Registry is connected to your Seller Central account.
How to Sign Up for Amazon FBA
This post covers the topic of how to sign up for Amazon FBA (fulfillment by Amazon) and get started in outsourcing your order fulfillment activities. Amazon sellers who are currently merchants fulfilling Amazon orders, or brands and manufacturers that have not sold on Amazon will find this post helpful. Amazon customers expect a reliable shipping experience, and utilizing a best in class tool like Amazon FBA can give your business a competitive advantage by offering free Prime shipping to Amazon customers and outsourcing a task that is likely not a part of your core business. Failing to properly fulfill orders, shipping damage, or lost packages can result in Amazon customers not continuing to repurchase from your brand.