This Amazon Advertising checklist summarizes the best practice steps for advertising on Amazon. The checklist can be used to determine if your Amazon ad campaigns are set up for growth. Use this checklist to identify how efficient your advertising spending is, and identify where there are opportunities to optimize your marketing campaigns.

There are three primary types of Amazon advertising: Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and Sponsored Display Ads. Your Amazon advertising strategy will determine how much AMS spending you should allocate to each type of ad in order to get the most out of your eCommerce marketing budget.

To help you to monitor your competition, HINGE Axis automatically pulls third-party seller reports for your entire product catalog on Amazon. This data is updated every week.

This shares new information about Buyer-initiated order cancelations for Amazon FBM Sellers (Amazon Seller Central). The new process streamlines communication for canceled orders on items sold via Fulfillment By Merchant (FBM) on Amazon Seller Central.

In January 2022, Amazon increased their Fulfillment By Amazon fees by as much as 8%, and more than doubled their disposal fees. With increased supply chain bottlenecks, it is critical that eCommerce sellers rethink their fulfillment approaches in order to improve profitability and operational flexibility.

Sales in eCommerce continue to grow every day, and Amazon still dominates with just over 40% market share in the US for 2021. Following Amazon is Walmart at 7.1% and eBay, dropping down to 4.3%. It’s important to note while eBay is down in market share, they are still growing in revenue (up 2.8% over 2020).

Enhanced Brand Content gives businesses a chance to provide additional information about their product or brand, explain how the product can be used, its benefits, comparison charts, and more. The best Enhanced Brand Content relies more on imagery and visuals, and relies less on text.

The teams here at HINGE COMMERCE grew sales for our clients during Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2021 by +57% and grew unit sales by +35% versus last year. Strong digital content, careful inventory planning, strategic promotions, and solid advertising execution all helped to drive this success.