The Challenge
Prior to working with Diogenes Solutions, the team at Gakken focused their efforts on Amazon Marketing with no Success usually just opting for automatic Amazon PPC campaigns that were costly and not profitable.
To position itself as a Top selling children’s book company, Gakken would have to prioritize targeted manual PPC campaigns. They would need to focus on ASIN targeting competitor products. Book targeting needs to be conservative in bidding and hyper targeted.
The Gakken team sought me out as the right person to take on the challenge.
The goal was to refine Gakkens PPC targeting with manual Selection, identify high-impact keywords, Categories and Products as well as display ads to fill topic gaps throughout the funnel, and ultimately, grow traffic and conversions.
The Strategy
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to Amazon PPC campaigns.
To grow organic search rankings, I recognized the need for a full revamp of the current content library to include very Target specific Keywords & Products that are hyper targeted for the Niche Gakken was looking for Children’s Activity Books for Ages 2-3. I let go of broad Automatic campaigns and focused on Manual Targeting. Also what is important with certain products especially books is to target product pages rather then higher cost keywords.
My Strategy Paid off and dropped Acos by 75% and holding it steady in low 20s. Over the past 6 months Gakken has made $600,000 in sales only through Amazon PPC! My nominal cost for creating and maintaining the campaigns was a drop in the bucket compared to the Massive amount of profit they have generated with my services.
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HOW AN ECOMMERCE STORE GENERATED 4,475 PURCHASES IN 2 YEARS WITH OVER 697% RETURN ON AD SPEND USING FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM ADS
4,475 purchases
6.97 ROAS across a 2 year period
$416,879.29 Purchase Conversion Value
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Located in Pigeon Forge, TN, in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains, Client’s Factory Store has been charming locals and visitors with handcrafted southern belle girls’ dresses for more than 25 years. Client also has an enormous inventory of beautiful quilts, throws and home decor. Client’s Factory Store is right up there with Dollywood and other Pigeon Forge attractions. You can purchase their merchandise online or at their store.
INTRODUCTION
The brand was new to Facebook advertising and had never run Facebook ads before. They had a Facebook page and posted to it occasionally.
SOLUTION
Develop a strategy which included organic content development and a strategic paid advertising campaign. The strategy also included regular recommendations, inbound engagement monitoring, as well as monthly analytics reporting.
SOCIAL PROFILE RESULTS:
COMPANY OVERVIEW
While the brand had a business Facebook account set up, their follower base and engagement rate was very low as they were not actively posting on this channel. Within the first couple of months Facebook following more than doubled.
With the follower growth campaign along with paid social media campaigns Lid’l Dolly's Factory Store following grew 460% over 2 years.
PAID ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN RESULTS:
BRAND AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS:
These strategically-targeted ads and boosted posts generate significant product views and add to carts.
WEBSITE PURCHASE CONVERSION CAMPAIGNS:
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