At Tambo we believe that Amazon advertising needs to be part of a full 360 strategy. Amazon Ads must be aligned with factors like content, pricing and assortment to help achieve specific objectives set by the client. We therefore started by shifting the positioning of Cusheen as a ‘value’ brand by overhauling the listings and store content. We also leveraged the smaller fees from FBM and worked with Cusheen to ensure that we were providing bulk toilet paper at the cheapest price point in the market. These actions ensured that our Advertising would be as efficient as possible.

Firstly, we restructured the Advertising account, allowing us to control targeting across Brand, Generic, Competitor, PDP Protection, Keyword Discovery & Aggressive Bidding keywords. We ran aggressive competitor targeting to promote our cheaper price point and superior value on high traffic competitor listings. We also implemented a strategy where we bid higher on known converting terms with a low ACOS.

Through testing each dynamic bidding strategy, we learnt that ’Down Bidding Only’ was optimum, as it enabled us to decrease bids where a shopper was less likely to purchase and keep spend as efficient as possible - keeping to the strict ACoS target of 12%. We noticed a much smaller share of searches for branded terms, which meant in order to grow the brand we needed to focus on competitor and generic search terms to gain a higher level of awareness. We did this by taking a more aggressive approach and bidding higher on converting competitor and generic terms. When combined, the learnings above allowed us to create an advertising strategy that was effective in driving high converting traffic to our detail pages, allowing us to build the account MoM increasing both sales and awareness of Cusheen.

Accelerating beyond this solid foundation we ran cyclical Lightning Deals, 7-day Deals and Top Deals throughout the year to boost the BSR of long-tail SKUs like the Lemon and Aloe Vera scented rolls and sling-shot them onto the front page for high traffic keywords. When these ASINs were on deal we moved them into specific aggressive campaigns with higher daily budgets and an increased ACOS target (20%, not 12%) to ensure the discounted products had maximum visibility. This culminated in a Top Deal that produced over £95k in sales over 2 days, with a conversion rate of 14.9%.