Now that Amazon has launched in Australia, We wanted to start a new series of posts that can help newly registered sellers of Amazon Australia to understand this marketplace and generate maximum revenue. The first post in Ask Expert series of posts focuses on basics of Amazon product listing and launching new product on Amazon. Following questions will be answered in this post:
Let’s dive into what experts have to say!
Peter Koch
Images are the most important part of the listing. Many customers won’t even get past your main image. While image help in conversion title, description and bullets are important for Amazon search engine.
In general description and bullets are important for more complex products like electronic but in case of simple products like cutting board almost no single customer will read your description.
Scott Voelker
I think Images are super important because that is what people first see. This is the like the customer touching and feeling it in a store. I always create high quality images.
To fully optimize your product listing you want a great Title that explains exactly what the product is. If someone is searching for a Garlic Press you want to include that in your title.
The bullets should be very details as far as benefits and features to let the customer know why they should buy it. This also gives you the ability to rank for more than just a few keywords.
The description should be a more in depth version of your bullets. Amazon will scrape your listing and the more you tell them what your product is the better.
The last thing is the backend keywords that you want to rank for and be discovered from. I would use your most important phrases and words in the first part.
Editor’s Notes:
Images are most important as described by experts. Here are few key takeaways:
Peter Koch
Scott Voelker
In order to launch properly and rank you need to know the numbers. This would have been done in the beginning in product research. How many sales is your competitors getting per day? You need to match this to even have a chance. Plus, having your listing optimized is super important or the launch will not work.
Once I have the plan I build my own launch list using giveaways weeks before. This allows me to create an email list of people that are interested in the market. I share how to do this at http://theamazingseller.com/buildlist –
Then once I’m ready to launch I send an email 2 days before the sale will happen to get them ready. Then I send 3 emails one per day or until the sale ends. This allows me to sell 100 to 200 units over 3 to 4 days depending on how many I need to sell to rank.
The cool thing is I can do this over and over again if I need a boost in ranking or if I run out of stock. I also turn on PPC for a handful of keywords that I want to rank for and bid aggressively to spike more sales and keep the momentum.
Editor’s Note:
Amazon may be new here in Australia but it had been operating in US and other marketplaces for more than a decade now. So basics of successful product are valid for Australian marketplace like any other. Here is your Amazon product launch checklist to build sales momentum from day 1 of your product launch on Amazon Marketplace. Key takeaways:
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