Dominic Amariei

I have over 10 years of experience in Marketing, Ecommerce and Digital Marketing and I have worked with global large, medium and small companies like Kingspan, J2 Global and Netgear with both a B2C and a B2B model. Over the years, I’ve managed multi-million projects, built successful teams and helped companies to grow sales anywhere between 50% to over 300%. I also started and managed my own digital marketing agency and led key metric improvements (e.g. like conversion rates and cost per acquisition) of 30% to over 700%.

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How to use Automatic targeting in Amazon PPC or AMS ads

Automatic targeting is a setting that allows Amazon to target keywords and/or products that are similar to the product in your ad. While automatic targeting is recognised to be more of a strategy to use at the beginning of your advertising activity on Amazon (i.e. to get keywords), we’ll look below at how to use …

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How to name your Amazon Advertising campaigns (AMS/ Amazon PPC)?

In line with the new campaign naming notification that Amazon launched recently, let’s look at some key insights about naming your AMS / Amazon PPC ads. While I cannot say that there is a best way to name our Amazon Advertising Campaigns, I discovered that there are a couple of items that, when we include …

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Little things matter: Amazon’s new campaign naming notification is exactly what we need

Amazon has added a new feature that lets us know if we have used a campaign name before in our Advertising account. The notification says this: One of your campaigns already uses this name. Please try another.  See below how it looks like and also try it for yourself in your own account. I’ve seen …

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Should you use Product targeting and Category targeting with Sponsored products ads?

In Q4 2018, Amazon launched a Product targeting feature for Sponsored products ads. This enables us to target specific products and/or product categories on Amazon. While everyone has been making a big fuss about how great this feature is, we silently tested it and analysed it. The results are now in and they are more …

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The most valuable reports from the Amazon Advertising Console (AMS)

The reports from the Amazon advertising console have seen many changes in the last months. Some may say these are real improvements, others that they were launched prematurely and unfinished. I incline towards the latter. Below, I summarised each report that’s currently available. I included some details and suggestions about which one can bring the …

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Be careful when using the New Placement bid adjustments for Sponsored products

Amazon launched a couple of new features in their Advertising Console lately. On top of the Dynamic bidding features, and the new placements for Sponsored products Ads, they also enabled Placement bid adjustments that allow us to increase our bids depending on what placement we want to get (on top search or on product detail …

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Dynamic Bidding strategies for Sponsored Products in the Amazon Advertising Console (AMS)

Amazon added a new feature to Sponsored products ads called Dynamic bidding (or simply Bidding). This allows the system to optimise your bids based on how likely your targeting (i.e. keyword, product or category) is to convert sales.     In summary, here are the 3 features that Dynamic bidding enables us to do: Dynamic …

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Key benefits of Portfolios in the Amazon Advertising Console

I’ve started using Portfolios (the new feature in Amazon advertising console – AMS) just last week and it is a very useful update from the Amazon team. See below how to use Portfolios to simplify your day to day campaign management. Portfolios were just launched in the Amazon advertising console (above screenshot is from a …

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The Black Friday and Cyber Monday that we know are dying

Amazon announced last week that Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 have [once again] generated the most amount of sales in the company’s history. While they haven’t provided us with exact numbers, this is no surprise for you either, right?!    “Black Friday and Cyber Monday continue to break records on Amazon year over year, …

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