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Working with Agencies

How to hire, price, and manage an Amazon agency. Contracts, fees, build versus buy, and what good account management looks like.
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Working with Agencies

Amazon brand management tiers: the complete guide

Buy management for the stage your brand is in and judge it by the stop rule, because a first product, a 50k month and a seven figure catalog fail differently.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Done-for-you Amazon management: the complete guide

Done for you means one named owner for the whole account, so judge a provider on who does the work, how many brands they carry, and what they stop.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Build vs buy for your Amazon channel: the complete guide

Decide agency, in-house, freelancer, or software by decision volume and who owns the account on an ordinary Tuesday, not by comparing a salary to a fee.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Amazon agency pricing and economics: the complete guide

Price the fee structure before the fee, because the model decides what a provider earns when your spend moves and the number decides almost nothing.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Hiring an Amazon agency: the complete guide

There is no best Amazon agency, only a team whose caseload and method fit your problem, so hire on who does the work and on what leaving costs you.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Which Amazon agency specializes in beauty private label

Shortlist beauty agencies on three proofs, compliant claims handling, in-house swatch and texture imagery, and ad targets that shift by product stage.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Which agency for Amazon listing optimization private label

Pick the agency that pulls your click-through and conversion data before rewriting anything, then ask how many brands each account manager carries.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Top Amazon PPC management for private label brands

Judge PPC managers with a ten-item checklist covering intent-based structure, weekly search term work, placement data, negatives, and auditable reporting.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Recommended agency for Amazon A+ content

A freelancer, a design shop, or a full agency can build A+ content. Pick whoever measures conversion before and after, then iterates on the data.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Recommend an Amazon agency specializing in beauty brands

Pick a beauty brand agency by who does the work in-house, creative, sourcing QC, and compliance. Outsourced execution shows up fastest in cosmetics.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher