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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.
Flapen cover for Flapen compared with other Amazon agencies: the complete guide: a Flapen operator marking milestones on a blank wall calendar at a sample table
Working with Agencies

Flapen compared with other Amazon agencies: the complete guide

One page per Amazon agency, each stating only what that agency publishes about itself, set against the eight questions that decide who should run your account.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Best Amazon Keyword Research Tool and the Seven Checks to Run

No keyword tool wins that title for every catalog, so run seven checks on any candidate against a product you already sell before you pay for it.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Flapen cover for Amazon Seller Research Tools and the Half They Cannot Settle: a seller watching their first product being photographed by the Flapen team
Working with Agencies

Amazon Seller Research Tools and the Half They Cannot Settle

Research tools settle market size, growth, and the rating gap on a screen. Whether a unit can be built to beat that rating is settled in a factory.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Amazon Seller Platform Costs and Who Runs It Every Week

Opening a selling account is paperwork and running one is a job, so price the platform by caseload, by the flat fee, and by the hours your week can carry.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Flapen cover for Amazon PPC Tools and What They Cannot Fix: a seller's laptop beside a Flapen operator's monitor, the two comparing charts
Working with Agencies

Amazon PPC Tools and What They Cannot Fix

A bid rule changes what you pay for a click and nothing else, so name the symptom first and find out whether tooling was ever the real constraint.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Flapen cover for Amazon PPC Software and the Stage That Earns It: a seller holding their own sample while a Flapen operator checks a matching one
Working with Agencies

Amazon PPC Software and the Stage That Earns It

Bid automation earns its subscription at the scale stage, after a $2 million market and a 200 unit validation run prove the product deserves the spend.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Flapen cover for Amazon Consulting Agency Scored Before You Take the First Call: a client watching the Flapen photographer frame a product in the studio
Working with Agencies

Amazon Consulting Agency Scored Before You Take the First Call

Score every Amazon consulting agency on one written sheet before the first call, and weight research depth above review counts and volume snapshots.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Amazon Ad Automation and Who Answers When a Rule Misfires

Automated bidding repeats a decision a person already made, so the six ways it fails trace back to an unowned rule set and a target nobody set.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Working with Agencies

Amazon Marketing Experts and the One Question That Tests Them

Expertise on Amazon is tested and never assumed, so ask any candidate what would make them tell you to stop spending, then hold the answer to four signals.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Flapen cover for Amazon Consultant UK Fees and the Arithmetic Behind Them: a Flapen operator showing a client a sales chart beside an open proposal binder
Working with Agencies

Amazon Consultant UK Fees and the Arithmetic Behind Them

An Amazon consultant in the UK sells advice while someone still runs the account, so price both halves and read the ACoS target that governs your spend.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher