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Listing Optimization

Amazon Product Image Requirements in 2026: What Actually Drives Clicks and Conversions

Amazon image compliance is table stakes. This guide covers every technical requirement, then shows you how to use your primary image as the highest-leverage conversion tool on your listing.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Getting Started

Amazon US or Europe: Where Should You Launch First?

Most new Amazon sellers should start in the US. Here is the data-driven expansion sequence we use across 300+ brands at Flapen, and when Europe actually makes sense as your next move.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Advertising

Amazon PPC for New Sellers: How to Think About Advertising as One of 5 Traffic Channels

Amazon PPC is not your entire traffic strategy. It is one of 5 traffic channels. Here is how operators actually think about advertising, what to measure, and why your ACOS targets should change at every product stage.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Flapen cover for Amazon PPC for New Sellers: How to Run Your First Profitable Campaign: an account audit over printed charts with a magnifying glass and a highlighter
Advertising

Amazon PPC for New Sellers: How to Run Your First Profitable Campaign

A structured framework for setting up, measuring, and optimizing Amazon PPC campaigns as a new seller. Covers campaign structure, keyword harvesting, ACOS targets by product stage, and how advertising fits into a broader traffic strategy.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Flapen cover for How to Price Your Amazon Product Without Destroying Your Margins: a Flapen operator watching the first sales line climb on launch morning
Product Launch

How to Price Your Amazon Product Without Destroying Your Margins

Most Amazon sellers set prices by copying competitors. Here is the operator-level framework for pricing that actually protects your profitability and positions your brand for growth.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Listing Optimization

Why Your Amazon Images Are Killing Your Conversion Rate

Most Amazon sellers treat images as a photography problem. It is a conversion rate optimization problem. Here is the operator-level framework for diagnosing and fixing your listing visuals based on data from hundreds of brand launches.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Product Research

7 Amazon Product Research Mistakes That Cost You Before You Launch

Most Amazon sellers fail not because they chose the wrong product but because they asked the wrong question. Here are the 7 most common product research mistakes and the data-driven frameworks to avoid them.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

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Product Research

How to Analyze Demand and Competition on Amazon Before You Launch

Most sellers evaluate products using snapshots. Here is the market-first framework I use across 300+ brand launches to analyze demand, competition, and whether you can profitably capture market share.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Flapen cover for How to Avoid Supplier Scams and Quality Failures on Amazon FBA: a Flapen operator studying samples with a magnifying glass at a research desk
Product Sourcing

How to Avoid Supplier Scams and Quality Failures on Amazon FBA

Supplier scams, factory red flags, golden samples, and pre-shipment inspection. The quality control process we run through our Guangzhou studio across 300+ brand launches.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Flapen cover for The 5 Traffic Channels Every Amazon Seller Should Be Using in 2026: an account audit over printed charts with a magnifying glass and a highlighter
Advertising

The 5 Traffic Channels Every Amazon Seller Should Be Using in 2026

Most Amazon sellers rely on organic ranking and Sponsored Products. That means 3 full traffic channels are untapped. Here is the complete framework for evaluating and activating all 5 channels based on your product, market, and budget.
Joel Turcotte Gaucher

Joel Turcotte Gaucher