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AiHello AutoPilot RoadMap 2021

Amazon PPC Automation Software: AiHello AutoPilot Roadmap. We are releasing our internal roadmap for building and releasing our roadmap in order to better help your ecommerce business scale up. March 2021 Sponsored Display: Campaigns, Reports and AutoPilot support (Released on March 23) Support for better campaign creation for UAE, India, Japan and Australia (Released on March 20) Support for campaign creation for KDP, Merch By Amazon (Released on March 7th)   April 2021 Self Support: Deactivate your account via preferences pages (Released on March 28) Automated Amazon Ads Audit Reports. This will let you find out why some campaigns perform good while others don't Actionable items Weekly Email. This will be sent on Mondays and will display your highest priority actionable items suggested for the coming week AI analysis of Product Targeting campaigns and automatically add/remove targeted products. Organic sales boost via AutoPilot (Exciting new feature!) Ma

Create Auto campaigns on Amazon with group targeting

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This is an important and critical step while setting up your auto-campaigns on Amazon Advertising console/ Amazon seller central. While creating sponsored products auto-campaigns ensure that you set your auto campaigns to target groups by selecting "Set bids by targeting group" See screenshot below. This ensures that you are not overpaying for placing your products on substitutes and complements both of which usually have lower conversions, higher click throughs and lower sales ultimately resulting in very high acos. Select "Set bids by targeting group" and then change the bids for lower performing group and set it to low bids. Unfortunately this highly optimal setting is neither the default option of Amazon and to top it off, it's well hidden. This used to be the default option in 2019-20 and now the default option is the same bid across the group which results in extra expenditure for displaying ads which won't deliver optimal results. This was a very disa

Star Performer Keywords

We are excited to share with you an upgrade to our AutoPilot algorithm. The new changes includes bonus points if your keyword has more than average conversion performance of your campaign and penalty points if the keyword is performing worse relative to other campaigns. This means that if a specific keyword has good conversion ratio in the last quarter and it is currently performing poorly, autopilot will be more patient and provide more time for it to recover. Conversely if a keyword has historically poor conversion and also the current conversion performance is poor, it will be double penalized. This effectively brings out the best keywords on top and removes the clutter of non-performing keywords. Remember that the more keywords you have, the longer AutoPilot will take to fully optimize your campaigns. Additionally there are bonus points if the keyword has generated more than average sales in the last quarter and penalty points if the keyword has generated subpar sales. Combining bo

Product Updates:Amazon PPC Automation AutoPilot December 2020.

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Plenty of Updates for the year ending 2020. Few of them are summarized below Placement Boost More details on this feature here 2) Auto Target Campaign Performance Charge AutoPilot for Autotargeted campaigns were upgraded with better forecasting algorithms. In our internal test, this performed 7x better than our existing algorithms and increased sales by more than 13% for our beta customers. After exhaustive testing and numerous iterations, we have released this to all of our customers. There are no settings for this features. All your Autotargeted campaigns will be automatically upgraded to use our new algorithms 3) Faster Dashboard This was the number 1 feature that we focussed on this month. We have tweaked, optimized and upgraded our UI for faster and responsive feedback. You can see it for yourself how snappier the new dashboard is now. There are more bug fixes and minor feature updates 1) The default range of dates shown for all campaigns is now last 30 days (It used to be last 7

New Feature Update: Boosting placement bids

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We are excited to announce that we have launched the powerful "Placement Boost" feature. The placement boost is at campaign level and lets you boost your bids by certain percentage on Top Of Search or at Product Detail pages. A screenshot of the Placement boost feature on Amazon is shown below. This can be a very powerful feature to use or it can be a disaster. The usual recommendation for new sellers to switch off this feature as it can deplete your budget quickly with no profits. Not anymore! We have launched the "Placement Boost" feature that will let our PPC Automation algorithm handle this boost. The software will analyze your existing sales and constantly update the boost daily to get the most juice out of Amazon. This is a screenshot of the feature in AutoPilot settings. For existing AutoPilots, this will be OFF by default. You can jump into the platform, open up AutoPilot settings for each campaign and switch it on. Boosting placement bids is like a lever an

TroubleShooting: AutoPilot PPC Automation reducing Ad Spend and Sales?

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For some sellers, putting their campaigns on AutoPilot will reduce their AdSpend and make their products profitable. However common side effects includes lowering of sales. Though this should be preferable to make lower sales but higher profit rather than selling more at a loss, some sellers would like to also increase their sales with AutoPilot Amazon PPC Automation. If that is you, then read on how you can accomplish this task by using a combination of following recommendations. 1) The first thing you should take note of is the CVR and CTR rates. More will be written about this in our subsequent blogs but for now note that CTR is the Click Through Rate and CVR is the Conversion Rate. CTR and CVR columns are available at Profile, Campaign, Group, Keyword and Targeting expression level. CTR is the percentage of people that look at your ad and click on it. CVR is the percentage of people that view your product and buy it. Your CTR and CVR rates depends on the category you are selling. H

Amazon can smell the blood in Ads. And it's going for it.

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The week when pandemic hit, sales for my home commodities on Amazon had multiplied 3x over night. In two weeks, I was completely out of stock with what was forecast as 3 months of supplies. Since our manufacturing and supplies is from the Himalayas in Nepal which was in complete lockdown, there was no incoming inventory. Technically this should have meant that I made all my revenues and profit for three months in three weeks. However when I sat down to reconcile my profit and loss, I discovered to my utter disbelief that my profits were almost non-existent. And the reason for this was that the cost of ads on Amazon had gone up 10x. Not only the cost of bids were 3x, there was almost 10x the clicks with much fewer conversions. Partly this can be attributed to bored "window-shoppers" browsing around Amazon looking for stocking up their essentials. If this had happened two years ago, the cost of ads would have been negligible. So what changed in two years? Ads. And the prolifer