Amazon Holiday Season Tips for Marketers – Download the Full List

Amazon holiday season tips are now available from Skai as a downloadable PDF. Before the chaos begins, make sure to double-check the list as part of your preparation. There are best practices for using Amazon Advertising as well as some Skai power user advice when using the Skai Ecommerce platform. Good luck with your upcoming holiday sales and promotions!

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Q4 is the most important time of the year for most retailers, and Amazon is clearly one of the most important areas to focus on to drive holiday success. As we learned last year, Amazon advertisers spent 3.5X the pre-holiday average on Amazon during key holiday shopping days and brands put a lot of faith in this channel when sales matter.

“As strong as Amazon is at bringing in peak shopping day orders, it’s clear that their investment in building a native ad platform for partner brands to get involved and help drive sales is paying off,” said Margo Kahrose, Skai’s SVP of Marketing last year. “The 500+ brands managing their Amazon advertising through Skai have been very pleased with their marketing return this holiday season and their desire is to keep the pedal on the gas in 2019.”

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Available now, this Skai Ecommerce checklist is chock full of advice, best practices, and tips for Amazon advertisers to take advantage of this critical time of the year.

Here are the first 5 Amazon Advertising tips from the Skai Ecommerce holiday season checklist

Amazon Holiday Season Tip #1 – Don’t run out of budget

The last thing you want to foil your holiday success is for campaigns to accidentally cap out when you have additional investment left. During heavy shopping days, some campaigns may be hotter than others so you may unexpectedly run out of budget mid-day. Use Skai’s Automated Actions to hourly search for out-of-budget campaigns and automatically fund them to keep you in the game.

Amazon Holiday Season Tip #2 – Stay on top of issues

Advertising on Amazon has a lot of rules and regulations that can pause your ads—such as ineligible violations (potentially due to profitability problems) or if you aren’t winning the buy box. Skai’s Automated Alerts can flag serving errors at the ads level so that you can jump in and address them to improve your success.

Amazon Holiday Season Tip #3 – Set up a dayparting strategy Skai

Most marketers know that certain periods of the day are more valuable than others and use dayparting strategies in other channels to best control bidding during consumer spike and dip patterns. Although not available from Amazon’s system, you can use Skai’s Automated Actions to modify bids based on the hours you would like to take advantage of this opportunity.

Amazon Holiday Season Tip #4 – Negative keywords are great, but keep them in check.

Negative keyword settings are a great way to zero in on the right searches to optimize your advertising efforts. However, with so much activity going on in Q4, it can get confusing. Use Skai’s Smart Tags to alert you when you mistakenly add negative keywords to campaigns that target those keywords so that you don’t block activity by accident.

Amazon Holiday Season Tip # 5 – Stay nimble, even when adding new campaigns.

Q4 can be a chaotic time and it may seem daunting to stop your day to upload new campaigns. With Skai, you can use bulk sheets to dramatically reduce the time it takes to add additional campaigns so that you can accomplish this task in short order and get on with the rest of your day.

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