From the Playbook
Operator-grade writing on Amazon profit recovery.
No fluff, no listicles. Field-tested patterns from inside 170+ brands and $29M+ in managed ad spend.
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Rufus is gone. Alexa for Shopping is here.
On May 13, 2026 Amazon retired Rufus and merged it into Alexa for Shopping — now appearing in most U.S. search results. Here's what changed and what to do.
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How to reduce Amazon ACOS without losing sales volume
Most brands cut ACOS by slashing bids — and lose rank and revenue doing it. Here's how to lower your Amazon ACOS by cutting waste, not sales.
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When day parting moves margin
Day parting recovers 5–18% of wasted Amazon ad spend for the brands it fits — and almost none for those it doesn't. Here's how to tell which you are.
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Aggregator dashboards are lying to you
Five reporting blind spots that explain why 'healthy' stores leak six figures a year — and how to reconcile dashboard profit with settlement deposits.
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From #14 to #2 in 120 days
The launch sequence we ran when a competitor with 14× the review count owned page one — and why outspending them would have killed the brand.
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Amazon listing suppression prevention
Almost every Amazon suppression event has a 72-hour warning window. Here's the Monday-morning catalogue pass we run to catch them before they bite.
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Why ACOS is a vanity metric
ACOS feels good at 12% but is meaningless if your TACoS is 28%. Here's what to optimise for if you actually want take-home profit.
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The Amazon SKUs eating your margin
Fee-creep variants, return cliffs, storage ghosts — the SKU-level bleeds nobody flags until your quarterly P&L lands.
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Read your Amazon P&L like an operator
Six lines every founder should be able to find inside Seller Central in under 90 seconds — and the math behind each.
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