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Day Job: Helping Amazon Brands Scale With The Systems I Used To Build & Exit Two Brands - at GNOPartners.com. Side Hustle: Documenting My Journey and Sharing the Lessons Learned Along the Way

These 5 PPC mistakes quietly held back my performance for months Once I stopped doing these, everything changed. PPC isn’t a one time project — it’s constant testing, refining, and avoiding bad habits. Over the years, I’ve made every PPC mistake in the book. But once I fixed them — my ACOS dropped, TACOS improved, and results got more stable. Here are 5 things I stopped doing, and it made a huge difference • Don’t turn off campaigns completely. Drop the budget to $1 to keep campaign history and make it easier to scale later. I do this when I’m temporarily out of stock or running a deal and want to reduce spending, but plan to bring the campaign back. • Don’t pause winning keywords or targets. Even if you want to isolate them in a new campaign, If a keyword is converting well with good ACOS and CVR, never pause it. • Don’t optimize based on the last 2 days of data. Amazon’s reporting lags, so if you’re optimizing today (e.g. March 24), only use data from March 21 and earlier. The last 48 hours are often incomplete — and usually show a worse performance than it actually is. • Don’t group multiple parent ASINs in one campaign. Unless it’s a catch-all Auto, keep parent ASINs separate for cleaner data and more control. • Don’t optimize profit and ranking campaigns the same. Profit = focus on ACOS. Ranking = focus on CVR and top-of-search impression share. Different goals need different strategies. I’ve tested all of these. Once I stopped doing them, my PPC improved and finally pushed my brand forward — not held it back. It should be the same for you. ♻️ Repost if you want your network to stop wasting money.

Jamie Dimond

Sales and Marketing at CBF Labels

4w

Great breakdown - PPC is about strategy, not just spend

Chase Dimond

Top Ecommerce Email Marketer & Agency Owner | We’ve sent over 1 billion emails for our clients resulting in $200+ million in email attributable revenue.

4w

Smart move on not pausing winning keywords - consistency is the main factor

Binyamin Rutstein

3x Founder - Self-Awareness for Entrepreneurs + Amazon Scaling - Sharing Marketing, Mindset and Spiritual insights - 1x Exit - 5x startups - CEO, 3x Parent

4w

Great points here! Continuous learning and adapting is key to PPC success.

Nick Shackelford

Drinkbrez.com Structured.agency Konstantkreative.com

4w

The lag in Amazon's reporting can be so misleading, patience is definitely a virtue here

Syed Sibte Hassan

Turning Ugly Ads & Creatives (Amazon & TikTok) into Goldmines Since 2018 | 67M+ sales for my partners | Founder at Adsinitiatorz.com | Give me your Worst Performing Ad account, I’ll make it your best.

4w

Great breakdown! I’ve seen similar pitfalls in my experience too, and I even documented 48 deadly mistakes that can slowly undermine PPC performance. Keeping campaigns live with a minimal budget, preserving winning keywords, and relying on complete data instead of last-minute figures are game changers.

Gal Ezuz

Co-Founder @ GNO Partners | Currently Scaling Amazon 7 & 8-Figure Sellers | Exited Two Amazon 7-Figure Brands.

4w

This is gold for anyone stuck in the 'why isn't PPC working?' loop. Last point regarding profit and ranking campaigns has the biggest impact in my opinion. You don't want to optimize only based on ACOS. Look at CVR as well and prioritize keywords with higher CVR. Long term this will boost your organic rank across the board.

Jonny Golding

40% Increase In Amazon Sales Within 60 Days with No Retainer From an Award Winning $100.000.000 Amazon advertising team

4w

Amazon PPC is a tough game indeed. Play it smart by focusing on strategy. I like your idea of lowering the budget to $1 rather than shutting down the campaign. It is smart. Ouriel Rybski

Adnan Aslam

Data Led Amazon FBA Consultant | Top 1% Talent on Upwork | Generated over $147M Revenue | 5+ years of Experience | 98% Job Success Score

4w

The $1 budget trick is undervalued. Many sellers shut down campaigns and then struggle to regain momentum.

Chris Marrano

Scaling 7 & 8 Figure DTC Brands Profitably | Founder @BlueWaterMarketing | DM Me "Scale" for our 5-point S.C.A.L.E. Audit

4w

Completely agree on separating ranking vs. profit campaigns treating them the same is a silent killer. Appreciate these insights! 

A.Z.M Amanullah Shahariar

Currently managing $50000 plus Amazon Ad spend per month | Amazon PPC Manager

1w

Is it effective to use the same keywords for both ranking and profit campaign or does it depend on campaign goals? What do you think?

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