Billion Dollar Sellers

Twice a week the Billion Dollar Seller Newsletter keeps Amazon, TikTok Shop and Shopify sellers up to date on the latest news and tactics to sty on the cutting edge of e-commerce selling. The ia the summarized podcast version of the newsletter that comes out every Monday and Thursday.

Episodes

29 minutes ago

12 min

Date: October 19th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King breaks down the "conversion bomb", a three-part launch pricing stack from a Billion Dollar Sellers Club panel that lets a brand-new listing compete with established rivals without teaching Amazon the product is cheap. He also covers two free PPC tools from IGPPC, why video volume decides who wins on TikTok Shop, Helium 10's new AI bootcamp series, and where Amazon's FY2025 revenue actually comes from.
 
Key Points Discussed:
 
Mike McClary's conversion bomb: a strike-through price, a coupon badge, and a promotion stacked on the page at once, from a panel with Bradley Sutton and Isabella Ritz
Why a 30 to 50% launch discount buys down the trust barrier, and why cutting the list price instead destroys the strike-through anchor
Sequencing the stack: promotion on day one, five to ten full-price sales, a Prime-exclusive discount, then the coupon once eligible
Bradley Sutton's faster strike-through trigger and his habit of running an FBM offer alongside FBA to catch non-Prime shoppers
Isabella Ritz's pay-to-play price ladder, plus enrolling in Vine the moment inventory lands
Margin guardrails: 3 to 3.5x landed cost minimum, 4 to 5x target, and a 30% net margin buffer
IGPPC's free N-Gram Analyzer and Share of Voice Dashboard for finding wasted ad spend and real impression share
TikTok Shop Trends Report 2026: sellers with 1,000+ videos are 8% of accounts but drive 60% of sales
Stack Influence micro-influencer product seeding for Amazon ranking and UGC
Helium 10's free eCommerce AI Bootcamp, and why Claude won its head-to-head tool test
Where Amazon makes its money: the FY2025 split across online stores, third-party seller services, AWS, and advertising
 
Links Mentioned:
 
Try the Billion Dollar Sellers Club for $9
Try the N-Gram Analyzer
Try the Share of Voice Dashboard free
TikTok Shop Trends Report 2026
Stack Influence (10% off this month)
Blueland micro-influencer case study with Stack Influence
Helium 10's eCommerce AI Bootcamp, Episode 1 (YouTube)
 
Hot Picks:
 
Government going after Amazon for $1 billion in taxes from UK sales
Ports of Long Beach & LA report highest ever container volume
Shopify says AI traffic converts 80% higher than regular search
 
Stump Bezos Answer: Across the two days of Prime Big Deal Days, sales were about 1.78 times higher than on a normal day.
 
Parting Shot: "Success is wanting to be where you are." — James Clear
 
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Ask the Ecom Oracle your ecom questions (better than Chat GPT!)

29 minutes ago

12 min

3 days ago

17 min

Date: October 15th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King walks through Amazon's new Seller Assistant Workflows, which put an approval-based AI assistant inside Seller Central, and its back-office companion, Amazon Quick. He also covers Q52 Ads, a PPC engine built by a former Amazon Ads product leader, and Retailgentic's research on how Meta's Muse shopping agent picks products, before closing with BCG data showing AI chatbots now rival social media in shaping brand choice.
 
Key Points Discussed:
 
Amazon's Seller Assistant Workflows: describe a task in plain words, review the plan, and nothing runs until you approve it
The five live templates: Orders & Returns Digest, Pricing Analyzer, Product Expansion Finder, Account Health Monitor, and Review & Feedback Requestor
Building custom workflows, starting in drafts-only mode, and the Knowledge Base of up to 100 business documents
Three on-demand prompts: listing compliance checks, category review mining, and head-to-head competitor comparisons
Amazon Quick as the intern's back office, with 12 months of Quick Plus free until December 31, 2026 and a $1,000 Meta ads credit
Q52 Ads, a goal-driven, approval-based Amazon Ads optimization engine looking for 3 to 5 early testing partners
Meta's Muse shopping agent and why Meta.ai is its front door
Five moves to optimize for Muse: the Meta.ai catalog, richer product data, monitoring through Meta.ai, agent-ready checkout, and the Universal Commerce Protocol
Linnworks for running Amazon, TikTok Shop, and Shopify from one system through Q4
The 5K Rule: how the top 1% scale TikTok Shop affiliates, with Sohun Sanka on The Marketing Misfits
BCG Global Consumer Radar: social media (56%) and LLM search (55%) now lead influence on brand choice
The Billion Dollar Sellers Club: $9 for the first 30 days with code BDSC
 
Links Mentioned:
 
Q52 Ads early testing partner waitlist
Meta.ai, for testing how your products show up to Muse
Linnworks demo (and merch) offer
The 5K Rule: How the Top 1% Scale TikTok Shop Affiliates (video)
Join the Billion Dollar Sellers Club for $9 (code BDSC)
 
Hot Picks:
 
AI agents forecasted to drive $100B in sales by next year
Why ChatGPT ads won't impact holiday sales much this year
UPS signs exclusive deal with TikTok Shop for label-free returns [LINK NEEDED]
 
Stump Bezos Answer: Shopify's GMV will be about $645 billion in 2026.
 
Parting Shot: "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." — Bill Gates
 
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Ask the Ecom Oracle your ecom questions (better than Chat GPT!)

3 days ago

17 min

4 days ago

17 min

Date: October 15th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King walks through Amazon's new Seller Assistant Workflows, which put an approval-based AI assistant inside Seller Central, and its back-office companion, Amazon Quick. He also covers Q52 Ads, a PPC engine built by a former Amazon Ads product leader, and Retailgentic's research on how Meta's Muse shopping agent picks products, before closing with BCG data showing AI chatbots now rival social media in shaping brand choice.
 
Key Points Discussed:
 
Amazon's Seller Assistant Workflows: describe a task in plain words, review the plan, and nothing runs until you approve it
The five live templates: Orders & Returns Digest, Pricing Analyzer, Product Expansion Finder, Account Health Monitor, and Review & Feedback Requestor
Building custom workflows, starting in drafts-only mode, and the Knowledge Base of up to 100 business documents
Three on-demand prompts: listing compliance checks, category review mining, and head-to-head competitor comparisons
Amazon Quick as the intern's back office, with 12 months of Quick Plus free until December 31, 2026 and a $1,000 Meta ads credit
Q52 Ads, a goal-driven, approval-based Amazon Ads optimization engine looking for 3 to 5 early testing partners
Meta's Muse shopping agent and why Meta.ai is its front door
Five moves to optimize for Muse: the Meta.ai catalog, richer product data, monitoring through Meta.ai, agent-ready checkout, and the Universal Commerce Protocol
Linnworks for running Amazon, TikTok Shop, and Shopify from one system through Q4
The 5K Rule: how the top 1% scale TikTok Shop affiliates, with Sohun Sanka on The Marketing Misfits
BCG Global Consumer Radar: social media (56%) and LLM search (55%) now lead influence on brand choice
The Billion Dollar Sellers Club: $9 for the first 30 days with code BDSC
 
Links Mentioned:
 
Q52 Ads early testing partner waitlist
Meta.ai, for testing how your products show up to Muse
Linnworks demo (and merch) offer
The 5K Rule: How the Top 1% Scale TikTok Shop Affiliates (video)
Join the Billion Dollar Sellers Club for $9 (code BDSC)
 
Hot Picks:
 
AI agents forecasted to drive $100B in sales by next year
Why ChatGPT ads won't impact holiday sales much this year
UPS signs exclusive deal with TikTok Shop for label-free returns [LINK NEEDED]
 
Stump Bezos Answer: Shopify's GMV will be about $645 billion in 2026.
 
Parting Shot: "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." — Bill Gates
 
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4 days ago

17 min

7 days ago

15 min

Date: October 12th, 2026
 
Summary: Kevin King breaks down the four AI agents everyone is talking about and how a seller can run them as a team, then looks at Amazon's new About You page and what its AI-built shopper profiles mean for your listings. He also covers an AI freight-quoting tool, a PPC Den episode on the billion-dollar telehealth brands leaving Amazon search wide open, and TikTok Shop's growth across Europe.
 
Key Points Discussed:
 
Your new AI team explained: Claude Code (the architect), Hermes (the night shift), Grok Bot (the remote assistants) and Jev (the triage clerk), and the one thing to never ask each of them to do
How the four agents hand work to each other, and the two rules that keep it from becoming chaos: one owner per job, and hand-offs somewhere you can see them
Seller jobs that work today: overnight monitoring, sorting reviews and leads at volume, drafting without sending, and clicking through portals with no API
House rules for any AI team: logins stay human, agents draft and humans send, and a spend cap on everything
SnipeRate, an AI shipping employee that requests, chases, compares and negotiates freight quotes for you
Amazon's About You page, which lets shoppers see, edit and delete the AI-generated profile Amazon has built of them
The viral misfires, from miniature blimp owners to "interested in world domination", and why confident wrong guesses matter
Why sellers should care: personalized search, Lists and reviews as profile inputs, and the attribute language your listing needs
Stack Influence and micro-influencer product seeding at scale
The spillover effect: nine of the 11 biggest telehealth brands don't sell on Amazon, leaving their branded search traffic to competitors
How Hims' Thick Fix TV campaign tripled branded searches, and why you either catch that demand or someone else harvests it
Sean's playbook: spotting breakout keywords, cutting the bottom 5% of your catalog every quarter, turning product inserts into Meta retargeting audiences, and the one DSP use case worth it
TikTok Shop in Europe: the UK holds about 65% of the market, while Spain, France, Germany and Italy roughly double year on year
The Billion Dollar Sellers Club: three live expert calls a month, $9 for the first 30 days
 
Links Mentioned:
 
Robert Prime's AI agent breakdown at AI Intelligence
SnipeRate, your AI shipping employee (enter BDSN125 for 125 free credits)
Find your own Amazon About You profile
The LinkedIn thread of About You guesses
Stack Influence (10% off this month)
Blueland micro-influencer case study with Stack Influence
The Billion-Dollar Brands Leaving Amazon Search Wide Open (The PPC Den Podcast)
Join the Billion Dollar Sellers Club for $9 (code BDSC)
 
Hot Picks:
 
Amazon's Big Deal Days hits almost $10B in sales
Amazon lets brands decide who can change their own content
Shopify now lets you pay suppliers direct from your Shopify balance
 
Stump Bezos Answer: Cyber Monday sales in the US are expected to hit $15.1 billion, nearly a third of Adobe's projected $47.5 billion Cyber Week.
 
Parting Shot: "Failure is not the outcome. Failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail." – Sara Blakely
 
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Ask the Ecom Oracle your ecom questions (better than Chat GPT!)

7 days ago

15 min

Oct 8, 2026

15 min

Date: October 8th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King explains how to claim a short category URL on Amazon, like amazon.com/candles, before a competitor takes it, and walks through Dan Ashburn's seven-step playbook for getting ChatGPT and other AI engines to recommend your brand. He also breaks down how Stickerbox went from $3,000 a month on TikTok Shop to $50,000 in a single day, alongside new data on Alexa-driven shopping traffic and a tool that splits a consumable brand's TACoS between new and repeat customers.
 
Key Points Discussed:
 
Claiming the aisle: Amazon lets Brand Store owners request a short custom URL, and each category word can point to only one store
Amazon's Brand Store data: new-to-brand visitors are 62.7% more likely to buy and spend 72.3% more per order
How to request a short URL through the Amazon Ads console (not Seller Central) in four steps, with approval in 24 to 48 hours
Tracking each placement with channel tags in Stores Insights, and where to keep using Amazon Attribution links for the Brand Referral Bonus
A compliant route for non-US sellers onto TikTok Shop US through their own US company
Marketing Misfits with Jono Alderson, former head of SEO at Yoast, on whether SEO is dead in the age of AI search
Alexa traffic to Amazon product pages up almost 490% in 11 months, with a holiday spike that has largely held
ChatGPT names only two or three brands per category: Google organic converts around 1.8% against roughly 16% for ChatGPT traffic
Dan Ashburn's seven-step answer engine optimisation (AEO) playbook, from Bing Webmaster Tools to rewriting 30% of key pages every 90 days
Why a consumable brand is really two businesses, and how blended TACoS can hide losses on new customers
Stickerbox case study: $367,480 in TikTok Shop revenue in under three months, 99.6% of it from affiliate creators
Spin Master's reported $35M to $50M acquisition of Stickerbox maker Hapiko, about nine months from launch
 
Links Mentioned:
 
Ecom Coffee Break: twice-weekly ecommerce news and marketing tips
Online Seller Solutions (Vanessa Hung)
Selling on TikTok Shop US from outside the USA: Dan Ashburn's live session replay
Marketing Misfits: Is SEO Dead? The Truth About AI Search, AEO, and Google in 2026
AI SEO in 44 Minutes: How to Get ChatGPT to Recommend Your Business
My Real Profit: audit your new-customer vs repeat-order split
House of Marketers: the Stickerbox launch campaign
Bullseye Sellers: the Stickerbox TikTok Shop turnaround
 
Hot Picks:
 
TikTok adds an AI shopping assistant and brand direct buying
Alexa for Shopping 100,000 prompt study
ChatGPT ads just got serious for e-commerce brands
 
Stump Bezos Answer: According to a16z, as of April 2026 only 2.2% of US households pay for an AI tool subscription like ChatGPT or Claude.
 
Parting Shot: "You don't learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over." - Richard Branson
 
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Oct 8, 2026

15 min

Oct 5, 2026

14 min

Date: October 5th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King breaks down Review Requests, a new Amazon ad type that pays to put one-tap review prompts in front of verified buyers, and explains why it can speed up bad news as easily as good. He also covers Amazon opening Ads Data Manager so sellers can target their own customer lists, five ranking mistakes that burn inventory, and Amazon retiring the Ads Console as Amazon Ads Agent starts setting bids and budgets for you.
 
Key Points Discussed:
 
Review Requests: a new Amazon Ads type that shows review prompts to verified buyers on high-traffic pages like the homepage, with early tests showing 3x more ratings and reviews per week
The fine print: US-only open beta from late October 2026, for products under 1,000 ratings and reviews and accounts with no active policy violations
The catch: a lukewarm buyer now gets a one-tap prompt, so a weak product collects bad reviews faster, and Amazon hasn't said how the ad is billed
Six steps to take before the beta opens, from pulling your ASIN list to tracking cost per new review against the free Request a Review button
Interesting stats: the overlap between top TikTok Shop and Amazon sellers runs mostly from TikTok to Amazon, not the other way around
Amazon opens Ads Data Manager to all advertisers in 30+ countries, turning email lists, Shopify buyers and loyalty members into ad audiences with no DSP budget required
Four plays to run with your customer data, a five-step setup, and a 30-day three-segment test
Software tool of the day: My Real Profit splits a consumable brand's TACoS between new customers and repeat orders
Five ranking mistakes that burn your inventory, from Alina at The Ranking Pill
Stack Influence for micro-influencer product seeding at scale
Amazon retires the Ads Console as sponsored ads and DSP merge into Amazon Ads Agent, with auto-optimized bids and budgets arriving in the US in January
Amazon DSP becomes DVA, plus Full-Funnel Campaigns, Branded Conversations in Alexa for Shopping, and plain-English reporting
The FTC and state AG lawsuit over allegedly hidden auction surcharges, with trial set for next year
 
Links Mentioned:
 
My Real Profit: check your new vs. repeat customer TACoS split
Alina at The Ranking Pill
Stack Influence (10% off this month)
Blueland micro-influencer case study with Stack Influence
 
Hot Picks:
 
Advertisers can directly influence Amazon's Alexa responses
US Post Office partners with Amazon on same day delivery pilot
As A.I. agents begin shopping, brands change their sales pitch
Amazon lets you manage Walmart, Shopify & TikTok sales on Amazon
 
Stump Bezos Answer: $1 per taco. $25 minus the $3.75 referral fee, $5.25 FBA fee and $4 landed cost leaves $12, spread across 12 tacos (4 holders x 3 tacos).
 
Parting Shot: "I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong … I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes." — George Soros
 
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Oct 5, 2026

14 min

Sep 28, 2026

15 min

Summary: Kevin King covers Alibaba's new expert-trained AI agents for ecommerce sellers, the biggest announcements from Amazon Accelerate 2026, a rule-based bidding setting that is lowering ACoS, and a 99% duty drawback refund hiding in sellers' shipping records.
 
Key Points Discussed:
Accio Work: Alibaba's agentic AI tool built specifically for ecommerce sellers
Why the "wrapper" around an AI model matters, and how expert SOPs became one-click agents
How underdog products win in Amazon's AI shopping by naming specific use cases
Five key announcements from Amazon Accelerate 2026, from the official Claude plugin to listing protection
Rule-based bidding: setting a target ROAS to lower ACoS without tanking your campaigns
Duty drawback: reclaiming 99% of duty and Section 301 tariffs on inventory that left the US
Stack Influence platform for micro-influencer collaborations
 
Links Mentioned:
Accio Work (grab your 500 free tokens)
Billion Dollar Sellers Club: full session with Tim Jordan (try it for $9)
Full breakdown of the Amazon Accelerate 2026 changes
Stack Influence Platform (10% off when you sign up this month)
Blueland Micro Influencer Campaign Case Study
Have Chris Rawlings take over your PPC
 
Hot Picks:
Shopify to use Meta's Muse for agentic checkout
Amazon massively expanding same-day delivery
Amazon is now showing search results tailored just to you
Amazon rolls out passkeys to prevent shared Seller Central logins
 
Stump Bezos Answer: You need about 500 words of context in AI for every written word
 
Parting Shot: "I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying." (Jeff Bezos)
Billion Dollar Sellers Media Library
The Ecom Oracle
 
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Sep 28, 2026

15 min

Sep 24, 2026

16 min

Date: September 24th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King explains how Amazon's brand-name stripping and new AI title rewrites can make your best keyword vanish from search, walks through Walmart's listing scorecard and launch playbook, covers Google's new AI performance report for merchants, and introduces a free tool that shows your Shopify listing the way an AI agent sees it.
 
Key Points Discussed:
How Amazon removes less recognisable brand names from titles in search, and why it costs you when your brand name is also your main keyword
Amazon's 75-character title limit, AI title rewrites and the new Item Highlights field
A five-minute check to compare your live search title with your backend title
Walmart's listing scorecard, category opportunities and the Pro Seller badge
A Walmart launch sequence: title structure, right-to-win checks, advertising, outside traffic and review syndication
Dragon.fish on email list warm-up and capturing marketplace buyer emails
ChatGPT stats showing commercial conversations rising from 13.9% to 19.2%
Google Merchant Center's new AI performance tab and how to rewrite your feed for conversational search
Shop Cat Explorer and how Shopify's Catalog API feeds product data to AI shopping agents
 
Links Mentioned:
Billion Dollar Sellers Club (try it for $9)
Dragon.fish
Targeted by the FTC: The $56M Comeback Story (Marketing Misfits on YouTube)
Marketing Misfits Newsletter
Shop Cat Explorer
 
Hot Picks:
The threat AI Agent Instinct and Meta's Muse have to Amazon
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse agentic AI from shopping its site
Shopify filters out bots to show human-only traffic to stores
$750 billion from AI search by 2028: listings need to change
 
Stump Bezos Answer: 33% of shoppers research their holiday gifts before October 21
 
Parting Shot: "Concentration produces wealth. Diversification protects wealth." (James Clear)
 
Billion Dollar Sellers Media Library
The Ecom Oracle
 
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Sep 24, 2026

16 min

Sep 21, 2026

11 min

Date: September 21st, 2026Summary: Kevin King breaks down why there's an 80% chance a split test beats your current main image, how to test angles before variations, four image fixes to make before Q4, why packaging photos keep winning the main slot, and ocean freight rates climbing toward $10,500 a container.
Key Points Discussed
 
The BDSC main image panel with Matt Kostan of ProductPinion, Kamal Singh of AMZ One Step, and John Aspinall
Why the challenger beats your existing main image about 80% of the time, and the 2 to 5x click-through gap at stake
Testing angles before variations, and Kamal's 5-2 rule sanity check
Why image guidelines are not terms of service, and the dummy listing suppression dodge
Matt's testing sequence: baseline against real competitors, 75% statistical significance, and watching behaviour over votes
The cheapest conversion lift: a concrete visual size reference instead of a number
US TikTok visitors by age, and why it's now a millennial platform
Four image fixes to make before Q4 from Kamal Singh
Why packaging photos win the main image slot: pixel utilization
Ocean freight spot rates near $10,500 a container ahead of Golden Week
Stack Influence for micro-influencer product seeding at scale
 
Links Mentioned
 
ListingOptimization.ai (generates image variants and pushes them into ProductPinion for one-click testing)
Billion Dollar Sellers Club (full main image panel, the Big Book of Main Image Ideas, and the free image-recognition tool, try it for $9)
Dragon.fish (BDSN Feature of the Day: email list warm-up and marketplace buyer capture)
Stack Influence (10% off if you sign up this month)
Blueland Micro Influencer case study (13X ROI scaling influencers on Amazon)
Drewry's World Container Index
 
Hot Picks
 
Amazon raises minimum wage to $20/hr with average of $24
Whatnot cuts seller fees today to as low as 3% for top sellers
Alexa for Shopping prompts showing up under Sponsored Discovery
Prime Big Deal Days is back October 6 & 7
 
Stump Bezos Answer: Subscribe & Save products with a 10 to 15% discount drive a 1.8X sales conversion increase.
Parting Shot: "Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy." — Haruki Murakami
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Sep 21, 2026

11 min

Sep 17, 2026

17 min

Date: September 17th, 2026
 
Summary: Kevin King walks through the five numbers that show whether a TikTok creator will actually sell your product, and how to recruit, brief, and keep the creators who deliver. He also covers a hidden AI video ad builder inside Amazon's ad console, Similarweb and Statista's State of Ecommerce 2026 report on how shoppers are stacking AI on top of search, and the three send windows that decide which Black Friday emails get read.
 
Key Points Discussed:
 
The five numbers that show whether a TikTok creator will sell: post-fulfillment rate, engagement ratio, shares and saves, consistency, and comment quality
Why follower count and standalone GMV mislead, and JoinBrands' practical filter of $10K+ GMV, an 89%+ post rate, and a matching niche
Fixing the cold start with a seeding round of roughly 100 creators for about $2,500 plus product cost
Writing a complete first outreach message, following up after the sample ships, and briefing creators with bullet points instead of scripts
Paying to keep the winners: high starting commissions, GMV bonuses, retainers, and community building
Amazon's advanced AI video builder for streaming TV, and porting its videos into Sponsored Brands video ads (with an 8% ACoS example)
Jake Thomas on Marketing Misfits: the psychology of YouTube titles and the three click-worthy emotions of curiosity, fear, and desire
Interesting stats: LLC formation costs by state, from $35 in Montana to $1,000 in Massachusetts, plus California's $800 annual LLC tax
Similarweb and Statista's State of Ecommerce 2026 report: AI appeared in 11.4% of US shopping journeys, and 89% of those also used search
AI referrals growing 203% year over year from a 0.4% share, and Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus) product page traffic up 537%
Amazon's category winners and laggards, and why catalogs are growing faster than shopper attention
Agentic checkout, shopper trust in AI purchasing, and getting product data ready for a machine to reason over
Omnisend's three Black Friday send windows (6 to 9 AM, 12 to 2 PM, 8 to 10 PM) and a specific job for each send
Resending to non-clickers, local-time sending, phone-first email design, and Amazon Attribution links for the Brand Referral Bonus
 
Links Mentioned:
 
EUKA.ai, the creator-sourcing platform where panelist Jordyn runs partnerships
Try the Billion Dollar Sellers Club for $9
Chris Rawlings on Amazon's hidden AI video ad builder (video)
Marketing Misfits: The Psychology of YouTube Titles with Jake Thomas (video)
Subscribe to the Marketing Misfits newsletter
 
Hot Picks:
 
Micro and nano influencers claim 50% of marketing budgets
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days deadline extended to Sept 22
Amazon parts ways with 21 Air after Miami Prime Air crash
 
Stump Bezos Answer: Amazon has slightly over 10,000 return drop-off locations, enough to put one within 5 miles of 80% of the US population.
 
Parting Shot: "I am wealthy in my friends." From William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens.
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Ask the Ecom Oracle your ecom questions (better than Chat GPT!)

Sep 17, 2026

17 min

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