2 days ago

Your margin is my opportunity - Jeff Bezos

Summary: Kevin King breaks down how Amazon's Product Opportunity Explorer literally shows you where demand is not being met, walks through using Claude for Amazon keyword research, and digs into Amazon's new native 365-day price history feature that is about to kill the fake-discount game ahead of Prime Day. Plus a Modash survey on what influencer marketers actually get paid, an AI tip on structuring better Claude prompts, and more.

Key Points Discussed:

Amazon's Product Opportunity Explorer and the Unmet Demand tab — first-party shopper behaviour, not scraped estimates
Why high search with low conversion can be a listing gap, not always a product gap
Using Claude for Amazon keyword research — sorted, segregated PPC-ready keyword lists (negative, branded, competitor, intent-based)
Building your own custom Claude skills for your Amazon brand
"Your margin is my opportunity" — Marketing Misfits with Mike McClary live in Nashville at Ecom Mastery AI
Anthropic stake driving nearly half of Alphabet's $62.6B Q1 2026 profit and over half of Amazon's $16.8B pre-tax gains
Amazon's native 365-day price history feature on the product detail page (US, UK, India)
Rufus answering shopper questions like "Has this been on sale in the last 30 days?"
What this kills: the price-pump play, fake "lowest price of the year" claims, and lazy reference pricing
Pre-Prime Day playbook: 12-month pricing audit, beat the trailing 90-day average, and how Subscribe & Save / coupons / Prime Exclusive Discounts stack
BDSN AI Tip: a 7-piece structure for high-quality Claude prompts (task, context, reference, success brief, rules, clarifying questions, execution plan)
Modash 2026 survey of 400 influencer marketers — the $13K pay gap, geographic disparities, and fashion paying the worst
The "just add social media" trap and the unpaid-overtime problem driving turnover

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