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You spent money acquiring every customer you have. Most sellers never speak to them again. On Amazon that's partly understandable — you don't own the customer relationship and the rules are strict. But there's far more room than most sellers use, and there's one move that matters more than all the others combined. Read this section carefully. This is the engine where bad advice gets accounts suspended. Everything below stays inside Amazon's rules — and I'll be explicit about where the lines are. What you absolutely cannot do Offer any incentive for a review — no discounts, free products, gift cards, refunds Ask specifically for a positive review Ask a customer to remove or change a negative review Divert customers away from Amazon inside Buyer-Seller Messaging Include review requests with incentives in package inserts These get accounts suspended. Not warned. No AI workflow is worth your account. What you can do 1. Request a Review, consistently Seller Central's "Request a Review" button sends Amazon's own template. It's compliant by definition — it's their message, not yours. Most sellers use it sporadically or not at all. Used on every order in the eligible window, it reliably lifts review velocity. Various tools automate it via the API; check current terms before choosing one. 1. Triage negative reviews fast Here are my recent 1–3 star reviews. Group them by root cause — product defect, wrong expectation set by the listing, shipping/packaging, or misuse. For each group tell me: how many reviews, whether this is a product problem or a listing problem, and what specific change would prevent it. Then draft a public response for each group that is helpful and non-defensive, does not offer anything in exchange, and does not ask for the review to be changed. Here's the strategic bit: most negative reviews are a listing problem, not a product problem. People bought expecting something the listing implied. That's fixable in Engine #2, and it's free.

Not deliberately. But the number you're looking at is wrong. Open Seller Central, look at your sales figure, feel good about the month. That figure doesn't properly account for: PPC across all campaign types, not just Sponsored Products FBA fulfilment fees per unit Monthly storage, and long-term storage surcharges Returns, and the units that come back unsellable Inbound freight and prep Your cost of goods VAT, if you're registered I've watched sellers celebrate a record month and be down on actual profit. You cannot fix your marketing until you know which products deserve the ad spend. This engine exists to answer one question: what do I actually make, per unit, per product? The workflow Step 1 — Gather four files Business Reports → Detail Page Sales and Traffic by Child Item (last 30 days) Payments → Reports Repository → Summary and Transaction reports Advertising → all campaign types, last 30 days Your own COGS: unit cost, freight, prep, per SKU That fourth one is the only thing you have to supply. Nobody else has it. Step 2 — Build the calculation I'm going to give you Amazon reports and my cost data. Build me a per-SKU profit table. For each SKU calculate: Revenue − Amazon referral fee − FBA fee − storage − returns cost − total ad spend attributed to that SKU − COGS − freight − prep = net profit Then show me: net profit per unit, net margin %, and net profit for the period. Sort by total net profit descending. Flag any SKU where net margin is below 10% in amber and below 0% in red. Tell me clearly if any figure is estimated rather than taken directly from the data. That last instruction is important. You want to know which numbers are solid and which are inferred. Step 3 — Ask the uncomfortable question Based on this table, which SKUs would I be better off discontinuing, and which deserve more ad spend? Give me a one-line reason for each. Most sellers find at least one product they're effectively subsidising. Some find their "bestseller" is their worst performer once ads are properly attributed.

Creative used to be the slowest thing in an ecom business. Brief a designer. Wait a week. Get three images back. Two are wrong. Wait another week. So most sellers test almost nothing. They pick a main image at launch and leave it for two years. That's expensive, because the main image is one of the highest-leverage things you can change. A better one lifts click-through rate on every impression you will ever receive — organic and paid. The workflow Step 1 — Know the rules before you generate anything Amazon's main image requirements are strict and non-negotiable: Pure white background (RGB 255, 255, 255) Product fills at least 85% of the frame No text, logos, watermarks, borders or graphics No props that aren't included in the purchase Product must be the actual product Break these and you get suppressed, not warned. Secondary images are far more permissive — that's where creative work happens. Step 2 — Decide what each slot does Don't generate seven images and hope. Each slot has a job: Main — pure white, product only, maximum clarity Infographic — the three features that matter most Lifestyle — the product in use, showing scale and context Size/dimensions — the question people ask most Comparison — you against the alternative What's in the box — reduces returns and pre-purchase questions Trust — warranty, guarantee, brand story Step 3 — Generate Start with a clean product photo on white. You need one real photograph — AI cannot invent your actual product accurately, and claiming it can is how sellers end up with misleading listings. For lifestyle backgrounds, use an image model with your product photo as the input: Place this product in a realistic [kitchen / gym / garden] setting, natural daylight from the left, shallow depth of field, product in sharp focus and centred, photographed as if on a 50mm lens. The product must remain exactly as supplied — do not alter its colour, shape, proportions or labelling. That last sentence is the important one. Without it, image models will subtly redesign your product.