Amazon Influencer Program India: A Seller’s Playbook for FBA Brands
Kavya Iyer from Coimbatore still remembers the Tuesday her phone would not stop buzzing. A Tamil cooking creator had reviewed her pressure-cooker gasket set, and orders were pouring in. Four days later, her FBA stock hit zero. That is the side of the Amazon Influencer Program India sellers rarely hear about. Kavya’s next shipment was […]
Amazon Brand Referral Bonus: How Indian FBA Sellers Get 10% Back
Last March, Kavya Agarwal from Jaipur finally did the maths she’d been avoiding. Her block-print cushion covers were selling well on amazon.com through FBA, and roughly a third of those orders came from Instagram ads aimed at US shoppers. She was paying Meta for every click, then paying Amazon a full referral fee on the […]
Top of Search Bid Adjustment: Where Your Amazon PPC Budget Should Go
Last March, Tanvi Desai from Surat sat staring at her Campaign Manager at midnight, completely stuck. Her bids were tuned, her negative keywords were clean, and she had even paused bids with day-parting. Yet her rayon kurta campaigns were still running at 44% ACOS, and every rupee of profit was disappearing into ads. The problem […]
TACoS vs ACoS: The Metric That Tells You If Ads Are Actually Working
Last March, Balaji Sundaram from Tiruchirappalli thought he’d cracked Amazon ads. Over six weeks he trimmed bids on “cast iron tawa” and “dosa tawa”, and his cookware brand’s ACoS fell from 38% to 21%. He’d never paid attention to the TACoS vs ACoS debate, and he didn’t think he needed to. Then he checked total […]
Amazon Backend Search Terms: The 200 Bytes Most Indian Sellers Waste
Pooja Deshmukh from Nagpur spent three weeks preparing her organic spice brand for launch. She paid a photographer ₹14,000, rewrote her bullets four times and built A+ content with recipe cards. Then, the night before going live, she reached the Amazon backend search terms field, typed her brand name, repeated “organic masala powder” from her […]
Amazon Rufus Optimisation: How Indian Sellers Win AI Shopping Search
Tanvi Joshi from Indore had never heard of Amazon Rufus optimisation, and she didn’t think she needed to. Her copper water bottle ranked on page one for “copper water bottle”, and her rating sat at 4.3 stars. Yet for two straight months, her sessions refused to move. One evening, she opened the Amazon.in app, tapped […]
Pricing Psychology on Amazon: Charm Pricing, Anchoring and Bundle Maths
Ritika Bhandari from Jaipur spent three weeks getting her price right. She built the spreadsheet properly — landed cost from her Moradabad supplier, referral fee, FBA fee, packaging, ad spend, and a 22% margin she could actually live on. The number came out at ₹1,300, and she listed her brass planters at exactly that. Six […]
Amazon Product Bundling Strategy: Build Listings Rivals Can’t Copy
Kavya Reddy from Hyderabad spent fourteen months turning a stainless steel lunchbox into a real brand. Good photos, 430 reviews, a 4.4 rating, roughly ₹6 lakh a month in FBA sales. Then last March, three listings appeared that looked almost exactly like hers — same silhouette, same lifestyle shots, priced ₹80 lower. By June her […]
Amazon Listing Not Selling for Months? How to Recover a Dead ASIN
Ritika Nair opened Seller Central on a Tuesday morning in Coimbatore and stared at a number she had already seen for eleven weeks straight: zero. Her kitchen storage range had pulled ₹68,000 in a good month last year. Now the listing sat there — live, priced exactly as before, and completely silent. If your Amazon […]
Private Label vs Generic Amazon: The Decision Every Seller Faces
Ramesh Nayagam from Kodaikanal had been staring at the same screen for eleven minutes. His seller account was approved. His supplier in Rajkot had quoted him on stainless steel water bottles. He had opened the listing form, chosen the category, written a title he was proud of, and hit a field with two words next […]