The main challenge of a big retailer is Black Friday. Besides a great amount of planning time, it needs a very careful attention to the real time data that is coming from the purchases. The campaign structure is quite a bit different with the products with the best promotions highlited and requires to be on duty overnight.

They wanted to generate sales online and were never able to get a decent ROAS

The Challenge

Prior to working with Diogenes Solutions, the team at Gakken focused their efforts on Amazon Marketing with no Success usually just opting for automatic Amazon PPC campaigns that were costly and not profitable.

To position itself as a Top selling children’s book company, Gakken would have to prioritize targeted manual PPC campaigns. They would need to focus on ASIN targeting competitor products. Book targeting needs to be conservative in bidding and hyper targeted.

The Gakken team sought me out as the right person to take on the challenge.

The goal was to refine Gakkens PPC targeting with manual Selection, identify high-impact keywords, Categories and Products as well as display ads to fill topic gaps throughout the funnel, and ultimately, grow traffic and conversions.

• High competition in sports and fitness (resistance bands) in UK & USA
• Low brand awareness
• High cost per sale with very few purchases