VENDO - Amazon & Walmart Growth Experts
VENDO
VENDO is a 360° digital growth agency specializing in online marketplaces Amazon and Walmart.com. We grow your sales, protect your brand, and drive success through innovative advertising, marketing, content creation, SEO, & more -- all of which are covered weekly on the VENDO Podcast.
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May 11, 2021 • 21min
In-Depth Look at Pacvue Advertising Software with Sok Khann - Vendo Podcast Ep 52
In previous episodes, there is no way you have heard Gefen and Michelle tackle advertising without mentioning Pacvue.
Vendo invites Sok Khann, Director of Customer Success at Pacvue, to expand upon what this powerful advertising tool can do for your Amazon and Walmart.com business. 🛠
We learn that people who are advertising on Walmart.com are also managing other channels. One thing to keep in mind is that Walmart’s ad auction adds an additional element to a successful advertising strategy. 📈✏️
Sok, Michelle, and Gefen give us the lowdown on options to boost your brand’s presence on various marketplaces.
Find out how to avoid overshooting bids and curate effective campaigns. Your game plan depends on various factors such as the product category, supply and demand, and targeting! We’ll also uncover similarities between Walmart and Amazon as the two compete to beat each others numbers! 🧮💵
Topics include:
- Auction bidding 💸
- Budget parameters on Walmart.com 📊
- OPD releases
- Advertising presence 🖼
Featuring:
- Sok Khann, Director of Customer Success, Pacvue
- Gefen Laredo, Amazon Advertising Manager, Vendo
- Michelle Long, Walmart Marketing Strategist, Vendo
Contact Us:
hello@vendocommerce.com
www.vendocommerce.com/contact
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May 3, 2021 • 38min
Optimizing Your Business with Helium10 ft. Bradley Sutton - Vendo Podcast Ep 51
Today, we sit down with Helium10's Director of Customer Success & Training, Bradley Sutton. 👔 From qualifying as a sumo wrestler to starting his own car parts business at 19 years old, Bradley’s myriad of experience proves he’s always had the enterprise to drive one of the leading tools for Amazon sellers, Helium10, which provides that data and insights you need to increase product ranking, revenue, and more! 💪💰
Join Darren and Bradley as they discuss what a powerful engine Helium10 can be for your brand. They make it easier for you to scope out your competition—long gone are the days where you can get by without getting into metrics and keywords. 📈🔢 We lay down all the new features and how to use them to optimize your sales. Bradley also gives his take on brick and mortar business saying, “You have a higher chance of success if you have a long track record of online success already.” 🧠 Let’s help you dominate the buy-box and get your product on the market! 🚀
Topics include:
- Bradley Sutton: Most Interesting Man🕴
- New Helium10 features 🔵
- Why you need tools to be successful on Amazon
- Tracking keywords, reverse ASIN tools 🔎
- Brick and mortar vs. E-commerce 🖥
Featuring:
- Bradley Sutton, Director of Customer Success and Training - Helium 10
- Darren Saul, CEO - Vendo
Contact Us:
hello@vendocommerce.com
www.vendocommerce.com/contact
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Apr 26, 2021 • 21min
CEO Spotlight: Alex Dastmalchi of Vanity Planet & Dastmalchi Brands - Vendo Podcast Ep 50
Since 2010, Alex Dastmalchi and the Dastmalchi family of brands has been committed to creating everyday products worthy of your daily routine.
Driven by his humble and turbulent upbringing in war-torn Iran, Alex set out to become a successful entrepreneur. 🌠 Today, he owns and operates a collection of lifestyle, beauty, and wellness brands with products that aim to make the mundane feel exciting, and the basic seem brilliant.
Dastmalchi Brands’ philosophy is grounded in the idea that “feeling good is not a luxury but a necessity.” 💆♀️💆♂️✨
Join us today as Alex shares his inspiring journey to create these exciting line of products. 🧖♀️🧴
Featuring:
- Alex Dastmalchi, Founder - Vanity Planet, Dastmalchi Brands - www.vanityplanet.com, www.dastmalchi.com
- Yoji Cole, Business Development Manager - Vendo
Contact Us:
hello@vendocommerce.com
www.vendocommerce.com/contact
Subscribe to our channel & email newsletter to learn more about how you can optimize your online Amazon and Walmart businesses: www.vendocommerce.com/subscribe-to-newsletter
Protect Your Brand & SELL MORE!™
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Apr 20, 2021 • 15min
Amazon Cannibals: Protect DTC & Boost Amazon - Vendo Podcast Ep 49
We want Vendo to be an extension of your DTC brand. One of the concerns many of our clients face is Amazon becoming a cannibal for their brand. Woah, WHAT? 😱 Figuratively, a cannibal eats away at the organic growth and traffic of your brand outside of the Amazon marketplace. The goal is to strategically separate or synergize growth of multiple audiences from different traffic sources. There are many tricks to do so, which takes a bit of creative coordination. 🧠🔌⚡️
The answer is in the data. Magnifying your Amazon audience data and new audiences, while excluding your DTC audiences, is the best way to streamline a new sector of customers without it interfering with your DTC business. There are multiple ways of collecting data, whether its pre or post-purchase. Coupons, insert cards, and Amazon orders reports are just some of the solutions to build contact lists. 📨👩💻
Topics includes:
- What is cannibalization? 👹
- Excluding or creating new audiences 👋
- Customer-matching
- Coupons, insert cards, mailers 📮
- Utilizing data 📊
Featuring:
- Leah Bicknell, Business Development Associate, Vendo
- Dariya Smailova, Digital Media Buyer, Vendo
- Nicolas Martinez, Senior Marketing Strategist
Contact Us:
hello@vendocommerce.com
www.vendocommerce.com/contact
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Apr 13, 2021 • 33min
Aggregator Business Model for Amazon - Vendo Podcast Ep 48
On this episode, we are joined by the CEO of Elevate Brands, Ryan Gnesin, who just closed a $55 million funding deal to acquire and scale Amazon businesses. 💰🤝
But what does that mean?
He’s here to explain the Aggregator Business Model, which is an alternative to the marketplace model we are typically used to with platforms like these.
Gnesin’s journey began by being a 3rd-Party seller at scale. 🧐 These “small businesses” were the heart of success without any sophisticated capital and so Gnesin decided to start acquiring some of these other businesses.
Now Elevate has a catalog of over 8,000 product SKUs and an average rate of 200% growth post-acquisition. 🚀Tune in to hear how third-party sellers are the heart of the “everything store.” 🏬
Topics include:
- The Story of Elevate Brands
- Generating revenue as a third-party
- Sellers to aggregators
- Scaling brands
- Dealing with growing competition
Featuring:
- Ryan Gnesin, CEO, Elevate Brands
- Darren Saul, CEO, Vendo
Contact Us:
hello@vendocommerce.com
www.vendocommerce.com/contact
Subscribe to our channel & email newsletter to learn more about how you can optimize your online Amazon and Walmart businesses: www.vendocommerce.com/subscribe-to-newsletter
Protect Your Brand & SELL MORE!™
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Apr 6, 2021 • 19min
Omnichannel Strategy for Walmart - Vendo Podcast Ep 47
Omni-channel Strategy for Walmart Marketplace - Vendo Podcast Ep 47
One of the things that makes Vendo special is our holistic approach towards the relationship between online retail and brick & mortar retail. 🌎For Walmart.com, we have worked closely with our Team Direct counterparts (who manage brick & mortar retail) to design an omni-channel strategy that grants customers a fully-sought out retail experience online and in-store. 🖥
We have optimized our account management system to a brick and mortar foundation, ensuring our clients get that one-on-one consultation and support. 🤝 Securing the vision of the merchant and best position of the brand requires us to go through a comprehensive checklist that also satisfies Walmart’s own seller’s requirements.
All of our efforts create a synergistic relationship between Walmart, suppliers, sellers, and the customers. ⚡️
Topics include:
- Optimizing merchandise portfolios 📖
- Creating item pages and effective content
- Listing requirements ❗️
- Matching the customer with the buyer ✅
Featuring:
- Michelle Long, Walmart Marketing Strategist, Vendo
- Shelby Smith, Strategic Walmart Account Manager, Vendo
- Ryan Halford, Sales Team Leader, Team Direct
Contact Us:
hello@vendocommerce.com
www.vendocommerce.com/contact
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Mar 30, 2021 • 26min
Expert’s Guide to Amazon Marketplace - Vendo Podcast Ep 46
Expert’s Guide to Amazon Marketplace - Vendo Podcast Ep 46
Here at Vendo, we are dedicated to delivering you up-to-date and insider info to help you optimize your sales experience on Amazon. ⬆🚀 It is our absolute pleasure to have Kevin King, e-commerce veteran and Amazon expert, share his wisdom about selling top products and catapulting your brand! He shares his insight on the new directions Amazon is headed towards and what this means for sellers. He does not miss a single point, from international growth to branded content. 🌍🤝
More about Kevin:
Kevin King has been involved in internet marketing and e-commerce since 1995. It's been 30+ years since he last received a paycheck from someone else. He’s traveled to all 7 continents and 90 countries. He was named one of the Top 40 Direct Marketers by Target Marketing magazine, has been featured on Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous and Entertainment Tonight national TV shows as well as the front pages of prestigious newspapers like USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.
He sells millions of dollars of products on Amazon.com. He has been a recurring guest on over 30 FBA and e-commerce podcasts and is a highly-sought-after speaker at Amazon conferences worldwide (spoke at more than 30). He also mentors sellers collectively doing over half a billion US dollars per year on Amazon.com in the Freedom Ticket and Helium 10 Elite Masterminds. He also organizes the Billion Dollar Seller Summit.
Topics include:
- International marketplace 🗺
- Latest changes and rules ❗️
- Optimizing product listings
- Diversifying your e-commerce knowledge 🧠⚡️
- The future of online business
Featuring:
- Kevin King, E-Commerce Expert
- Darren Saul, CEO, Vendo
Contact Us:
hello@vendocommerce.com
www.vendocommerce.com/contact
Subscribe to our channel & email newsletter to learn more about how you can optimize your online Amazon and Walmart businesses: www.vendocommerce.com/subscribe-to-newsletter
Protect Your Brand & SELL MORE!™
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Mar 23, 2021 • 20min
Walmart’s New Attribution Model - Vendo Podcast Ep 45
Walmart sellers! Have you seen a change in your attribution numbers the past couple of weeks? 😱🧐 That’s because Walmart.com has changed their advertising attribution model and it can be pretty tricky to understand. We’ll get you up to speed on what this means for big-ticketed products and all those clicks you’re getting.❓
The fluctuation in numbers is Walmart’s attempt to up their own stats but it can have some serious repercussions on how we count ad views and their effectivity. 📊 As Walmart continues to adapt an Amazon-like model, you’ll find how some sellers are skeptical about the accuracy of the new data. Find out more about how this will effect your advertising strategy moving forward!
Topics include:
• Removed and added attribution services ❌
• Navigating keywords 🔍
• Return rates
• Working for the long-term ⏳
• Ad comparison and strategy alignment
Featuring:
- Gefen Laredo, Amazon Advertising Manager, Vendo
- Michelle Long, Walmart Marketing Strategist, Vendo
Contact Us:
hello@vendocommerce.com
www.vendocommerce.com/contact
Subscribe to our channel & email newsletter to learn more about how you can optimize your online Amazon and Walmart businesses: www.vendocommerce.com/subscribe-to-newsletter
Protect Your Brand & SELL MORE!™
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Mar 16, 2021 • 37min
A Conversation with Walmart About Walmart Marketplace - Vendo Podcast Ep 44
Walmart Marketplace is a top tier platform that can skyrocket your business by adding an increasingly lucrative sales channel. Considering the fast-track it has been on the last couple years (rivaling Amazon as the 2nd most popular marketplace), it is important to understand why many companies flock to the American grocery-turned-retail mega-corporation to show off their products and how YOU can too. 💵
Today, we are talking to Raghav Mathur, Business Development Manager from the Walmart.com team to learn about the 3rd-party marketplace. 📰📈 Similar to Amazon in a lot of ways, but you'll be surprised how certain nuances differentiate and make Walmart a major competitor.
Topics include:
• Partnerships and integrations 🤝
• WFS (Walmart Fulfillment Services) 📦
• Eligibility for Walmart Seller credit
• How to outcompete 💥🥊
• Controlling your content
Featuring:
- Raghav Mathur, Business Development Manager, Walmart.com
- Mark Jordan, Walmart Account Strategist, Vendo
- Darren Saul, CEO, Vendo
Contact Us:
hello@vendocommerce.com
www.vendocommerce.com/contact
Subscribe to our channel & email newsletter to learn more about how you can optimize your online Amazon and Walmart businesses: www.vendocommerce.com/subscribe-to-newsletter
Protect Your Brand & SELL MORE!™
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Mar 9, 2021 • 22min
CEO Spotlight: Sam Lewkowict of Black Wolf - Vendo Podcast Ep 43
In their early 20s, entrepreneurs and brothers Sam Lewkowict and Alex Lewkowict saw that there was an untapped area in the beauty market -- straightforward skincare for a guy's chemistry 🧼🙋♂️.
So they dropped out of college, and took it head on, launching Black Wolf in 2018 with the vision that skincare should put simplicity and effectiveness at the forefront.
The brand was a DTC hit, and would soon catapult Sam's career to new heights and spots on the Forbes 30 Under 30.
Join us today as Sam speaks on the risks he has taken to harness the authenticity of his brand and why he does not look back. 💥🥊
Featuring:
- Sam Lewkowict, Co-Founder & CEO - Black Wolf - www.blackwolfnation.com
- Yoji Cole, Business Development Manager - Vendo
Contact Us:
hello@vendocommerce.com
www.vendocommerce.com/contact
Subscribe to our channel & email newsletter to learn more about how you can optimize your online Amazon and Walmart businesses: www.vendocommerce.com/subscribe-to-newsletter
Protect Your Brand & SELL MORE!™
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