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The Amazon Files, hosted by Kristin Ostrander, Amazon business strategist and one of the founders of Mommy Income, hits the airwaves every Tuesday with the real truth about selling on Amazon. This show isn’t about sugar-coated reality. It’s real truth - the good, the bad and the ugly - shared with practical action steps and strategies to help both new and experienced sellers tackle the world’s largest retail sales platform.

Feb 5, 2018

George Lawrence is the founder and CEO of Merchant Words, a company that provides an Amazon keyword tool to online sellers so they can understand how buyers look for products to purchase. With a background in programming, he built this company from something he did on the sidelines to a ten-person team with health plans. They are currently providing search estimates not only for online sellers in the US but also in other countries like Canada, Italy, Spain, and the UK.

Today, George joins us to discuss keyword strategies to help you know whether your product will sell even before your products hit the warehouse. He shares the fascinating story of how he founded Merchant Words, how vital the estimates are in determining keyword search volume, and how to reconcile the mismatch between the seller and the buyer descriptions.

 

“Get inside the mind of your buyer, but more importantly, get inside the style of how they buy.” - George Lawrence

 

This week on The Amazon Files:

  • What Merchant Words is and what it does for Amazon sellers
  • The key reason why Merchant Words exists
  • The foundation of what Merchant Words do for their clients
  • The differences between using Merchant Words and the do-it-yourself strategy through the Amazon search engine
  • How to get more keyword variations to play with on Merchant Words
  • What keyword vectoring is
  • How to find compelling keywords that a computer could not automatically figure out for you
  • Common ways that users are using Merchant Words
  • One of the key distinguishing features of Merchant Words regarding purchase intent
  • Upgrades to the Merchant Words website and services
  • Benefits of the different Merchant Words features and features to watch out for
  • Why the order of the keywords matter

 

Key Takeaways:

  • If you’re searching for a variation, Amazon only gives you things that have alternate endings. It won’t give you items that have alternate beginnings.
  • In the suggestion dropdown, Amazon will show you things that people are looking for even if Amazon doesn’t sell them.
  • There’s no need to duplicate your keywords.

 

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Set Yourself Up for Success in Your Amazon Business!

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It’s Not a Guessing Game! Trust Your Keywords!

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And to learn more about how to utilize Merchant Words so that buyers can find you in the middle of the big ocean of Amazon listings, head over to MommyIncome.com/LearnMW to grab our how-to videos walking you through how we use the system to bring our bundles to market.

 

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