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If you’re new to DTC, welcome! You’re in good company with fellow newcomers from OUAI, Chewy, Blueshift Nutrition, Cometeer, and Toms.
In this newsletter, you’ll find: 👇
📦 Getting up to speed on Amazon’s Multi-Channel Fulfillment
📦 Combine micro-influencer amplification with UGC creation with minisocial
📦 Tabs sex chocolate — engineering virality from day one with Jake Lewin and Oliver Brocato
📦 Harnessing the power of first-party data to identify your highest-value prospects with Black Crow AI
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Let our nearest and dearest Amazon geniuses get you up to speed on all things Amazon. 🤝
Have you heard of the wonderful world of Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF)?
Amazon MCF is an Amazon program that lets you utilize Amazon to fulfill your eCommerce sales (Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, etc.). 👀
If you’re a DTC brand selling on Amazon or thinking about selling on Amazon and don’t have in-house fulfillment, this one’s for you!
Amazon MCF is a fantastic opportunity for your brand to centralize your inventory management and leverage the behemoth that is the Amazon Fulfillment Network.
Using MCF allows you to fulfill both DTC and AMZ orders from the same inventory. Okay, big deal, so what… right?
Centralizing your fulfillment makes it easier for your brand to:
Here’s some things to keep in mind if you’re considering implementing MCF into your brand's strategy:
That said, Amazon MCF if a great fit for brands looking to centralize their fulfillment, and is especially ideal for brands selling in Canada. Anyone who has sold in Canada knows shipping is a killer (they don’t call us the Great North for nothing).
Utilizing Amazon’s MCF opens up the opportunity for affordable shipping rates and quick delivery times – a buyer and seller's dream. 🙌
Hot tip: you don’t need to be already selling on Amazon to use MCF. However, we’re strong believers that if you’re not selling on Amazon, you’re leaving money on the table.
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🎧 On this episode of the DTC pod, things got 🍫 🍆🥵 with Jake Lewin and Oliver Brocato, creators of Tabs Chocolate .
Break. Bite. Bang. Tabs Chocolate is a sexually enhancing dark chocolate supplement designed for partners to enjoy together.
Formulated using four aphrodisiac ingredients, these chocolates are both flavorful and functional for all genders. 😏
In today’s pod, you’ll learn how creating a viral content strategy isn’t as far-fetched as it may seem and how what might seem like barriers to success for your brand could turn out to be what makes you stand out amongst the competition.
The Takeaways 👇
📈 Engineering virality
Nowadays, “going viral” on social media is something that most brands strive for—the piece de la resistance of DTC marketing, if you will.
For some, it’s a combination of randomness and luck. But for others, like Jake and Oliver, it’s a carefully-crafted strategy that involves becoming a cross-platform “content machine”.
“We had virtual assistants that would put out hundreds of posts every single day, kind of spamming these platforms, with the hopes that one or two would get picked up by the algorithm and go viral. Then we would analyze it and ask what kind of content is working and what isn’t working and then double down on what’s successful. By nature, we were able to rack up tens of millions of views.”
It’s just like the saying goes—don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!
🍆👍 Destigmatizing an industry
Aside from being a startup DTC company in an extremely saturated market, there was an even larger hurdle ahead of them…reinventing the general stigma behind sexually enhancing products.
“If you look at traditional sexually enhancing products... their marketing and advertising… is like ‘It’s super discreet, your partner‘s not even going to know. You won’t have any shame or guilt.’ We came in and switched that whole entire idea on its head.”
Jake and Oliver decided to focus their marketing on the aspects of their product that differentiates them from the competition. Their product is for both partners.
Partners break the chocolate down the middle and take their half to enjoy together, which not only creates a visual metaphor that hooks customers, but also completely removes anything taboo about using sexually enhancing products.
👉 Listen to the full episode with Jake Lewin and Oliver Brocato here !
At this point, iOS14 has been everyone's problem.
It made acquisition costs higher and Facebook data sketchier. 🙄
Cotopaxi, a DTC seller of backpacks, clothing & other gear, was looking for ways they could improve acquisition on Facebook and other channels after iOS14.5.
Cotopaxi turned to Black Crow AI's machine learning platform to harness their first-party data to create highly targeted marketing audiences and most likely buyers.
🧐 The results:
Cotapaxi's first tested these new audiences on Facebook and saw a 30% increase in ROAS & an 80% increase in total conversion value from their Facebook campaigns. Now, they're starting to use these audiences in multiple channels.
And they're not alone… Over 150 other DTC brands use Black Crow AI to utilize their first-party data to regain their audience-building powers, find more customers, and boost their marketing performance.
🧠 Learn more about how Cotopaxi is transforming their marketing with Black Crow AI.
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