Amazon PPC Management, Run as a Strategy

Anyone can move a bid. The job is deciding which search terms are worth owning, driving enough velocity through them that the organic rank holds on its own, and then paying less for the sales you already earned. That is the difference between spending and investing.

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Lifetime ACOS

17.84%

On ad sales of

$1.02M

Best TACOS shown

8.68%

Organic rank moved

15→3

The problem

Your account is not underperforming. It is being managed by a spreadsheet.

High ACOS. TACOS climbing every month. Margins thinner every quarter. A growing share of the budget going to search terms that have never once produced a sale. Every one of those is a symptom of the same thing: somebody optimising numbers instead of running a channel.

Search term negation, every weekThe fastest money in most accounts. Terms taking spend and returning nothing usually account for around a fifth of the budget on the day we arrive.

Campaign structure rebuiltMatch types split so your own campaigns stop bidding against each other. Budgets that cap at noon get found. Placement multipliers set deliberately rather than left at zero.

Rank targets, not just bid targetsWe pick the terms that carry your category and drive velocity into them until organic position holds without paid support. Then the spend moves on.

Sponsored Brands and videoHeadline and video placements defended against conquesting, and used to introduce the range rather than to re-sell your best seller to people already buying it.

Sponsored Display and Sponsored TVRetargeting your own detail page viewers, defending your listings from competitors doing the same to you, and streaming inventory where the account is ready for it.

One page a week you will actually readSpend, sales, ACOS, TACOS and rank movement, readable in ninety seconds, with the full data underneath whenever you want to dig into it.

Our method

Every pound has a job. Most accounts cannot tell you what it is.

Stop the bleed

Search terms taking spend and returning nothing get negated. This is the fastest money in the account and it is usually a fifth of the budget.

Rank the keywords that matter

Not every term deserves the top of page. We find the ones that carry the category and drive velocity into them until organic rank holds on its own.

Rebuild the structure

Match types split so campaigns stop bidding against each other. Budgets that cap at noon get found. Placement multipliers set deliberately.

Push spend where it compounds

Budget moves toward terms building rank and away from ones that only rent it. That is the difference between spending and investing.

Watch TACOS, not just ACOS

ACOS only sees ad sales. TACOS sees the business. When TACOS falls while revenue climbs, the organic engine is turning.

Report in one page

Spend, sales, ACOS, TACOS and rank movement, readable in ninety seconds. Full data underneath whenever you want to dig.

This is what we would do to your account. Send the reports and we will show you where we would start.

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Straight talk

Anyone who promises you a TACOS number has not looked at your account.

There is no universal target. Ten percent TACOS is excellent for one brand and quietly disastrous for another. It depends on your margin, your category, your stage, and whether you are defending a position or taking one.

We set the target with you, from your margins, before we touch a campaign.

Same 10% TACOS, opposite verdict

Launching a new brandHealthy

Buying rank you do not have yet. The number should be high while the flywheel is still cold.

Established category leaderExpensive

Paying to appear above listings you already rank first for. The spend buys sales you had earned.

Thin margin consumableUnsustainable

At a 22% gross margin, 10% TACOS is nearly half the profit. The target comes from the P&L, not a blog post.

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First ninety days

What actually happens after you sign.

Days 1 to 3

The audit, whether or not you hire us

Three reports in, a written read out back. Where the money is going, what it is buying, and the three things we would change first. You keep it either way.

Week 1

Stop the bleed and set the target

Negations go in immediately, budget caps get lifted where they are throttling winners, and we agree the ACOS and TACOS targets from your margins rather than from a benchmark blog post.

Weeks 2 to 4

Rebuild the structure

Campaigns split by match type and intent, placement multipliers set, the catalogue segmented so your hero ASINs and your long tail are not sharing a budget. Reporting starts.

Weeks 4 to 10

Buy the rank

Spend concentrates on the terms that carry the category. Position climbs. This is the part that looks expensive on an ACOS chart and cheap on a TACOS chart, which is why we watch both.

Week 10 onward

Take the money back out

Once organic position holds, paid support on those terms comes down and the budget moves to the next set. TACOS falls while revenue keeps climbing. That is the whole game.

Results

What this looks like on a real account.

Amazon Profit dashboard, June this year against June last year

● Amazon · June year on year

A year of work, read off the same thirty days a year apart

June 2026 against June 2025. The growth on the left took a full year to build, and this is where it landed: sales up 57.6%, units up 56.2%, and net profit past a million dollars in a single month for the first time. The 2025 baseline is in the screen on the right, where it belongs.

June sales

$4.34M

from $2.75M a year earlier

Units

203,989

from 130,600

Net profit

$1.00M

from $686K

Amazon Profit dashboard, June this year against June last year

● Amazon · June year on year

A year of work, read off the same thirty days a year apart

June sales

$4.34M

from $2.75M a year earlier

Units

203,989

from 130,600

Net profit

$1.00M

from $686K

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What it costs

Amazon PPC pricing, published in full.

From $995 a month

Priced on your monthly sales, never on your ad spend, so we are paid when the account sells rather than when it spends.

Every plan includes

Sponsored Products, Brands, Display and Sponsored TV
Weekly search term negation and bid work
Campaign structure rebuilt, not inherited
Rank targets set per keyword, not just bid targets
One page report a week, full data underneath
Seller Central and Vendor Central, twelve marketplaces

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What they say

From brands we run this for.

Three agencies before this one sent us a dashboard and called it a strategy. Epsilon sent a plan, then hit it.

James Whitfield

Our ACOS had crept up for six months and nobody could tell us why. We had the answer inside a week.

Amara Okonkwo

The weekly report is one page and I actually read it. Ask any seller how rare that is.

Sarah Lindqvist

Everything we know about it, written down.

Strategy

What Good Amazon TACOS Actually Looks Like In 2026

Rising cost per click, Rufus changing how shoppers search, and Sponsored TV opening to smaller budgets. Three things that moved the goalposts this year, and what a healthy TACOS looks like now.

29 July 2026 · 9 minute read Amazon PPC

How To Cut Amazon ACOS Without Losing Your Rank

Most accounts can drop ACOS by a third in ninety days without losing a single position. The trick is knowing which spend is buying rank and which is only buying clicks, and almost nobody separates the two before they start cutting.

22 July 2026 · 7 minute read Strategy

There Is No Correct TACOS, And Anyone Who Quotes You One Is Guessing

Ten percent is excellent for one brand and quietly disastrous for another. How to work out yours from your own margins in about fifteen minutes.

10 June 2026 · 5 minute read

Questions

Straight answers, no call required.

How long before I see a change in the numbers?

Negations and budget fixes show up inside two weeks, and that is usually where the first ACOS improvement comes from. Rank work takes longer: expect six to ten weeks before organic position moves enough to pull TACOS down, because it is bought with sales velocity rather than with bids.

How long before I see a change in the numbers?

Will cutting spend hurt my organic ranking?

It can, and this is the single most common way an account gets worse while its ACOS improves. Paid sales contribute to the velocity holding your organic position, so cutting a term you rank first for costs you both. We separate spend that is buying rank from spend that is renting clicks before anything is cut.

Will cutting spend hurt my organic ranking?

What ACOS should I be aiming for?

Whatever leaves your target margin intact after referral fees, fulfilment, returns and storage. There is no category number worth quoting. We work it out from your figures on the first call and put it in writing.

What ACOS should I be aiming for?

Do you use rule based automation or bid software?

We use tooling for bulk work and reporting, never to make the decisions. Rules cannot tell the difference between a term that is losing money and a term that is buying a position you want, which is exactly the judgement the job is made of.

Do you use rule based automation or bid software?

Can you run Sponsored TV and Sponsored Display too?

Yes, both are inside the management fee. They are read together with search rather than judged on their own ACOS, because their job is partly to make the search line convert better.

Can you run Sponsored TV and Sponsored Display too?

Yes, both are inside the management fee. They are read together with search rather than judged on their own ACOS, because their job is partly to make the search line convert better.

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