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Confidential
Prepared Jul 2026
Amazon Account Audit · US Marketplace

Elizo
Growing Fast,
Leaking Steadily.

Revenue is up 32.3% year on year. Ad spend is up faster. This audit shows exactly where the money is falling through the cracks – missing negations, unrevised bids, unfunded winners – and what disciplined weekly management recovers before Q4.

$422.0K
Revenue / 60 days
25.6%
TACoS
37.6%
Blended ACOS
+32.3%
Revenue vs Last Year
ClientElizo – Leather Goods
Catalogue173 child ASINs · 7 product lines
Audit Window1 May – 30 Jun 2026
Prepared ByPPCNest
00  ·  Executive Summary

The honest diagnosis –before we talk tactics.

Most audits open by telling you your account is broken. This one does not, because it is not true. Elizo grew 32.3% year on year, conversion has risen for five straight months, and June – the second-strongest month on record, with a genuine Father’s Day effect visible in the daily pattern – proves the growth is real. The problem is narrower and more expensive than a bad strategy: the account gets rescued when something visibly fails, but it never gets optimised.

Nobody here is making bad decisions. Campaigns get paused when they break. But between those rescues, nothing is negated, no bid is revised, and no winner is scaled – so the account leaks steadily between interventions.

What actually happened – in five sentences.

1. The business is growing strongly. Revenue rose from $318,873 to $421,961 year on year – up 32.3% – and units rose 57.1%, from 6,020 to 9,459. June was the second-strongest month in the twelve-month record, up 34.8% in revenue on June 2025 alone, with a real Father’s Day spike visible in the daily pattern of both years – see section 01.

2. Advertising is growing faster than sales. Ad spend reached $107,858 against $421,961 of revenue – a TACoS of 25.6%. Only 32.1% of revenue now arrives without paid support. Growth is real, and an increasing share of it is being bought.

3. When something visibly fails, it does get switched off. Eleven campaigns are currently paused – almost all of them Wallet, Portfolio and Journal – after spending $15,033 at a blended 61.0% ACOS. That is genuine intervention, and it is the reason this is not a story about neglect.

4. But between those interventions nothing is maintained. 50 targets are still enabled having produced zero orders in their lifetime across 1,451 clicks. Six of them alone carry $178 in spend and 169 clicks with nothing to show for it. Search terms with over a hundred clicks and no sales have never been negated.

5. And the winners are never scaled. Bible Cover returns 3.47× at 19.7% total ACOS and is funded below its contribution, while Portfolio, Wallet and Journal take 20.4% of spend to produce 13.8% of revenue.

Can PPCNest help? – The honest answer.

Yes – here’s what we can recover.
  • TACoS from 25.6% → 20–23% within 90 days, through reallocation and waste removal alone – no reduction in revenue required.
  • $20,592 of over-funded spend redeployed from Portfolio, Wallet and Journal – which return 13.8% of revenue – into Bible Cover and Knife Roll, which run at 19.7% and 20.4% total ACOS.
  • $54,856 of unadvertised revenue supported for the first time – 44 ASINs currently earning with no ad support, several converting at 8–10%. Most are held back on thin stock, correctly – so this is a restock-then-launch queue, gated on inventory landing before Q4.
  • Three absent channels launched – Sponsored Display, a functioning brand defence, and a promotional calendar. The account currently runs none of them.
  • A maintained account. Weekly negation sweeps, bid re-basing and budget monitoring – so the gaps between rescues stop costing money.
No – here’s what cannot be recovered.
  • Portfolio conversion. At 2.3% against 7.1% on Knife Roll, this is a product and listing problem. No bid, no keyword, and no budget fixes it. We will not pretend otherwise.
  • All of this year’s Q4. Rank built in August–October is what converts in December. Starting in late July recovers much of it – not all of it.
  • Month 1 revenue growth. The first thirty days remove waste and reallocate budget. Efficiency improves before revenue does. Anyone promising both at once is guessing.
The core finding
There is no strategy problem in this account to solve, and no crisis to rescue. There is a maintenance gap – the routine weekly work of negating, re-bidding and scaling that sits between the moments when someone intervenes. That is the best possible diagnosis to receive, because the fix is visible, immediate, and provable – and the numbers move within the first two weeks.
01  ·  Account Health

The business is growing. The efficiency is not.

It matters that we establish both halves of this first. The findings in this document are expensive precisely because the underlying business is strong – and urgent because the paid layer is growing faster than the revenue it supports.

Strength
Revenue vs Last Year
+32.3%
$318,873 → $421,961. Units up 57.1%, from 6,020 to 9,459.
Watch
TACoS
25.6%
$107,858 of ad spend against $421,961 of revenue. Above where this catalogue should sit.
Improvable
Blended ACOS
37.6%
$107,858 spend against $286,661 in ad-attributed sales.
Declining
Organic Share
32.1%
Roughly two-thirds of revenue now carries paid support behind it.
Growth is real – and an increasing share of it is being bought
High

Revenue up 32.3% and units up 57.1% year on year is genuinely strong performance, and no part of this audit disputes it.

But units grew almost twice as fast as revenue, which means average order value fell – and with TACoS at 25.6% and organic share at 32.1%, the account is buying a larger portion of its own growth than it did a year ago.

That is not a crisis. It is the point at which efficiency work stops being optional, because every further point of TACoS comes directly out of margin.

+32.3%
Revenue YoY
+57.1%
Units YoY
25.6%
TACoS
32.1%
Organic share

Twelve months of trading

MonthRevenueUnitsSessionsAccount CVR
Jul 2025$155,0193,08034,658*
Aug 2025$164,8603,30187,6423.77%
Sep 2025$142,1532,64673,9433.58%
Oct 2025$163,1283,12686,5603.61%
Nov 2025$218,6214,247109,1473.89%
Dec 2025 Peak$486,9179,140169,7395.38%
Jan 2026$175,0723,64290,9104.01%
Feb 2026$144,9312,96267,6714.38%
Mar 2026$162,4113,37675,6574.46%
Apr 2026$137,9193,21065,7644.88%
May 2026$189,8054,28084,7155.05%
Jun 2026 +22.3%$232,1565,17997,5185.31%
Jul 2026 (to 20 Jul)$112,1782,46541,1445.99%

*July 2025 session counts appear under-reported relative to every later month; the conversion rate for that month is excluded as not comparable. July 2026 is a partial month, shown for pace only.

June was the second-strongest month on record – two real reasons, not one
Strength

Revenue rose 22.3% from May to June, and July is pacing roughly 15% ahead of last July on daily run-rate – $112,178 through 20 July against $155,019 for the whole of July 2025.

Quieter, and just as important: account conversion has now improved for five consecutive months – 4.01% in January to 5.31% in June, still climbing at 5.99% in July to date. Whatever is being done on the product and listing side is working. The paid layer is the part that has not kept up. This growth trend is real and independent of any single date on the calendar.

Layered on top of it, the daily sales pattern shows a genuine Father’s Day effect. Units ordered spiked in the days leading into 21 June 2026, and the same shape appears the year before, shifted by exactly the number of days Father’s Day itself shifted – a smaller peak leading into 15 June 2025. That is not a coincidence in one year’s data; it is the same pattern recurring on the correct date two years running.

June alone was up 34.8% in revenue and 58.5% in units year on year – in line with the account’s broader growth rate, not dramatically above it. Both things Elizo has observed are true: Father’s Day is a real, visible driver, and June’s underlying strength does not depend on it.

+22.3%
May → June revenue
+34.8% / +58.5%
June revenue / units, YoY
4.01% → 5.31%
Account CVR, Jan → Jun
2.62×
December lift
$23 was spent defending the biggest gifting occasion this catalogue has
Opportunity

The account already has five dedicated campaigns built for this occasion – covering Desk Pad, Toiletry Bags, Bible Covers, Knife Rolls, and a general Father’s Day campaign. Someone on this account correctly identified the opportunity. Confirmed spend on those campaigns in June: $23.

Separately, across the account’s full search-term history, only 62 queries mention father, dad, husband, or a gift-for-him intent – totalling $78 in spend and 8 orders, almost all landing as one-click incidental matches inside other campaigns rather than the dedicated ones built to capture them. Between the two, real investment in this occasion is close to nothing.

The daily sales spike in section 01 is real. It happened almost entirely on organic demand and general merchandising – not on the paid infrastructure already built for exactly this purpose. For a catalogue this well matched to Father’s Day – wallets, chef knife rolls, personalised leather, desk gifts – $23 is not a light-touch campaign. It is barely a test.

Action
This year’s date has passed, so the work is building properly for Father’s Day 2027: fund the five existing campaigns to a real budget rather than a token one, harvest the proven gift-intent search terms directly into them, add Sponsored Brands coverage, and produce dedicated AI video creative – the same format already proven as the strongest performer in this account at 2.93× ROAS in section 04. Start the build in Q1, live by May, so it has weeks of data behind it before the occasion itself.
Methodology – sources and reconciliation
Account revenue, sessions and units are taken from the Detail Page Sales & Traffic by Child Item report for 1 May – 30 June 2026, which reconciles to the Seller Central Sales Dashboard at $421,961 – a variance of one cent. All advertising figures are taken from the Amazon Advertising console: $107,858.33 total cost, $286,660.77 attributed sales. Campaign-level detail covers $100,772, or 93.4% of total ad spend, being the fifty largest campaigns. The twelve-month trend series is taken from the monthly Business Report by date, which reconciles to the same figure exactly – May and June sum to $421,961.35. Line-level December splits derive from the monthly child-item report, which captures roughly 92% of December’s account total; line shares and lift ratios are computed within that one dataset and are unaffected. Where per-product advertising sales appear, note that Amazon attributes halo purchases of other products to the clicked ad – so Total ACOS (ad spend divided by business-report revenue) is used throughout as the reliable per-line measure.
02  ·  Catalogue Budget Distribution

Spend is allocated in almost the reverse order of what the lines return.

This is the single largest finding in the audit, and it is confirmed independently by two different datasets – an ASIN-level join of the business report against the advertised-product report, and the campaign portfolio view. Both arrive at the same answer.

Every product line – total revenue against ad spend

Product LineRevenueRev % Ad SpendSpend %Index Total ACOSCVRVerdict
Desk Pad$130,88131.0%$31,44131.2%1.01×24.0%6.5%Balanced
Bible Cover$112,38926.6%$22,09221.9%0.82×19.7%4.9%Under-funded
Knife Roll$93,87022.2%$19,16719.0%0.86×20.4%7.1%Slightly under
Portfolio Over$30,5487.2%$11,21111.1%1.54×36.7%2.3%Over-funded
Toiletry Bag$26,0396.2%$7,4797.4%1.20×28.7%5.2%Balanced
Wallet Over$20,8874.9%$6,9466.9%1.39×33.3%4.1%Over-funded
Journal Over$6,9771.7%$2,4352.4%1.46×34.9%5.7%Over-funded
Account$421,961100%$107,858100%25.6%5.2%

Index = share of ad spend divided by share of total revenue. Above 1.25× means a line consumes materially more budget than its contribution justifies; below 0.85× means it is funded below what it earns. Total ACOS = ad spend divided by that line’s full business-report revenue, not ad-attributed sales – the honest measure of what advertising costs against what the line actually sells. Revenue from the child-item report; spend from the campaign export covering 93.4% of account spend.

Three lines take 20.4% of budget to produce 13.8% of revenue
Critical

Portfolio, Wallet and Journal together consume $20,592 in ad spend against $58,412 of revenue. Their total ACOS runs between 33.3% and 36.7% – against an account average of 25.6% and a Bible Cover figure of 19.7%.

Portfolio is the clearest case: 11.1% of budget for 7.2% of revenue, at a 2.3% conversion rate against 7.1% on Knife Roll. This is not a bidding problem, and section 08 sets out why.

Over the same window Bible Cover took 21.9% of spend to deliver 26.6% of revenue at the lowest total ACOS of any line in the account – and December data shows it is also the single largest contributor to the Q4 peak.

$20,592
Spend on over-funded lines
13.8%
Revenue they return
19.7%
Bible Cover total ACOS
0.82×
Bible Cover funding index
Action
Reduce Portfolio, Wallet and Journal to a maintenance floor and redeploy into Bible Cover and Knife Roll before the Q4 rank-building window. Moving $10,000 from lines averaging 34.9% total ACOS into lines running at 19.7–20.4% is a straight efficiency gain at identical total spend.
Why this finding is solid
This table joins two independent Amazon sources – the child-item business report for revenue and the advertising console campaign export for spend – and the business report reconciles to the Seller Central Sales Dashboard to within one cent. The same conclusion appears again in the search-term data in section 06, where Wallet queries dominate the zero-order spend. This is not an interpretation. It is a convergence.
Nothing here was decided badly. Nothing here was decided twice.
03  ·  The Maintenance Gap

The account gets rescued. It never gets maintained.

Everything in section 02 raises an obvious question: how does a competently built, fast-growing account end up funding its weakest lines above its strongest? The answer is not neglect – someone is clearly watching. It is that intervention only happens when something visibly breaks, and nothing happens in between.

First, the evidence that someone is managing this account
Context

Eleven campaigns are currently paused, having spent $15,033 at a blended 61.0% ACOS before being switched off. They are almost entirely the weakest lines – three Long Wallets campaigns, four Portfolio, two Journal, one Toiletry video.

That is a correct decision, made deliberately. Any audit claiming this account is abandoned would be wrong, and we are not going to make that claim.

11
Campaigns paused
$15,033
Spend halted
61.0%
Their blended ACOS
The problem is not the decisions that get made. It is everything that happens between them – where no term is negated, no bid is revised, and no winner is ever scaled.
Twelve of the twenty highest-spending targets lose money on every click
Critical

Across the twenty targets carrying the highest ACOS in the account, $2,205 of spend produced $2,097 of sales – a blended 105.1% ACOS. Twelve of the twenty are individually above 100%, meaning they lose money before cost of goods, fees or returns are counted.

Measured against a 30% target ACOS – the benchmark we would recommend for this account, and one the strongest lines already beat at 27.6% and 29.4% – that same $2,097 of sales should have cost $629. It cost $2,205.

None of these targets are new. Every one has accumulated enough click volume for the result to be established rather than uncertain.

105.1%
Actual ACOS, top 20 targets
30.0%
Recommended target
$1,576
Overspend vs target
12 / 20
Above 100% ACOS
Action
Cut bids on these twenty targets in week one and hold them to a 30% target ACOS as the working ceiling. Pause any target still above 60% after a 14-day observation window.

The evidence, stacked

What was foundScaleWhat it means
Top 20 targets at 105.1% ACOS$1,576 over targetNo bid ceiling enforced
Active targets with zero lifetime orders50 targets · $1,577No weekly target review
Six zero-order targets, highest bids$178 spend · 169 clicksBids never revisited despite the result
Search terms, 100+ clicks, zero ordersStill runningNo search-term or negation review
Off-Amazon placement163.5% ACOSA one-click fix nobody made
Last meaningful bid optimisation26 June24 days before this audit

These bids were never tested against the result they produced

This account does not benchmark against Amazon’s suggested bid, and it shouldn’t – that figure is frequently a poor fit for a specific account’s real economics. The problem here is not the bid level in isolation; it is that these bids were set once and never revisited against what actually happened next.

TargetBidClicksSpendOrders
leather cover for bible$3.7244$59.950
complements (Portfolio A5)$0.7255$41.000
complements (Portfolio A5)$1.1520$19.780
leather knife roll bags for chefs$1.2320$30.900
complements (Portfolio A5)$1.3411$16.120
asin-expanded B0BXHL5M53$0.5719$10.710
Total169$178.460

Six targets, 169 clicks, zero orders between them. The bid itself was never the failure – the absence of a review after the clicks kept coming in with no return is.

Fifty active targets have never produced a single order
High

Across their entire lifetime, 50 currently-enabled targets in currently-enabled campaigns have accumulated 363,744 impressions, 1,451 clicks and $1,577 in spend – against zero orders.

Sixteen of these have taken 25 or more clicks with no conversion. At that click volume, the result is no longer uncertain; it is established. They should have been paused months ago.

Broad match accounts for 43% of this waste, and the Wallet and Portfolio lines are heavily represented – the same lines identified in section 02.

Action
Pause the 16 proven failures immediately. Cut bids on the remaining 34 toward the 30% ACOS ceiling, with a 14-day watchlist, then pause on no improvement.
The two best campaigns switched off for 38 hours and nobody noticed
High

Campaign history shows Desk Pad – Defence (3.21× ROAS) and Knife Roll – Broad (3.74× ROAS) moving to Paused at 16 July 22:57 and returning to Delivering at 18 July 13:11 – identical timestamps on both. Two shorter outages occurred on 2 and 3 July.

These campaigns were running at 30–52% of their daily budget, so this was not budget exhaustion. Estimated cost of the July 16–18 outage across these two campaigns alone is approximately $1,190 in lost sales.

We are not yet able to state the cause. The pattern – sporadic, simultaneous across campaigns, variable duration – is consistent with an account-level event such as a billing interruption or a bulk manual action. It is not consistent with a dayparting rule, which would show a nightly cadence. Confirming this is a week-one task, not a conclusion we will assert without evidence.

38 hrs
Outage duration
~$1,190
Estimated lost sales
30–52%
Budget utilisation – not capped
The inversion worth noticing
The only campaigns actually hitting their budget ceilings are portfolio binder and leather padfolio – both in the worst-performing line in the account, both flagged Out of Budget. Meanwhile the two strongest campaigns run at half their allowance. Budget is not scarce here. It is pointed in the wrong direction.
04  ·  Campaign Structure & Formats

Video is carrying this account – and it is barely visible.

There is nothing structurally wrong with how this account is built. Sponsored Brands Video is the strongest format running, one entire channel is missing, and across fifty campaigns the account holds almost no share of the position that converts best.

Sponsored Products
2.67×
$68,856 spend · 68.3% of budget · 37.5% ACOS
Outperforming
Sponsored Brands Video
2.93×
$26,972 spend · 26.8% of budget · 34.2% ACOS
Absent
Sponsored Display
Not running. An entire channel with no presence.

Performance by campaign type

Campaign TypeCampaignsSpend% SpendAd SalesACOSROASRead
Sponsored Products38$68,85668.3%$183,62737.5%2.67×The account’s base
Sponsored Brands Video Best11$26,97226.8%$78,95234.2%2.93×Strongest format
Sponsored Brands (banner)1$4,9434.9%$9,43652.4%1.91×Single weak campaign
Sponsored Display00%Channel absent
Total50$100,772100%$272,01437.0%2.70×

Campaign export covers the fifty largest campaigns – $100,772 of the $107,858 total, or 93.4% of account spend.

Video is the strongest format in the account – the banner campaign is the weakest
High

Sponsored Brands Video runs at 34.2% ACOS and 2.93× across eleven campaigns – better than Sponsored Products on both measures, and the two strongest individual campaigns in the account are both video: Bible Case Antique – Video at 28.8% ACOS and Knife Roll – Video at 26.2%.

The single non-video Sponsored Brands campaign, Desk pad – SB banner, runs at 52.4% ACOS and 1.91× on $4,943 of spend. Same format family, opposite outcome – the creative type is doing the work, not the placement.

Action
Expand Sponsored Brands Video against Bible Cover and Knife Roll, funded from the over-allocated lines in section 02. Rebuild or pause the SB banner campaign – at 52.4% it is the weakest significant campaign running.
Broad match is not the problem – unnegated broad match is
Clarification

It would be easy to read the waste in this account and conclude that broad match is too loose, then tighten it everywhere. That would be the wrong correction.

The largest broad campaigns in the account are among its best performers – Knife Roll – Broad at 30.1% ACOS and Bible Case Antique – Broad at 32.6%, together carrying $13,400 of spend at above 3.0×. Broad is working where the product converts.

The bleed is broad match running without negation into the Wallet and Portfolio lines – which do not convert on any targeting method. Section 06 shows Wallet queries taking 322 clicks and zero orders. Restricting broad account-wide would throttle the account’s strongest campaigns to solve a problem they did not cause.

Action
Apply negation at line level, not match-type level. Tight negatives around Wallet, Portfolio and Journal terms – then let broad run harder on Bible Cover and Knife Roll, where total ACOS is already 19.7% and 20.4%.
An open data point
Match-type-level reporting was not available at full account coverage when this audit was prepared. Early indications are that phrase match is running close to break-even while broad and product targeting carry the account – but we will not publish match-type recommendations on partial data. A complete match-type report is the first analysis we will run in week one, and the findings will be reported in the first weekly summary.
05  ·  Placement

A third of the budget sits on the worst-converting placement.

Placement reporting was available for $56,212 of spend – 52% of the account – at the time of writing. The figures below are therefore directional rather than complete, and we have not attached a dollar projection to them.

Data coverage
This section covers 52% of account ad spend. A complete placement report across all campaigns is a week-one deliverable, and the reallocation below will be re-sized against it before any budget is moved. We would rather show you a partial view labelled as partial than present it as the whole account.
Placement% SpendSpendSalesACOSCVRROAS
Product Pages36.8%$20.66K$46.21K44.7%4.8%2.24×
Rest of Search36.0%$20.21K$51.35K39.3%4.9%2.54×
Top of Search24.9%$13.97K$48.78K28.6%8.6%3.49×
Business Best2.0%$1.11K$5.90K18.7%10.7%5.33×
Off Amazon0.5%$262$160163.5%0.5%0.61×
Product Pages absorbs 36.8% of spend at half the return of Top of Search
Critical

Within the campaigns we can see, Product Pages converts at 4.8% and returns 2.24×. Top of Search converts at 8.6% and returns 3.49× – yet receives twelve percentage points less of the budget.

This is a reallocation call, not a bet on winning more auctions in a competitive field. The campaigns already bid into Top of Search; the question is how much of the existing spend is weighted toward the placement that already converts better.

2.24×
Product Pages return
3.49×
Top of Search return
36.8%
Budget on the weaker one
Action
Reduce base bids 20–25% on campaigns with heavy Product-Pages exposure, then apply a +75% to +100% Top-of-Search placement multiplier on the same campaigns – beginning with Bible Cover and Knife Roll. Re-size against the complete placement report in week one before moving budget at scale.
Business placement is the cheapest win available
Opportunity

Within the visible campaigns, Business placement returns 5.33× at 18.7% ACOS with 10.7% conversion – the strongest performance of any placement, better than Top of Search on every measure. It receives 2.0% of the spend we can see.

For a premium leather brand selling desk pads, portfolios, journals and toiletry bags, a strong B2B signal is not surprising – these are corporate gifting products. That matters considerably heading into Q4.

5.33×
Return, visible campaigns
10.7%
Conversion rate
2.0%
Share of spend
Action
Confirm the pattern against the full placement report in week one, then scale Business placement stepwise on the Bible Cover, Desk Pad and Knife Roll campaigns – the natural corporate-gifting lines. Hold wherever returns stay above 4.0×.
One-minute fix
Off-Amazon placement runs at 163.5% ACOS and 0.61× ROAS – $262 spent to generate $160. Apply a −100% modifier. This requires a single setting change and there is no scenario in which the current configuration is correct.
06  ·  Search Terms & Negation

The winners are starved. The losers run unchecked.

Search-term data is where the absence of weekly management becomes most visible. Terms converting at fifteen and sixteen times return carry double-digit budgets, while terms with a hundred clicks and no orders continue to spend.

Starved winners – scale these

Search TermSpendSalesCVRACOSROASAction
leather bible cover$133$2,19032.0%6.0%16.54×Scale aggressively
b0brth7y23$128$1,92028.7%6.7%14.98×Scale aggressively
knife roll$198$2,19028.6%9.1%11.05×Scale
knife roll bag$219$1,96030.3%11.2%8.94×Scale
b0bdj9lgj8$404$2,71010.1%14.9%6.72×Scale
mens leather toiletry bag$498$2,21011.3%22.5%4.44×Hold & monitor

Bleeding terms – negate these

Search TermSpendClicksOrdersLineAction
bible cover case for women$1281220BibleNegate exact
b0bwgwknjy$72580ASINNegate
ariat wallet for men$681090WalletNegate phrase
wallets for men$681130WalletNegate phrase
knife bag roll$61400KnifeReduce bid, watch 14d
computer desk mat$55410Desk PadReduce bid, watch 14d
western wallet$541000WalletNegate phrase
leather folio$50470PortfolioNegate phrase
portfolio binder$44700PortfolioNegate phrase
mens office decor$40350GenericNegate phrase
Wallet terms dominate the bleed – a third independent confirmation
High

Three of the ten highest-spending zero-order search terms are Wallet queries, taking 322 clicks and $190 in spend without a single order. Two more are Portfolio terms.

This is the same conclusion reached in section 02 from the portfolio data, and in the ASIN-level catalogue join, and in the zero-order target export. Four datasets, four methods, one answer.

Action
Build a negation cluster around Wallet and Portfolio queries across all broad and auto campaigns in week one. Estimated immediate recovery: $400–600 per 60 days in visible waste, with the larger benefit being cleaner data for bid optimisation.
Negation discipline – the plural rule
Amazon treats singular and plural forms as the same root. Adding wallets for men as a phrase negative will also block wallet for men. Negations must be built deliberately term by term, checked against converting variants first. This is exactly the kind of work that requires a weekly hand on the account rather than a bulk upload.
Worth noting
Your single largest converting search term is b0bktzgq41 – customers typing your own ASIN into Amazon search. It generated $11,890 from $4,130 of spend across 271 orders. That is genuine brand-aware demand. It is also almost entirely undefended: total branded campaign spend is $339, and the Global Defence campaign has spent $29.39 for zero orders.
07  ·  The Unadvertised Catalogue

Forty-four products earn $54,856 with no support at all.

Across the audit window, 44 ASINs generated revenue without appearing in any advertised-product report. Together they account for 13.0% of total sales – and several convert better than the products currently receiving budget. We understand from the account team that low inventory is the reason most of these are not advertised. That is the correct call today – which turns this section from a launch list into a restock priority list.

Unadvertised ASINs
44
Selling with no identified ad spend in the window.
Revenue Generated
$54,856
13.0% of total account revenue, entirely organic.
Ad Support
$0
No campaigns, no targeting, no budget.

Highest-converting unadvertised products

ASINProductRevenueSessionsCVRPriority
B0GPS751HPFull Grain Leather Bible Cover for Women$2,0993559.9%First, once stocked
B0GH3G1QRSLeather Bible Cover$2,2505368.4%First, once stocked
B0GPT632RGFull Grain Leather Bible Cover for Women$1,8593858.1%First, once stocked
B0GPM4CDZPReal Leather Desk Mat Set (24×14)$1,7667227.2%First, once stocked
B0GPM4RJRLLeather Desk Pad$4,4241,0457.0%First, once stocked
B0GPSQX8GJLeather Bible Cover$1,4393457.0%First, once stocked
B0CJVR567JLong Wallet – Western$1,8771,7045.5%Phase 2
B0GH8ZP4DLLeather Bible Cover$1,7506505.4%Phase 2
B0FK6BBDFTPremium Leather Toiletry Bag$1,2947505.3%Phase 2
B0FK6C72R8Leather Bible Cover$2,2398444.9%Phase 2
B0D9WJXSTXKnife Roll Bag$3,8481,7204.4%Phase 2
B0DJDDW5LBPersonalised Custom Desk Pad Set$4,4053,8351.1%Do not fund
B0DJDCMZBHPersonalised Full Grain Leather$3,8442,2181.7%Do not fund
These are held back deliberately – and holding them back is right, today
Context

These ASINs are not unadvertised through oversight. Stock on most of them is thin, and advertising was withheld for that reason. That is the correct discipline – paid traffic into a listing that then stocks out burns budget building rank that is lost the moment the listing goes dark, and the recovery costs more than the launch.

But the discipline currently only runs in one direction: ads are held back when stock is low. Nothing feeds the other way – the products proving they deserve stock are not being restocked on that evidence. A 9.9%-converting bible cover with 355 sessions is exactly the product an inventory plan should prioritise, and it is sitting unstocked while three lines convert at 2–4% on full ad support.

Action
Turn this table into the restock priority list – ordered by conversion rate, timed against Q4. The six ASINs at 7%+ need inventory landing by September to build rank through October and convert through the December peak. This is a client decision on cash and purchasing; we will supply the demand evidence per ASIN.
Two personalised ASINs absorb 6,053 sessions at 1.1–1.7% conversion
Watch

The personalised Desk Pad and Full Grain products draw meaningful organic traffic – over six thousand sessions between them – and convert at close to one percent. They currently receive no ad spend, which is the correct decision.

Personalisation typically carries longer consideration cycles and higher price points, so a lower conversion rate is expected. But at this level the traffic is being wasted, and it is worth understanding whether the listings set the wrong expectation before any budget is considered.

Action
Keep unfunded. Review listing and pricing presentation in Month 2. Do not advertise until conversion exceeds 3%.
08  ·  Listing & Conversion

Some lines cannot be fixed with bids. Conversion is the ceiling.

This is the section where we tell you what advertising cannot do. The Portfolio line converts at 2.3% while Knife Roll converts at 7.1% – same brand, same shopper, same shelf. No bid adjustment, keyword strategy, placement multiplier or budget increase changes that number.

Conversion and efficiency by line

LineCVRTotal ACOSAd SpendRevenueDiagnosis
Knife Roll7.1%20.4%$19,167$93,870Healthy – scale
Desk Pad6.5%24.0%$31,441$130,881Healthy – hold
Journal5.7%34.9%$2,435$6,977Targeting problem
Toiletry Bag5.2%28.7%$7,479$26,039Seasonal – see §10
Bible Cover4.9%19.7%$22,092$112,389Most efficient – scale
Wallet4.1%33.3%$6,946$20,887Structural
Portfolio2.3%36.7%$11,211$30,548Product problem

CVR and revenue from the child-item business report; spend from the campaign export. Note the distinction the table draws: Journal converts adequately at 5.7% but runs a 34.9% total ACOS – a targeting and bidding problem advertising work can fix. Portfolio converts at 2.3% regardless of targeting – a product problem it cannot.

A product converting at 2.3% against a category sibling converting at 7.1% does not have an advertising problem. It has a product, price, or presentation problem – and no amount of spend resolves it.

The decision – and it is yours, not ours

Three lines – Portfolio, Wallet and Journal – are consuming $20,592 at 33–37% total ACOS, against 19.7–20.4% on your two strongest lines. There are exactly two responses, and the right one depends on commercial context we do not have. We will state our recommendation clearly, then execute whichever you choose.

Option A – Rebuild the listings
  • What it means. Keep advertising at reduced levels while rebuilding images, titles, bullets and A+ content across the Portfolio, Wallet and Journal lines.
  • The case for it. If 2.3% conversion is caused by presentation, fixing it unlocks three product lines rather than retiring them.
  • The cost. Three listing rebuilds take two to three months. Ad spend continues at 33–37% total ACOS throughout, and the work does not land before Q4.
  • The risk. If the problem is price or product rather than presentation, the money is spent twice.
Option B – Defund and redeploy Recommended
  • What it means. Cut advertising on these three lines to a maintenance floor. Products remain listed and continue earning organically. Budget moves to Bible Cover and Knife Roll.
  • The case for it. Roughly $10,000 per 60 days moves from lines running 33–37% total ACOS into lines running below 21% – a straight efficiency gain at identical spend, effective within weeks rather than months.
  • The cost. These lines will sell less. They are currently 13.8% of revenue and would decline toward their organic baseline.
  • The reversibility. Complete. Budget can be restored the moment a listing rebuild proves out.
Our recommendation
Option B, executed now – with listing work revisited in January. The reasoning is timing rather than pessimism. At 2.3% conversion, no bid change helps, and three listing rebuilds cannot realistically complete before the Q4 window that generates 2.62× normal monthly revenue. Moving the money to lines already running at 19.7% and 20.4% total ACOS captures value this year. Rebuilding the listings in the January–March quiet period, then reintroducing budget on proven conversion, captures it next year. This decision is yours. We will bring the data and the recommendation; the commercial call belongs to Elizo.
09  ·  Promotions & AOV

A gift-driven catalogue running no promotions at all.

Across every dataset reviewed for this audit – business reports, advertising console, campaign structure, listing pages – there is no evidence of an active coupon, deal, or promotional badge. For a catalogue whose December revenue is 2.62 times a normal month, that is a significant omission.

The seasonality data says these are gift purchases
High

December lift varies enormously by line, and it varies in a pattern. The lines that spike hardest are the ones bought for someone else.

LineDecember Revenue% of DecemberSeasonal LiftRead
Toiletry Bag$60,62713.6%9.52×Pure gift SKU
Journal$14,5863.3%3.81×Gift-led
Portfolio$21,3574.8%3.48×Gift-led
Bible Cover$134,09630.0%3.40×Gift-led, largest
Knife Roll$84,73618.9%2.96×Gift-led
Wallet$23,3305.2%2.77×Gift-led
Desk Pad$105,11323.5%1.51×Everyday base

Line-level December figures are from the monthly child-item report, which captures roughly 92% of December’s $486,917 account total – some ASINs since delisted are not broken out. Shares and lift ratios are computed within that single dataset, so the comparison between lines holds.

Recommended promotional stack

AOV Lever
Multi-Buy Coupon
Buy-two mechanics fit gift behaviour directly – a buyer purchasing a bible cover or toiletry bag as a gift plausibly buys two. Test depth carefully: 5% on a $33.97 mat saves $3.40 on a $67.94 order, which is thin as a trigger – a steeper Q4 tier is worth testing once margin allows it.
5%Baseline test 10–12%Q4 test tier
Member Pricing
Prime Exclusive Discount
Targets the highest-intent buyer segment without permanently repricing the catalogue. Subject to eligibility – confirm the account qualifies before building this into the calendar.
If eligibleConfirm first PeakWindows only
Q4 Window
Best Deal
Time-boxed, higher-visibility placement during the October–December window where gift intent peaks. Concentrate on the high-lift lines: Toiletry Bag, Bible Cover, Knife Roll.
Oct–DecWindow 2.62×Revenue at stake
What we cannot tell you – and why we are saying so
We do not hold cost-of-goods data for this catalogue, which means we cannot state the discount depth that protects your margin. We can tell you the mechanics are missing and that the seasonality supports them. We cannot tell you whether 5%, 10% or 15% is correct without knowing what each unit costs. Send landed cost on the top four lines and we will model the tiers properly – but we will not guess at a number that determines your profitability.
10  ·  Q4 Seasonality & Timing

You are under-funding the line that carries December.

This is the argument for acting now rather than in the autumn. December generates 2.62 times a normal month for this catalogue – and the single largest contributor to that month is also the most under-funded line in the account.

December 2025 Revenue
$486,917
Against a $185,607 monthly baseline.
Peak
Seasonal Lift
2.62×
One month worth well over two.
Under-funded
Bible Cover Share of Dec
30.0%
Funded at 0.82× its revenue contribution.
Watch
Toiletry Bag Lift
9.52×
One Q4 on record. Launched Nov 2025.
The line taking the largest share of your budget – Desk Pad – is the least seasonal line you sell at 1.51×. The line carrying thirty percent of December is funded below what it already earns.
Fixing allocation in July still pays this year. Fixing it in October does not.
Critical

Organic rank built in August through October is what converts in November and December. Amazon’s algorithm responds to sustained conversion signals over weeks, not days.

This audit is delivered on 20 July. That leaves a genuine window to build rank on Bible Cover and Knife Roll before the season, but it is not a wide one. Every week of continued misallocation is a week of Q4 rank not being built.

We are explicit in section 11 that some of this year’s Q4 is already constrained. Starting now recovers much of it. Starting in September recovers considerably less.

Action
Sequence the reallocation in weeks 1–4, not across the quarter. Bible Cover and Knife Roll need sustained conversion volume from August onward to hold improved rank into the December peak.
Inventory – not our remit, but the most expensive failure available
Flag

The Toiletry Bag line lifts 9.52× in December and has exactly one Q4 on record, having launched in November 2025. It went from no trading history to $60,627 in a single month.

If inventory planning for this line is based on its non-seasonal run rate, a December stockout is likely. That would be the single most costly outcome available to this account – more expensive than every advertising inefficiency in this document combined.

Stock is already the binding constraint elsewhere in this catalogue – section 07’s best-converting ASINs are held out of advertising today because inventory is thin. The same purchasing plan that restocks those should size the Q4 buy on the high-lift lines, with September as the landing deadline.

This is outside advertising and we do not hold stock positions. We raise it because the data makes it visible and it would be negligent not to.

11  ·  Can We Help?

What moves, what does not, and on what timeline.

The projections below are derived from the specific reallocation models in sections 02, 05 and 08 – not from generic improvement assumptions. Where a number is uncertain we have given a range, and where an outcome is not achievable we have said so.

Trajectory

MetricCurrentMonth 1Month 3Month 6
Blended ACOS37.6%34–36%31–34%29–32%
TACoS25.6%23.5–25%20–23%19–21%
Monthly revenue~$211K$205–220K$220–240K$235–260K
Organic share32.1%32–34%34–37%37–40%
Channels live2244

Month 6 falls in January 2027 and excludes the Q4 peak, which is modelled separately once the reallocation is proven. Revenue baseline is the May–June monthly average of $210,981, from a Sales Dashboard-reconciled total of $421,961.

What we will recover
  • $20,592 of over-funded spend restructured – roughly $10,000 per 60 days redeployed from lines running 33–37% total ACOS into lines running below 21%, at identical budget.
  • Business placement scaled stepwise – 5.33× on the campaigns we can see, confirmed against the full placement report before budget moves.
  • Visible waste removed – 50 dead targets, the Off-Amazon placement, and the Wallet/Portfolio bleed cluster.
  • Two absent channels launched – Sponsored Display and a functioning brand defence.
  • Bid discipline enforced – weekly review against a working ACOS ceiling set from this account’s own data, applied and supervised.
What we will not recover
  • Portfolio conversion. At 2.3%, this is a product and listing problem. PPC cannot move it, and we will not bill you as though it can.
  • All of this year’s Q4. Rank built in August–October drives December. Starting on 20 July recovers much of the opportunity, not all of it.
  • Month 1 revenue growth. The first thirty days remove waste and reallocate. Efficiency improves before revenue does – expect flat-to-modest topline while ACOS falls.
  • Results without the Option B decision. If Portfolio, Wallet and Journal keep their budget, the reallocation gains in this plan do not occur. That decision gates the outcome.
Three assets this account already holds
Growth of 32.3% year on year, with units up 57.1% and June the second-strongest month on record. A proven seasonal peak at 2.62× with twelve months of history behind it. Two product lines running below 21% total ACOS that have never been funded to their contribution. None of these need to be built. They need to be used.
12  ·  90-Day Action Plan

Sequenced by confidence – highest certainty first.

Week one is deliberately unglamorous. It is waste removal and switching on systems that already exist. The reallocation and growth work follows once the account is clean enough to measure accurately.

Urgent
Week 1
Apply a working ACOS ceiling across the account
Set a 30% target ACOS as the working ceiling and re-base the twenty worst-performing targets, currently running at a blended 105.1%.
$1,576
Overspend addressed
Urgent
Week 1
Pause 16 proven-failure targets
Targets with 25+ lifetime clicks and zero orders. Cut the remaining 34 zero-order targets toward the 30% ACOS ceiling, with a 14-day watchlist.
$968
Proven waste stopped
Urgent
Week 1
Set bid ceilings by product line, not a flat number
Bible Cover and Knife Roll already convert profitably near 20% total ACOS; Portfolio and Wallet do not clear that on their best day. Ceilings should reflect what each line can actually pay – drawn from section 02’s data, not a single account-wide figure.
19.7% vs 36.7%
Real per-line spread
Urgent
Week 1
Kill Off-Amazon placement
Apply −100% modifier. Currently 163.5% ACOS at 0.61× ROAS. Single setting change.
−$262
Pure loss removed
Urgent
Week 1
Build the Wallet & Portfolio negation cluster
Line-level negatives across broad and auto campaigns. Term-by-term, checked against converting variants to respect the singular/plural rule.
$400–600
Visible waste / 60d
Urgent
Week 1
Diagnose the July campaign outages
Pull campaign history across unrelated campaigns to establish whether the 16–18 July pause was account-level or campaign-level, then set monitoring so it cannot recur undetected.
~$1,190
Per incident
High
Weeks 2–4
Re-route existing spend toward Top of Search
Pull the full placement report, then reduce base bids 20–25% on Product-Pages-heavy campaigns and apply +75% to +100% Top-of-Search multipliers, starting with Bible Cover and Knife Roll – shifting weight within budget already committed, not chasing share in a competitive field.
2.24× → 3.49×
Placement return gap
High
Weeks 2–4
Scale Business placement stepwise
Best-returning placement in the visible campaigns at 5.33× on 2.0% of spend. Confirm against the full placement report, then scale on the corporate-gifting lines with weekly monitoring, holding above 4.0×.
5.33×
Visible-campaign return
High
Weeks 2–4
Execute the Option B reallocation
Reduce Portfolio, Wallet and Journal to a maintenance floor. Redeploy roughly $10,000 per 60 days into Bible Cover and Knife Roll ahead of Q4 rank-building.
35% → 21%
Total ACOS on moved spend
High
Weeks 2–4
Expand Sponsored Brands Video
The strongest format running – 34.2% ACOS and 2.93× across eleven campaigns, with the two best campaigns in the account both video. Build SBV coverage for Bible Cover and Knife Roll; rebuild or pause the SB banner at 52.4% ACOS.
2.93×
Current SBV return
High
Weeks 2–4
Launch a multi-buy coupon, confirm PED eligibility
Tiered multi-buy coupon at a baseline 5%, testing a steeper Q4 tier once cost data allows. Confirm whether the account qualifies for Prime Exclusive Discount and add it to the calendar if so.
AOV
Multi-buy lever
Medium
Month 2–3
Staged launch of unadvertised ASINs
Stock-gated: restock first, launch second. Begin with the six converting at 7% or better – led by the women’s bible covers B0GPS751HP (9.9%) and B0GPT632RG (8.1%) – on tight exact campaigns once inventory can sustain them.
$54,856
Currently unsupported
Medium
Month 2–3
Launch Sponsored Display
Entirely absent channel. Competitor ASIN targeting and view-based remarketing, starting small against the strongest-converting lines.
New
Channel
Medium
Month 2–3
Rebuild brand defence
Total branded spend is $339; Global Defence has produced zero orders from $29.39. Meanwhile your own ASIN as a search term returns $11,890.
$11,890
Brand demand undefended
Medium
Month 2–3
Q4 deal calendar & tiered promo test
Build the October–December promotional sequence around the high-lift lines. Test the steeper multi-buy tier once cost data allows margin modelling.
2.62×
December multiple
Medium
Month 2–3
Fund Father’s Day 2027 properly – not a token budget
Five dedicated campaigns exist but drew $23 in June. Rebuild with a real budget, Sponsored Brands coverage, AI video creative in the format already proven at 2.93× in section 04, and the 62 proven gift-intent terms harvested directly in. Live by May, ahead of the occasion.
$23 → funded
June 2026 vs 2027 target
13  ·  How We Work With You

The failure here was cadence. This is the cadence.

Every finding in this audit traces back to the same root cause: no regular hand on the account. The remedy is not a cleverer strategy. It is showing up every week and doing the unglamorous work.

Operating rhythm

FrequencyWhat happensWhy it matters here
DailyBid monitoring, anomaly flags, campaign delivery checkA 38-hour outage would be caught within hours
WeeklySearch-term audit, negation pass, bid review against the ACOS ceilingPrevents the drift that produced 50 dead targets
WeeklyWritten summary – metrics plus one paragraph on what moved and whyNo dashboards, no video, no vanity numbers
Bi-weekly30-minute call with pre-read circulated in advanceDecisions made with data already reviewed
MonthlyFull close – ACOS, TACoS, CVR, revenue against the plan in section 11Measured against the numbers in this document
QuarterlyStrategic review and revised 90-day targetsQ4 planning begins in August, not October
On decision ownership
PPC execution is ours. Pricing, catalogue, listing copy and inventory decisions are yours. We will bring you the data, the recommendation and the trade-offs – as with Option A and Option B in section 08 – and we will tell you clearly which we think is right. We will not hold the plan hostage to a decision that belongs to you, and where a pending decision blocks a result we will say so in writing so the dependency is never ambiguous.

The growth is real. So are the leaks. Both facts matter.

Elizo is growing – 32.3% year on year, with June the second-strongest month on record – and it holds assets most accounts do not: a proven 2.62× seasonal peak, and two product lines running below 21% total ACOS that have never been funded to their contribution. Nothing here needs rescuing. What the account has lacked is the weekly work between rescues: negating waste, re-basing bids, scaling winners, and noticing when the two best campaigns switch off for thirty-eight hours. The plan in this document redeploys roughly $10,000 per sixty days from lines running above 33% total ACOS into lines running below 21%, and does it before the Q4 window – because rank built in August converts in December. We will not promise a transformed account in thirty days. We will promise that it is maintained, measured, and reported honestly every week from the first one.

Ready to start – let’s schedule the kickoff call