Impact Report / Strategy

StrategyWho they are, who they sell to, what we say, and every assumption this report rests on

Standing context. Updated when it changes, not every quarter.

01

The company and the ICP

AttributeDefinition
BusinessAmazon focused marketplace growth agency. Full service marketplace management, advertising, creative and brand protection.
Buyerthe CEO, CEO and Founder, now the direct marketing owner following the VP Growth stepping back.
GeographyUSA and Canada. 100% of delivery is US.
VerticalsBeauty is the top vertical and core expertise. Then health and wellness, then baby. Services extend to industrial, automotive and fashion.
Size, high priority51 to 200, 201 to 500, 501 to 1,000, 1,001 to 5,000
TitlesDirector of Amazon or Ecommerce, Director of Marketplaces, VP Ecommerce, Amazon Manager. Founder and CEO at emerging brands.
Seniority by size ruleDo not target Director at 1,000+ employees. Use VP, CXO, Owner and Partner instead.
Contract floor$7,500 to $15,000 per month. Companies under 50 employees are unlikely to clear it.
Secondary ICPPrime Day and Enterprise Account 60 ecosystem. Lower ACV, roughly $5K entry. Meta is the primary channel for this ICP.
02

Competitive white space

From the April analysis. Five competitors profiled: Competitor 18, Competitor 26, Competitor 20, Competitor 22, Competitor 27.

GapStatus now
Original category intelligence and researchValidated. The AI Shopping Report produced 10 of 18 leads.
CEO led thought leadership as a BD engineUntested. the CEO's profile sits with the PR agency, no posts delivered.
Profitability and incrementality, not just ROASUntested in creative.
Beauty and wellness depth with global reachValidated. Retail Health and Personal Care posts the best CTR of any material industry at 3.06%.
AI driven commerce discovery readinessValidated by traffic. 389 unpaid sessions from ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, roughly ten times what all paid sends to the site.

Three competitors are actively engaging with this account's content: Competitor 27, Competitor 1 and Competitor 9, two at very high tier. Read as a signal the positioning lands.

03

Assumptions ledger

Everything in this report that is inferred rather than measured. Challenge any of it.

AssumptionWhy it mattersHow to settle it
Activate is gated and unscored in the EMSMoves the score by several points and could cross the 41 boundary back into Ramp.Confirm against the doctrine's pillar weighting.
Frequency and penetration are platform reportedReach is de-duplicated per campaign but not across campaigns, so a person in three retargeting ad sets is counted three times.Account level reach export.
Estimated spend by segment uses impression shareRanking is sound, absolute dollars are indicative.Audience Tuning export with cost columns.
The affiliate keyword finding is keyword levelShows what we bid on, not what people typed. The intent read is directional.Google search terms report.
Google is $2,809 per monthA separate $2,500 credit was recorded in May. Media and credit may have been conflated earlier.Confirm the commercial arrangement.
The 30/60/90 account progressionOnly one Company Hub snapshot exists, so progression cannot be shown.Monthly snapshots from the LinkedIn specialist.
04

Definitions, hard coded

Definitions are fixed here so every tab reads the same way. LinkedIn's function labels do not map cleanly to buyer roles, so the mapping is stated explicitly.

LinkedIn functionContainsBuyer status
Business DevelopmentFounder, Co-Founder, Owner, CEO, President, COO, Board Member, plus partnershipsEconomic buyer
MarketingCMO, VP Marketing, Marketing Director, Brand Manager, Brand Specialist, Digital SpecialistFunctional buyer
OperationsCOO, VP Operations, Supply Chain, Marketplace and Ecommerce OperationsFunctional buyer
SalesSales Director, VP Sales, Account Executive. At a vendor or agency these are sellers.Usually not
Engineering, IT, HR, Legal, Finance, ArtsSupport functionsNo

Audience priority ladder

TierAudienceStandardThis account
Tier 1, warmWebsite visitors, ad engagers, CRM and newsletter uploads60%40% while pools build. Newsletter and website lists still not uploaded.
Tier 2, ABMNamed target accounts, competitor followers25%35%. 794 accounts, 69.1% penetration.
Tier 3, coldOne controlled persona audience at a time15%25%. Two TOF campaigns at 10 to 13% penetration.

Exclusion list

CategoryEntities
Client selfNorthwind Commerce, both entities including the duplicate record
AgencyImpactable (own domain)
Marketplace operatorAmazon
Direct competitorsCompetitor 27, Competitor 1, Competitor 9, Competitor 10, Competitor 11, Competitor 4, Competitor 6, Competitor 23, Competitor 7, Competitor 21, Competitor 12
Adtech and analystsCompetitor 30, Competitor 24, Competitor 25, Competitor 28, Competitor 29, Competitor 5, Competitor 16, Competitor 13, Competitor 33, Competitor 3
Industry levelAdvertising Services, IT Services and IT Consulting
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Reporting rules

Canonical spendDemandSense verified. LinkedIn $14,473.64 (89d), Google $3,932.69 (42d). Never summed without stating both windows.
Canonical leads18 through 31 July, 17 through 28 July. Deduped against the CRM label.
ConversionsNever quote one figure without naming the source.
Missing dataAbsence is reported as absence. A disconnected source is never a measured zero.
Name matchingNormalise, strip suffixes, minimum 5 characters. Prefer email domain over company name.