Confidential brandGolf7 mo

The stock was in the warehouse; the listings were never created

+$38k / month from existing inventory

A golf brand manufactured left-handed and women's-flex versions of its best sellers for its pro-shop channel and had never listed a single one on Amazon.

The stock was in the warehouse; the listings were never created

At a glance

Category
Golf
Marketplaces
US
Revenue at start
$148k / month
Finding
23 manufactured variants absent from the marketplace catalog
Engagement
Account management + listing SEO
Timeframe
7 months

Results

Revenue from newly listed variantsnew$0 $38k / mo
Total monthly revenue+33%$148k $197k
Catalog coverage of manufactured SKUs+33 pts64% 97%
ACoS on the new variantsbelow account average 18%

The challenge

The brand had grown up selling through pro shops, where a fitter pulls whatever specification the golfer needs from a back room. When it came to Amazon, someone listed the best sellers — which meant right-handed, regular flex, men's — and the rest of the range stayed in the warehouse.

Left-handed golfers are roughly a tenth of the market and are served by a fraction of the listings, which makes their searches unusually cheap and unusually convertible. Women's flex is a similar story. The brand was manufacturing both, storing both, and competing for neither.

Our approach

This was an inventory-to-catalog gap, not a marketing problem.

  • Reconciliation of everything manufactured against everything listed, which is how twenty-three absent variants surfaced.
  • Own listings rather than variation children for the underserved specs, so the title, the images and the indexed terms all say “left-handed” instead of sitting under a parent written for the right-handed version.
  • Copy written for that golfer — the left-handed listing leads with it, because that is the first thing the shopper is scanning for.
  • Small dedicated campaigns per specification, cheap to run because barely anyone bids on a left-handed query.

Timeline

Weeks 1–4

Reconciliation

  • Every manufactured SKU matched against the marketplace catalog
  • Twenty-three absent variants identified
  • Demand and competition sized per absent spec
Weeks 5–12

Listing build

  • Own listings created for the underserved specs
  • Copy led with handedness and flex rather than the model name
  • Photography reshot for the left-handed versions
Months 4–7

Scale

  • Small exact-match campaigns opened per variant
  • Bids raised where competition stayed thin
  • Inventory planning switched to the full spec range

Inside the ad account

Anonymized account view, rebuilt from the figures reported above: ad sales growing from $67k to $99k a month while ACoS falls from 31% to 20% across the 7-month engagement.

Anonymized account view, rebuilt from the figures reported above: ad sales growing from $67k to $99k a month while ACoS falls from 31% to 20% across the 7-month engagement.

The results

The newly listed variants produce $38k a month from stock the brand was already holding, lifting total revenue 33%.

Their ACoS is 18% against an account average in the high twenties, because an uncontested search is cheap. No product was designed, no inventory was ordered and no price changed — the work was reconciling a warehouse against a catalog, which nobody had done since the account was opened.

“We'd been asking how to grow on Amazon while a third of what we make wasn't on it.”
Commercial Director, Golf equipment brand

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