PickFu

🛒 PickFu gets you real feedback from your target audience - instantly. Set up a poll in one minute, and PickFu delivers 50 responses within 30 minutes, complete with written explanations and demographic breakdowns.

✓ Amazon Sellers - Optimize product listings, test variations, and improve conversion rates. 
✓ E-commerce Brands - Enhance product images, titles, and bullet points to stand out in a crowded digital space. 
✓ Companies - Get feedback on logos, marketing assets, and websites to refine your brand presence. 
✓ Private Label Sellers - Test packaging designs and brand elements to build a stronger presence. 
✓ Amazon PPC Specialists - Evaluate ad copy and creatives before launching campaigns.

PickFu helps you make informed decisions for all aspects of your business, from product development to marketing strategies and everything in between.

Brand Evangelist

Aspi Creatives

Founder & CEO

My Amazon Guy

Senior Account Executive

Canopy Management | The Industry Leading Amazon Marketing & Advertising Management Agency.

Senior Amazon Growth Strategist

UnifiedElectric.co

VP of Business Development

Newton Baby, Inc.

E-Commerce Sales Manager

Sleep Studio

Choxi.com Inc.

- Negotiating prices, quantities and delivery time-scales.
- Sourcing suppliers by various means.
- Writing reports about predicted future sales.
- Calculating the impact of any purchases on company sales and gross margin.
- Searching the market for opportunistic purchases.
- Reacting to any changes in customer demand.
- Developing effective working relationships with our supplier

Senior Buyer - Electronics, Appliances & Toys

iOttie Inc.

- Monitoring and analyzing market trends
- Studying competitors' products and services
- Exploring ways of improving existing products and services, and increasing profitability
- Identifying target markets and developing strategies to communicate with them.

Assistant Manager - Marketing & Communications

- Working with distributors on fulfillment plans for product lines.
- Seeking new business partners as we launch more lines of products.
- Executing sales plans & actions for building the company's brand.

Assistant Manager - Business Development

WirelessStore.com Corp.

Managing all aspects of the business such as product procurement, vendor purchases, product negotiations, setting sales goals & exceeding them, creating company websites for multiple selling channels, managing company’s presence on lead auction sites such as Amazon (newly created presence within FBA for Amazon)& eBay. Responsible for the management of the sales, fulfillment & development teams - consisting of 18 team members. Fully proficient working in BigCommerce, ASPDotNet, X-Cart and OpenCart e-commerce shopping carts.

E-Commerce Business Manager

Brand Evangelist at PickFu | Data Driven Decisions | Productivity Nerd | Host @ The PickFu Podcast | Notion Addict | CTR GOAT

Doesn't it SUCK when you pick an option that FLOPS?

→ Picking the wrong product to sell.
→ Picking the wrong color variation.
→ Picking the wrong main hero image on Amazon.
→ Picking the wrong advertising creative.

We can help.

As a Brand Evangelist at PickFu, I help businesses make data-driven decisions to optimize their product listings and marketing strategies on Amazon. 

In today's competitive e-commerce landscape, Amazon is the leading platform for consumer product sales, with over 50% of online shoppers starting their product search on the site. However, only 1% of sellers take full advantage of the advanced marketing and content tools available to them.

To stand out and capture buyers on Amazon in 2024, brands need to go beyond simply listing their products. Driving sales and growth requires a strategic approach that includes:

→ Optimizing titles, descriptions, images, and search terms
→ Deploying targeted advertising across sponsored ads channels
→ Building enhanced content like A+ pages and store experiences
→ Streamlining operations for demand forecasting and inventory health

At PickFu, we offer a unique solution to help brands make informed decisions about their Amazon strategy. 

Enterprise grade consumer research.
↳ Think expensive & slow in-person focus groups - but the opposite.

Our platform allows businesses to quickly gather consumer insights through online surveys, enabling them to test product ideas, optimize listings, and refine their marketing approach based on real feedback from their target audience.

As an experienced Amazon CTR coach, I can help you navigate the complexities of selling on the platform and leverage PickFu's powerful tools to drive your brand's success. Whether you're looking to build an in-house Amazon team or partner with an agency, I can provide the guidance and expertise you need to thrive in this competitive marketplace - through data.

If you're ready to take your Amazon strategy to the next level, let's connect and discuss how PickFu can help you make data-driven decisions to grow your brand.

John Aspinall

Amazon announced "Ads Agent" today at unBoxed 2025.

And no, it’s not another AI chatbot that writes "catchy" ad copy.

Your media plan is a 200-line Excel file.

Your job? 
Manually translate it into 15 campaigns & 60 ad groups in Amazon DSP.

Click. Click. Copy. Paste.

It's tedious, it's slow, and you will make a mistake.

That entire workflow just died with this announcement

It’s an AI specialist that does the actual grunt work.

You just give it the media plan. 
It builds the entire campaign structure for you. 
(Like in the screenshot).

You tell it: 
“Pause all campaigns with ROAS under 2.” 
It does it.

You tell it: 
“Adjust pacing on all STV campaigns to hit budget by Friday.” 
It does it.

But the real killer feature is what it does for Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC).

Most advertisers still can't use AMC. 

The reason? SQL. 

You can’t get insights if you can’t write the queries.
⤷ Ads Agent fixes that. 

It translates plain English into complex SQL.

⤷ "Show me the purchase rate for users who saw my STV ad and then streamed [Show Name]." Done.

⤷ "Build an audience of users who saw my display ad 3x but didn't buy." Done.

This isn’t about making advertising "creative." 
It's about automating the 90% of the job everyone hates.

Amazon just figured out the real bottleneck isn't strategy. 
⤷ It's the clicks.

This is a very, very smart move.

John Aspinall ✱ 

Think making money on Amazon is hard?

You would be shocked at what sells. 

Take a look at this. 
⤷ A shart survival kit. 

4,000 have been purchased in the last 30 days. 

4,000. 

FOUR THOUSAND. 

Is it a gag gift?
⤷ Absolutely. 

Does it solve a real world problem?
⤷ Maybe?

Is it a nice to have or a need to have?
⤷ Nice to have. It’s a gag. 

But it’s crushing it. 

Why am I writing this?

Stop always looking for something that solves a problem and someone needs to have it in their life. 

Yes - that’s typically best practice. 

But these kinds of niches crush. 

Sean Riley, I smell a collab here.

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It’s been a rough week for me. 

But on the bright side?

Our Rosie has two baby kittens. 

(And yes, they are already going to a good home when they are old enough.)

And the smile on Jamesy’s face?
⤷ Priceless.

Amazon just started mailing $51 checks to 35 million people.
And most sellers are scrolling past this story.
That's a mistake.

Here's what actually happened:

The FTC proved Amazon used "dark patterns" to trick people into Prime subscriptions.

Buttons designed to confuse. 
Cancellation flows built to frustrate. 
Internal docs calling it "an unspoken cancer."

Amazon paid $2.5 billion to make it go away.

But here's what matters for anyone selling on the platform:

This isn't just a consumer protection story.
⤷ It's a signal.

Amazon's entire business model depends on friction working in their favor.
→ Not yours.

The same dark patterns that trapped consumers into Prime?
They exist in Seller Central too.

❏ Fee structures you can't fully understand. 
❏ Advertising dashboards designed to make you spend more. 
❏ Account health metrics that change without warning.

Amazon optimizes for Amazon.

Always has.

The sellers who thrive?
They stop expecting the platform to be fair & start treating it like the landlord it is.

✓ Use it. 
✓ Profit from it. 
✓ Build owned channels alongside it.

Because $51 per customer is what it costs Amazon when they get caught.

The question is: what's it costing you when they don't?

Google is destroying Zapier, Make & n8n.

Don't believe me? Check this out 👇

Google has Workspace Flows.
→ Automate almost anything in your workspace.
→ Build your own Google AI agents.
→ $0

And it connects to Asana, Salesforce, Intuit Mailchimp and a few more tools. I am hoping they launch more soon.

But this is very slick.

Just think of what you could automate inside your Google workspace!

I cannot believe I am saying this.

But I think I am switching back to Google Chrome.

Let me explain.

I have used Safari from Apple.
I have used Atlas from OpenAI.
I have used Comet from Perplexity.
I have used Arc from The Browser Company.
I have used Dia also from The Browser Company.

(My favorite of all those has been Comet by far.)

I have historically stayed away from Chrome because it is always so bloated feeling and a massive RAM hog - and just didn't have as many cool features.

Safari?
⤷ It is native because I have all Apple stuff. So that was cool.

Atlas?
⤷ Not a huge fan. Seems very slow to me & I don't use ChatGPT much.

Comet?
⤷ Agentic AI browsing and I LOVE Perplexity search.

Arc?
⤷ This was the KING for me - until the devs abandoned it.

Dia?
⤷ Feels like Chrome and it's snappy to use - but the AI feels forced.    

Let's get back to Chrome for a second.

I am TRIPLING down on the AI that Google is doing.
⤷ Because it is all really, really good.

→ I replaced my Claude usage with Gemini 2.5 Pro.
→ Nano Banana is basically untouchable IMHO.
→ AI Studio slaps really hard to test stuff.
→ VEO 3.1 is a full blown video monster.
→ Now Google launched Gemini 3.     

So why Chrome?
⤷ Because Chrome now has Gemini built inside of it.

Dia → worthless to me now.
Comet → still wins on agentic AI but I use Gemini more.

I really cannot believe I am saying this - again - but Chrome is really hitting hard for me right now with all of these updates.

Let's see if I am ready to hit the "Switch to your default browser" button.

Still scared of doing a post-edit on Amazon?

Stop it.

Take a look at this product.
→ It is 9" x 11.5"
→ That is clear on the hero image.

But on the actual product itself?
⤷ Not there, folks.

4.7 star reviews - not one of them complaining about:
"WhEre iS tHe nUmbErs oN tHe BoX?"

Remember this:
If it helps the Amazon shopper experience, do it.

Google's Nano Banana Pro dropped last week.
And I made a 25 page handbook on using it.
⤷ Strictly for e-commerce brands.

Want in on this?
→ Comment 🍌 below.
(Make sure we are connected.)

More gems like this dropping this week, silly goose.

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$15 Billion. That’s not pocket change. Even for Amazon.

That’s what they just raised in their first bond sale since 2022.

Most people see this headline and scroll past. 
"Just big tech moving money around," right?
⤷ Wrong.

If you’re a brand selling on Amazon, you need to look closer.

Here is what’s actually happening behind the curtain:

Amazon isn't just raising cash to pad the balance sheet. They are joining the "AI Arms Race" alongside Meta ($30B) and Alphabet ($25B).

They are loading the war chest to fund a massive spike in CapEx (expected to hit ~$125B this year).

But look at where that money is going.
→ Not more warehouses. 
→ Not more blue vans. 
→ Compute.

Specifically, data centers & the infrastructure to support their new 7-year deal to be the backbone for OpenAI.

You might be thinking:
"Okay, cool, Amazon loves AI. How does that help me sell more shampoo?"

It signals a fundamental shift in the platform's DNA.

Amazon is betting the house that the future of shopping isn’t "Search and Scroll." It’s "Ask and Answer."

They are re-plumbing the entire machine to support generative AI (Rufus, Cosmo, and the backend tools we haven't seen yet).

If Amazon is spending $125B to change how the platform thinks - you probably shouldn't be using a strategy from 2019 to sell on it.

1. SEO is changing. Keywords are becoming less important than semantic context. The AI needs to "understand" your product, not just index it.

2. The "moat" is getting wider. Amazon is making it prohibitively expensive for any other marketplace to compete on tech infrastructure.

3. Ad Spend Efficiency. With this much compute power, expect ad targeting to get scary good - or for CPCs to rise as they try to recoup that $15B interest.

Amazon is pivoting from being a store to being an intelligence engine.
⤷ They just put $15,000,000,000 on the table to prove it.

Don't be the brand still trying to hack the algorithm with keyword stuffing while Amazon is rebuilding the robot entirely.

Adapt or get buried.

P.S. Would you bet against a company investing $125B a year in its own future? 

I wouldn't.

If you are not on top of your brand, you will fail.

And proper seasonal merchandising? This is a win.

Take a look at Medicube on Amazon.

See that Brand Story Module?
⤷ It is merchandised for Black Friday.

Win.

And I guarantee when Black Friday is over, they will rotate this out for another iteration for seasonal merchandising geared towards the holiday season.

This is how you do it, folks.

A brand that does this is telling the shopper that you are ON TOP of your branding and finger on the pulse for what is going on.

Personally, I love seeing this when I shop and it subliminally makes me trust/like the brand a little more because they are aware.

What do you think?

VDM Partners LLC

WHO WE ARE

VDM Partners, LLC is a professional Amazon retailer that works with small and medium size brand owners by helping them take full advantage of the Amazon platform.

As Amazon specialists, we increase internet sales using Amazon FBA and other various proven methods to optimize listings, increasing traffic, and conversions. We have in-depth experience in starting, growing, and maintaining a brand on Amazon with success.

We aim to assist brands who have great potential but lack the proper experience to solve their existing problems. By helping our clients take control of their brand in the Amazon marketplace, we allow them to maximize the opportunities.

WHY CHOOSE US
✔ We are experts in designing tactics that are proven to optimize Amazon opportunities and increase conversion rates.
✔ We have an effective system in place that assures your brand is monitored and taken care of it properly.
✔ We help you increase customer satisfaction by controlling the buying experience and pricing.
✔ Our approach drives more traffic and increases your traction in the marketplace while having superb customer satisfaction.

Want To Sell On Amazon But Don't Know Where To Start?

Contact us at

✉ info@vdmpartners.com

Founder | Amazon Selling | Brand Builder | Owner at VDM Partners, LLC

E&B Machine Co.

I have worked full time at E&B Machine Co. since the year 2000.  Prior to this I worked two summers in the shop, learning to run all of the machinery and even welding, while also doing some CAD design.  As a child I cleaned the shop and mowed the lawn.  So E&B Machine has been a part of my life for many years.  I took over the management of the day to day operations from my father in 2000 and purchased the company from him in 2010.  I am fully responsible for the management of the employees and the daily operations of the company.  I also look to grow the company as the sales and marketing contact.  I continue to run E&B Machine Co. looking to satisfy the customer expectations 100% of the time while we continue to look to grow to assure profitability and continued success for the future.

Owner and Sales Engineer

Herman Miller

I worked at Herman Miller for one summer and through my senior year at Calvin.  I worked mostly on testing returned chairs and determining what caused failure.  I then recommended design changes to solve the current problems.  I worked on various other design projects as well including a fold up cart for chairs and a new arm rest design.

Engineering Intern

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”- Sue Grafton.

My name is John; I am a professional with extensive experience building and operating successful businesses from launch to full-scale operations. I have built and exited two businesses, one in the traditional manufacturing space and one as a brand selling primarily on Amazon FBA.  As a results-driven, determined, and business-focused executive who possesses a winning blend of team leadership, market anticipation, and commercial acumen, I strive to generate great results in everything I do.

I am the founder of VDM Partners, LLC, a flourishing Amazon consulting business and Amazon Seller with a focus on internet sales using Amazon FBA. With Amazon, I sell my products and use Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to help scale the business and reach more customers. I also consult with small business owners to help grow and maintain their brand on Amazon.  

As a seasoned and resourceful business executive and entrepreneur with skills honed over the past 23 years, I have gained extensive experience in managing staff and business operations as well as generating online sales, raising capital and providing exemplary customer service to produce outstanding results, via hands-on involvement and technical expertise.

Being a customer-centric executive, my goal in every client interaction is to provide a positive experience with exceptional outcomes. Creating processes and systems that generate efficiencies, sustaining transparent and honest communications, and bringing integrity to every encounter both personally and professionally are at the heart of my work.

As a leader, I am skilled at building relationships based on trust, with employees, partners, and clients, while providing the necessary execution to stimulate performance with a record of success increasing return on investment.

Core Competencies: Amazon, digital marketing, online sales, SEO, customer satisfaction, Amazon listings, online sales, e-Commerce, Amazon know-how, Amazon FBA, and more.

I can be reached directly via LinkedIn

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