Jon Derkits

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Hi, I'm Jon and I'm a builder. 

Over the course of my 15-year career in management consulting and technology companies, I've built teams, I've built processes, I've built products, and I've built businesses (the 10-figure kind). I'm at my best when I'm in a role with scope and significance, and my superpower is consistency.

Some things I'm GOOD at include dealing with ambiguity and making good decisions in fast-paced, uncertain environments. Some things I'm *GREAT* at include obsessing over customers and developing my people.

Follow me here on LinkedIn if you want to hear my thoughts on Amazon, building great teams, or the current state of Chicago sports.

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CLIFTON STRENGTHS
Harmony, Achiever, Learner, Positivity, Ideation

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE
eCommerce, Marketplaces/Platforms, Valuation 

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
Business Performance Measurement, Category Management, Data Analytics, Digital Marketing, Financial Statement Analysis, Lean Six Sigma, P&L Ownership, Strategic Planning, Team Leadership, Written Communication

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Amazon Seller Central, Bloomberg, Capital IQ, Microsoft Office, SQL, Tableau

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

Steven Pope

Digital Marketing Manager - Acquisition

Businesses are frustrated by how hard it is to sell on Amazon. There's no support, the margins are shrinking because fees and PPC costs are going up, and the competition is increasing. 

This is why I started My Amazon Guy - to help brands overcome these challenges. 

We lower ACOS, increase traffic, CTR, and Conversion. We do this through PPC, SEO, Design, and Catalog Merchandising and Troubleshooting. Visit MyAmazonGuy.com/Book to talk to us.

-----My Story

What do you get when you combine a TV Reporter, a Marketer, and an Educator? An inspirational message that reaches a large audience.

While Amazon is the most customer centric company in the world, I created My Amazon Guy to be the most seller centric company in the world. By sharing every trade secret on how to sell on Amazon I amassed a following that has contributed to building a 20-mil ARR Agency. 

In turn I've taught hundreds of employees everything I know, making a self perpetuating system that teaches others... leading to never ending growth. 

Culture fanatic.

I am a system builder, an architect of business, and I am blessed with the ability to level up fresh talent through culture. MAG has become a reputation enhancing, fixture of the industry for know how. More than 100,000 people have applied to work here.

Master Chess ♟️ Instructor 
Eagle 🦅 Scout 
Father of 5

Free case study on how I made a 20-million dollar agency by visiting MyGuy.Agency
We help agencies learn how to start cold outbound programs and generate leads with a scalable sales process that worked for us.

392 people on our All Hands meeting this morning where we discussed the future of My Amazon Guy
MAG is built to be a 1000 year company

Amazon won't exist in 100-200 years from now
But MAG will

We're launching non Amazon services such as Konfidential.Law and embracing AI to build into sectors that need our acumen 

What makes MAG special is our iterative speed and 3 deep to a seat
Noah Wickham is the next CEO of MAG
How many agencies or companies have a chosen next guy public?
I'm not stepping down today but everyone knows who takes over when that happens

MAG is an octopus with 8 tentacles
One gets chopped off and it regrows

Our organism will outlive WWIII

We've made 400 jobs (Down from 500)
But I hope to make 10,000 more

AI Done for You | 6-Billion sold on Amazon, My Amazon Guy: PPC, DSP, SEO, Design, Strategy. Agency with 450 Brands Managed | Hiring

Show up - show up to work, show up to lift, show up for you loved ones
Even when it's hard

Because that's life 
and responsibility

It's half the battle tho
Half assing a workout always beats no work out 

Making that one additional sales call that converts
Building that last slide for the presentation
Calling that one employee to check-in that prevents them from quitting because you showed you cared

The hardest commandment God gave man?
Endure to the end

I've had more suffering in the past 2 years of my life than my entire life prior to that combined and then some

Some of the suffering was preventable
Some of it was not
Doesn't matter

Suffering is life
No pleasure without pain
No growth without sacrifice

Muscles grow under tension
So do skills
So do souls

Go get it LinkedIn fam
Give me your battle-cries in the comments

I stopped trying to be relatable on LinkedIn the day I realized my best clients don’t want vanilla

they want the guy willing to say
what everyone else is thinking
and then show the data

most people post to look smart
I post to get sellers unstuck

I talk about failure
shrinking revenue
bad hires
account suspensions
divorce

because that is what real operators
are actually dealing with

you don’t build a multi eight figure agency
by pretending everything is awesome
you build it by looking at the ugly dashboard

and fixing the red numbers
one brutal decision at a time

my content strategy is simple
tell the truth
show the scars
ship daily

if that pushes away the tourists
good
it makes more room for the killers
who actually want to grow

if you are building a brand
stop polishing your image
and start publishing your reality

the market can smell fake
a mile away

it's all of US 
vs
Amazon

Most Amazon sellers are burning cash on ads for ugly listings.

You drive traffic to a page that confuses people. Confusion kills sales faster than a 1-star review.

I brought in Daniela Anavitarte Bolzmann ⚡ because she is a design titan. She knows that "pretty" does not pay the bills.

Clarity does.

We broke down 7 strategies to fix your conversion rates.

You will learn why your "premium" branding actually looks exclusive and scary. You will see why parents are scrolling past your kids' products.

Stop guessing with your image stack. Your main image needs to answer objections instantly.

We also cover why raw AI images are "slop" that destroy trust.

Read the full breakdown to fix your creative strategy.

Most sellers assume their sales are low because of price. The reality is usually simpler. Your design is confusing the customer. And confusion kills s

Open article: 7 Amazon Design Strategies From Daniela Anavitarte Bolzmann and MAG To Lift Conversion Rates by Steven Pope • 11 min read

7 Amazon Design Strategies From Daniela Anavitarte Bolzmann and MAG To Lift Conversion Rates

The AI gold rush is full of shiny tools

Nobody wants more tools

They want their Thursday afternoon back

I run a 500-person agency managing 400+ brands

I know exactly what repetitive work does at scale

It compounds
It drains
It breaks people

Client onboarding alone used to cost us hours

Folders
Documents
Task assignments
Workflows

Every Single Client

Now we type one command
/onboard-new-client

Done

That is not a productivity hack

That is money

The agencies winning in 2026 are not selling AI features

They are selling outcomes

Businesses do not pay for cool demos

They pay for hours back in their week

MAG AI exists to show you how to build exactly that

Not tools
Not dashboards
Not another login

Automations that remove the work nobody wants to do

Time saved is profit earned

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