My name is George Reid; a former Amazonian turned Amazon consultant.Each week you'll hear top consultants, brand owners, agencies, and Amazon employees share their answers to basic, yet fundamental questions you should be asking yourself about your Amazon business.
It's Always Day One
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My name is George Reid; a former Amazonian turned Amazon consultant.Each week you'll hear top consultants, brand owners, agencies, and Amazon employees share their answers to basic, yet fundamental questions you should be asking yourself about your Amazon business.
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Recent Episodes
June 15, 2026
Should Brands Use Specialist Recruiters for Amazon Roles?
<p><strong>Why the Recruitment Model Is Broken (And What We're Doing About It)</strong></p><p><strong>Overview</strong></p><p>In this season opener, George digs into a real conversation with a friend who's trying to hire an Amazon Operations Manager — and uses it to expose a fundamental flaw in how traditional recruitment is structured. The incentives are pointing in the wrong direction, and it's costing brands more than they realise.</p><p><strong>What We Cover</strong></p><ul><li><strong>The Amazon Pyramid</strong> — George revisits the three-pillar framework: Operations → Brand & Conversion → Advertising. Why you can't skip the foundation, and why each layer depends on the one below it.</li><li><strong>The recruiter conversation</strong> — A specialist Philippines-based recruiter quotes $2,500–$3,000/month for an Operations Manager. George pushes back — and explains exactly why that number doesn't hold up.</li><li><strong>The incentive problem</strong> — Why even the most honest, specialist recruiter is structurally incentivised to place candidates at higher salaries. Nobody's being dishonest. The model just rewards the wrong outcome.</li><li><strong>The Pare difference</strong> — No margin on salary. No big upfront placement fee. Contracts and payroll handled. And crucially — candidates join a Wednesday community of senior Amazon professionals, so they keep getting better after day one.</li><li><strong>The agency experience, rebuilt</strong> — What agencies gave clients (knowledge density, peer learning, cross-account exposure) and how the Pare community model recreates it — but with everyone at the senior table.</li><li><strong>The question left open</strong> — Did his friend make the right call going direct? And should Pare expand beyond Amazon Ads Managers into Operations?</li></ul><p><strong>Key Takeaway</strong></p><p>Paying fairly, vetting rigorously, and removing the upfront fee structure isn't just a nicer model — over a four-month horizon, it's a cheaper one too.</p><p>Pare places senior Amazon Advertising Managers with DTC brands and agencies globally. Find out more at <a href="https://pare.so/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pare.so</a></p><p><strong>RESOURCES</strong><br><strong>Vault: </strong><a href="https://app.pare.so/vault/ai-cheater-playbook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ai Cheater Playbook</a><br><a href="https://wa.me/message/MKRCLJKCUCRDE1?utm_source=georgesblog.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=amazon-week-51-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Message</a> George.</p>
October 21, 2025
Should you be making Amazon PPC manager hiring decisions?
<p>We reject more candidates every week than most brands/agencies will reject in a year of hiring for this role.</p><p>It's safe to assume that if someone does just 2 things every day - 1) manage 8-figure ad accounts and 2) recruit senior Amazon PPC managers - then they'll be better at hiring for that role than most of the population.</p><p>They'll be better than you, the $250k/mo brand owner who's not truly been hands on in ads for 12 months.</p><p>They'll be better than the eCommerce recruitment firm who's recruiter has never seen Seller Central, let alone adjusted a bid. "We reviewed these CVs for you and they seem worth a chat - 25% invoice incoming." </p><p>They'll be better than your current hire who's been managing Amazon PPC for 3-years now (our team's been doing it 10-years).</p><p>They'll be better than your HR team who have absolutely no idea about AMC becoming freely available to all sellers.</p><p>They'll be better than me, George Reid, the Amazon agency owner of 8-years, who simply isn't qualified to make a decision on someone's Amazon ad expertise...because I haven't done it every day for a decade.</p>
December 19, 2024
How Do You Track Keyword Ranking and Why
Amazon advertising expert, [Name], explains how to optimize Sponsored TV campaigns with high video completion rates and cost-effective ROI, unlocking significant revenue potential.
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