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Sports Category | How can WOOT's flagship products hit Top 1?
Publication Time:
2024-06-03
Author:
Frual 巧豚豚
Product Category:
Sports & Outdoors
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How effective is WOOT?
This is likely a concern for many sellers considering using WOOT. However, market opinions are inconsistent; some believe WOOT is a powerful tool for driving new product growth, while others complain that its advertising performance is inferior to SC stores. In reality, no tool is omnipotent; effectiveness depends on product characteristics, operational rhythm, and strategy matching 。
For example: A leading product in a small category, ranked 5-10, successfully climbed to Top 1.2 with the help of WOOT under the correct operational rhythm.
Case details:
Sports category, category monopoly coefficient 40%. 2000+ reviews, 4.4 stars, 50+ daily sales; category average reviews 1500+, according to product market analysis, there is a basis for upward breakthrough;
Seller pain points:
✅ No BD recommendations, and a large influx of new products.
✅ Keyword rankings are unstable, and promotions are needed to improve top keyword rankings and achieve steady improvement in organic rankings.
✅ Unstable sales :Daily sales before BD 20-30 units , it is difficult to break through the growth bottleneck.
Operational strategy ▼
✅Submit three rounds of WOOT BD consecutive seconds, utilizing the two characteristics of WOOT BD: 1. Quickly launch promotional activities, 2. Promotional activities last up to 14 days, thus quickly responding to market competitors and aggressively vying for market share.
✅WOOT BD advertising strategy: Aim for push words, increase the number of orders for keywords to improve/stabilize organic rankings.
Seller goals: Top to top (aiming for Top 1), stabilize keyword rankings, and obtain more conversions from organic traffic
Let's break down the effectiveness of the three rounds of BD promotion.
1️⃣ Sales growth
Daily sales growth range over three rounds of BD :From 50+ per day before BD to 180+ now, an increase of nearly 3 times (Figure 1). All traffic sources for the listing are increasing, especially organic traffic (Figure 2).

2️⃣ Keyword ranking changes
During the BD period, the rankings of the product's high-traffic keywords improved significantly.

After three rounds of WOOT BD, keyword organic rankings collectively rose and stabilized in the top 3, and the advertising share dropped to the ideal level.

3️⃣ Changes in advertising KIP
- Advertising strategy:
- This category keywords are relatively concentrated , which belongs to standard products, and the seller clearly wants to improve keyword rankings. Therefore, aggressively use Exact ads , utilizing Woot's high weight to gradually push core keywords that are difficult to rank on the site to the top four positions on the homepage.
- At the same time, it was found that this product performs better in the US from 5:00 to 12:00. During the Woot Deal period, the seller used time-based strategy , avoiding periods with low conversion rates for higher ROI.
During the Woot Deal period, key performance indicators for advertising showed significant improvement compared to before the BD: CR increased by 11% compared to the site, and CPC decreased by 8% compared to the site.
4️⃣ BSR ranking surge
Before BD: Main category ranking 4000+ / Subcategory ranking 5-10
After BD: Main category ranking 500+ / Subcategory ranking TOP 1-2

Summary analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of this case
Advantages:
Large discount, obvious competitive advantage :The product's 60% discount is higher than the category average of 22%, making it more attractive.
Price advantage + high sales :High discount + high daily sales, making the product rank high in Today's Deal, increasing exposure and conversion.
Disadvantages:
- Insufficient inventory management, affecting the BD cycle :Inventory could not meet the needs of the activity, resulting in the third round of BD only running for 7 days, failing to reach the expected 14 days, affecting ranking and sales improvement.
- Deal time shortened, affecting results :If the BD could run for a full 14 days, the results might be more significant, leading to stronger ranking and sales improvements.
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