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Amazon agency · for established DTC brands

Amazon, run by someone who's sold $300M+ on it himself.

Michael Jordan has sold on Amazon since 2017. His own products, his own inventory, and he still sells today. FTR puts that seller's judgment — and a specialist on every discipline — behind your account.

Month-to-month. You own your account, data and creative.

#48 → #1
Best Seller rank,
Whey Protein
+212%
monthly sales
after the rebuild

Illustrative listing. FITFOCUS is a fictional brand. Not client data.

Brands this team has worked with

SnowSpeckRedline SteelBest BronzeLadyBossGains In BulkEczema HoneyBetterbrandEarlyBirdWatch GangLane 201Warrior BabeKonsciousBlueChewKings Loot
The record
$300M+
Sold on Amazon by Michael since 2017. His own products, not clients'.
$300M+/yr
Managed for clients by the Amazon department he built from one client and one store.
~$1M
In Amazon ad spend managed every month.
Dozens
Of 7-, 8- and 9-figure brands grown on Amazon, including multiple category leaders.

Same team. Same systems. Now independent, and focused only on Amazon.

For the record:
Your Amazon agency should have sold something on Amazon.
Why now

On Amazon, rank compounds. So does waiting.

Amazon ranks what sells. Sales history earns rank. Rank earns traffic. Traffic earns reviews. Reviews earn conversion. That loop keeps running whether you're in it or not.

  • A competitor banks the sales historyEvery month you wait, they bank sales history you'll pay to take back — usually in ad spend.
  • Same keyword, higher bidThe later you start, the more each click costs to win the same position.
  • It's late SeptemberHoliday rank gets built in October and November. December is too late to start building it.
  • Straight answerA new team won't fix Q4 in a week. Catalog and listings come first. That's why the start date matters.
The problem

You usually come to us after your last Amazon agency.

  • 01The founder sold you. A junior you've never met runs you.
  • 02The report says “14 campaigns adjusted.” It doesn't say what that made you.
  • 03ROAS looks fine. Contribution margin says otherwise.
  • 04A suppressed listing sat in a queue for three weeks while ads kept spending.

It's not an Amazon problem. It's a staffing problem.

One “account manager” can't be a media buyer, an SEO, a designer, a catalog tech, an analyst and a strategist. Nobody can. So we stopped pretending one person could.

The turnaround

Fix the base. Then accelerate.

The same account, run as a department: catalog first, then rank, then ads stop propping up sales and start adding to them.

The order matters, and so does the start date. Rank compounds.

The model

Seller-run. Specialist-staffed.

A seller sets the standard. A named operator runs your account and stays. A specialist owns every discipline.

1operator who stays
7specialists
0handoffs

For the record:  the person who wins your account runs your account. No handoffs.

What changes first

Same product. Different listing.

This is the first pass our creative and SEO specialists make. Fictional brand, real method.

Before
Weak listing image: small off-center product photo on a grey background
FITFOCUS Whey Protein Vanilla 2lb
  • HIGH QUALITY PROTEIN
  • GREAT TASTE
  • EASY TO MIX
  • FOR ATHLETES
  • SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
1image
0A+ modules
After the first pass
FITFOCUS main image on white
Infographic: 25g protein, 1g sugar, 110 calories
Comparison chart infographic How-to-use infographic
FITFOCUS Whey Protein Isolate Powder, Vanilla Bean, 25g Protein per Scoop, 1g Sugar, Mixes Clean in Water or Milk, Post-Workout Recovery Shake, 2 lb (30 Servings)
  • 25G PROTEIN, 1G SUGAR: isolate filtered to keep the protein and drop most of the lactose, fat and sugar.
  • MIXES IN A SHAKER, NOT A BLENDER: no clumps, no chalky film.
  • BUILT FOR THE HOUR AFTER TRAINING: fast-digesting protein to support recovery.
A+ banner: Built for the second rep
7images + video
4A+ modules that cross-sell

FITFOCUS is a fictional brand. Illustrative listing.

Capabilities

The whole Amazon channel. One team.

Strategy

Growth planning, profitability, forecasting, priorities. The plan comes with reasoning.

Advertising

Sponsored Products, Brands and Display, run against profit, not vanity ROAS.

DSP

Audiences on and off Amazon. Many brands start here. Run on its own or as part of the account.

SEO & organic

Keyword strategy, indexing, rank. Rank where it pays.

Creative

Listing images, A+, Brand Store, video. Built to convert on a phone screen.

Catalog & ops

Listing issues, cases, compliance, inventory. The Amazon admin you shouldn't handle in-house.

Analytics

What's driving growth, profit, traffic and conversion. Reported in writing.

Want it run by a $300M+ seller?

Seven disciplines, one team, one plan.

Book my strategy call →

FTR replaces the pile of freelancers, tools and generalists with an actual Amazon department.

Results

What changed, in numbers.

Three accounts, told the way an operator would tell them: the problem, the move, the result.

[Metric]
the number that moved · [timeframe]
Case 01 · [Category] brand

[One-line headline of the win]

Problem: [one line]
Move: [one line]
Result: [one line]

Approved client numbers load here
[Metric]
the number that moved · [timeframe]
Case 02 · [Category] brand

[One-line headline of the win]

Problem: [one line]
Move: [one line]
Result: [one line]

Approved client numbers load here
[Metric]
the number that moved · [timeframe]
Case 03 · [Category] brand

[One-line headline of the win]

Problem: [one line]
Move: [one line]
Result: [one line]

Approved client numbers load here

Case slots load Michael's approved client numbers. The 10–20 clip client video wall lands below these cards in phase 2.

In their words

Founders, on the record.

Prompt: “What was different in the first 90 days?”

[Name, title]Founder who switched from a previous agency
Real client quote only

Prompt: “What do you no longer worry about on Amazon?”

[Name, title]Head of e-commerce, 8-figure brand
Real client quote only

Prompt: “Why are you still with this team?”

[Name, title]Long-tenured client
Real client quote only
Michael Jordan, founder of For The Record
Seller-run

Not that Michael Jordan. The Amazon one.

In 2017 Michael left his corporate job and started selling on Amazon himself. He's sold $300M+ since then with his own products. He built a multi-7-figure brand of his own, and he still sells on Amazon today.

He co-founded a 200-person agency and built its Amazon department from one client and one store into $300M+ in annual revenue managed, ~$1M a month in ad spend, and dozens of 7- to 9-figure brands, including category leaders.

This year he bought that Amazon division and took it independent. FTR is that team, with the same specialists and the same systems, working on Amazon only.

He's made every call you pay an agency to make — with his own inventory on the line.

“Build like you intend to dominate, not just survive.”

Michael JordanFounder, For The Record
How we work

Built like a department. Run like a seller would.

1
Understand

Your catalog, margins and constraints, before anyone touches a campaign.

2
Strategy

A plan tied to your P&L, reasoning written down.

3
Execute

Each discipline run by a specialist, coordinated by your operator.

4
Measure

Profit, TACoS, organic share, rank on money keywords.

5
Improve

Every month: what we did, why, what it made you, what's next.

The terms

  • Month-to-month. If we're not earning the retainer, fire us.
  • You own everything: account, data, creative, history.
  • Direct access from day one. No shadow accounts.
  • Reports come with reasoning, in writing.
  • You hear about problems from us before Amazon tells you.
  • No page-one-in-60-days promises. Nobody honest makes them.

Straight answers

FTR is a new name. Is this a new agency?

New name, not a new team. Same people, same clients, same systems — now independent and focused only on Amazon.

We've been burned by an agency before.

That's usually who calls us. It's why the terms are month-to-month.

Will a junior end up running us?

No. The operator on your first call is the one who runs your account.

We have an in-house Amazon person.

Then you already know one person can't cover seven disciplines. Ask us how we'd work alongside them.

Is it too late for Q4?

Some of this season is already set. What gets fixed now compounds into January — and every month after.

For the record:

Every month on the wrong Amazon team is rank you'll buy back later.

Ready for a better Amazon team?

Hire the team built by a $300M+ Amazon seller. If we're a fit, your first call is with the operator who'd run your account.

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