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How Amazon Became My CPG Brand’s Biggest Growth Lever

Your Shopify store is a vanity metric. Your Amazon listing is a bank account. Nik Hall, founder of Vitafive and now a partner at 1984 Ventures, learned this the hard way. When he launched his gummy vitamin brand, he followed the standard playbook: expensive Facebook ads driving traffic to a custom D2C site. The result? High Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and low retention. Then he flipped the script. He stopped treating Amazon as a "secondary channel" and made it his primary growth lever. In this episode, Nik breaks down how he used Amazon’s massive traffic stream to lower his CAC by 40-60% compared to direct ads. He explains that for CPG brands, Amazon isn't just a marketplace—it's a paid discovery engine where the customer "intent to buy" is already at 100%. In this episode, you will learn: The "Subscribe & Save" Valuation: Why recurring revenue on Amazon is the single most important metric for investors looking to buy your brand (and how to maximize it). The "Pack Size" Pivot: How changing his packaging from "custom daily packs" to "monthly pouches" specifically for Amazon logistics unlocked his profitability. Review Velocity: The specific launch strategy Nik used to get hundreds of compliant reviews in the first 90 days, burying competitors who had been there for years. Agency vs. In-House: Why Nik eventually fired 7 different agencies to build his own internal team, and the specific KPIs he tracks daily. Stop burning cash on "brand awareness." Start building a machine that prints cash flow. This diagram illustrates how Amazon's "Subscribe & Save" program creates a compounding revenue loop, which is central to Nik Hall's strategy for increasing brand valuation.