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Gold Compass Commerce helps brands improve performance across Amazon, Walmart, retail media, and connected e-commerce channels. Our work can include marketplace strategy, catalog and content optimization, advertising, profitability, inventory planning, account operations, reporting, and fractional e-commerce leadership.

Our clients work directly with experienced marketplace leaders—not a rotating junior account team. We combine senior-level strategy with hands-on execution, helping brands connect marketplace activity to broader revenue, profitability, inventory, and brand goals.

We support retail brands and enterprise organizations. Our experience spans pet, automotive, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, wellness and beauty, toys, and other product-based categories.

Yes. Our team has experience working across both Seller Central and Vendor Central. We help brands and enterprises navigate the different economics, operational requirements, reporting structures, and growth opportunities associated with each model.

Yes. In addition to Amazon, we support Walmart and DTC Shopify sites to help brands evaluate how marketplaces, retail media, direct-to-consumer channels, and other retail relationships should work together. The exact channel scope depends on each brand’s priorities and current distribution model.

Yes. Our senior-led managed services can cover ongoing marketplace operations, advertising, content, reporting, strategic planning, and cross-functional coordination. We can operate as an extension of your internal team or take ownership of defined workflows.

Yes. We frequently collaborate with internal sales, marketing, operations, supply chain, and e-commerce teams, as well as other agencies and technology partners. We establish clear responsibilities, decision rights, priorities, and reporting expectations at the beginning of the engagement.

Yes. Engagements may begin with a marketplace diagnostic, a defined pilot project, ongoing senior-led managed services, or fractional e-commerce leadership. We recommend the structure that best fits the brand’s goals, resources, and level of marketplace maturity.

A diagnostic evaluates the areas most relevant to your business, which may include catalog health, content and conversion, advertising, organic visibility, inventory, pricing, promotions, account operations, profitability, and reporting. The result is a prioritized view of risks, opportunities, and recommended next steps.

Timelines depend on the starting point, catalog size, operational constraints, and scope of work. Some improvements—such as correcting advertising inefficiencies, resolving content gaps, or addressing catalog issues—may create early progress. Larger gains involving organic ranking, inventory, profitability, or organizational processes typically require sustained execution.

We define success around the client’s business objectives rather than relying on a single marketplace metric. Depending on the engagement, we may track revenue growth, contribution margin, conversion rate, organic visibility, advertising efficiency, total advertising cost of sales, inventory health, account health, and execution against strategic priorities.

Yes. Profitable growth is central to our approach. We examine the combined impact of advertising, marketplace fees, pricing, promotions, inventory, returns, content, and operational decisions so that revenue growth does not come at the expense of contribution margin.

Yes. We can support retail media strategy, campaign structure, keyword and targeting decisions, budget allocation, optimization, testing, and performance reporting. Advertising is managed in coordination with inventory, content, pricing, promotions, and broader commercial goals.

Pricing varies based on the scope of work, catalog size, channel complexity, level of support, and timeframe. After an initial conversation, we recommend an engagement structure and provide a tailored proposal based on the resources and outcomes required.

The first step is a complimentary consultation. We will discuss your business, marketplace challenges, internal resources, and growth goals. If there is a strong fit, we will recommend the most appropriate next step—whether that is a diagnostic, pilot project, managed-services engagement, or fractional leadership support.