Most Amazon agency founders came from marketing or consulting. They learned Amazon from the outside. They optimize listings, run PPC, and send reports. That is fine if you want a vendor. It is not fine if you are scaling a brand to seven or eight figures and you need someone who understands contribution margin, inventory velocity and working capital alongside ad efficiency.
Before starting Eleviam, Tom was Director of Sales for an eight figure CPG company, working with big-box retail accounts. One behaviour kept showing up: consumers would discover a product somewhere else, pull out their phone, and check Amazon before buying.
Later we acquired 3P distribution rights from Amazon brands. We bought inventory up front. The brands got paid up front. We became the seller of record, and we handled logistics, Amazon operations, advertising, inventory risk and channel management. We deployed more than $5 million of our own capital into inventory.
That matters because we did not make money when our reports looked good. We made money when products actually sold. We learned to think about Amazon through contribution, inventory velocity, conversion, demand and working capital, not isolated marketing metrics.
Eventually brands started asking us to manage their channels without us buying their inventory. That is how the agency side of Eleviam developed.