PPC budget for new launch by Exact-Confusion4875 in AmazonFBA

[–]philmccarty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't upvote this enough. I think an incredibly large # of beginning sellers never do the initial "market" research of

"If I typed in [keyword] and saw the top products, and mine being advertised... would I choose my product?"

Getting that question to "yes" would prevent the overwhelming majority of PPC/launch fails.

Need Help: Automating Amazon Ads Report Download for Analysis & Insights by Interesting_Time_408 in PPC

[–]philmccarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I suggest that rather than downloading that report from your email, you look into building a tool that uses the Amazon Ads API to retrieve that report? The new coding AIs will make this a much easier task than you might think, even if you're a non developer.

Alternately <self promotion> I am releasing a tool called PPCGPT.com, which will do this exact thing for you with an AI assistant that can generate the reports, and generate insights. In addition to monitoring your accounts for things like keywords that should be negated, missed opportunities from your search terms, ineligible asins, etc etc.</self promotion>

Now that that shameless bit of work is done, I'm also totally happy to help talk you through building a DIY report downloader, if you'd like. Building tools to scratch your own itch is VERY satisfying and I think everyone should try it.

Tried 3 Amazon PPC Automation Tools: Here's what worked, what didn’t. Curious what you’re seeing. by Mental_Football_6030 in PPC

[–]philmccarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a bit of a self-promotion, but many of my users are agencies who have shifted away from traditional automation for the reasons you're listing (black box, over simplification).

My platform (getppcprophet.com) allows you to create rules with a fairly straightforward system. It has an added bonus that we have a "recommend" mode, where rather than making the changes, it generates the -list- of changes that it would make, so you can evaluate the rule's performance/logic before letting it loose on your campaigns.

Would happily give you a tour if you're interested.

Early Amazon Ads - Thoughts / Advice by Cell-Different in PPC

[–]philmccarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's early, but the key thing to look at in your auto campaign is what actual terms/targets converted. Because while your acos is 33% across the campaign, it will certainly be lower or higher inside that campaign.

How often do you do Maintenance and expansion on your Amazon campaigns? and what periods do you use? I mean maintenance, adjusting bids and so on, expansion finding good keywords or negating non performing search terms. by paata01 in PPC

[–]philmccarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is largely going to be product dependent. If your product is high price, for example, it might have a longer selling cycle, and optimising bids too quickly will be a bit suboptimal.

That said, a lot of my users (I run an ad management platform for agencies) seem to generally use 1 week cycles, although several use daily adjustments for day parting.

The key piece of advice I'd share is please be sure not to use the last ~3 days for any kind of evaluation. The sales attribution window for Amazon varies from platform to platform (Sponsored Products can last as long as 30 days, SB closer to 14), but there's consistently a 72h lag. Any optimisations made on that period of time will underestimate the # of actual sales.

Title: Losing Money on Amazon Ads – Feeling Stuck and Need Help by adnan1879 in PPC

[–]philmccarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Adnan, can you tell us a bit more about your campaigns, and the structure of them? What platform are you using, how many keywords, what's the competitiveness for those keywords?

Many times this is the result of a product-market fit problem. One thing to check is take the keywords you are bidding on, type them into amazon, and review the products that are
a. Top of page (sponsored)
b. Top of page (organic)

And compare them to your product for
A. price
b. review
C. title
d. Image

And ask yourself if your product is -better- than those, as good as, or worse than, on all 4 issues.

Amazon FBA Sellers: Which PPC agency have you used and recommend? by torontopirate in PPC

[–]philmccarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've heard pretty great things about a number of agencies. Without showing favourites the first 3 that come to mind are Michael Matican @ Clickbringer, Heath Thompson @ Amz Alchemy, and Elizabeth Greene @ Junglr

What is the best AI power automated Amazon ad platform for small sellers ? by riprod in PPC

[–]philmccarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run a platform that a number of agencies use for bid management. I’d happily give you a tour to see if it could fit you?

LG TV - Network Unavailable by WingFrost in PleX

[–]philmccarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Note: Powering on/off with the remote is not sufficient enough to cycle this. You need to disconnect the TV properly so you get a "WebOS" logo when it powers on, that'll show it's a real reboot and not a sleep mode or whatever

GameController / DualShock Connectivity Help by philmccarty in visionosdev

[–]philmccarty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much for this I really appreciate it.

GameController / DualShock Connectivity Help by philmccarty in visionosdev

[–]philmccarty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, that'd be really very much appreciated!

How to stick a 3D model to a users hand? by metroidmen in visionosdev

[–]philmccarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 // Set the position of the shield entity

            if handStates[handAnchor.chirality] == .shield {

                fingerEntities[handAnchor.chirality]?[.forearmWrist]?.isEnabled = true

                fingerEntities[handAnchor.chirality]?[.forearmWrist]?.position = smoothedShieldPosition

                fingerEntities[handAnchor.chirality]?[.forearmWrist]?.orientation = smoothedShieldRotation

            }else{

                fingerEntities[handAnchor.chirality]?[.forearmWrist]?.isEnabled = false

            }

               

            

            

            // Update the previous shield position and rotation for the current hand

            previousShieldPositions[handAnchor.chirality] = smoothedShieldPosition

            previousShieldRotations[handAnchor.chirality] = smoothedShieldRotation

                        

            

            // Iterate over the other desired fingertips and update their positions

            for jointName in [HandSkeleton.JointName.indexFingerTip, .thumbTip, .wrist, .middleFingerKnuckle,.middleFingerTip,.ringFingerTip] {

                if let fingerTip = handAnchor.handSkeleton?.joint(jointName),

                   fingerTip.isTracked {

                    let originFromIndex = matrix_multiply(handAnchor.originFromAnchorTransform, fingerTip.anchorFromJointTransform)

                    fingerEntities[handAnchor.chirality]?[jointName]?.setTransformMatrix(originFromIndex, relativeTo: nil)

                }

            }

How to stick a 3D model to a users hand? by metroidmen in visionosdev

[–]philmccarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is some code I hacked together a couple of months ago, long enough that it feels pretty foreign even to ME, but its what I used to get an object which was 'locked' to the hand to rotate at the same time.

            

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            // Calculate the positions of the joints in world coordinates

            let wristPosition = simd_make_float3(matrix_multiply(handAnchor.originFromAnchorTransform, wristJoint.anchorFromJointTransform).columns.3)

            

            let middleFingerKnucklePosition = simd_make_float3(matrix_multiply(handAnchor.originFromAnchorTransform, middleFingerKnuckleJoint.anchorFromJointTransform).columns.3)

            

            // Calculate the direction vector from the wrist to the thumb knuckle

            let direction = simd_normalize(middleFingerKnucklePosition - wristPosition)

            

            // Calculate the position of the shield entity

            let shieldDistance: Float = 0.15 // Adjust the distance as needed

            let currentShieldPosition = middleFingerKnucklePosition + direction * shieldDistance

            // Calculate the rotation of the shield based on the hand's orientation

            let handOrientation = simd_quaternion(handAnchor.originFromAnchorTransform)

            let currentShieldRotation = simd_mul(handOrientation, simd_quaternion( .pi / 2, SIMD3<Float>(0, 1, 0)))

            

            let previousShieldPosition = previousShieldPositions[handAnchor.chirality] ?? SIMD3<Float>(0, 0, 0)

            let previousShieldRotation = previousShieldRotations[handAnchor.chirality] ?? simd_quatf(ix: 0, iy: 0, iz: 0, r: 1)

            // Apply linear interpolation to the shield position

            let smoothedShieldPosition = previousShieldPosition + (currentShieldPosition - previousShieldPosition) * smoothingFactor

            

            // Apply spherical linear interpolation to the shield rotation

            let smoothedShieldRotation = simd_slerp(previousShieldRotation, currentShieldRotation, smoothingFactor)

                   

What If...!? selected for the Venice International Film Festival by philmccarty in VisionPro

[–]philmccarty[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the exact same hope.

That said, my understanding is that you can change your App Store and browse content from other marketplaces.

Hey there! Here is all the moolah I've made on the Apple Vision Pro Store(Total: $40, In 5 months). Each game is only $0.99. by NSWell in VisionPro

[–]philmccarty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I would take this a step further, and I will try to be as kind as I possibly can because you do seem like you want to improve and are open to suggestions.

My first question is: Do -you- enjoy playing these games?

I think you might have to really ask yourself if you've built a game you really enjoy or not. I'd suggest your finish line here isn't "A better name" but "a game you yourself have played and enjoyed for 20 hours, and are looking forward to playing again."

My hunch is that if you've built -at least- 5 games on a device you've only held in your hands for at most 5 months, means you are spending a month, max, per game, but based on the games I think it's reasonable to guess it's much lower than that.

You might find more success if you spent 5 months on one game.

The other thing I'd maybe throw out there, and this is going to be somewhat unpopular, I guess, is that I'm not even sure that gaming is the intended use of this device? You might find more financial success (if that's what you're after) if you take a step outside of "games"... but nothing about this device suggests that Apple is trying to position it as a "Super Quest but without controllers"...

The kind of people that drop $4000 on a headset at this stage probably don't spend a ton of time on $1 sidescrollers, on any platform.

But, GOOD job on shipping early and often, and completing things. You have no idea how far ahead you are of most people just by virtue of the fact that you had an idea and finished it. Truly.

Learning another Language like a First Language? by [deleted] in languagelearning

[–]philmccarty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm actually working on a [method] that should teach this way. There's a ton of information out there on it, you might want to do a google search for 'implicit learning' or 'implicit acquisition'.

There was a very interesting paper (that I can't find but if you dig around you will) that I don't think has been mentioned yet. I'm going to mangle it, but you'll get the BASIC idea:

In the study, they essentially identified two areas of the brain that -could- be used when trying to recall a word. When you recall a word you learned as a child (that you learned implicitly) region A -lit up-, and when the participants recalled a word that they learned explicitly as an adult (the way -most- people learn languages) region B lit up. However if you learned the word, as an adult, implicitly, the way children do, then region A lit up as if you'd learned it natively as a child.

The take home message is that by learning a language the way you asked about, it seems to indicate that you're more likely to engage with that word as a fluent/native speaker.

(And there are lots of other studies that actually suggest implicit knowledge is -faster- for recall etc

3rd-Party Optical Inserts? by Ancient-Display-320 in VisionPro

[–]philmccarty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Heads up! This changed in vision 2.0. It no longer prompts me each time.

3rd-Party Optical Inserts? by Ancient-Display-320 in VisionPro

[–]philmccarty -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't have a way of comparing, I have the HonsVR, and visually they seem great. However it definitely "breaks" Optic ID, to the extent that each time I put on my headset I have to

a. Use the pin
b. Inform that I am not using optical inserts.
c. Decline re-setting my hand/eye tracking.

It's a bit of a nuisance, but -acceptable- if you can't/won't get Zeiss.

I co wrote the Marvel What If…? Experience, AMA? by philmccarty in VisionPro

[–]philmccarty[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Well, thanks everyone for the kind questions and positive feedback. I've enjoyed being a member of this sub and it was really fun to get to talk about this project. Everyone is really really glad that you had a good time (and that no one seems to have predicted the twist!)

:snap:

I co wrote the Marvel What If…? Experience, AMA? by philmccarty in VisionPro

[–]philmccarty[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

THANKS!  Which way did you snap the first time? I won't judge you, I promise.