6 Benefits of MAP Enforcement for Your Online Sales

  •  Track Competitors’ Prices
  • Prevent Price Wars
  •  Positive Relationships with Manufacturers
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Benefits of MAP Monitoring Software


You can track your SKUs across different online marketplaces by using reliable MAP monitoring software. You can monitor prices and ask sellers to enforce your MAP policy. Other than these, MAP monitoring can help your online sales in the following ways:


#1 Find Out Unauthorized Sellers of Your Products.


As mentioned above, unauthorized sellers are bad for your brand. The issue has grown with the increasing dependency of shoppers on eCommerce. Unauthorized sellers can do harm in two ways:

  • Sell cheap products (replica of your products) under your brand name
  • Sell your products below MAP price

So, you must identify unlicensed or unauthorized vendors, and that’s what MAP technology helps achieve. 


Using Brand Alignment MAP Monitoring software, you can identify pricing policy violations by both authorized and unauthorized sellers on your product’s listings. You get a clear picture of your marketplace with daily inventory on authorized and unauthorized sellers.


#2 Reduces Bad Customer Experiences


Price is the biggest factor in purchase decision-making. Shoppers want the best deals, and they believe that wherever they buy your product, they’ll have the same experience. 


But that’s not true when you overlook the violation of your MAP policy. Unauthorized sellers don’t care about margins or relationships. They offer the lowest prices or even fake products with your brand name. This results in a bad customer experience and a negative perception of your brand. 


MAP Monitoring helps take full control of pricing so that sellers focus on offering competitive services and benefits. Put simply, MAP monitoring software helps avoid bad customer experiences. 


#3 Competitive Intelligence


With MAP monitoring, you can track your competitors’ prices and recreate your pricing strategy accordingly. Using these insights, you can even report MAP policy violations to respective manufacturers and request them to take appropriate action. As a result, you develop strong relationships with manufacturers and benefit from flexible pricing. 


Even if an authorized seller fails to comply with your MAP policy, the manufacturer can stop working with them. This also results in helping retailers that follow your pricing policy, enjoy more price flexibility and increase their margins.


Brand Alignment's 24/7 MAP monitoring software facilitates constant price intelligence across 200+ online marketplaces. So, you can always track your competitors' prices and keep your pricing strategy up-to-date.


#4 Control Discounts and Prevent Price Wars


When one retailer offers a discount on a specific product, other competing retailers may also try to follow the same strategy. Retailers think that by offering discounts, they will win customers. But customers are intelligent enough to establish an association between price and quality. So, if the price goes too low, they will opt out of shopping because they’re concerned about the quality. 

It results in price wars that have no lasting benefits. Sales and conversions may increase temporarily, but constant price-cutting decreases your brand value and sales negatively in the long term. Price wars affect manufacturers too. Customers often perceive products that are unreasonably priced low as inferior quality. 


MAP monitoring software can help prevent price wars among retailers. You can track prices in the market for similar products. Accordingly, as mentioned above, you can establish the cheapest cost (MAP) at which your product should be sold.  Everyone, from distributors, retailers, and sellers, should adhere to the guidelines in your MAP policy. This safeguards your business, sellers, and everyone in between.


#5 Protects Your Profit Margins


It becomes easy to sustain a positive profit margin for products with more value. This results in increased sales by retailers who, in turn, buy more products from manufacturers. In the end, the manufacturer brand reflects upon itself as a reseller. So, it’s clear why you need to protect manufacturer pricing; it’s a win-win for all parties involved. 


You can achieve this by mitigating price wars by enforcing your price policy and using MAP monitoring.  So, you get better control over your products' pricing across different marketplaces.


#6 Helpful in Relationship Management


Manufacturers prefer working with retailers that resonate well with their products and brand image. Such retailers can help the manufacturer’s brand establish itself optimally in the market. 


Complying with their MAP policy helps develop and maintain healthy relationships and result in better profit margins over time. Although retailers can break the agreement whenever they want, they risk terminating their relationship with the manufacturer if they do.


By using MAP software for your online sales, you can track both authorized and unauthorized sellers. Accordingly, you can stop working with unauthorized sellers and reward well-performing retailers.


Choose Brand Alignment Amazon Map Monitoring to Improve your MAP monitoring capabilities.

If you have a reseller/retailer network on Amazon, then this Map Monitoring software can be extremely helpful. Using this tool, you can control your prices in one place. It facilitates 24/7 MAP monitoring and insightful KPIs for your pricing strategy.


Brand Alignment Map Monitoring software crawls online platforms for pricing fluctuations every 1-3 hours every day. You can monitor and report everything in one place – an intuitive dashboard that is very easy to use and navigate.



Conclusion

As you see, MAP monitoring is vital for the long-term success of your brand. It not just protects manufacturers and distributors but also serves your sellers and customers too.


Brand Alignment Amazon Map Monitoring software serves as an all-in-one tool when it comes to addressing your pricing-related issues. With real-time pricing data and an easy-to-use dashboard, you can trust this software to manage and align your brand well.

Don't Have the Time to Do It Yourself?

Let us Take Care of Your Monitoring & Enforcement

The first step in removing unauthorized sellers is spotting them on your listings and that is exactly what the Brand Alignment Monitoring Dashboard will do for you. With price updates every 3 hours and inventory totals for every seller on every listing, you will get the most complete picture possible of your brand on every major online marketplace.

Of course, the most important step in removing unauthorized sellers is prevention and enforcement. This is where Brand Alignment is leagues above the competition when it comes to map policy enforcement software.

  1. 1
    Clear over 80% of unauthorized sellers: Brand Alignment will make a custom strategy for your brand reputation to ensure the highest rates of removal
  2. 2
    Control Your Authorized Channels: Daily emails informing you of authorized channel violations and price cascading events
  3. 3
    Risk-Free Guarantee: Brand Alignment is so confident in their removal rates, that we will create a custom guarantee for every brand. We will remove x% of sellers or you have the option to terminate the contract early
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Will Enforcement Solutions Work for My Brand?

In short, the answer is Yes. 


We have had our 80%-90%+ enforcement rates in every single industry we have worked in. That includes the following:

  • Consumer Electronics
  • Apparel and Shoes
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Health & Beauty
  • Sports & Outdoors
  • Mobile Phone Accessories
  • And More

As you are already aware, each industry has their own bells and whistles. Please contact us if you have any specific questions about enforcement in your industry.

Are There Any Risks Involved With Enforcement?

Brand Alignment gives the brand the option of using their own personal cease & desist letters or the option to customize Brand Alignment's proven high performance Cease & Desist letters. These letters were crafted by Intellectual Property lawyers with a full focus on minimizing liability.

Any infringement complaints filed by Brand Alignment are done with the utmost care and transparency. We do not file counterfeit complaints without test buys and approval from the brand. Our trademark complaints are done with caution and all bases covered.


Finally, in this world, anybody can sue anybody for anything. But it does not mean it will stand up in court. There is nothing we can do to prevent frivolous lawsuits from disgruntled sellers. However, we do everything we can to prepare you to have any case against you quickly dismissed. After two years in business, we are proud to say that neither us or any of our brands have had any legal issues of any kind related to our service.

Brand Alignment vs The Competition

If you are new to shopping for a brand protection provider, it might be confusing to tell the difference between companies. It might sound like everybody offers the same type of monitoring and enforcement. This could not be further from the truth.

Brand Alignment

  • Crawls marketplaces for dynamic pricing changes every 3 hours or 8x a day
  • Markets monitored for price cascading are crawled every hour or 24x a day
  • Sends a Cease & Desist letter to every unauthorized seller on Amazon
  • Since 100% of all unauthorized sellers are contacted, Brand Alignment averages an 80%-90%+ Removal Rate
  • Uses hundreds of proprietary investigative techniques to identify personal information of sellers and supply chain sources

The Competition

  • Crawls marketplaces for pricing only 1x-4x a day
  • Markets monitored for price cascading are crawled every 3 hours or 8x a day
  • Requires YOU to send a Cease & Desist letter only if YOU have the email of the unauthorized seller 
  • Since only a small percentage of unauthorized sellers are contacted, the competition averages a 10%-30% removal rate
  • Uses basic investigative techniques like Google searches or buying low quality lists in hopes of finding emails to send letters

How Much Money Are You Losing By NOT Switching to Brand Alignment?

  • What is your current Buy Box Loss percentage? How much unsold inventory do you or your authorized channels have due to Buy Box loss?
  • How much are you charged by Vendors for chargebacks related to price matching MAP violators?
  • What effect do unauthorized sellers have on your Brand Integrity when they violate MAP policy or sell refurbished, returned, or used items as New?
  • Are you dealing with unhappy authorized channels who have difficulty obtaining the Buy Box? Are you being turned down by potential authorized channels for not having better control of your MAP policy?
  • Did you know that data shows that less sales are made from 3rd party sellers having the Buy Box than from Amazon having the Buy Box?
  • What are your storage and warehousing costs from unsold inventory due to unauthorized sellers?

How Much Money In Sales Are You Losing Each Year Due to a Lack of Quality Brand Protection?

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P.S.: Due to the constant changing nature of online marketplaces, our Enforcement Guarantee is a limited time offer.


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