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Jungle Scout

Score9 out of 10

10 Reviews and Ratings

What is Jungle Scout?

Jungle Scout is a platform for selling on Amazon, from the company of the same name in Austin, TX. Founded in 2015 as an Amazon product research tool, Jungle Scout today features a suite of business management solutions and market intelligence to help entrepreneurs and brands manage their Amazon businesses.

The only program you need for success on Amazon

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We like to use Jungle Scout to help us find potential products and brands that we can resell on the marketplaces and our own website. We also use it to help track the momentum of our own products and for keyword finding. We typically use it daily, and it is our go-to tool for opportunity finding.

Pros

  • Opportunity finding
  • Keyword research

Cons

  • Expansion into other marketplaces
  • Multiple users using the tool at once
  • More accurate units sold estimator

Most Important Features

  • Keyword research
  • Opportunity finder
  • Sales estimator

Return on Investment

  • Increased our Amazon revenue by 1,000%
  • Increased our ability to internally grade opportunities

Alternatives Considered

Semrush and Helium 10

Great product research tool for even beginning ecommerce companies

Pros

  • Presents actual data on current products in a marketplace
  • Reports changes with competitors based on alerts
  • Provides daily sales snapshots

Cons

  • Jungle Scout offers a vast number of features and tools but compared to their primary/original service of product research, the other features aren't as reliable or useful
  • Because of feature clutter, the interface can be difficult to navigate and finding the information you are looking for can be frustrating.
  • Their fee structure is frustrating. The basic plan is crippled by a low limit of products to follow but the next tier is absurdly high for most casual users.

Most Important Features

  • Product research

Return on Investment

  • It's better helped me understand market trends by tracking my competitors
  • It has helped me avoid certain markets and focus on the right ones