From API Approval to Live Ad Campaigns Before Lunch
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I woke up this morning to an email saying my Amazon Ads API application was approved.
By lunch, my AI assistant had walked me through setting up the developer account, created three Sponsored Products campaigns for my books, built keyword lists for each one, added negative keywords to filter out tourists and puzzle-seekers, and had all three campaigns live.
Total time on my end: about 45 minutes of clicking through Amazon’s setup screens. The rest was handled for me.
This is what OpenClaw does. It’s not a chatbot — it’s a collaborator that knows my business, my books, my audience, and my goals. When I said “let’s do Amazon ads,” it already knew which three books to start with, what the budget should be, and that “theme park design” keywords need to filter out people looking for vacation tips.
The campaigns are running right now. We’ll have our first performance data by Monday.
I teach a class on setting up and getting the most from OpenClaw — details at themeperks.com/openclaw-course/.
