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The short answer
The work that decides the event happens in the four to six weeks before it: deal and offer submission inside the deadline, stock positioned for the surge, listing quality fixed while there is still time for it to take effect, and an advertising budget weighted to the event instead of spread evenly. Once the sale opens, the only real lever left is bids.
Deal submission and offer nomination close well ahead of the event. Miss that window and you can still sell, but you do it without the badges and placements that carry most of the visibility.
Inbound stock deadlines close early too if you fulfil through Flipkart's warehouses. Stock that arrives during the event is stock that missed it.
Check the current dates in Seller Hub for the event you are targeting. Last year's calendar will be wrong.
A flat monthly budget spends the same in a dead week as in the week that decides the quarter. During an event, competition for the same placement rises sharply and a bid that worked in an ordinary month stops clearing.
Weight the budget toward the event and accept the higher cost per click, because the conversion rate rises with it. Judge the period on total contribution rather than on the efficiency number you are used to.
Set your floor from your real break-even with returns included. Event weeks also produce event return rates, and discounting into a thin margin is how a record sales month closes at a loss.
Listing quality on your top sellers, which is quick and feeds both organic placement and ad performance.
Campaign structure, so PLA and PCA are not sharing one budget and hiding each other's results.
Stock allocation across your best products, and the honest decision about which listings you are not going to support this time. Spreading a budget across everything usually means nothing gets enough of it.
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