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Klaviyo

Score8.4 out of 10

305 Reviews and Ratings

What is Klaviyo?

Klaviyo is a marketing automation platform that helps businesses to centralize and use every piece of their customer data. With Klaviyo, businesses can combine customer data with more than 350 native integrations to automate personalized email and SMS communications that make customers feel seen. From mom-and-pop shops to established companies, Klaviyo states businesses like Dermalogica, Living Proof, Solo Stove, Citizen Watches, and more than 143,000 other paying users leverage their platform to acquire, engage, and retain customers—and grow on their own terms. Learn more at klaviyo.com.

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Top Performing Features

  • Triggered drip sequences

    The software allows users to set up automatic / drip email campaigns triggered by certain events.

    Category average: 8.7

  • Email deliverability reporting

    The software helps ensure inbox delivery of email campaigns, through features such as deliverability tests, opt-in management, bounce handling, suppression lists, dedicated IP addresses, and delivery monitoring.

    Category average: 8.2

  • List management

    This involves creating, filtering, editing, merging and de-duping lists of contacts.

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Customizability

    Users can customize their instance with features like custom fields and custom objects.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Automated sales alerts and tasks

    The software helps ensure that a sales person is notified of lead activity and can act on the information in a timely fashion.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Lead scoring and grading

    Users can set up the software to automatically rate leads based on calculations such as buying signals, such as form submissions, or page views, and automatically qualify leads based on demographic factors.

    Category average: 8.1

A must-have for Shopify-backed websites

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I advocated for Klaviyo at my previous work, and we migrated to it from Campaign Manager. Our website was built with Shopify, so the integration with Klaviyo unlocked valuable customer insights and purchasing signals which we used for segmentation and automated email journeys. Apart from improved customer retention and increased AOV, we enjoyed a user-friendly email builder and opportunity to use dynamic values (last purchased product, total spend, etc.). Klaviyo is a must-have for marketers who have their e-commerce sites built with Shopify.

Pros

  • Customer segmentation based on purchasing behaviour
  • Complex automated email journeys with multiple IF conditions
  • Intuitive email builder with dynamic values
  • Extreme personalization of the email builder where some sections of the email can be displayed only to specific customer segments

Cons

  • Needs more visible critical notifications as we once exceeded our monthly email limit right during the Black Friday campaign. The notification was not visible enough for us to catch it on time, as a result, some emails scheduled to be sent over the weekend were never sent
  • Better library of dynamic values available for use inside emails

Return on Investment

  • Web user stickiness
  • Increased AOV
  • Improved sales velocity
  • Reviving dormant users
  • Insights for the sales team

Alternatives Considered

Campaign Monitor by Marigold

Other Software Used

Shopify, Rebuy Engine, Google Analytics

Klaviyo is Great for Large Lists.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Klaviyo to handle marketing communications across various platforms. This would include via emails and text messages. It helped us create flows and sales funnels to target the right people at the right time. It also helped us weed out people who would not be swayed by the marketing. Finally, it enables perfectly targeted offers by leveraging the data it collects and lets you segment your lists.

Pros

  • Segmenting Lists.
  • Email Flows.
  • Ease of Email Design.

Cons

  • Cost went up quite a bit.
  • Novice users might struggle to get their full value from it.
  • Need for experts to maximize return on investment.

Return on Investment

  • We increased out revenue.
  • We created new detailed offers that converted at a higher rate.
  • The cost increase decreased some profitability after email list changes.

Alternatives Considered

Intuit Mailchimp

How Klaviyo works for me

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Klaviyo for both contacting existing customers, and following up with prospects, and potential customers. As we offer insurance services, customers often don't purchase immediately (choosing to go away and compare prices etc, as it's a more considered purchase) - Klaviyo allows us to target those customers with a series of emails, educating customers on the importance of our services, how we can help, and offering incentives/discounts to complete their quotes. We use Klaviyo for a customer's full lifecycle with us - from first quote, to retention, and even win back if they leave us. We also integrate it with our ads (Google & Facebook) to keep messaging consistent across channels and make better use of the data we're collecting.

Pros

  • Targeting customer behaviour (i.e. customer gets a quote for a specific product - we target with relevant messaging)
  • Automation - once flows are set up, they just run with no manual intervention needed
  • Segmentation - we can get really specific with who we're emailing with what messaging

Cons

  • Pre-built templates/workflows etc are very retail centric which don't always work for us as a financial services company
  • Reporting is a little surface level - I don't get a full picture of how my emails have performed so end up having to export and stitch reports together myself
  • Pricing ramps up quite quickly

Return on Investment

  • Much easier to leverage personalisation tools - to optimise our campaigns
  • Quicker to launch AB tests, so I can optimise email messaging more quickly
  • Takes less of my time up day to day managing campaigns freeing me up for other business priorities

Alternatives Considered

Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill) and ActiveCampaign

Other Software Used

Storyblok, Tally, Carrd, Trustpilot

Klaviyo Great for large businesses not so much for small ones

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Klaviyo for SMS and also have used it for email for multiple brands. It helps automate yours email and SMS, setting up flows, creating segments and managing customer actions. It integrates with Shopify and helps you manage your customer communications -- including abandoned carts, shipping confirmations and more.

Pros

  • Integrates with lots of Shopify apps and related marketing activites
  • Allows you to create lots of different segments with customer data
  • Creates lists for sign-up forms

Cons

  • Email creation is clunky, image library is hard to manage
  • List cleaning is difficult, hard to do bulk actions (like identify all Texas customers)
  • Price is very high relative to competitors

Return on Investment

  • Klaviyo allowed me to grow my revenue as I was building out our email program
  • The ROI shrank as their costs went up.
  • SMS has been easy to create and deploy -- leading to higher campaign engagement.

Alternatives Considered

Seguno

Other Software Used

Shopify, Seguno, Zipify Pages

Essential for Ecommerce.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are an e-commerce company and use Klaviyo to send weekly marketing emails and email flows. It helps us keep in regular contact with our customers and potential customers. We also use the SMS feature. It is proven to help us drive significant sales on a regular basis.

Pros

  • Email flows.
  • Customer profiles and segments.
  • Email builder.

Cons

  • Learning curve to start.
  • Would like to see them expand more on the customer service features.

Return on Investment

  • Increased sales.
  • Increased email sign ups and SMS.

Alternatives Considered

Intuit Mailchimp

Other Software Used

Freshdesk Omni