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Hey all,

A new subscriber has your discount code, but still doesn’t know which product to buy.

Sending them back to browse your entire catalog leaves that decision up to them.

Here’s how your first welcome email can help turn that sign-up into a purchase.

In less than 4 minutes, learn:

Q4 traffic is too expensive to waste.

Maximize conversions from every site visitor. We will review your storefront by traffic source, then present a playbook for what to fix now, what to test before Q4, and what to push live during holiday sales.

🎯 WEEKLY INSIGHT

Your first welcome email should help subscribers choose what to buy.

Your first welcome email can do more than lead with a discount.

It can guide the decision, showing people where to start.

Show them what customers actually choose and come back for.

That might look like:

  • Your best-selling products

  • What people reorder (and why)

  • How your products fit into real life

Simple framing like:

“New here? Here’s what our top customers love.”

“Start here: our three most-loved products (and why people reorder them).”

Now the customer isn’t guessing. They have a clear starting point.

Here’s the step most welcome emails skip.

You see the same patterns on storefronts.

When a new visitor lands on your site, the highest-performing pages don’t just push products.

They guide the purchase by showing where to start: what’s popular, what’s right for someone like them.

Without that, people stall.

Your welcome email plays the same role.

For a new subscriber, it’s often the first real interaction with your brand.

So instead of asking them to figure it out on their own, you’re giving them a path.

Once that path is clear, product decisions happen faster.

And when you introduce an incentive later, it reinforces a decision that already makes sense for them.

✨ Takeaway: Use your first welcome email to guide the decision, not just promote the purchase.

📹 QUICK TAKE
Holiday sales rose. How much did the discount help?
  • Bigger sales on a shopping holiday do not tell you how much revenue the discount added.

  • Alex shares why some brands saw holiday demand rise without discounting.

🗞️ NEWS HIGHLIGHT
  • What changed: Klaviyo is gradually rolling out flow version history, letting teams preview, restore, or duplicate earlier flow configurations. It covers flow structure and settings; email and SMS template content is separate.

  • Why it matters: Holiday edits to delays, filters, or splits can affect messages already running. Teams can inspect an earlier configuration or copy it into a draft before deciding to restore it. Restoring a live flow takes effect immediately.

THE COMMERCE LAB: STOREFRONT
Catch the latest storefront CRO Insight
  • Product views and wishlist saves can do more than sit in your reports.

  • One luxury brand lifted conversions 12.9% by showing shoppers how much interest a product was getting.

  • See where to surface that demand to give shoppers a reason to buy now.

How visitor and wishlist numbers drive urgency with scarcity.

👀 FROM LAST WEEK
  • “Join our newsletter” gives visitors little reason to hand over their email.

  • A CPG brand increased new-visitor signup rate from 3% to 7% by reworking the signup experience.

  • See what to test in your pop-up before paying to reach those visitors again.

Fix your email pop-ups to grow your list. Here’s how.

🤝 WORK WITH OUR TEAM

How can we help you?

Choose the next step that best fits what your team needs.

01
Book a live Klaviyo audit

Review your account with our team and see your biggest retention opportunities live.

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Request the Q4 readiness audit

Get a prioritized plan for what to fix, test, and launch before peak season.

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View our retention services and case studies

See how we improve lifecycle strategy, email, SMS, and retention revenue.

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Until next time,

— Allen

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