Shopify development blog · Retention & email
Shopify retention marketing guides: email, SMS, loyalty and Klaviyo.
How Shopify brands turn a first order into a second: Klaviyo flows, SMS, loyalty and the retention tactics we run on the stores we build and maintain.
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Retention & email
Every Shopify Retention Marketing article, newest first.
A first order is the start. In beauty, supplements, pet and any replenishment category, the number that decides the business is whether the first order becomes a second and a tenth. These guides cover the flows that bring customers back — email, SMS, loyalty, subscriptions — and the wiring to the store’s own events that makes any tool work.
The comparisons of retention, subscription and popup apps are written from stores we run on Klaviyo and Attentive, measured on repeat purchase rate rather than on the tool’s attributed revenue.
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