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Klaviyo Email & SMS Marketing in Sydney

Klaviyo built as a retention system for Sydney brands, so the Boxing Day rush becomes a customer base instead of an annual spike.

Delivered remotely for brands across Sydney and Australia.

Grow · Sydney

Why Sydney brands come to us for this

  • Retention calendar built backwards from Boxing Day, with a January and February second-order programme rather than a post-peak silence
  • Deliverability warm-up run in the shoulder months so a peak volume spike does not land the December sends in promotions or worse
  • SMS segmented by state or sent in local time, because one national send crosses three standard time zones and inconsistent daylight saving
  • Consent capture, sender identification and unsubscribe handling built to Australian Spam Act requirements, including competition and wholesale entry points
  • Flow design matched to category rhythm — replenishment for coffee and skincare, size-specific back-in-stock for swim and activewear

Australian ecommerce concentrates an unhealthy share of its revenue into six weeks, and owned channels are the only lever that turns that concentration into something durable. A brand that acquires thousands of first-time buyers between Boxing Day and late January and then goes quiet until winter has effectively rented those customers. The flow architecture we build is aimed squarely at that: a post-purchase sequence written for a gift recipient as well as a self-purchaser, a second-order push timed to the actual repurchase interval of your category, and a win-back that fires before the customer has forgotten which brand the parcel came from.

Category rhythm drives the flow design more than any template does. Specialty coffee out of Marrickville has a repurchase cycle you can nearly set a clock by, which makes replenishment timing and subscription rescue the highest-value flows in the account. Skincare runs on regimen logic and a slower cycle, with claims that need to be worded carefully. Swim and activewear live on back-in-stock and size-specific restock alerts, because the sale that gets lost is almost always a specific size rather than a specific style. Homewares is a considered purchase with a long browse-to-buy gap, which makes browse abandonment and a genuine content programme worth more than another discount.

Compliance here is Australian, not American. The Spam Act governs commercial email and SMS: you need consent, you must identify the sender accurately, and unsubscribe requests have to be honoured promptly. That shapes list-growth design — how a popup captures consent, what a wholesale enquiry form implies, whether a competition entrant has agreed to marketing — and it shapes SMS, which we use sparingly and with intent because it is the channel where a mistake is loudest.

Local-time sendsnational campaigns timed per state rather than fired once on Sydney time
Peak locked in NovemberDecember and January flows built and tested before the trading season starts
Owned revenue reported netflow and campaign revenue attributed with a stated window, not counted twice against paid
Local context

One send, five time zones, and a peak that starts on Boxing Day

A national Australian campaign is not one send — it lands across a country spanning three standard time zones, with some of them observing daylight saving and some not, so an 8am Sydney send arrives before dawn in Perth for much of the year. SMS makes that a real problem rather than an academic one, so we segment sends by state or use local-time delivery for anything time-sensitive. The calendar is equally particular. The retention year is built backwards from Boxing Day: list growth and segmentation work through spring, a pre-peak warm-up that protects deliverability before volume spikes, a peak sequence planned in October and locked in November, and then the part most brands skip — a January and February programme that converts a mass of one-time gift-season buyers into second orders while they still remember you. The end of the Australian financial year on 30 June is a second, smaller moment worth a dedicated campaign for anything a customer might buy through a business.

Scope

What Klaviyo Email & SMS includes

The same standard of work we run for every client — applied to a Sydney brand’s realities.

Full service detail
01

Klaviyo Lifecycle Flow Build

Eight to twelve behavioural flows: welcome, browse abandonment, cart and checkout recovery, post-purchase, replenishment, winback, VIP and back-in-stock, each branched by segment rather than sent flat.

02

RFM Segment Architecture

Klaviyo segments built on recency, frequency and monetary value instead of open behaviour, so first-time buyers, loyalists and lapsing customers receive different messages and different offers.

03

Campaign Calendar

Three to five segmented sends a week, planned a month ahead against your promotional calendar, product drops and inventory position rather than improvised on a Tuesday.

04

SMS Programme

Compliant list growth, and SMS reserved for launches, back-in-stock and time-boxed offers. Two to four sends a month, because the fastest way to kill an SMS list is to overuse it.

05

Deliverability Management

SPF, DKIM and DMARC alignment, a dedicated sending domain, a sunset policy and list hygiene, monitored monthly so a reputation problem never becomes a revenue problem.

06

LTV & Owned Revenue Reporting

Klaviyo revenue as a percentage of total, split by flow and campaign, with revenue per recipient, cohort LTV and a view on what discounting is cannibalising.

Scoped and quoted for your Sydney store

We do not work off a rate card. Every Sydney engagement starts with a fixed statement of work — named deliverables, named dates, one number — written after we have looked at your store, not before. If a smaller first step would serve you better, we will say so.

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How it runs

From kickoff to results

01

Klaviyo Audit

Flow inventory, deliverability check, list health and integration review. We also surface the profile and event data Klaviyo already collects that nothing in the account currently uses.

02

Lifecycle Map

Every customer moment worth a message mapped against real purchase behaviour and repeat interval, then assigned to email, to SMS, or to nothing at all.

03

Build & Migrate

Flows built, designed and QA'd against live profile data, with legacy flows retired cleanly so nobody receives two versions of the same email in the same hour.

04

Campaign Cadence

Weekly segmented campaigns with tested subject lines, send times and offer structures. Every send has a hypothesis attached and a segment it was written for.

05

Optimise & Expand

Monthly flow A/B tests, quarterly lifecycle redesigns and continuous segment refinement as repeat intervals and buying patterns shift underneath you.

Proof

Klaviyo Email & SMS results

Anonymised under NDA. Figures pulled from the client’s own analytics.

Supplements (Subscription DTC)

~$4.2M/yr, 60% subscription revenue, 22 SKUs, US · Shopify Plus (Recharge, Klaviyo)

Monthly subscription churn hit 9.4% and the cancel flow was a single button on a hosted page nobody had touched in three years. Support processed 340 subscription changes a month by hand because customers could not do it themselves. The named constraint: no forced logins. The brand refused to gate account access behind a password reset, which ruled out every off-the-shelf portal.

9.4% → 6.1%monthly subscription churnheld for five consecutive months, not a single-month dip
+34%12-month customer LTV$187 to $251 on the subscriber cohort
19% → 38%of revenue from email + SMScategory benchmark for a healthy program is 25-40%
-71%subscription support tickets340/mo to 98/mo after the self-serve portal launched
Engagement Subscription engineering + retention retainerTimeframe 9 months

Food & Beverage (Specialty Coffee)

~$3.1M/yr, 28 SKUs, subscription + one-time, US · Shopify (Klaviyo, Recharge)

A 14-day roast window meant every discount cut into a 41% gross margin that could not be rebuilt. First-order CAC was $52 against a $38 AOV, so the business only worked on the second order and 64% of customers never placed one. The named constraint: no discount deeper than 10%, ever, on any channel.

+8%conversion rate2.4% to 2.6%. The smallest number here and the least important one
$38 → $50average order value+32%, once the sampler replaced the single-bag entry offer
36% → 58%90-day repeat purchase ratethe metric the entire engagement was designed around
+$410kannualized contribution marginCAC fell 19% while AOV and repeat rate rose, at zero incremental discount cost
Engagement Retention program + Meta ads rebuildTimeframe 6 months
In their words

Clients on this work

Email 11% → 34% of revenue

“Email was 11% of revenue when we started. It's 34% now. They rebuilt the Klaviyo account from the ground up — half our flows had never been turned on and the segments were basically 'everyone' — and then we argued about send frequency for a solid month. I was convinced five a week would torch the list. Instead of just insisting, they ran it as a holdout. Unsub rate moved 0.09%. I lost the argument and I'm glad I did.”

Head of RetentionBeauty & skincare brand, ~$7M/yr · Austin, TX
Verified client, 2025
FAQ

Klaviyo Email & SMS in Sydney — your questions

January is the most valuable and most neglected month in an Australian retention calendar. You are sitting on a large cohort of first-time buyers acquired at peak, many of them gift recipients who have never bought from you directly, plus summer still has weeks to run. The programme is a post-peak welcome for the gift cohort, a second-order push timed to your category's repurchase interval, and full-price merchandising for the summer that is still happening — not a clearance blast that trains everyone to wait for discounts.

It changes what counts as consent and what you have to disclose. Marketing email and SMS need consent, accurate sender identification and a working unsubscribe honoured promptly, so an entry mechanic that quietly bundles marketing consent into a competition entry is the kind of thing that causes problems later. We build capture forms that ask clearly, record where and when consent was given, and keep SMS consent separate from email consent rather than assuming one implies the other.

Either segment by state and schedule each separately, or use local-time sending for anything where the hour matters. The failure case is real: an 8am AEDT send reaches Perth around 5am for much of the year, and a pre-dawn SMS produces unsubscribes and complaints rather than orders. For campaigns tied to a same-day promotion we also check the window against dispatch cut-offs, so the message does not promise something the warehouse cannot ship.

Retention is one of the services least affected by the gap, because almost all of it is built and scheduled in advance rather than reacted to. Campaign calendars are agreed a month out, flows are built and tested asynchronously, and sends are scheduled to Australian local time regardless of when we press the button. The one thing we plan around is peak: anything needing a same-day decision in late December gets a pre-agreed rule so nobody is waiting seventeen hours for approval.

Twenty-five to forty percent is the healthy band for most DTC brands. Consumables and subscription categories run higher; considered one-off purchases sit lower. If you are under 15%, the gap is almost always missing flows and unsegmented sending rather than the size of your list.

It is our default, because the Shopify integration goes deeper than anything else on the market: real order and browse events, native profile properties and predictive fields you can segment on directly. We also run Postscript and Attentive for SMS. If you are on Mailchimp or Omnisend we will usually recommend migrating, and we will run that migration.

The first four flows are live inside three weeks and start earning immediately, because they trigger off traffic you already have. The full lifecycle build takes six to eight weeks. Owned revenue share typically moves materially by month three.
Next step

Klaviyo Email & SMS for your Sydney brand.

Thirty minutes with the strategist who would actually run your account. We screen-share your store, read your data live, and tell you the three highest-value things we can see from the outside.

Shopify or Shopify Plus stores doing $150k/mo or moreFounder, CEO or eCommerce lead on the callNo deck and no pitch — we open your store instead

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