DOC. ECOMMERCE EMAIL AGENCY
For Ecommerce & DTC Brands

Ecommerce email marketing agency. Built for revenue, not opens.

We are an ecommerce email marketing agency built for one thing: revenue. Founded in 2017 by an aeronautical engineer, an official Klaviyo and Omnisend partner, ecommerce only, and responsible for $250M+ in attributed email and SMS revenue across 800+ DTC brands. A generalist sets up email to look busy. We set it up to earn.

/ Free Audit

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Drop your store URL and email. We'll show you where your email revenue is leaking and send a written 90-day roadmap within 24 hours. No obligation.

Trusted by 800+ brands

/ The numbers

SPEC.01

$250M+

attributed email + SMS revenue

SPEC.02

800+

DTC & ecommerce brands

SPEC.03

Partner

official Klaviyo partner agency

SPEC.04

EST. 2017

aeronautical-engineer founded

SHEET A / COMPARISON SIDE-BY-SIDE
The Wedge

How we work vs. how creative agencies work

A heavily designed email can take around 30 hours to produce and gets called "elevated content." In our experience, a conversion-engineered email takes about 4 hours and gets the click. The difference shows up in your revenue, not your inbox.

Other agencies

They decorate.

  • The goal A beautiful email worth showcasing in their portfolio
  • The metric Open rate, "engagement," brand consistency
  • The email Image-heavy, scrollable, multi-section, designer-approved typography
  • A/B testing Subject lines, occasionally
  • The reporting Monthly engagement deck with vanity metrics
  • Hours per email Around 30 hours of design work
  • What you get A pretty inbox
CORRECT ANSWER

Email Optimize

We engineer.

  • The goal The click and the sale. Pretty isn't a goal.
  • The metric Revenue per recipient, attributed orders, flow contribution %
  • The email One message, one CTA, mostly text, built for inbox placement
  • A/B testing Subject + send time + flow architecture + segment + offer
  • The reporting Live revenue dashboard. Klaviyo access. Monthly written read-out.
  • Hours per email About 4 hours of engineering, not 30 of decoration
  • What you get Email + SMS growing as a share of revenue (Popl: under 20% to 50-60%)

If you've been told email is supposed to look like a landing page, you've been sold a billable hour, not a revenue strategy.

Why pretty emails lose: read the manifesto
Why ecommerce only

Why ecommerce email marketing is its own discipline.

Ecommerce email is a different sport. A generalist agency optimises for open rates and weekly newsletters. An ecommerce email marketing agency optimises for revenue per recipient, predicted customer lifetime value, replenishment timing, and the gap between an abandoned cart sequence built on real checkout behaviour and a single reminder. Klaviyo's 2026 benchmarks, drawn from more than 183,000 customers, show automated flows generate nearly 41% of email revenue from just 5.3% of sends (source). That is where ecommerce email is won or lost, and it is exactly what a newsletter agency ignores.

The platform you build on, the data you feed it and the flow logic you wire up are not interchangeable with B2B nurture or creator newsletters. They are their own discipline. We picked it and went deep.

01

Klaviyo-first, by design

Klaviyo is the ecommerce email and SMS standard, so most of our programs run on it: its predictive analytics, its product-event triggers, its native Shopify integration. Where Klaviyo is the wrong fit, we build on Omnisend instead.

02

Ecommerce only, by choice

Every flow, segment and campaign we build is calibrated to product-purchase behaviour. We don't do lead generation, B2B nurture or creator newsletters. The narrowness is the value.

03

Revenue-first reporting

We report revenue per recipient, attributed orders and flow contribution. Open rate is a leading indicator, not the scoreboard.

04

Built to compound

Email isn't a one-time project. Every retainer includes monthly flow iteration, campaign optimisation and segment refinement. The asset compounds.

Procedure

How an engagement runs.

From audit to compounding revenue. Same four stages every engagement, fixed scope at each one, nothing hidden.

  1. 01 AUDIT

    Audit

    Free audit of your current Klaviyo (or other ESP) account: revenue gaps, deliverability issues, broken flows and segmentation blind spots, with a written 90-day roadmap within 24 hours of access.

  2. 02 SETUP

    Setup or rebuild

    Foundational work: account architecture, integrations, authentication and list hygiene. Or a done-for-you migration if you are leaving Mailchimp, Omnisend or another ESP.

  3. 03 BUILD

    Flow engineering

    Welcome, abandoned cart, browse abandonment, post-purchase, replenishment, win-back and VIP. Built for your purchase cycle and product mix.

  4. 04 COMPOUND

    Compound

    Monthly campaign sends, A/B testing, segment refinement and flow iteration, judged every month on revenue per recipient.

SHEET F / MISSION REPORTS DECLASSIFIED
Receipts

Three brands. Receipts.

Selected from 800+ engagements. The brief, the intervention, the number that moved.

CASE 01 Singapore

Better Body Co.

/ Health & Supplements

20–25%

of revenue from email (from 10%)

/ Brief

Email at 10% of revenue. Inflection point looming.

/ Intervention

Stripped flow architecture. Rebuilt around purchase behaviour. 3-month consulting program with 10+ person in-house team.

Read the Better Body Co. case study
CASE 02 United States · YC

Popl

/ NFC Tech

50–60%

of revenue from email + SMS

/ Brief

Email + SMS stuck under 20%. Y-Combinator scaling pressure.

/ Intervention

Separated B2B and B2C journeys. Fixed deliverability fundamentals. Removed visual noise from every flow over 21 months.

Read the Popl case study
CASE 03 United States · INC 5000 #461

Relaxium

/ Supplements

+$3M

incremental email + SMS

/ Brief

INC 5000 brand, 1,040% growth over 3 years. Email lagging.

/ Intervention

Ongoing Head of Retention Marketing role. Plain-aesthetic emails, instrumented architecture, monthly tested cadence.

Read the Relaxium case study

/ More case studies in the archive

See all mission reports
Pricing

What an ecommerce email marketing agency costs.

Published ranges, because "contact us for pricing" is not an answer. Three ways in, no hourly billing, no lock-in. Published ranges are in USD. The only number that matters is incremental email and SMS revenue against the fee.

EngagementPriceWhat you getTerms
Free auditFreeAccount, flow, deliverability and segmentation review, with a written 90-day roadmap.Within 24 hours of access. No commitment.
Project$3-15K USDKlaviyo setup, migration, flow library rebuild or deliverability fix.Fixed scope and a single fee agreed upfront. 1-6 weeks typical.
RetainerTypically $3-12K USD a monthFull management of your email and SMS program, scoped to your volume.Month-to-month, 30-day notice. Built for brands at $500K+ a year.

What a retainer includes

  • Full ownership of the email and SMS program
  • Monthly campaign calendar and execution
  • Flow optimisation and split testing
  • Segmentation and predictive analytics
  • Deliverability monitoring and maintenance
  • Monthly reporting: revenue per recipient, flow contribution, list growth
  • Weekly check-ins and a dedicated Slack channel
  • Quarterly strategic reviews

Your Klaviyo subscription is billed by Klaviyo, priced on active profiles, and sits outside our fee. Some agencies publish lower entry points for production-only work; others start higher for enterprise programs. Whoever you hire, get the scope in writing: campaigns a month, flows built or optimised, whether SMS is in, and how results are reported.

See every engagement type on the pricing page, compare the market in our email marketing agency pricing guide, or check what the platform itself costs in Klaviyo pricing.

Where we work

An Australian email marketing agency, Adelaide HQ.

Australia is home. Email Optimize is headquartered in Adelaide, so Australian brands get local business hours, calendars built for the Australian retail year and Spam Act 2003 compliance by default. The same team runs Klaviyo programs for US and UK ecommerce brands, on their hours. Same engineering discipline everywhere; the calendar, the compliance rules and the business hours change by market. Running Klaviyo in Australia? See our Klaviyo agency for Australian brands.

Shopify and Klaviyo

Shopify email marketing on Klaviyo.

On Shopify, Klaviyo is the default for a reason. Its native Shopify integration syncs orders, checkouts, customer profiles and the product catalog, and with onsite tracking installed, product views. That data is what flows and segments run on.

Connecting it is one click. Connecting it properly is where brands quietly lose value. We set Shopify stores up on Klaviyo, or on Omnisend where it fits better, and we are an official partner of both. Leaving Shopify Email, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, MailerLite or HubSpot? We run done-for-you Klaviyo migrations with deliverability protected through the cutover.

Start with a Klaviyo setup or a free Klaviyo audit, read about our Klaviyo agency work, or meet the Klaviyo experts on the team. Running Omnisend? See our Omnisend agency page. The integration detail is in our guide to connecting Klaviyo to Shopify, and our ranking of the best Shopify email marketing agencies shows how we compare.

What we check on every Shopify store

01

Onsite tracking firing

Without it you get orders but no product views, which means no browse abandonment flow and weaker segments.

02

Order history backfilled

Profiles carry real purchase history before the first flow goes live, so segments work on day one.

03

Cart flow on the right event

Started Checkout, in most stores, so the flow reaches people who were really in checkout.

04

Catalog synced, domain authenticated

Dynamic product blocks that show the actual product, sent from a branded domain that passes DMARC.

Choosing an agency

How to choose an ecommerce email marketing agency.

Every email marketing agency says it is strategic and data-driven. None of that is checkable. Ask for receipts instead: revenue per recipient before and after for a client like you, three named clients in your category, the name of the person who will run your account and how many other accounts they carry, and what they fix in the first 30 days. If the first answer is a template redesign, keep looking.

Our receipts: $250M+ in attributed email and SMS revenue across 800+ ecommerce brands since 2017, and named case studies with Relaxium, Popl and Better Body Co. We are not the right email marketing agency for everyone, so we ranked twelve of them, ourselves included, with the brand profile each one fits best.

Read: the best email marketing agencies for ecommerce, ranked →

SHEET E / FIELD NOTESRECEIVED
Field notes

What clients radio in.
Verbatim.

Real results from real brands, in their own words. Auto-scrolling because there are too many to fit.

"$750k generated from email marketing since October 25th last year. A huge thanks to Pete Devkota for taking over and doing what he does best!"
PC

Patch Cooper

Ecommerce Brand Owner

"Thanks for helping us out with the klaviyo thing... Ended the year 2021 at $100m SGD"
JS

Joel Sim

Founder, Better Body Co.

"Awesome! I'm going to start calling you Mr. Director of Marketing (though you're completely over qualified)"
JM

Juliet Morgan

CMO, Relaxium

"$750k generated from email marketing since October 25th last year. A huge thanks to Pete Devkota for taking over and doing what he does best!"
PC

Patch Cooper

Ecommerce Brand Owner

"Thanks for helping us out with the klaviyo thing... Ended the year 2021 at $100m SGD"
JS

Joel Sim

Founder, Better Body Co.

"Awesome! I'm going to start calling you Mr. Director of Marketing (though you're completely over qualified)"
JM

Juliet Morgan

CMO, Relaxium

Common questions

Ecommerce email marketing agency FAQs.

Q.01 What does an ecommerce email marketing agency actually do? +

/ Answer

An ecommerce email marketing agency builds and runs the email and SMS systems that earn a share of your store's revenue: flow automation (welcome, abandoned cart, post-purchase, win-back), weekly campaign sends, list growth, deliverability and reporting. How big that share gets depends on the brand. Better Body Co. moved email from 10% to 20-25% of revenue after a 3-month consulting engagement with us; Popl moved email and SMS from under 20% to 50-60% over 21 months.

Q.02 Why only ecommerce, instead of every industry? +

/ Answer

Ecommerce email is a different job from B2B or content email. Triggered flows around purchase behaviour, predicted customer lifetime value, replenishment timing and product-level segmentation are the levers that move ecommerce revenue, and they take deep platform fluency and category judgement. Generalists optimise for opens. We optimise for revenue per recipient.

Q.03 Which platform do you build on? +

/ Answer

Klaviyo for most brands, and Omnisend where it is the better fit for the store’s size, team or budget. We are an official partner of both. Knowing two platforms deeply produces better outcomes than knowing ten shallowly. For regulated categories, we check your catalogue against both platforms’ policies and get the platform’s sign-off in writing before we build: Klaviyo prohibits pharmaceutical products on every channel, and Omnisend’s policy prohibits prescription medications, including drugs sold for research purposes. If you are on Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign or another ESP, we run a done-for-you migration as part of the engagement.

Q.04 How quickly will I see revenue results? +

/ Answer

Fixes come in order: deliverability first, then the flows that carry the most revenue, then campaigns. A repaired flow starts earning as soon as it is live, because it runs on traffic you already have. The compounding effect takes 90 to 180 days, as flows mature, segments are refined and campaign cadence settles. You see revenue per recipient in the monthly report from month one, so you can judge the direction yourself.

Q.05 What size brands do you work with? +

/ Answer

We work with ecommerce brands typically doing $500K to $50M+ in annual revenue. Below that, the value of a senior team is harder to justify; above $50M, the work usually warrants a dedicated in-house retention lead with us as a strategic partner rather than a full-service agency.

Q.06 How is pricing structured? +

/ Answer

Projects for defined deliverables, then a monthly retainer for ongoing work. The audit is free. Setups, migrations, flow rebuilds and deliverability fixes are fixed-scope projects with a single fee agreed upfront. Ongoing flow optimisation and campaign management is a monthly retainer, month-to-month with 30-day notice. We do not bill by the hour. The free audit comes back with a specific scope and price within 24 hours.

Q.07 How much does an ecommerce email marketing agency cost? +

/ Answer

Ours: the audit is free, one-off projects such as setups, migrations and flow rebuilds run $3-15K USD depending on scope, and retainers typically run $3-12K USD a month for ecommerce brands, depending on flows, campaign volume, SMS and list size. Published ranges are in USD. Some agencies publish lower entry points for production-only work; others start higher for enterprise programs. Budget separately for your Klaviyo subscription, which Klaviyo prices on active profiles. The only number that matters is incremental email and SMS revenue against the fee.

Q.08 Do you work with ecommerce brands in the US, UK and Australia? +

/ Answer

Yes. We are headquartered in Adelaide and work with Australian brands in local business hours, with US brands in US business hours, and with UK brands through the UK morning overlap plus overnight delivery. Compliance defaults are set per market: the Spam Act 2003 in Australia, CAN-SPAM and state privacy laws like CCPA in the US, and UK GDPR and PECR in the UK.

Q.09 Is email marketing still worth it in 2026? +

/ Answer

For ecommerce, yes. Email and SMS reach customers you already paid to acquire, without paying again for every click. Klaviyo’s 2026 benchmarks, drawn from more than 183,000 customers, show automated flows generate nearly 41% of email revenue from just 5.3% of sends. What has stopped working is lazy email. Since February 2024 Gmail and Yahoo have required bulk senders to authenticate, offer one-click unsubscribe and keep spam complaints low, so full-list blasts to people who never open get filtered. Email built on flows, segments and clean sending is worth more than it was. A weekly newsletter to everyone is worth less.

Q.10 What is the 80/20 rule in email marketing? +

/ Answer

It is the Pareto principle, named after the economist Vilfredo Pareto, applied to email: a minority of causes tends to produce most of the results. In an ecommerce account that usually means a minority of subscribers, your engaged buyers and repeat customers, produce most of the email revenue, so you segment and protect them before you optimise sends to the whole list. Some marketers use the same label for content mix: mostly useful or entertaining emails, with a smaller share of direct selling. Either way, 80/20 is a rule of thumb, not a measured ratio. Pull revenue by customer from your own account to see your real split.

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