Customer Journey Mapping: Klaviyo + LinkedIn Ads
What do customers do before they call or book? askotter reads Klaviyo and LinkedIn Ads together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does customer journey mapping with Klaviyo and LinkedIn Ads work for a small business?
askotter reads Klaviyo and LinkedIn Ads side by side so it can map the path customers take across your accounts. The whole path in one view, with every visit and decision point on it.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From Klaviyo
- Campaign performance, Flow and automation data, Subscriber segments.
- From LinkedIn Ads
- Campaign performance, Audience demographics, Lead gen form data.
- Status
- Klaviyo and LinkedIn Ads are on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Klaviyo or LinkedIn Ads. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
What do customers do before they call or book?
On paper the path is simple: someone sees an ad, visits the site and books. In real life they search twice, read reviews and come back days later on a different phone. Each tool sees only its own piece.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Klaviyo and LinkedIn Ads side by side, so it can map the path customers take across your accounts.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our email marketing work.
How Klaviyo and LinkedIn Ads records line up
Klaviyo and LinkedIn Ads both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
Klaviyo and LinkedIn Ads both keep the UTM source, medium and campaign values from the visit, so activity lines up campaign by campaign even when no single person can be matched.
Shared between the two: the customer email address and the UTM campaign tags.
What customer journey mapping uses from each
Customer journey mapping needs the order of events for one person.
From Klaviyo that means flow and campaign messages received by each profile. From LinkedIn Ads it means the campaign and creative each lead responded to.
Klaviyo and LinkedIn Ads are on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
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Klaviyo on its own
Klaviyo sees who received, opened and clicked. It credits revenue by its own attribution window and cannot see sales that happen off the store it is connected to.
Timing. Klaviyo logs sends, opens and clicks as events. Apple Mail Privacy Protection preloads images, so open counts run high and clicks are the steadier signal.
Access. A Klaviyo private API key with read-only scopes.
LinkedIn Ads on its own
LinkedIn sees clicks, lead-form submissions and the companies it reached. It never sees whether a lead became a deal.
Timing. LinkedIn reports conversions under its own windows, thirty days after a click and seven after a view by default.
Access. The LinkedIn Marketing API with read access to the ad account.
Related guides
- Connecting Klaviyo and Google Ads: What It Is For. The integration is easy. Knowing which audiences to build, and what to do with them, is the part that produces returns.
- LinkedIn Ads and HubSpot Attribution: Why the Numbers Disagree. HubSpot and LinkedIn are both reporting honestly. They just count different events over different windows.
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Questions about Klaviyo + LinkedIn Ads
Do I need a developer to connect Klaviyo and LinkedIn Ads?
How is askotter's Customer Journey Mapping different from what Klaviyo shows on its own?
Klaviyo + LinkedIn Ads is coming soon
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