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The E-commerce Matchmaker: A Playbook for Vetting Authentic Influencers

Your e-commerce brand is investing in influencer marketing, but the returns are unpredictable. You're struggling to identify influencers with genuine engagement, spot fake followers, and ensure their audience truly matches your ideal customer. This uncertainty leads to wasted budget, skewed performance data, and campaigns that fail to drive real sales.

This playbook implements 'The E-commerce Matchmaker' stack, a powerful system to streamline your entire influencer marketing workflow. We'll use Airtable as a central database to vet, manage, and track influencer relationships. Later will help you analyze their content and audience for brand fit, while Klaviyo closes the loop by tracking campaign performance with unique affiliate codes. The result is a scalable process for finding authentic influencers who drive measurable ROI.

Expected Outcomes

  • Eliminate marketing spend on influencers with fake followers or misaligned audiences.
  • Accurately measure the ROI of each influencer campaign using hard sales data.
  • Build a scalable, in-house system for vetting and managing influencer relationships.
  • Ensure influencer partnerships are authentic and align with your brand's values.
  • Create a trusted database of high-performing influencers for future campaigns.

Core Tools in This Stack

Klaviyo

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Klaviyo is an intelligent marketing automation platform that unifies customer data to help e-commerce brands deliver personalized experiences through email, SMS, and mobile push notifications.

Key Features
  • Email & SMS Automation (Flows)
  • Advanced Segmentation
  • Personalization Engine
  • Predictive Analytics & Reporting
  • A/B Testing
  • Dynamic Forms & Pop-ups
  • Deep E-commerce Integrations (Shopify, BigCommerce, etc.)
  • Unified Customer Data Platform (CDP)
Ideal For

Company Size: Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Retail & E-commerce, Health & Wellness, Creative & Media

Pricing

Model: Freemium, Subscription, Usage-Based

Tier: Medium

Ease of Use

Medium

Later

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Later is an all-in-one social marketing platform focused on visual scheduling. It helps users plan, analyze, and publish content across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and YouTube, featuring tools like a visual planner, AI caption writer, and a customizable link-in-bio page.

Key Features
  • Visual First Content Calendar
  • Drag-and-Drop Scheduler
  • Linkin.bio for driving traffic and sales
  • AI Caption Writer
  • Best Time to Post Recommendations
  • In-depth Social Media Analytics
  • User-Generated Content (UGC) Collection
  • Multi-platform support (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube)
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Retail & E-commerce, Creative & Media, Business & Professional Services, Health & Wellness, Technology & Software, Education & Non-Profit

Pricing

Model: Freemium, Subscription

Tier: Low-to-Mid

Ease of Use

User-friendly

Airtable

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Airtable is a flexible low-code platform that combines the simplicity of a spreadsheet with the power of a database, enabling teams to build custom applications and manage complex workflows without coding.

Key Features
  • Flexible Views (Grid, Kanban, Calendar, Gantt, Timeline)
  • Customizable Interfaces
  • Built-in Automations
  • Relational Database Functionality
  • App Integrations
  • Airtable AI
  • Real-time Collaboration
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Technology & Software, Business & Professional Services, Retail & E-commerce, Creative & Media, Education & Non-Profit, Other

Pricing

Model: Free, Subscription, Enterprise

Tier: Paid

Ease of Use

User-Friendly

The Workflow

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Integration Logic

  • Klaviyo Influencer Profile Sync

    This integration triggers when a record is created or updated in a designated Airtable 'Influencers' base. It first searches Klaviyo for a profile using the influencer's email from Airtable. If a profile exists, it's updated; otherwise, a new one is created. Key data like name, social handles, and custom fields (e.g., 'Discount Code', 'Tier') are mapped from Airtable to Klaviyo custom properties. The integration then uses the influencer's social handle to search for their recent media items in Later. For each post found, it creates a custom event in the corresponding Klaviyo profile, such as 'Posted Sponsored Content,' including details like the post URL, caption, and performance metrics.

Find Your Authentic Influencer Match

Stop wasting your budget and learn to vet partners who drive real e-commerce sales.