Data & Personalisation

Quiz Funnels: Diagnose The Problem, Recommend The Product.

Dan, Co-Founder · 3 Jun 2026 · 4 min read

TL;DR: A short quiz turns signup into a consultation: the visitor tells you their problem, you answer with a product, and the data powers everything after.

From the audit vault: From audits of a food club, a trade catalogue retailer and a craft-kit brand: each had a wide range of buyer types that a generic signup flattened into one anonymous list.

Why quizzes work

A quiz reframes signup from “join our newsletter” to “get a recommendation”. The visitor invests two or three answers, you reciprocate with a personal result, and the exchange feels like service rather than capture. Opt-in rates rise because the visitor gets something specific.

Design it backwards from the messaging

Decide what you want to say in emails first, then ask only the questions that unlock it. A taste profile for a food brand, a room and style for homeware, a buyer type for a trade retailer with corporate and individual customers. Two or three steps, never ten.

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Wire the answers into profiles

The quiz is worthless if answers die in the quiz tool. Every response should land as a profile property in Klaviyo, so flows can branch on it: the recommendation email, the welcome journey, the campaigns that follow. That plumbing is the whole point.

Ship this

Frame signup as a recommendation, not a subscription.

Ask only what the messaging plan needs; two or three steps.

Sync every answer to Klaviyo profile properties or it never happened.

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