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How Create Got an 18% Sign-Up Rate and Captured 200% More Signups with Alia’s Optimized Popups

Create, the wellness brand behind creatine gummies, needed a popup solution that could scale with its growth and convert high-value traffic. After switching from Amped to Alia, Create achieved an 18% email sign-up rate and captured 200% more signups through optimized landing page popups.

18%
Email sign-up rate
+200%
Increase in signups from landing pages
80% traffic unlocked
By reintroducing popups on landing pages
Seamless migration
Hands-on support ensured easy transition

The transition process could not have been easier! The team at Alia was great at managing the process and worked with myself and our designer to make sure everything was looking and sounding like we wanted it to.”

TL;DR

The Full Story in 60 Seconds

Challenges

  • Create struggled with email list growth using Amped’s limited popup features.
  • Their previous popup strategy was affecting conversion rates, forcing the team to avoid showing popups on landing pages.
  • The lack of proper popup segmentation and timing left 80% of potential traffic untapped.

Solution

  • Alia’s optimized popups offered a seamless solution tailored to Create’s conversion goals.
  • Popups that focused on capturing their customer’s intent helped better segmentation and personalize welcome flows.
  • Our team’s hands-on support made implementation and ongoing optimization easy for the team.

Results

  • After switching to Alia (from Amped), Create achieved an 18% email sign-up rate.
  • Captured 200% more signups through landing page popups without negatively impacting the conversion rate.
  • Maintained strong engagement despite increasing traffic volume.

Switching to Alia was a seamless experience, and we’ve never looked back. Their optimized popups have not only improved our opt-in rates but also allowed us to better engage and segment our audience with ease.

Margaret Fortner
SVP of Marketing at Create Wellness

CHALLENGES

Struggling with limited popup functionality and missed traffic opportunities.

Before switching to Alia, Create relied on Amped for email opt-ins. However, as the brand grew, the platform's limitations became increasingly apparent.

We found our previous popups to be so disruptive from a conversion rate standpoint to customers that we didn’t even surface them to people coming in from ads on landing pages.

Since ads were Create’s primary traffic source, not showing popups on landing pages meant leaving 80% of potential signups untapped. Plus, Amped was not flexible enough to create tailored strategies for different traffic sources.

Not having segmentation options like time-delayed popups and custom audience lists limited Create’s ability to maximize engagement.

To make matters worse, the team faced operational disruptions following Amped’s acquisition by Mailchimp.

With limited tools and no effective solution in sight, Create struggled to grow its email list effectively and saw slow opt-in rates during this period.

It wasn’t super easy to create a nuanced, separate strategy between landing page popups and normal site popups.
Margaret Fortner
SVP of Marketing at Create Wellness

SOLUTION

Driving engagement and sign-ups with Alia’s optimized popups

Create needed a solution to improve their previous popup strategy and capture email sign-ups effectively without disrupting the customer experience. After testing other options, the company chose Alia for its seamless implementation and powerful tools.

We’re capturing intent, which then helps us create a more nuanced split within our welcome flow for customers.

Here's what made the difference:

Alia’s popups engaged visitors in a more personalized way. Capturing customer intent directly within the popup lets the team craft an accurate and detailed segmentation strategy that refines personalized welcome flows.

One of the standout benefits was Alia’s ready-to-use features that minimized the workload for Create’s small team.

Alia also addressed Create’s need for better support during the transition and beyond. The team at Alia provided hands-on guidance, ensuring that the switch was smooth and effective.

With Alia’s tools and dedicated support, Create successfully deployed a new popup strategy that captured more sign-ups while maintaining a positive user experience.

Switching to Alia was a seamless experience, and we’ve never looked back.
Margaret Fortner
SVP of Marketing at Create Wellness

200% More Signups & Sustained
18% Opt-In Rate

Key Performance Metrics

Email Opt-In Rate

18% sustained

Landing Page Signups:

+200% increase

Traffic Conversion:

80% more traffic captured with popups

Engagement

Improved flows maintained high conversion even with increased traffic

Our sign-up rate has gone up to 18%, and we’ve maintained a strong opt-in rate on our customer acquisition landing pages, which isn’t always the case.”

Additional Benefits

  • Segmentation unlocked: Intent-driven popups improved targeting
  • Operational relief: Alia team handled ongoing optimization
  • User-friendly: Attractive, easy-to-engage popups lifted conversions
  • Scalable: Strategy positioned Create for continued growth

“A lot of times you see those rates drop as you increase volume, so even sustaining would’ve been great. But we’ve seen a bit of an improvement too. [...] It’s an attractive popup that’s easy to engage with. Customers are willing to take that additional step of giving that information prior to submitting email.”

Switching to Alia was a seamless experience, and we’ve never looked back. Their optimized popups have not only improved our opt-in rates but also allowed us to better engage and segment our audience with ease.

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