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Are you tracking the value of your subscribers?
Here's a simple formula
📩 What’s an email subscriber really worth to your business?
Most marketers obsess over list growth...
But the smart ones?
They focus on the metric that actually drives profitable growth: Subscriber Value.
Here’s the formula top email marketers use:
Subscriber Value = (Revenue Per Campaign × Campaign Frequency) × Retention Rate
Let’s break it down with real numbers 👇
Average campaign generates $2.75 per subscriber
You send 6 campaigns per month = 72 per year
Subscriber retention rate = 78%
That’s:
(2.75 × 72) × 0.78 = $154.44 per subscriber per year
With just 25,000 active subscribers, your email list is generating $3.86 million/year in value! 🤯
Why This Changes Everything
Once you know your true subscriber value, you can scale smarter.
If each subscriber brings in $154.44/year, you could spend up to $128.70 to acquire one and still keep a 20% profit margin.
Meanwhile, others are stuck with arbitrary $5 limits… choking growth before it even starts.
👉 Stop guessing. Start calculating.
Best,
Alec
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