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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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