Email Economics: Maximizing Return Across the Retention Funnel
Email marketing remains the highest-yielding revenue engine for e-commerce, SaaS nurture cycles, and digital creators, monetizing an owned audience free from third-party ad network algorithm shifts.
1. Core Email Funnel Metrics
- Click-to-Open Rate (CTOR):
Clicks / Opens × 100 - Revenue per Email (RPE):
Gross Campaign Revenue / Delivered Emails - Return on Investment (ROI):
(Revenue − Total Cost) / Total Cost × 100 - Funnel Yield:
Subscribers × Open Rate × CTR × Conversion Rate × AOV
2. Three Vectors to Drive Higher Campaign Margins
Expand revenue through systematic subject-line split testing (lifting top-of-funnel open rates), hyper-targeted segmentation (boosting CTOR), and automated abandoned cart & browse triggers.