
Email Attribution Without Fooling Yourself
Email attribution is a set of choices, not a measurement. Making the choices explicit is what separates a number you can act on from one you argue about.
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Email attribution is a set of choices, not a measurement. Making the choices explicit is what separates a number you can act on from one you argue about.

The famous $36-to-$1 figure is a survey average, not your number. Here is how to calculate email ROI in a way that would survive a finance review.
Revenue per email is campaign revenue divided by delivered emails. Here is the correct formula, realistic benchmark bands by campaign type, how to decompose RPE into levers you can pull, attribution pitfalls, and the decisions the metric should drive.
Six email attribution models compared side by side, why email is systematically undercredited in last-click reporting, how to set an attribution window that matches your sales cycle, and why open-based attribution no longer works. Includes holdout testing as the reality check on any model.