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  "company": "Reformation",
  "headline": "Active customers grew 23% in first public earnings report.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Direct-to-consumer retention and scale · Reformation\n\nActive customers grew 23% in first public earnings report.\n\nMost DTC founders hide their churn and hype their vanity metrics. Reformation flipped it: they made retention the headline number. That move—just picking the right metric and owning it—shifts how a team allocates every dollar. If your dashboard says '23% growth in repeat customers,' you don't spend on paid acquisition the way you do if it says 'revenue up 15%.' The metric IS the strategy.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/reformation-2026-09-16t18-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/reformation-2026-09-16t18-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/reformation-2026-09-16t18-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Direct-to-consumer retention and scale · Reformation\n\nActive customers grew 23% in first public earnings report.\n\nMost DTC founders hide their churn and hype their vanity metrics. Reformation flipped it: they made retention the headline number. That move—just picking the right metric and owning it—shifts how a team allocates every dollar. If your dashboard says '23% growth in repeat customers,' you don't spend on paid acquisition the way you do if it says 'revenue up 15%.' The metric IS the strategy.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/reformation-2026-09-16t18-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/reformation-2026-09-16t18-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/reformation-2026-09-16t18-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Direct-to-consumer retention and scale · Reformation\n\nActive customers grew 23% in first public earnings report.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/reformation-2026-09-16t18-1",
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      "title": "Active customers grew 23% in first public earnings report.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nReformation reported a 23% increase in active customers in its first public earnings statement, per Modern Retail, demonstrating measurable cohort growth tied to DTC strategy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): measure and report active-customer growth the way SaaS reports MAU. It reframes the business from transaction-volume to relationship-volume. Run a cohort-retention dashboard in your email platform and publish the active-customer count (not revenue) in your monthly investor update or founder memo. This forces you to build for repeat, not splash.\nWhat that means for you: Most DTC founders hide their churn and hype their vanity metrics. Reformation flipped it: they made retention the headline number. That move—just picking the right metric and owning it—shifts how a team allocates every dollar. If your dashboard says '23% growth in repeat customers,' you don't spend on paid acquisition the way you do if it says 'revenue up 15%.' The metric IS the strategy.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Modern Retail: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiswFBVV95cUxPMG5DZ3VMN1E1Z2hTdXNSUFl5LW8yc3kzZ0d1N3ZoRGpJby0yWDQtc1NNYTE4cE1FT2k2R1o5RkJtTndmSmptbFRLU3poWUZzWFZrVWhwQlpaVG1zMW44RDJvMng0T3JMcXgya3gwTVlJUmQ0NUZsN0dlOHU5ZnlNRkF0Ri1lZHdsT1FXX1hNYkU1aEUzcGo2Vjh3WHRhcEdoaUdPVUhYZlFWMi1pN2EwS3hoRQ?oc=5.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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