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  "headline": "Active customers grew 23% in first public earnings, via Modern Retail.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · DTC retention at scale · Reformation\n\nActive customers grew 23% in first public earnings, via Modern Retail.\n\nWhen Reformation went public, everyone asked about growth rate and market share. The number that should have caught your eye was active customers. It means the flywheel works—people buy, stay, and buy again. That's the opposite of the venture-backed playbook where you burn capital to acquire at all costs. Reformation proved that a brand with a coherent point of view and clean execution can grow its base of repeat buyers. If you're building a DTC brand, that's the metric that matters when you're small. Count who comes back, not who clicks.\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-2026-09-16t15-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/reformation-2026-09-16t15-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/reformation-2026-09-16t15-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · DTC retention at scale · Reformation\n\nActive customers grew 23% in first public earnings, via Modern Retail.\n\nWhen Reformation went public, everyone asked about growth rate and market share. The number that should have caught your eye was active customers. It means the flywheel works—people buy, stay, and buy again. That's the opposite of the venture-backed playbook where you burn capital to acquire at all costs. Reformation proved that a brand with a coherent point of view and clean execution can grow its base of repeat buyers. If you're building a DTC brand, that's the metric that matters when you're small. Count who comes back, not who clicks.\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-2026-09-16t15-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/reformation-2026-09-16t15-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/reformation-2026-09-16t15-1",
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      "title": "Active customers grew 23% in first public earnings, via Modern Retail.",
      "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's first earnings as a public company reported 23% growth in active customers, per Modern Retail, signaling that their direct-to-consumer model sustains repeat buying at institutional scale.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): active customers are not 'engaged followers' or email subscribers—they are buyers who have returned. Reformation's model builds on community, not campaigns. The lever is retention baked into the product story (sustainability, fit, price point) rather than paid spend chasing new names. For a physical-product brand, measure active customer growth, not traffic. Track repurchase rate as your north star and build every touchpoint (packaging, email, social proof) around making the second order feel inevitable rather than optional.\nWhat that means for you: When Reformation went public, everyone asked about growth rate and market share. The number that should have caught your eye was active customers. It means the flywheel works—people buy, stay, and buy again. That's the opposite of the venture-backed playbook where you burn capital to acquire at all costs. Reformation proved that a brand with a coherent point of view and clean execution can grow its base of repeat buyers. If you're building a DTC brand, that's the metric that matters when you're small. Count who comes back, not who clicks.\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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