It turns out that having an email list has a forty-fold impact on your bottom line. Yes, you read that right. According to a 2014 study by McKinsey and Company, for every dollar you put into email marketing you get back forty dollars more than you would through Facebook, Instagram, and almost every other marketing channel. Forty times more revenue! And according to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), for every $1 marketers spend on email, the average ROI is $44.