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How to Calculate & Maintain a Healthy Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

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Here’s how you calculate LTV: [ARPC (Average Revenue Per Customer in a Month) X Gross Margin] / MRR Churn Rate. Most businesses track it on a monthly basis for both customers (Customer Churn Rate) and monthly recurring revenue (MRR Churn Rate). You’ll find examples of using both customer and MRR churn rates.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

This is misleading because in a recurring revenue model, Customer A is much more valuable to the business (assuming typical churn rates) as they will likely generate $360,000 of revenue for the business with renewals over that same three year period. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue. Philippe Botteri.