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

ConversionXL

Cost of software/hardware used in sales and marketing Agency, PR, or any third-party costs involved in sales and marketing. Here’s how you calculate LTV: [ARPC (Average Revenue Per Customer in a Month) X Gross Margin] / MRR Churn Rate. Note that LTV/CAC ratios can fluctuate month on month due to specific investments.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

In product business it is often measured over multiple purchases and assumptions are made about the repeat rates and in the enterprise or services world LTV can be based on churn rates, which are notoriously hard to predict in an early-stage business. Poorly calculated LTVs can become BVs (bankruptcy values). That bit is easy.

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How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness

ConversionXL

Measuring customer acquisition for peak effectiveness How to calculate ecommerce customer acquisition cost Calculate much your customers are worth: LTV MRR, churn rates, and other factors that affect your LTV/CAC ratios Find and fix customer acquisition funnel leaks 5 customer acquisition strategies to increase sales and loyalty (with examples) 1.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born. Using my existing skills and resources (including an old domain name), I tested a productized digital PR offer. About 18 months later, we pivoted our messaging to evolve beyond digital PR. Churn rate was high for a service that many organizations saw as a “nice to have.”

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Twitter Link Roundup #155 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

6 Ways You Can Improve Churn Rate and Increase Revenue | KISSmetrics blog - [link]. 6 Ways You Can Improve Churn Rate and Increase Revenue | KISSmetrics blog - [link]. Why a jewelry startup had to build enterprise software to survive - [link]. Software that keeps an eye on Grandma - [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #199 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. 6 Ideas to Reduce Your Product’s Churn Rate We Found to Work - crowdspring.co/1grCDHI. 6 Ideas to Reduce Your Product’s Churn Rate We Found to Work - crowdspring.co/1grCDHI. crowdspring.co/19IC5KK.

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Transforming Marketing With Artificial Intelligence

Duct Tape Marketing

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! He's the founder and CEO of marketing AI Institute, founder of PR 2020 HubSpot's first partner, agency HubSpots and sponsor of this show. Connect on LinkedIn.