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

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In most cases, it includes: Salaries of sales and marketing teams Advertising spend on acquiring new customers (Search/Display Ads, Social Ads, Sponsorship, etc.) Here’s how you calculate LTV: [ARPC (Average Revenue Per Customer in a Month) X Gross Margin] / MRR Churn Rate. So, what is an acceptable churn rate?

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

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway.