Up-selling and cross-selling are important aspects of building customer relationships and increasing customer lifetime value. Primarily they are both sales functions, but can occur with direct and digital marketing techniques as well. What is up-selling? Up-selling is changing the consumer’s decision from a lower priced product to a higher priced product. In other words, the …
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Customers = a business A fundamental truth is that a business only exists when it has customers, and for most businesses, the majority of their profits come from ongoing transactions with customers. Therefore, the goal of the marketer is to understand the key opportunities to maximize profitability for the firm (or the brand) over time, …
Customers come to you from all different places and entry points. If you have a brick-and-mortar store, they might walk in the door on their own—or they might have been referred to your business by a friend. If they placed an order via e-commerce, perhaps they saw you mentioned in a blog post, or …
“Share of Hearts” is a qualitative measure of marketing success. It differs from the more tangible metrics (such as market share, that is based on sales) and focuses on the less tangible aspects the consumers’ emotional engagement with a brand.
When studying consumer behavior and/or the marketing environment, the concept of age cohorts is often discussed within the marketing textbook. Age cohorts of very large groups of populations that were born in the same time – usually within the same 10 or 20 year period. The broad thinking is that they are somewhat influenced in …
Free online CLV calculator The following free online CLV calculator is ideal for quick calculations of customer lifetime value. If you need a more detailed calculation of customer lifetime value, please download the free Excel template for calculating customer lifetime value. How use the free online CLV calculator You only need to enter three numbers …
How to Use the Full CLV Calculator You only need to enter four numbers – please only type over the numbers in the white cells – the numbers in the orange cells are automatically calculated for you. To calculate the customer lifetime value, you will need to enter: Average customer acquisition costs Average customer profit …
There are five CLV videos available here: Using the free Excel CLV template (available for download on this site) A step-by-step guide to the CLV formula and calculation Using Excel to calculate CLV (without the above template) A guide to understanding discount rates An overview of financial metrics for marketing
What does a discount rate do? Discount rate converts future cash flows (that is revenue/profits) into today’s money for the firm. For example, if you put $100 into a bank account today that have 10% interest, then in 12 months’ time you would have $110 in the bank. In this case, $110 next year is …
Understanding the financial metrics for customer lifetime value The full customer lifetime value calculator and the free Excel CLV template both provide a summary outcome for several related financial metrics. Please refer to the image below of the full CLV calculator. As you can see, at the bottom, there are multiple financial metrics listed, including: …
