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Marketing Strategy - Lifetime Value of a CustomerWould you spend $1 to get $5? 

Would you spend $1 to get $10? 

You can if you understand the lifetime value of your customers.

Business owners like you have that opportunity to get a great return on their investment.  As marketing consultants and business advisors, we help business owners understand the true value of their customers.  We can then help with a strategy to help acquire more customers.

But you can figure out the value of your customer.  Let me give you a couple of examples.

Tire Company: A tire company gets about $200 per tire.  Most customers buy 4 tires.  That means one sale is worth $800.  If the tire company spends $100 to get a customer, the are getting back 8 times the money, right.  However, that customer may come back in 2 years and maybe again in 2 more years (they are rough on their tires and do a lot of traveling).  That means that the customer will come to the store 3 times buying tires for $800 each time.  Now the lifetime value of the customer is $2400.  Would you spend $100 to get $2400!

Hair Stylist: A hair stylist that charges $60 for a cut and curl.  On average her customers come to her every three months.  The yearly value of her customer is $240 ($60 4 times a year).  All she has to do is determine, based on her records, how many years an average customer stays with her.  Let’s say, they stay with her for 4 years.  The lifetime value of a customer for her is $960 ($240 x 4 years).  If she spends $100 to get a customer, she will get almost 10 times the return on her investment!

 

You try it: Pull out a piece of paper and jot down these figures:

1. Write down how much the average customer spends at your business.

2. Write down how many times they come into your business. (How many times a year X how many years the average customer continues to do business with you.)

3. Multiply those two numbers.

It is that simple.

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