Customer Lifetime Value

HOW IS CLV CALCULATED?

There are different formulas used to calculate CLV, more or less complex. An easy way to do this is to multiply the customer’s average annual profit by the average duration of loyalty, minus acquisition costs.

Understanding the value of a customer is mainly used to understand how much each company should spend for the acquisition of a new customer. A second important aspect is that the CLV allows customers to be segmented by value.

The goal of segmentation is personalisation, that is, developing tailor-made measures (offers, promotions, activities, etc.) to retain valuable customers, increase revenue for those with a lower value and, in general, improve the customer experience.

Three Ways to Improve CLV

1. Use marketing automation
2. Marketing automation is the process of optimising and automating marketing campaigns. It allows you to send personalised content to direct consumer choices and promote purchases. Monitoring and analysing user behaviour improves sales funnel efficiency and increases the level of customer satisfaction.

2. Provide quality customer service
3. Good customer service is the build block to long-term customer fidelity. Today, the challenge is to aim for an omni-channel approach, that is to integrate all the points of contact with the customer (store, phone, site, social media, etc.) to provide a fluid, coherent and comfortable experience.

3. Focus on subscription
4. Subscription, the subscription-based model, is the best system to foster a long-term relationship with customers and to have recurring and prolonged revenues over time.
5. The value for customers is the chance to take advantage of services or products that would not be accessible with the purchase and to be able to independently and flexibly manage the subscription.