Loading...
Free consultation with ASO specialists
Doing ASO for the first time or have no idea how to carry out targeted optimization of your app? We offer one-on-one customized services provided by app marketing specialists
Free consultation

Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV or CLV)

What is Customer Lifetime Value

Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV or CLV) is the net profit of all the benefits brought to the enterprise by a customer during the entire period of time that the customer maintains a relationship with the enterprise, minus the cost incurred by the enterprise in acquiring and serving the customer.
It is a predictive metric that aims to measure the long-term value a business can expect from each customer, not just focusing on the profit of a single transaction, but looking at the contribution of customers throughout their entire lifecycle. The calculation formula is: Customer Lifetime Value = (Average Value per Sale) × (Number of Transactions) × (Retention Time Period).
 
 

Importance and Significance

The importance of CLTV to businesses is self-evident. It helps businesses plan their business from a strategic level, so that businesses not only focus on short-term sales, but also focus on long-term customer relationship management and value creation. By increasing the lifetime value of customers, businesses can achieve sustainable growth and profitability. At the same time, CLTV can also help businesses better evaluate the effectiveness of marketing activities, understand the contribution of different customer groups to the business, and make more informed decisions.
 
 

Typical use cases

  1. Marketing Strategy Development
By calculating CLTV, companies can evaluate the effectiveness of different marketing channels and campaigns. At the same time, CLTV also helps companies determine the upper limit of customer acquisition cost (CAC) to ensure that marketing investment is worthwhile.
  1. Customer Segmentation and Management
According to the level of CLTV, customers can be divided into different groups. For high CLTV customers, enterprises can provide personalized services and exclusive preferential policies to improve customer loyalty and satisfaction, and further explore their value. For low CLTV customers, enterprises can analyze the reasons, whether the product is not suitable for them or there are problems with the marketing methods, so as to optimize them in a targeted manner.
  1. Product Planning and Optimization
Understanding the lifetime value of customers helps businesses plan product features and characteristics based on customer needs and preferences. For example, if high CLTV customers have a high demand for a certain feature of the product, the company can increase its research and development and optimization efforts for that feature to improve the customer's user experience, thereby increasing the long-term value of the customer.
 
In conclusion, customer lifetime value is an important indicator that cannot be ignored by enterprises when formulating marketing strategies, managing customers and planning products. In the field of mobile Internet advertising industry, paying attention to CLTV can help enterprises attract high-quality users, optimize user experience, improve promotion effect, and thus achieve long-term profitability and sustainable development of enterprises.
Related terms