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Customer Lifetime Value

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Customer Lifetime Value

Customer lifetime value (CLV or CLTV) indicates the total revenue a business can reasonably expect from a single customer account throughout the business relationship.

The metric considers a customer's revenue value and compares that number to the company's predicted customer lifespan.

Questions​

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