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The Secrets of Success in Marketing
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The Secrets of Success in Marketing

by Ian Linton
November 2010
Beginner
280 pages
6h 49m
English
Prentice Hall Business
Content preview from The Secrets of Success in Marketing
24 PART 1 Closer to your customers: the true measure of success
Use lifetime customer values to improve
marketing performance
There are four important applications:
Set target customer acquisition costs.
Allocate acquisition funds.
Select acquisition offers.
Support customer retention activities.
Set target customer acquisition costs
If a customer is expected to generate more than one sale,
the allowable acquisition cost can be greater than the cost
allowed for the first sale – the classic loss-leader approach.
However, overspending on customer acquisition can also be
risky. A reasonable calculation is to recruit only from those
sources
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