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What is Customer Lifetime Value and How to Calculate It

ChurnZero

Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) , also known as, Lifetime Value (LTV), is the gross profit a customer delivers to your business in their lifetime. It is the amount of revenue your business will make from a customer over their average lifetime as a customer.

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Expansion is a Team Sport: Strategies for Aligning CS and Sales in 2024

Totango

If Sales over-promises what the customer can achieve with your product, then CS has been set up to fail when it comes to onboarding. If CS doesn’t have commercial conversations with healthy customers, they’re not setting Sales up to re-enter the conversation and potentially upsell. Use your words Talk to each other!

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Customer Success and finance: 8 metrics to build closer alignment

ChurnZero

Good sales teams typically get the budget, headcount and tools they desire because the function is tied to revenue. However, that’s not always the case for Customer Success (CS) teams even though they are often responsible for renewals and expansions. Customer acquisition cost (CAC) The churn rate is a good segue to address CAC.

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What skills do customer success professionals need in 2024?

ChurnZero

KPIs now include not just customer satisfaction scores but also revenue-related metrics like renewal rates, upsell and cross sell targets, and customer lifetime value. We don’t see that changing in 2024, even as headcount starts to normalize.

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Why a Low Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Isn’t Always a Good Benchmark

OPEXEngine

CAC includes things related directly to bringing customers in the door — like marketing campaigns, sales outreach, and onboarding processes — as well as more indirect expenses like company headcount and resource costs. There is no single answer to the question of whether — and by how much — to reduce CAC. What is CAC?

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Customer Success as a Profit Centre

CustomerSuccessBox

Customers can come to your business and never leave if they find what they came for. Customer relationships begin only after they subscribe to your product and come to your platform. Onboarding is no longer enough to make the relationship work. are the opportunities to expand the business revenue through existing customers.

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Why a CRM is not sufficient for your Customer Success function?

CustomerSuccessBox

Hence it is essential that the customers continue to subscribe and keep renewing their contracts for the company to be successful. A very important SaaS metric that comes into play here is the Customer Lifetime Value(LTV). This provides a challenge when working to automate processes like onboarding and renewal workflows.