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Average Customer Acquisition Cost: Benchmark by Industry and How to Improve It

User Pilot

And the customer acquisition cost (CAC) shows you how effective you’re with your sales and marketing efforts to acquire new customers. In this article, we’ll delve into the ins and outs of CAC, its industry-specific benchmarks, and the proven practices to improve it. The average CAC varies across industries.

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SaaS Rule of 40 Drivers Using KeyBanc’s 2021 SaaS Survey

SaaStr

While SaaS is an amazingly transparent community with abundant benchmarking resources, there are much fewer publicly available studies that allow an analysis of the underlying drivers of “Rule of 40.” 2 drivers stood out as notable: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and Churn. After all, 31% + 29% = 60%.

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Customer Success and finance: 8 metrics to build closer alignment

ChurnZero

This is very useful for planning CS resource allocation. These insights will inform resource adjustments to reduce churn. Customer acquisition cost (CAC) The churn rate is a good segue to address CAC. As such, CAC helps define the payback period. It is calculated by dividing the LTV by the CAC.

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Generating growth: Insights from a former software company CRO | Episode 37

Payrix

And the other one is NRR and LTV. There’s your CAC to LTV. And you’ve got things like getting into a little bit more of the financial SaaS quick ratio, which really compares new dollars to dollars from lost customers. How efficient are you using or capitalizing on your sales capacity?

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What is a Customer Path in SaaS & How to Create a Successful One

User Pilot

Ideally, you would have a 3:1 ratio meaning that the lifetime value of a customer is 3x higher than the cost to acquire them. LTV to CAC ratio. Your LTV to CAC ratio is the ratio between the lifetime value of a customer and the cost of acquiring them. MQLs, SQLs, CQLs. NPS and CSAT.

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How to Present an Operating Plan to your Board

Kellblog

For example, CAC ratio (the S&M cost of a dollar of new ARR) is certainly ARR-related, but it’s also P&L-driven because the S&M cost comes from the P&L. Burn ratio = cashflow from operations / net new ARR. This ratio is similar to the CAC ratio, but for all cash consumption, not just S&M expense.

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Product Marketing Metrics (KPIs) – How To Measure Success in SaaS

User Pilot

Acquisition stage KPIs to track: CAC, Free Trial signups , or Demos booked. Adoption stage KPIs to track: Active User, DAU to MAU ratio , Feature Adoption Rate. Retention stage KPIs to track: Customer Churn, Revenue Churn , LTV, LTV to CAC ratio , User Retention Rate.