What is customer lifetime value?
Definition of customer lifetime value:
Customer lifetime value (CLV) involves estimating the value of each customer’s future relationship with your business.
CLV is an important metric: it will often be more valuable for a business to have long-standing customer relationships than short-lived one-off purchasers.
Note that CLV is only the expected lifetime value of a customer - the metric can only predict revenues.
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