Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)
Customer Acquisition
Cost (CAC) is a metric used to measure the cost associated with converting a
customer to buy a brand’s product or service. This includes research, marketing
and advertising costs incurred on convincing the customer. A significant metric
used to ascertain the value of a customer to the brand, it also considers the
return on investment after acquiring those customers.
CAC helps a company to fix
the amount to be spent depending on the profitability of each customer i.e., to
understand a customer’s worth to a company. Usually, a company’s cost of
acquiring customers is said to increase as it matures and often decreases when
the company reduces in size and geographical distribution of its
offerings. This metric is widely used by
B2B software sales companies, startups, magazine brands, internet-based
companies, etc.
To calculate the cost
of acquiring a customer, divide the entire cost of sales and marketing over a
given period of time with the number of customers acquired in that period.
Companies improve their CAC values by using personalized content to convince
the customer like sending follow up emails, sales calls or conducting free
demos of the product/service or by opting other potentially more profitable
channels.
The efforts linked with
acquiring customers should not exceed the value of returns expected from them.
Not to forget, after calculating the CAC of a company, compare it to Customer
Lifetime Value (CLV) to get the exact worth of all efforts spent on acquiring
those customers.
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