Life-Time Value

aka LTV; over-all-time value of a single customer to the business

usually measured in incremental-margin, doesn't take into account cost-of-acquisition (Customer Acquisiition Cost = CAC)

for a current/repeat customer, sometimes measured as "so-far", sometimes "so-far" (actual) plus an odds-weighted future value (based on retention curve and other predictors)


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