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| | A quick guide to customer lifetime value (CLV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Customer lifetime value, also known as CLV or LTV, represents the net present value of profits, coming from the individual customer, which creates a flow oftransactions over time. |
 | | CLV is,then, used as a convenient yardstick of performance; however, it has tended to become a bit too much of a 'holy grail' for corporate, marketing, and sales executives, to the extent that entire conferences and seminars are often devoted to helping optimize it. |
 | | The inherent danger of overfocusing on customer lifetime value is that companies will invest in programs which try to wring profits from only the most active,heaviest spending customers. |
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