You have direct marketing experience, and you’ve just joined a small startup magazine publishing company. How might you explain the significance of calculating the customer lifetime value (CLV) of the publishing company’s customers?

 
 
 
 
 
 

CLV is a staple metric of direct marketing and shows how prices and margins translate into money.

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