Showing posts with label retention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label retention. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The Value of an Existing Customer

In most cases, the value of an existing customer is much higher than the value of a newly-acquired customer, for a number of reasons.

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It is, for example. six to seven times more costly to gain one new customer than to retain one existing customer, Flowtown argues. Also, boosting customer retention rates by five percent can boost profits from five percent to 95 percent.

"Tokens" are the New "FLOPS," "MIPS" or "Gbps"

Modern computing has some virtually-universal reference metrics. For Gemini 1.5 and other large language models, tokens are a basic measure...