Today, people are increasingly connected and extensively interact with each other using technology-enabled media. Hence, customers are more frequently exposed to social influence of other customers when making purchase decisions. However, established approaches for customer valuation most widely neglect network effects based on social influence leading to a misallocation of resources. Therefore...

Being able to measure customer value is a prerequisite for effective customer relationship management and data-driven marketing strategy, as it allows to maximize return on marketing investment, particularly when resources are limited. While past profitability is certainly a useful metric, it is insufficient when trying to predict which customers are going to be most valuable in the future so a...

Customer lifetime value (LTV) estimation involves two parts: the “survival” probabilities and profit margins. This article describes the estimation of those probabilities using discrete-time logistic hazard models and that of profit margins is based on linear regression. In the scenario when outliers are present among margins, we suggest applying robust regression with PROC ROBUSTREG.

T measurement of customer lifetime value is important because it is used as a metric in evaluating decisions in the context of customer relationship management. For a firm, it is important to form some expectations as to the lifetime value of each customer at the time a customer starts doing business with the firm, and at each purchase by the customer. In this paper, we use a hierarchical Bayes...

To support personalized marketing, it is necessary to identify an individual customer’s true value. Various researches on customer value have conducted under the name of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), Customer Equity, Customer Profitability, and Lifetime Value. In this paper we present issues of calculating individual customer’s lifetime value to deploy more personalized CRM activities. We prop...

The concept of the lifetime value of a customer is well established in the theory and practice of database marketing. The lifetime value of a customer, defined to be the expected present value of the net cash flows from the firm’s relationship with the customer over his or her lifetime, is often used as an upper limit on spending to acquire the customer. If the expected cash flows from the rela...

the more a marketing paradigm evolves, the more long-term relationship with customers gains its importance. also, the move towards a customer-centred approach to marketing, coupled with the increasing availability of customer transaction data, has led to an interest in understanding and estimating customer lifetime value (clv). there are several researches about the clv formulas and calculating...

Commercial Banks and Financial Institutions are recognizing that they can no longer look at a customer from a specific product but must encompass the entire customer relationship to fully understand a client‘s profitability. From a strategic standpoint, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) mobilizes resources around customer relationships rather than product groups and fosters activities that...