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Itzler: The average Marquis Jet customer spent $235K to $250K annually

Jesse Itzler · Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504) · Oct 5, 2023 · at 37:44

Jesse Itzler explains the revenue mechanics and unit economics of Marquis Jet memberships to Sean Puri and Sam Parr.

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“Yeah, no, because our average customer spent close, I think it was 250 or 235,000 dollars a year.”

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The claim, plainly

Marquis Jet's average customer spent between $235,000 and $250,000 per year.

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Assessment

In his podcast interview, co-founder Jesse Itzler offered an offhand estimate that Marquis Jet's average customer spent 'close, I think it was 250 or 235,000 dollars a year.' Documented company metrics from 2007 show the firm generated over $700 million across 3,500 to 4,000 active customers, representing an average annual gross spend of approximately $175,000 to $200,000 per customer. Contemporaneous reporting on Marquis Jet card pricing ($110,000 to $340,000 per 25-hour card) and usage pace (the average cardholder exhausted 25 hours within eight months, or ~1.5 cards annually) corroborates annual customer spending across the $165,000 to $300,000+ range depending on aircraft tier. Because the offhand estimate of $235,000–$250,000 is closely aligned with the underlying unit economics but somewhat higher than aggregate annual revenue per customer ($175,000–$200,000), the claim is rated partially true.

Marquis Jet 25-hour cards were priced between $110,000 and $340,000 depending on cabin size, with customers exhausting their 25-hour allotment within an average of eight months (~1.5 cards/year), yielding annual card spend in the mid-to-high six figures.
By 2007, Marquis Jet generated over $700 million annually across 3,500 to 4,000 active cardholders, establishing an implied average gross spend of roughly $175,000 to $200,000 per active customer.

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[1] sarasotamagazine.com [2] bjtonline.com [3] sarasotamagazine.com [4] ainonline.com [5] leadersmag.com [6] comparemyjet.com [7] wikipedia.org [8] sec.gov

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