McQueen: Accelo Reaches Customer Payback in About Eight Months
Jeff McQueen · 888 SaaS: How To break $480k MRR by Focusing on 1 Vertical · Dec 29, 2017 · at 11:16
Accelo CEO Jeff McQueen discusses unit economics and customer acquisition costs with Nathan Latka.
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“We've got a customer payback of about eight months at the moment.”
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