Highbox pays a customer acquisition cost of $230 per paying customer
Spencer Kuhn · 803: SaaS: Email He Used To Get From $0 to $10k MRR · Oct 5, 2017 · at 16:00
Spencer Kuhn, co-founder of Highbox, discusses customer acquisition metrics with Nathan Latka.
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“So we're paying around 230 dollars. That's our cost of acquisition per paying customer.”
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