Buzzsprout conservatively models customer lifetime value at $300 to $500
Tom Rossi · 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped · Aug 26, 2019 · at 13:33
Tom Rossi, co-founder of Buzzsprout, discusses customer lifetime value (LTV) modeling and payback economics.
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“Anywhere between three to 500 dollars. Okay. And so we keep it conservative. We'll typically say 300 dollars.”
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