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BugKillers provides a quarterly pest control service for $106 a quarter. Its variable costs per service...

BugKillers provides a quarterly pest control service for $106 a quarter. Its variable costs per service call are $17. Customers can cancel the service at any time, and the firm has a quarterly attrition rate of 2%. Marketing spends $40 per year on customer retention. If the annual discount rate is 13%, what is the CLV of an existing customer?

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Pest Control Service per annum (106*4) $                      424
Less: Variable Cost per Service Call (17*4) $                        68
Less: Marketing Spend $                        40
Average Customer Contribution pa $                      316
Average Customer profit p.a. $           316
Customer Attrition Rate (.02*4) 8%
Customer Retention Rate (1-8%) 92%
Average Life Time in Years (1/8%) 13
Likely Customer Profit (316*92%) $     290.72
Yr-1 Yr-2 Yr-3 Yr-4 Yr-5 Yr-6 Yr-7 Yr-8 Yr-9 Yr-10 Yr-11 Yr-12 Yr-13
Discount Rate 1.13 1.28 1.44 1.63 1.84 2.08 2.35 2.66 3.00 3.39 3.84 4.33 4.90
CLV-Per Year 257.27 227.68 201.48 178.30 157.79 139.64 123.57 109.36 96.78 85.64 75.79 67.07 59.35
Cummulative CLV 257.27 484.95 686.43 864.74 1022.53 1162.17 1285.74 1395.10 1491.87 1577.52 1653.31 1720.38 1779.73

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