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Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

Understand your fundamental growth engine cost. If it costs more to acquire a customer than they pay you, growth kills the business.

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Acquisition Costs

Total ad spend, software, and marketing agency costs.

Salaries and commissions for the sales team.

Results

Number of paying customers acquired in the same period.

What this comes to

  • CAC

    ₹4,000

    ₹1,50,000 + ₹2,50,000 / 100

These answers come only from the figures above. This page holds no benchmark, no market average and no opinion on whether a number is good — it does the arithmetic and shows its working.

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