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Acquisition & Retention

Win them once.
Keep them for years.

Lifecycle marketing programmes that work both ends of the funnel — finding new customers efficiently and keeping the ones you have spending longer.

— CAC + LTV thinking · Senior-led · Channel-agnostic
Lower CAC
Higher LTV
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↓32% cost per acquisition
↑44% 12-month LTV
3.1× CAC payback ratio
1 unified programme
The problem / why this matters

Acquisition without retention is a treadmill.

Pour budget in the top, watch most of it leak out within six months. Then complain CAC is rising. This is the unit-economics death spiral of most growth marketing.

We run acquisition and retention as one programme — because spending more on acquisition while leaking churn is just paying twice.

In depth / why the two go together

LTV / CAC is the only ratio that matters.

You don't have a CAC problem if your LTV is healthy. You don't have a churn problem if acquisition is targeted. The two halves of the funnel define each other — and yet most teams hand them to different people who never speak.

Acquisition that respects retention

Cheap leads from the wrong channel churn fast and ruin LTV. We optimise acquisition for the customers who stick — sometimes paying more per lead to make more per customer.

Retention is a growth lever

A 5% improvement in retention can lift LTV by 25% or more. Lifecycle email, customer success touchpoints, win-back and replenishment programmes routinely move the dial more than another paid channel ever will.

Cohort thinking

Blended numbers hide everything. We work in cohorts — what did the customers acquired in March look like at month 1, 3, 6, 12? That's where the real signal lives.

What's included

Acquisition + retention, one programme.

Unit economics review

Honest look at CAC, LTV, payback, gross margin and cohort retention — by channel and segment.

Acquisition channels

Paid, organic and partnership channels managed for LTV-weighted return, not just immediate ROAS.

Onboarding & activation

Welcome journeys, product onboarding and first-purchase experiences that lift early retention.

Lifecycle email & CRM

Retention, replenishment, win-back and loyalty programmes via email and CRM.

Loyalty & referrals

Customer loyalty schemes, referral programmes and advocacy campaigns.

Reporting

Cohort dashboards tying every channel and touchpoint to LTV, retention and payback.

Process / how it works

Diagnose, fix, scale.

  1. Unit economics diagnostic

    CAC, LTV, payback and cohort retention reviewed honestly by channel and segment.

  2. Quick wins

    Plug obvious leaks — onboarding gaps, abandoned flows, win-back blanks — before scaling spend.

  3. Channel programme

    Acquisition channels optimised for LTV-weighted return; underperforming ones cut.

  4. Retention programme

    Lifecycle email, loyalty and customer-success touchpoints designed for retention lift.

  5. Iterate by cohort

    Monthly cohort review — what's working, what's drifting, what to test next.

Case study / subscription business

Churn down 28%, LTV up 44%.

A subscription business spending heavily on acquisition with month-1 churn over 30%. We rebuilt onboarding, shipped four retention flows and reweighted paid spend toward higher-LTV segments. Twelve months later churn was down 28% and LTV up 44%.

↓28% Customer churn
↑44% 12-month LTV
3.1× CAC payback
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Questions / answered

Questions, answered.

Do you do both halves yourself? Yes — one team, one plan. Acquisition and retention should never be siloed; that's usually the original problem.
What if our CAC is already low? Then retention is almost certainly the next 10× opportunity. Most "low-CAC" businesses are leaking LTV they don't even measure.
How do you measure success? CAC, LTV, payback period, cohort retention and gross margin contribution. Not blended ROAS, ever.
Does this work for B2B? Yes — perhaps even more cleanly than for consumer brands, given longer sales cycles and account-level retention dynamics.
Will you cut channels we like? If they're not paying for themselves, yes — and we'll show the cohort evidence. We're not paid to make you feel good about underperforming channels.
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