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The Better Business Analysis 
Institute presence. 

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The Better Business Analysis 
Podcast with Kenjamin Walsh. 

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Hi everybody, and welcome back 
to the Better Business Analysis 

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Podcast with Benjamin Walsh. 
And today we are going to be 

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focusing on some business 
statistics that every business 

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analyst should know. 
OK. 

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The key business statistics that
you should really be aware of 

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when talking to the leadership 
team or monitoring as a business

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as a whole. 
So we're going to go through the

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list. 
It's not, you know there are 

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quite a lot of statistics that 
you can know and I'm just going 

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to talk about 10, OK. 
What I think are the top ten 

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business statistics that will 
give you an idea around the 

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performance of the organization 
and provide insights into the 

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your organization's overall 
health and allow you to kind of 

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track progress or identify areas
for improvement. 

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It also helps make informed 
decisions. 

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So a lot of these key indicators
may be tied up in your objective

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statements or your strategic 
plan. 

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So it may, the first one for 
example is number one is 

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revenue, how much money is your 
company generating and of course

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that their revenue is usually 
could be a factor in terms of 

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increasing revenue by 10% year 
on year. 

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Sometimes that's actually a 
pretty, pretty important step. 

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We'll talk talk about how 
revenue plays into something 

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called EBITDA later, but revenue
is a key underlying step that 

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you should really know. 
So I will say that depends when 

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I when I say you should know 
this, it depends on kind of what

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kind of BA work you're doing. 
But if you're a business owner 

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or you are dealing with the 
executive team, revenue should 

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be open and honest there. 
Sometimes it's locked down to a 

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management team, especially if 
the figure is sensitive AKA 

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things aren't going very well. 
So you may have some trouble 

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finding out what these numbers 
are in your company. 

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I just want to say that straight
away, but you're business should

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be tracking these. 
And if you're a startup company,

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you want to be tracking these 
from day one. 

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OK. 
So we got to get straight into 

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the T, the 10 key business 
statistics every business 

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analyst should know, starting 
with #1, which is revenue. 

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Revenue is the total amount of 
money that a company generates 

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from its core business 
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And it's usually the sale of 
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It's generally the main revenue 
stream that companies generate 

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from, unless you're a financial 
firm and there might be things, 

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other revenue sources that they 
can have or you're leasing out 

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buildings, which could be a 
revenue stream. 

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The primary revenue that you 
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ABA is the sales of goods and 
services, OK. 

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And that's by its core business 
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And of course core business 
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Revenue is a critical metric. 
It will talk about it's the 

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company's top line in terms of 
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And really having strong revenue
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terms of growth of your company.
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revenue, then you need to start 
reducing your costs and you know

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things that things don't look 
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So number one is revenue. 
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revenue, then you're going to 
look at restructuring and 

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lowering costs and things are 
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It's usually a key indicator 
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itself is experiencing a 
percentage revenue kind of drop.

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that revenue drop is not 
consistent among your 

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competitors, so your competitors
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10% drop and you are and they're
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there's something wrong with 
your core business or your core 

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offer. 
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may just not be performing, they
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competition being straight up 
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New business is so important 
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Revenue is so important and a 
lot of people it gets, there are

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so many statistics and we do 
about 10 today. 

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So, so you know that even even 
summarizing in terms of 10 

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people can get so caught up in 
other factors that they miss 

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their revenue isn't strong 
almost and your costs are 

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reasonable. 
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know there's there's nothing 
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the poke. 
So revenue is definitely #1, #2 

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is gross profit margin or 
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gross margin, The profit margin 
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gross and we talk about net and 
we'll start with gross. 

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So gross profit margin is the 
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profitability before deducting 
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So I'll what does that mean, 

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Ben? 
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gross profit, OK, by revenue. 
We're going to talk about what 

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gross profit is. 
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the goods sold. 
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what you earn before your your 
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Sorry. 
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revenue. 
So how much money you came in 

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and minus your cost is your 
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generate their revenue. 
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The gross profit is your revenue
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Now if we take that gross profit
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give you an example. 
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So let's say you earned $1 
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million was paid in invoices to 
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So you earned $1 million and and
it cost you in order to generate

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the revenue, all the cost of the
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of a business cost of goods like
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and all the materials it costs 
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you $800,000. 
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$200,000 revenue minus your cost
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$200,000. 
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which is your revenue, you end 
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So in that case, it's 20%. 
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20%. 
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indicates the company is 
effectively converting sales 

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into profits. 
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between the fact that our 
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the growth of a company. 
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revenue could be could be 
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of goods remain the same or go 
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you can still be earning a 
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However, if your costs are going
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staying still, then what you see
is that your gross profit margin

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is going down, OK. 
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instead of a number like 200,000
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gross profit margin is, is a 
percentage is very helpful 

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because you you can measure that
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number one figure talked about. 
So revenue and gross profit 

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margin are the two figures that 
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So I go we earned $1,000,000 in 
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was 20% and and that figure that
20% figure is actually kind of 

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you can benchmark that against 
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industries that figure is 
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And so you know people are 
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it's discussed. 
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supermarket the margins are 
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So it's about the amount of 
sales and we'll we'll get that 

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get to that. 
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actually little, it could be 
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because of their business model.
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item like a sports car or a 
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high, higher than that. 
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that's that, that'll indicate a 
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the trend of that, right. 
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through some drama, the if that 
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it indicates that something's 
going. 

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Either your costs are going 
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is starting to, you know, 
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in the right direction. 
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So gross profit, profit margin 
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Also when you think about the 
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company or you put your money in
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This figure is very similar to 
that figure when discussing 

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whether or not it's worth 
investing in the company, OK, 

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depending on how much margin it 
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So we're going to quickly. 
So that's your gross profit 

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margin and then we're going to 
move to #3, which is your net 

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profit margin. 
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measure of the company's 
profitability after deducting 

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all operating expenses including
taxes, OK. 

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So when we talked about the 
gross profit margin, there were 

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things we could control that was
the how much cost we spent to 

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generate the revenue, whereas 
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other kind of expenses that a 
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depreciation on assets and all 
all these accounting figures. 

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But the biggest one is probably 
tax, right? 

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So if you paid your tax, how 
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So net profit margin is 
calculated by dividing the net 

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income. 
So that's revenue minus all 

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expenses by revenue, OK. 
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margin which is revenue minus 
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So them the bits you can 
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and costs that go into 
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product or service. 
Net profit management is revenue

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mining all the expenses. 
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the car expense, the the tax 
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costs of doing business, not 
just generating the service that

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you provide the revenue minus 
all of your costs, just like you

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might do at home with your 
budget. 

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So you know your income for the 
year minus all the things you 

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have to pay everything and you 
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So again the net profit margin 
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about this a lot too. 
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the, when we talk about the 
gross profit margin, that's kind

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of just looking at delivering 
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Higher net profit margin 
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organization is effectively in 
man managing its expenses, all 

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expenses and generating profit. 
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difference between your gross 
profit margin and your net 

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profit margin. 
And one really good example here

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is that if you were a company 
that generated money through 

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people, like a recruitment 
company for example, or a 

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consultancy company where you're
charging your client a right to 

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do business. 
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difference between gross profit 
margin and net profit margin, it

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would mean that your back office
staff, not the cost of goods 

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sold, which are the people going
out and doing the work, but that

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the the people cost and the 
location cost of your 

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organization. 
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profit just are what we call a 
sunk cost or just a cost that 

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you need to do back in business.
Your back in function may be too

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big, always inefficient. 
So that's why gross profit and 

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net profit are interesting and 
then of course revenue. 

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So that's how we and and and 
these are really important 

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because you can't, you really 
want to be able to monitor these

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figures on a dashboard and those
three figures are so important. 

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So revenue, gross profit margin 
and net profit margin and then 

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of course you can look at all 
the costs and once you that 

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costs the divide into different 
categories like your expenses, 

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it becomes a little bit harder 
then you have to do some more 

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analysis. 
So it's a bit like your own 

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home. 
You could say when you pay all 

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your bills with your income, 
when you pay all your bills, 

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what's left? 
You know when you, when you pay 

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the mortgage, that's probably 
your biggest expense and food 

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cost. 
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the other expenses are a little 
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go on a holiday or you buy nice 
cheese this week or you, I don't

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know, buy pay off a nice car, 
that's probably more like your 

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net profit margin. 
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So you have a bit of a choice 
between your gross profit, what 

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you have to have and then your 
net profit margin. 

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OK. 
So the top three revenue, gross 

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profit margin and net profit 
margin and people sometimes just

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say words like what's your 
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that. 
I worked at a large petrol 

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company here in New Zealand. 
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company doesn't just do petrol, 
but it was revenue and they have

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to have margin. 
They talked about volume, so the

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amount of sales they got and 
those figures. 

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your margin is low, sometimes 

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regulated, so you can't earn a 
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But of course, if your petrol 
prices go up, so does the amount

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of money you make. 
Yes. 

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OK, cool. 
So if we now move over to the 

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number 4 stat and this is, look,
I have chosen stats that are 

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more customer specific because 
we're living in a customer 

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focused world. 
So these are not necessarily the

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figures or the stats that when 
you started doing business in 

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the 80s you might have come up 
with, but these are actually 

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really critical in 2023. 
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customer acquisition costs, 
sometimes an acronym of CAC. 

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So customer acquisition cost is 
the average amount of money a 

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company spends to acquire a new 
customer. 

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So to acquire a new customer to 
buy a new customer. 

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And it might sound a bit weird 
that we buy customers, but we 

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do, we buy a customer through 
the spend on sales and 

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marketing. 
So all the expenses for sales, 

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all the marketing plans, 
campaigns, how much do you spend

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on that for that is what you do,
that's the activities that you 

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do in order to sell your 
product, you know knocking on 

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doors, doing campaigns. 
That is all your acquisition 

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costs and we need to take that 
total cost. 

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So let's say that's 100,000 a 
year, that's very, very light of

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course and say for $100,000 a 
year we acquired we we spent on 

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sales and marketing and we 
acquired 1000 customers, OK. 

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So you would take the 1000 
customers and you would divide 

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that by your cost and then that 
would give you how much it cost 

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to acquire a new customer. 
So in this case it would be 

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$100. 
So we've worked out that as 100.

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We we pay $100 in order to we 
spend $100 in sales and 

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marketing in order to acquire 
one new customer and that's so 

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important because that figure 
depending on what you're selling

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if it cost us $100 to buy a new 
customer and we're just selling 

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them a one off product which is 
costs $100 then you're not you 

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might be making money but your 
costs you're just covering your 

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costs right and and and and 
we're only throughout sales and 

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marketing there's all the other 
expenses in your company. 

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So it's a really important 
figure to work out but also 

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people under the in saying that 
it's not always bad. 

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Sometimes people don't do enough
in sales and marketing they're 

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making when they sell their 
product and they've got a a 

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highly sought after product or a
great product that people want 

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and they've got a good price 
point and they're making good 

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margin on it. 
Like we talked about before, 

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they might not be spending 
enough on sales and marketing. 

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So you really need to know how 
much does it cost for us to 

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acquire a new customer, which is
your CAC, your customer 

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acquisition cost, how much does 
it cost, how much do we spend 

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sales and marketing to acquire 
one new customer? 

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Really critical. 
And that figure plus the figure 

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you make on your individual 
product sale is really 

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important. 
And that leads us on to the next

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figure because it's you'll see 
this with subscription type 

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businesses, right. 
You sometimes look at 

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subscription type businesses, 
and I'm going to use an example.

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I'm going to use an example of a
pet online pet store that sells,

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say, cat food. 
You know, those large bags of 

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cat food that you might purchase
every three months. 

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So let's say you purchase it 
every three months, It's 4 * a 

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year, right? 
And and maybe you keep buying it

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from the same company for at 
least a year, OK. 

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And each bag of cat food you 
spend, you buy them for say, I 

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don't know, they cost $100. 
OK. 

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So you're spending $100 and in 
the third month six, another six

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months later you've spent 
$200.00. 

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And then 3/4 of the way through 
the year you've spent another 

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$100 bringing up to $300.00. 
By the end of the year you would

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have spent $400.00 in cat food 
with this one company. 

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OK, and that figure, the if 
sale. 

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And you may have, you may have 
stayed with that company for a 

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long time, but let's just say 
you on average you stay with 

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this company for a year. 
We have a figure #5, it's called

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customer lifetime value CLV. 
Customer lifetime value is the 

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total amount of revenue a 
company expects to generate from

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a customer over their lifetime. 
So that we've worked out that 

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the average customer in this 
case will do 4 purchases of cat 

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food. 
So we just look at our, you just

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look at our our revenue and 
right we can, we can, we can, we

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can easily work that out. 
It is calculated by multiplying 

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the average purchase value, so 
looking at all your line items 

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in terms of purchases and 
working out the average and then

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we divide it by the average 
customer lifespan. 

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So you should know how long your
customer is with you, has been 

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doing business with you and a 
higher CLV indicates that 

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customer is building strong 
relationships with its 

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customers, right. 
So when you are selling a 

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commodity good, commodity good 
is something that you can get 

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pretty much anywhere and there 
isn't much of a difference 

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between products and you don't 
have much loyalty to the company

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you're buying it from. 
Then sometimes customers CLV, 

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their lifetime value is quite 
low and so they'll do lots of 

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marketing and try and keep you 
on board with that company. 

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And the reason I give the pit 
example where I've just said 

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I've worked out the average 
customer spends let's say 

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$400.00. 
You know that's through 4 

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transactions over the year 
they've worked out the customer 

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stays with them on average for a
year and by 4 transactions with 

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$400.00. 
The reason why that's important 

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with the Catfit example is that 
now you find that they offer you

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a cheaper price if you sign up 
for reoccurring. 

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Office, right. 
Instead of doing a one off 

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purchase for four for you know 
every three months, they 

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actually offered you a discount.
So they've worked out that they 

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can, they can, you can, they can
offer you a discount of say 20% 

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if you stay with them or sign up
for for longer than a year for 

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example. 
You know cancel any time but 

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it's cheaper and if you don't 
remember then you're going to be

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spending it. 
So that provides them with that 

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company with two great 
advantages. 

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One you might forget, so you're 
honest, you know all the 

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advantages of subscription based
is that you know people forget 

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that they've got a subscription 
so they'll send you the good and

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so they've got guaranteed income
and you've also yeah you've 

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signed up so your customer 
lifetime value is higher. 

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And also then the reason why 
this is really important is we, 

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when you think about the mark 
sales and marketing that they 

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can spend to acquire you, your 
customer acquisition cost, if it

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cost them to say $100 to get you
basically to market it to you as

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an individual as that's their 
customer acquisition cost, then 

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I want you to stay for at least 
a couple of the sales, right. 

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So I can afford to drop the 
price because I know I'm going 

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to keep you for a longer period 
of time and it and then I can 

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and if I've worked out that 
that's a good amount of money, 

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then I can spend more marketing,
getting more customers. 

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And so these figures are really 
important, especially in the 

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marketing space. 
So customer lifetime value is 

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how much are the total revenue a
customer expects to generate 

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from you, basically you as a 
customer over your lifetime. 

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And that's that's important too,
because like I said, if that is 

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low, then it will indicate that 
there are people that don't have

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loyalty with you and they don't 
have a strong connection with 

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you as your company or your 
brand or your differentiator. 

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OK, number six. 
So number six is the customer 

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churn rate. 
So the churn rate is the 

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percentage of customers who stop
doing business with the company 

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in a given period. 
OK. 

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Again, so this this is really 
important. 

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So their lifetime value is 
around the total amount of money

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we make for a customer, right. 
But also you can work out the 

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number of customers you lost by 
the right, by the total number 

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of customers that you had at the
beginning of a period. 

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So if you had 100 customers 
within a three month period, but

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you lost, I don't know 50 of 
them, then your churn rate is 

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high and that's about retaining 
your customers. 

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So when we talked about South, 
customer lifetime value and 

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customer churn rate are LinkedIn
some ways, but you wanna keep 

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customers and so it's around not
just acquiring new customers but

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keeping your existing customers 
happy. 

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Now with an subscription type 
business and cat food, it's a 

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bit more of a commodity 
transaction. 

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But if you're talking about 
maybe doing business, say you're

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AI, don't know a company that's 
supplying an international 

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airline, If you lost a customer,
a couple of customers over the 

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year, that could be critical to 
your revenue and and that would 

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shock you. 
So your customer churn rate 

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should always, always be 
measured as well. 

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That's number six. 
And then we'll move on to 

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quickly to #7, which is the 
conversion rate. 

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OK. 
So this conversion rate is 

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around people knowing about you,
so landing on your website, your

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landing page. 
So they, you want to know that 

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if your marketing is being 
effective or not by saying, 

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well, when we market to these 
people, so we're spending money,

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that's a cost that's going out 
no matter what to send an e-mail

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or to update our website or to 
generate some ads. 

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And then you need to know how 
many people are actually going 

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to make a sale. 
So a conversion rate indicates 

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that you're converting. 
If it's higher, then it 

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indicates that your website 
traffic is turning into sales or

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leads, OK. 
And it might could be either of 

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those depending on what type of 
conversion you're looking at. 

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So in the sales process you 
definitely want to lead, you 

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want people to know about you, 
so you're measuring awareness, 

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but then you want to convert 
those into sales, but they might

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be your sales team 
effectiveness, Convision for 

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your sales team and then your 
conversion in terms of your lead

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management. 
So if your conversion rate is 

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low then that shows you that 
your marketing is not effective.

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Hope that makes that clear. 
OK, so these are all very web 

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focused, but they they're 
applicable no matter what your 

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type of business is. 
So those last four customer 

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acquisition costs, customer life
type, lifetime value, customer 

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churn rate and conversion rate 
are really, really critical and 

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very much more Monday business 
focused. 

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But we're going to finish off 
with three figures that are more

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kind of standard business. 
One is #8, which is return on 

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investment. 
So you hear our ROI all the 

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time. 
What is the ROI and what that's 

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about and this is very relevant 
to business cases we talked 

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about last week, is return on 
investment is the measure of 

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profitability of a certain 
investment, OK. 

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It is calculated by dividing the
net profit from an investment. 

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So how much money the investment
made for that particular change 

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or investment or project by the 
cost of the investment. 

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A higher return on investment 
indicates an investment is 

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generating a good return. 
And when we talk about 

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investors, they are looking for 
a return on investment. 

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OK, so if I am buying shares for
your company, if I buy 1000 

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shares for a dollar each, I've 
got 1000 shares worth a worth 

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$1000. 
I would expect most companies 

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would expect a 1010 to 12% 
return on investment. 

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That's a standard return on 
investment. 

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So that the share price didn't 
go up to $1.10 over a certain 

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period, usually a year or so 
then, and the company isn't 

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generating a 10% increase in a 
year, it's usually not worth my 

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time. 
Now it can go up and down. 

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Companies fluctuate, but over a 
long two year periods the 

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average return on investment you
would hope would be $10. 

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Sorry, 10% at least 10 to 12% / 
a period. 

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So some years it might be 20, 
some it might be 5. 

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Now that figure there is exactly
the same figure as we talked 

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about before that you're looking
at when you're like deciding 

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whether or not you want to put 
your money in the bank or you 

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want to put it in the company. 
And some companies have really, 

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some countries have really low 
interest rates. 

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I think the states does and like
it's usually linked to your 

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mortgage rates, whereas in New 
Zealand we usually have a little

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bit higher interest rates. 
At the moment, I think the 

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average interest rate for 
example is around for mortgage, 

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it's around 8%, which is pretty 
damn high and it's because 

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inflation's high and that will 
probably drop soon hopefully. 

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And if you put money in the 
bank, the bank will, you know, 

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make their margin and probably 
give you 6%. 

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So if you put your money in the 
bank, then you hope to get 6% 

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back a years later, which is the
benefit of having high interest 

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rates. 
Now if you're investing a 

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00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:09,960
company, you're taking a higher 
risk than you are in the bank 

456
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,520
most of the time that that would
be the case unless there was a 

457
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,640
global recession, for example, 
but that would affect the 

458
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,800
company too. 
And if the company was a large 

459
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,240
company and you knew all about 
it and they were consistent for 

460
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,880
say, 50 years, generating a 12% 
return year on year, then of 

461
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,280
course it would be a good 
investment. 

462
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:34,880
But it was company that you 
didn't know anything about. 

463
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,920
You wouldn't just put your money
in there, You would do something

464
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,760
called diversification and you 
invest in, say, maybe a 

465
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,360
portfolio. 
But this is the figure that this

466
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,520
is what people were talking 
about. 

467
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,960
And if I own a company so I'm 
the only shareholder or I'm the 

468
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,160
director, for example, I would 
hope to get 12% back on my 

469
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,960
return or otherwise I might pull
all my money out and put it in 

470
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,760
the bank. 
Does that make sense? 

471
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,680
So the return on investment is 
very, very critical. 

472
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,720
And again, that might be very 
hard for you to figure out in 

473
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,360
terms of the return on 
investment of your actual 

474
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,440
company. 
But you can use return on 

475
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,560
investment when you do your 
business cases. 

476
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:18,400
So is this project worth doing? 
OK, then we're gonna look at 9, 

477
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,160
which is the average order 
value. 

478
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:25,720
So this is the average, the 
average order value. 

479
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:30,560
The aov #9 is the average amount
of money spent per order. 

480
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,200
OK, so it is calculated by 
dividing the total revenue by 

481
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,480
the total number of orders. 
So this is just indicating the 

482
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,480
size of purchase. 
So if you would like for 

483
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:49,000
example, let's use an example of
a supermarket again, it probably

484
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,920
isn't really that helpful to 
just have someone come in and 

485
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,880
buy one item. 
You kind of want them to come in

486
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,320
and buy lots of items. 
And so because you've got a low 

487
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,400
margin and you really want 
people to come in and buy a lot 

488
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,240
of stuff at once and especially 
if it costs you money to get 

489
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:03,520
them in the store in the 1st 
place. 

490
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,120
So you really want people to buy
more stuff. 

491
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,480
So this is shows if your cross 
sell and up sell strategies are 

492
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:13,360
working and so you want a high 
average order value that 

493
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,840
indicates that customers are 
making larger purchases. 

494
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,400
So that might be relevant to 
you. 

495
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,080
It is relevant to some 
industries. 

496
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:25,840
I think that's really important 
and you know by the more volume 

497
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,920
for example, that's really 
important. 

498
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:29,440
Have you went to a petrol 
station? 

499
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:34,360
Everyone was in the queue buying
$5 worth of petrol. 

500
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,480
You're clogging out the lines. 
You kind of really want to sell 

501
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,240
them a pie and you want them to 
fill their tanks up. 

502
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,040
So you know that could be 
something that affects your 

503
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,640
business. 
So that that's just something to

504
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:53,200
keep in mind, that's more of a 
traditional value and sorry 

505
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:58,480
statistic. 
And #10, #10 should not be 

506
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,480
looked at lightly. 
And you can actually, this is 

507
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,640
actually really, really, really 
important statistics and the 

508
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,240
statistic is your MPs. 
So we call that your Net 

509
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:15,440
Promoter Score. 
OK, Net Promoter Score is a 

510
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,600
measure of customer loyalty. 
It's really, really important. 

511
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,440
It's a a calculation that's done
in a certain way to really 

512
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,400
figure out who is advocating for
you. 

513
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,800
OK. 
You calculate it by asking 

514
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,680
basically through surveys and 
our large marketing companies 

515
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,440
help with us. 
But you can do it just through 

516
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,960
it through a Google form if you 
want to. 

517
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,640
It is calculated by asking 
customers how likely they are to

518
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,560
recommend your company to 
others. 

519
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,680
OK, so we talk about this 
because we talk about the fact 

520
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,640
that if people are promoting 
you, they love you. 

521
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,040
They might like your product and
service, They might like the 

522
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,920
fact that they can buy their cat
food from you. 

523
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,520
But if they say they are bloody 
awesome, and I'm telling my 

524
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,680
friends, that's showing you how 
your viral marketing is working.

525
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,400
So a higher MPs indicates that 
customers are satisfied with you

526
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,560
and they're all also likely to 
promote. 

527
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,720
So they're going to tell their 
friends and that means your 

528
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,000
marketing is great, but it also 
means that they're really loyal 

529
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,280
to you, right? 
They've got more than just the 

530
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,720
superfiction official connection
with you. 

531
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:21,120
So usually sometimes when people
go over and above with with 

532
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,120
their service or you know, they 
make a mistake that they create 

533
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,160
it really well, people go onto 
social media and they'll say, 

534
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,200
hey look, I dropped my car off 
at the panel beaters and it was 

535
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,240
a wreck and I was really worried
about it and they did such a 

536
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:35,920
good job. 
And then when I went back, they,

537
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:40,280
you know, they told me what they
did and they made it easy and 

538
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:44,040
they gave me a car that I could 
borrow for free while my car was

539
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:48,040
in the shop getting fixed. 
You may advocate for them and 

540
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,840
that's you can have have you 
then got asked about, you know, 

541
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,560
Mark's panel beating store and I
said how likely would you be to 

542
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,600
recommend this company to your 
friends and family? 

543
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,440
And you were like very likely 
then that's a really good thing 

544
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,640
And if they had lots of 
customers who were like that, 

545
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,160
then their Net Promoter score 
would be really high and that's 

546
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,880
that's that's a really important
measure. 

547
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:15,080
So they are 10 statistics that I
think every business owner and 

548
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,600
definitely BA should know about.
These stats provide valuable 

549
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,880
insights in terms of the 
performance of the company. 

550
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,120
It can help you make more 
informed decisions around your 

551
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:30,520
operations indicator, around 
profitability and how you can 

552
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:34,960
reach the strategic goals. 
So hope you enjoyed the show, It

553
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,680
could be dry for some of you, 
but these are stats you should 

554
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,000
really know if you've heard 
something, an acronym or you've 

555
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,120
heard that, that you don't know 
about. 

556
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,080
Give it a bit of a Google, 
understand that there's some 

557
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,640
great material online and yeah, 
I'll see you next time.

