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Lifetime Value - a personal odyssey
John WhiteheadWaterAidSeptember 2011
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Cash Gifts v. Committed Giving
• It is much harder to model lifetime value for cash donors than for regular donors.
• Cash donors lapse after each gift, and you may only receive one or two gifts a year per donor.
• Regular donors continue until cancellation and for monthlies you receive 12 gifts a year.
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How simplistic can you get?
• One year value = annual value of the Direct Debit
• Four year value = 4x annual value of the Direct Debit
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But we all know about attrition and how many donors you can lose in the first year.
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Direct Debit Retention by Recruitment Channel
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
0 6 12 18 24 30 36
Months
Inserts DRTV Face-to-Face
52.2%
37.1%
84.6%
95.0%
88.7%
72.7%
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Version 1Baseline Lifetime Value
• Simple Excel Model
• Initial DD value, factoring monthly attrition
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Version 2
• Baseline model plus the following factors, with associated costs.
• Channel• Recruitment costs• Annual stewardship costs• Gift Aid rates• DP opt-out rates• Upgrade propensity• Cash appeal responsiveness
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Over what period?
• I year?
• 5 years?
• 10 years?
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The relative performance of different channels does
depend on the time horizon• Face-to-face may well break even first by
virtue of the high average gift value.• Even after two years inserts probably have a
lower ROI than either DRTV or F2F.• At WaterAid inserts start to pull ahead after
three years.• We look at net LTV after 5 years, by which
time inserts lead DRTV with F2F in a poor third place.
• But in detail, some DRTV segments and some insert segments deliver similar 5year LTV.
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However…
• …At the end of 5 years you could well have lost less than 30% of your insert donors...
• …nearly 50% of your DRTV donors…
• …and 75% of your F2F donors.
• So the story continues beyond 5 years
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Does “donor half life” help?
• We lose 50% of our face 2 face donors in 12-14 months
• We lose 50% of our DRTV donors in 60-64 months
• But to lose 50% of our inserts donors takes over 120 months
• Sadly, unlike radiation, the decay rate is not steady, so this judges channels like F2F too harshly...
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5 Year Survival Rate
• A channel with a high annual value and a high attrition rate may have a similar, or better 5yr LTV than a channel with a low annual value but a low attrition rate.
• But you may have many more of the lower value donors left at the end of 5 years
• Reporting the 5 year survival rate alongside LTV helps tell the full story.
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Our 5 year survival rates are something like this
Inserts 75%DRTV 55%Face to Face
20%
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It’s all about survival folks!