השוואת שיטות

	RFM Analysis	ערך חיי לקוח
תחום	שיווק	שיווק
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	2006	1996
הוגה השיטה	Arthur M. Hughes (popularizer); roots in direct-mail catalog marketing	Robert Blattberg and John Deighton
סוג	Behavioral customer-segmentation and scoring pipeline	Financial modeling methodology
מקור מכונן	Hughes, A. M. (2006). Strategic Database Marketing: The Masterplan for Starting and Managing a Profitable, Customer-Based Marketing Program (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 9780071457507	Blattberg, R. C., Getz, G., & Thomas, J. S. (2001). Customer Equity: Building and Managing Relationships as Assets. Harvard Business School Press. ISBN: 978-0875847191
כינויים	RFM Segmentation, Recency-Frequency-Monetary Analysis, RFM Scoring, RFM Model	CLV, LTV, Customer Value
קשורות	4	5
תקציר	RFM analysis is a long-standing, behavior-based method for scoring and segmenting customers by how recently they purchased (Recency), how often they purchase (Frequency), and how much they spend (Monetary value). Rooted in catalog and direct-mail marketing and popularized in Arthur Hughes's Strategic Database Marketing, it rests on the empirical observation that customers who bought recently, buy frequently, and spend more are the most likely to respond to the next offer. The classic procedure ranks customers into quintiles on each of the three dimensions, assigns each a score from 1 to 5, and combines the scores into cells, typically a 5x5x5 grid of 125 segments. Campaign managers then measure historical response rates per cell, compare them to a break-even threshold derived from contact cost and order margin, and target only the cells that are profitable to contact. Despite its simplicity, RFM is remarkably effective and cheap to run, requiring only transaction history. It remains a workhorse for segmentation and a natural precursor to model-based customer-base analysis and lifetime-value estimation.	Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is a financial metric that quantifies the total profit a company expects to generate from its relationship with a customer over the entire duration of that relationship. Developed through work by Blattberg, Getz, and Thomas in the 1990s-2000s, CLV integrates acquisition costs, purchase behavior, retention rates, and margin information to estimate the net present value of each customer.