Segment value · The lifetime value · Element

The duration

How long a customer in this segment stays.

The part

What it is

Measured rather than assumed. Retention differs sharply by segment and is the input that most changes the ranking.

For young businesses the honest answer is that duration is unknown, and using an assumption is fine provided it is labelled.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.