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Common KPIs Product Managers Leverage

Common KPIs Product Managers Leverage (These KPIs are widely-used, but generic, you should tailor your KPIs to correlate with the success of your specific product depending on its use cases.)

Business Operations KPIs

  • Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) - total amount of estimated revenue that a company will receive on a monthly basis. Could be referred to as annual recurring revenue (ARR).

  • Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV or LTV) - total amount of money a customer is estimated to spend on your products or services during their lifetime

  • Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) - total cost of marketing spent to have potential customer to buy a product or service

Subscriptions KPIs

  • Retention rate - the percentage of subscribers who are still subscribed after a specified time period

  • Churn rate - the percentage of subscribers who are no longer subscribed after a specified time period (inverse of retention rate)

  • Number of active subscriptions - the current number of active paying subscribers, that are not expired

  • Trial to paid conversation - the percentage of total subscription trialers that end up converting to a paid subscription after their trial ends

Engagement KPIs

  • Number of sessions per user - one session refers to any user doing activities on a product or a website, capped by exiting the website or by a period of user inactivity

  • Number of user actions per session - how much activity happens in each session

  • Session duration - the average time spent on each session

  • Daily Active Users (DAU) - number of unique users per day

  • Monthly Active Users (MAU) - number of unique users per month

  • DAU / MAU - a ratio effective at measuring the rate of stickiness, for products that are meant to be used daily

  • Lness - This number of days a user has used a specific feature in a given time frame. For example, L10+/14, represents the percentage of users who have used the specific feature in the past 2 weeks (or 14 days).

Marketing KPIs

  • Click-through rate (CTR) - percentage of people who click on an ad, or link in an email campaign, out of the total people who have seen it

  • Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) - total cost of marketing spent to have potential customer to buy a product or service

Referral KPIs

  • Net Promoter Score (NPS) - a metric that estimates the loyalty of a customer and how much they would be willing to refer your product to other people (administered through customer surveys, with a score range from -100 to +100)

  • Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) - a metric to gauge customer satisfaction (usually administered after a customer support engagement, with a range from 0 - 100%)


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