Customer acquisition involves gaining new customers or converting prospects into customers. It is important for businesses to prepare high budgets for both acquisition and retention. The acquisition process depends on strategies to manage customer inquiries, such as loyalty programs and referrals. Successful acquisition requires ensuring benefits outweigh costs through pricing strategies that account for integration costs and expected benefits. The acquisition process should focus on understanding customer psychology, influences, behaviors, knowledge, and engaging convincing marketing strategies. Customer acquisition is important for companies, especially startups, to ideally gain potential new customers, though it requires a dedicated budget due to higher costs.