This calculator shows the current yield of a bond. Yields are provided before and after taxes. Current yield equals the bond coupon rate divided by the bond's current price.
This calculator computes rates of return, before and after taxes, for a discounted bond and high-coupon bond. Generally, you pay a price below par value discount for a bond that has a low coupon rate relative to market interest rates. You pay a price above par value premium for a...
It makes a difference to your marketing strategy whether your customers buy your stuff because they want to ice cream or because they should carrots. In a recent research paper, Harvard Business School researchers explore the want versus should conflict and what it means to...
A sales letter is a low-cost selling tool; in fact, an email version is one of the most cost-effective ways to reach customers. A good letter by itself may be enough to get the message across. However, in most cases, sales letters are best used in conjunction with other promotional...
You know the woman fishing through a wad of coupons in her purse and holding up the supermarket line? She's one. So is the guy arguing for ten minutes for a 10 cent discount, or the gentleman who'll drive all the way across town for two for one tuna fish....
DALLAS -- Superpages.com[R], a service of Idearc Media Corp., and Entertainment Publications, Inc., the leading provider of promotions and discounts, are working together to satisfy consumer appetite for coupons.
One often-ignored marketing vehicle that can help grow one's business is coupons. Coupons can be powerful marketing tools if they're used right - and are make to stand out from other marketing messages. Coupons are best used to create a short-term blip in traffic at a particular establishment, and they're...
Hertz brings coupon nirvana to the traveling public by announcing that all 2005 dollars-off coupons are good all the time, with no blackout dates, for rentals at all corporately owned airport and suburban locations in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. To eliminate the red...
Three years have passed since the online coupon scare sent consumer products marketers running for the hills. After Herculean efforts by the industry to instill safeguards, educate retailers, and coax brands back, some marketers are taking a fresh look and asking what it will take to make their online coupon...
Email is free. The only catch is that customers have to provide their email address. Since they are not interested in receiving ads by email, how can a person motivate them to provide him with access and permission to advertise to them by email? Coupons. No one wants advertising. Everyone...
Coupons are versatile print ads that entice people to take advantage of a sale, urge them to visit a new location, or reward them for shopping in a store at any time. Restaurants use coupons to build traffic on a normally slow day, amusement parks use them to reduce the...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Coupons, Inc., the leading U.S. provider of consumer-printed coupon marketing and technology solutions, has adapted its BricksTM print-at-home coupon solution to support Apple Computer's (NASDAQ:AAPL) Safari browser under Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3. Coupons, Inc. is the first provider of consumer-printed coupons to offer consumer packaged...
If a person wants a customer to purchase a product for the first time and happens to know that they are already interested, the person should offer them a coupon on their first purchase. Retailers that want new customers for their credit cards do the same thing. Once they have...
Coupon marketing is easily measured, a valuable component in any guerrilla program. Seeing who redeemed the coupons, where the user found the coupons, and tracking print coupons can pinpoint what ads, marketing vehicles, and communication are working best. All that is required is using different codes for different placements. This...
Byline: Amy Johannes A moviegoer settling into his seat to watch Chicken Little last fall, may have been surprised to find a coupon for a free dessert at a local McDonald's tucked into his drink-cup holder. A McDonald's franchisee began testi...
A coupon is a commonly used sales promotion device offering the user a discount on the purchase of a product. This paper reports the results of three experiments that examine whether the economic value of a coupon is a source of information to infer the price of the product/service, and...