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Discount
a reduction in the price of goods or services in relation to the standard price. A discount is a selling technique that is used, for example, to encourage customers to...
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Discount Your Prices, Not Your Brand
Big discount sales can work wonders to attract new customers and clear out stubborn inventory, but they can also erode the equity of higher-end marks and hurt the image of the stores that sell them. New research from the Miami University shows that discounting goods can lead consumers to expect...
Tags: Marketing Research, Pricing, Sales Strategy, Discount, Brand, Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, Andrew Hines
Blog posts 2007-07-16
Retailers Struggle as Discount Strategies Fail
With sales abundant in most stores, consumers are reaping the benefits of the recession. As Michelle Miller reports, retailers may not be able to sustain discounts for long.
Tags: Strategy, Retail Company, MoneyWatch, Retail, Sales Strategy, Discount, Benefits, Human Resources, discount detox, michelle miller, discounts, sales, recession, retailers, stores, shopping, sunday morning
Videos 2009-03-15
Anheuser Busch Discount to InBev Deal
Scott Rothbort submits: Budweiser BUD continues to trade at a big discount to the $70 all cash acquisition price from InBev. On Thursday InBev (INBVF.PK) affirmed that the deal is on track. I hear from my investment banking experts that the deal is fully funded. However, the arbitrageurs who...
Tags: Anheuser-Busch, Discount, Investment Banking, Seeking Alpha, Scott Rothbort, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Retail
External links 2008-11-09
Cohen & Steers: CEF 'Spring-Loaded' in Market Recovery
Joe Eqcome submits: During the current market decline, the share price-to-NAV discounts of closed-end funds CEFs have widened to 14.5%. This is the widest discount when compared to year-end comparables. As the equity markets recover, the discounts will narrow generating incremental returns over the market’s returns. In 2003, the CEF...
Tags: Recovery, Discount, Equity, Market, Seeking Alpha, Joe Eqcome, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, ETF
External links 2008-10-23
Announcement Of New Discount
To attract more customers you need to give them discounts. And if you have made your mind to do so, use this template to announce new discount.
Tags: Discount
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Denial Of Request For Additional Discount
Your customer is asking for additional discount, but your company policies don't allow this and you want to inform this to customer. Here is a template that will help you in doing this.
Tags: Discount
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Denial For Price Discount
If your customer has asked you for the discount on the purchase they have made. And as per the company policy you cant give the discount. Use this template to explain your customer about your pricing policy and the discount given on it.
Tags: Discount, Pricing Strategy, FreeBusinessForms.com, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Buyer Shopping Costs and Retail Pricing: An Indirect Empirical Test
Suppose that consumers incur fixed shopping costs and choose stores according to advertised discounts. Then, the extent to which a store will discount advertised items should increase with the profit from other regularly-priced items. Bookstores customarily advertise discounts on bestsellers. 9.5 (? 2.2) higher bestseller percentage discounts. This paper presents...
Tags: Discount, Pricing Strategy, Internet-Journals, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2005-04-30
Transaction Prices and Managed Care Discounting for Selected Medical Technologies: A Bargaining Approach
It is generally assumed that managed care has been successful at capturing discounts from medical providers, but the implications have been a matter of debate. Critics argue that managed care organizations attain savings by reducing intensity of services, while others have argued that savings are 'real' and are a consequence...
Tags: National Bureau Of Economic Research, Discount
White papers 2004-03-01
Closed-End Funds: A Dynamic Model Of Premiums And Discounts
Closed-end funds have been a topic of interest among finance academics and professionals on five counts. First, they tend to sell above their net asset value at their commencement. Second, they start selling at a discount within a year. Third, this discount is volatile but mean reverting. Fourth, the news...
Tags: Discount, Asset Management, Investment, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 2002-12-01
More Burglaries Occur in Summer Than Any Other Season - Learn How to Protect Your Home, Warns the I.I.I.
This paper discusses the protection accessories covered under insurance. Insurance companies provide discounts for devices that make a home safer. Most companies give discounts of two-to-five percent for dead-bolt locks, and smoke/fire alarms. Discounts of 15 to 20 percent are also available if home-owner installs a sophisticated smoke and burglar...
Tags: Insurance Information Institute, Discount, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
White papers
Valuation Discounts- An Analysis Of The Services Position Compared With Litigated Cases
"While the Service resists the application of valuation discounts in family business situations, the presence in the Regulations of the willing buyer/willing seller test for determining the value of transferred property means that the courts are generally prepared to consider the reality of significant discounts when properly supported by a...
Tags: Valuation, Discount, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, Analysis, Valuation Discount, Investment, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Prices, Margins and Discounts
Article points out that price always communicates. Big discounts send messages that customers will interpret as indicators of high margins and/or desperate vendors. These are not good messages to send. It is far better to position ones prices and services consistent with the delivery capabilities and offer modest discounts that...
Tags: Margin, Discount
White papers 2003-01-01
Perks Of Membership Discounts
Over the last few months of economic turmoil, consumers have been quick to look for discounts, although some may be missing out on top bargains from work or memberships. WCBS' Kirsten Cole reports.
Tags: Discount, MoneyWatch, WCBS, Business, Money, Checking, Savings, Shop, Online, Web, Internet, Cheap, Perk, Website, Bargain, Save, Recession, Economy, Depression, 2009, Fiscal, Finance, Deal, Coupon
Videos 2009-03-17
How Much Is Free Freight Worth?
This article examines a process that determines whether or not placing a free-freight order is a good buy. There are instances where profitability can be maximized by paying the freight. The first question to be asked is, how much is free freight worth? It's the dollar amount on the freight...
Tags: Discount, Effective Inventory Management
White papers 1998-01-01

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Microsoft has launched BizSpark, a global programme designed to help businesses, especially Small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs, to build their markets with free and discounted software, technical support and market visibility. BizSpark is aimed at private companies and individuals building a software-based product or service, being...
Articles 2009-12-02
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Articles 2009-11-11
AUTODESK ADDS SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS TO ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
With more than 4,700 participants in the Autodesk Assistance Program and more than 5,400 product downloads to date, Autodesk is announcing significant additions to the program announced six weeks ago. The program was designed to help displaced workers in the architecture, engineering, design and manufacturing industries...
Articles 2009-07-01
EUTELSAT'S TOOWAY RAISES SPEEDS FROM 2 MPS TO 3.6 MPS.
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL), Europe's leading satellite operator, has increased the speed of its innovative ToowayTM consumer broadband service to 3.6 Mbps from 2 Mbps for no added cost. Maximum uplink speeds have also increased to 384 kbps for all customers. In addition, overnight usage...
Articles 2009-07-01
Hints that can ease a little stress
Dear Heloise: I have read your column in our local paper (Sacramento, Calif.) for many years and also read the great hints on your Web site, www.Heloise.com. I have a couple of hints on using inexpensive items, and I wanted to share them: Plastic pitchers with lids...
Articles 2009-06-25
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