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The idea from a seller's viewpoint is to offer some discount but have the buyer showing some "counter action" to earn this special discount. Sellers like this as the discount granted is not just "given for free" and makes future price/value negotiations easier. Buyers have the advantage of getting some value for something no longer used.
Kids eat free specials: Offers a discount on the total dining bill by offering 1 free kids meal with each regular meal purchased. Sampling: Consumers get one sample for free, after their trial and then could decide whether to buy or not. New technologies have provided a range of new opportunities for sales promotions.
Coca-Cola's 1888-issued "free glass of" is the earliest documented coupon. [6] [7] Coupons were mailed to potential customers and placed in magazines. It is estimated that between 1894 and 1913 one in nine Americans had received a free Coca-Cola, for a total of 8,500,000 free drinks. By 1895, Coke was served in every state in the United States. [8]
In marketing, a rebate is a form of buying discount and is an amount paid by way of reduction, return, or refund that is paid retrospectively. It is a type of sales promotion that marketers use primarily as incentives or supplements to product sales.
The term 'promotion' tends to be used internally by the marketing function. To the public or the market, phrases like "special offer" are more common. Examples of fully integrated, long-term, and large-scale promotions are My Coke Rewards in the USA or Coke Zone in the UK and Pepsi Stuff.
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Discounts and allowances, reductions in the basic prices of goods or services; Discounting, a financial mechanism in which a debtor obtains the right to delay payments to a creditor; Delay discounting, the decrease in perceived value of receiving a good at a later date compared with receiving it at an earlier date; Discount store