Give every person who visits your business a return-visit discount coupon.
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They could be offered a discount in return for information about their listening.
These do not involve just bonus or discount tickets in return for repeat flight business.
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Repatriation of those offshore profits in places like Bermuda and Singapore could allow a large proportion of foreign profits to return home at a deep discount.
In last year's budget, George Osborne introduced a new norm of 10% of any bequest to be devoted to charity in return for a 10% discount on inheritance tax.
Malaysia claimed that CLOB was illegal and offered to return the shares at a 52% discount and only after a three-year waiting period.
There are other points made there, that few spend beyond the discount coupon itself, few return without a coupon and that some current customers use the coupons, all undesirables for the merchants.
And this is before any illiquidity discount is applied to the VC return.
One challenge when evaluating tech stocks in this particular segment is finding a discount rate (required rate of return) that includes enough of a risk premium.
Penney has some tough sledding ahead, but that it was the only stock in his portfolio that could return 15 times his investment because it trades at a discount to the value of its real estate and inventory.
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Many states still discount their pension liabilities by the assumed rate of return on their assets, often around 8%.
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The Equus Total Return ( EQS) trades at a -58.48 discount, but invests in non-listed securities so the net asset value is open to interpretation.
Operating under guidance from the Government Accounting Standards Board, public plans discount future liabilities at a rate equal to their expected return on assets--which, for the 59 plans in our study, was typically close to 8%.
Because the dividends on Laffer Shares would vary depending upon GDP growth rates, the markets would discount the expected cash flows at an equity rate of return, which is considerably higher than the interest rate on government bonds.
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These discount networks are set up so that merchants can offer automatic discounts for people using certain cards, and in return, the card company promotes the stores who are participating in the discount program.
Since 1975, which includes a period of high inflation, private college tuition has risen an average of 8% a year. (Princeton's smaller climb is illustrated below.) Add in the typical 1% discount expected to be offered by colleges in the plan and the annual return on the Independent would have averaged 9.1%.
This means providing a discount, special offer or inclusion in some sort of exclusive program in order to provide customers a return on investment for their time.
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