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If you’re ever going to tout your solution’s ability to increase sales - perhaps this isn’t the way. I sent a site to a friend of mine Jason, and he found this great little case study on how a restaurant pushed their 1/2 price special and almost doubled their sales.

Hmmm.

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Comment by Mike Schinkel
2008-06-01 02:59:16

The question is, did they double their sales in units or in dollars? I wouldn’t necessarily poo-poo the latter…
Comment by Douglas Karr
2008-06-01 09:53:43

Hi Mike,

No doubt there was some result there that the customer was happy enough with to do help write a white paper on. It’s just a very odd choice to put up as a ‘Business Result’.

My guess is that they had a 1/2 price sale on some products, perhaps their appetizers, and then they doubled their overall sales per customer on entrees.

Cheers!
Doug

 
 
Comment by Patric Welch
2008-06-01 08:42:20

Why stop at 1/2 price? They could put the items at 1/4 price and quadruple their sales!
Comment by Douglas Karr
2008-06-01 09:54:20

That’s what I was thinking! :)
 
 
Comment by Erik Deckers
2008-06-02 08:39:02

It reminds me of a story — I don’t know if it’s true or not — about a guy who doubled toothpaste sales by increasing the size of the hole in the tube.
 
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