<HTML>In a message dated 5/1/03 5:42:41 PM Central Daylight = Time, Tvak@aol.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Unfortunately, this specific id= ea didn't seem to work for me.  After about a year and a half of informing clients of my referral rebate coupons, only one= person ever cashed one in.  So I just stopped mentioning it. &nbsp= ; I even had cute coupons printed up, with a keyboard border and logo, and all.  It = seemed like a good idea. (Still does...)  It just didn't work. Got alot of other great tips from Mr. Guenther, though. Tom Sivak </BLOCKQUOTE> I tried coupons once too. Except I was offering them to members of a church.= If they had their piano tuned, I would give them a coupon that they could g= ive to the church, and the church could get a discount for the tuning. I had= one guy, for whom I tuned, and then we went to the church and I tuned it, a= t a discount. I think the reason coupons don't work is because only one person is getting = the discount. There is no incentive for the "friend" to use you, because he/= she is not getting the discount. If the customer AND the friend got a $5 dis= count, then it might work. But then, why not just lower your price across th= e board? Wim </HTML>