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爱德华·博克：爱德华·博克自传·补录 217
爱德华·博克《爱德华·博克自传》· The Americanization of Edward Bok · 领导
This wonderful offer appealed with singular force to the class of readers of this particular paper, and they decided to take advantage of it. The advertisement appeared on Sunday, and Monday's first mail brought the magazine over eight hundred letters with ten cents enclosed "for a year's subscription as per your advertisement in yesterday's --." The magazine management consulted its lawyer, who advised the publisher to make the newspaper pay the extra ninety cents on each subscription, and, although this demand was at first refused, the proprietors of the daily finally yielded. At the end of the first week eight thousand and fifty-five letters with ten cents enclosed had reached the magazine, and finally the total was a few over twelve thousand!
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定位：Additional excerpt 217 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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一份杂志推出看似亏本的订阅优惠，读者信以为真，纷纷寄来十美分。杂志方本可自行承担差额，却依据律师建议要求登广告的报纸补足每份九十美分，报纸起初拒绝，最终妥协。结果一周内涌来八千多封，总计超过一万两千封。核心在于：促销承诺必须兑现，否则会引发大量索赔；而成本分担要在合作前就谈清楚，不能等出事再推诿。可执行的做法是：设计优惠时先算清最坏情况下的兑付成本，并在合同中明确广告方与发行方的责任边界。
上下文
出自博克的回忆录，讲述他早年在美国杂志界经历的一次促销风波，反映了当时广告与发行合作中的法律与诚信问题。
今日一问
你设计促销活动时，是否提前算过最坏情况下的兑付成本，并明确各方责任？
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