Assigning customers to activities in marketing campaigns
First Claim
1. A method of predicting values of marketing campaigns, the method comprising:
- making an assignment of customers to marketing activities of a marketing campaign, the customers being intended targets of the marketing campaign;
making subsequent assignments of the customers to the marketing activities, each subsequent assignment comprising a reassignment of at least one of the customers to a different marketing activity, wherein a customer is not reassigned to a marketing activity to which it has previously been assigned; and
determining a first predicted value of the marketing campaign for each assignment of the customers to the marketing activities.
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Abstract
Methods and systems for assigning customers to steps in marketing campaigns. An assignment module assigns and reassigns the customers to the marketing activities. An evaluation module determines a predicted goal value of the marketing campaign for each assignment. The evaluation module may be coupled to a response prediction module for making the determination. The assignment module does not reassign a customer to a marketing activity that the customer has previously been assigned to. If the assignment module identifies an assignment that leads to an optimum goal value, this assignment may be used when executing the campaign. An execution module may execute campaign steps by performing marketing activities, and a response detection module may detect responses from the customers. The responses may be used in determining subsequent steps of the campaign.
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31 Claims
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1. A method of predicting values of marketing campaigns, the method comprising:
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making an assignment of customers to marketing activities of a marketing campaign, the customers being intended targets of the marketing campaign;
making subsequent assignments of the customers to the marketing activities, each subsequent assignment comprising a reassignment of at least one of the customers to a different marketing activity, wherein a customer is not reassigned to a marketing activity to which it has previously been assigned; and
determining a first predicted value of the marketing campaign for each assignment of the customers to the marketing activities. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for predicting values of marketing campaigns, the system comprising:
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data structures comprising customer objects representing customers that are intended targets of a marketing campaign;
data structures representing marketing activities of the marketing campaign that are to be directed at the customers;
program instructions comprising an assignment module that, when executed by a processor, makes an assignment of the customer objects to the marketing activities and that makes subsequent assignments of the customer objects to the marketing activities by reassigning at least one of the customer objects to a different marketing activity, wherein the assignment module does not reassign a customer object to a marketing activity to which the customer object has previously been assigned; and
program instructions comprising an evaluation module that, when executed by a processor, determines a predicted value of the marketing campaign for each assignment of the customer objects to the marketing activities. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. Computer-readable medium with program instructions stored thereon that when executed perform the following functions for predicting values of marketing campaigns:
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makes an assignment of customers to marketing activities of a marketing campaign, the customers being intended targets of the marketing campaign;
makes subsequent assignments of the customers to the marketing activities, each subsequent assignment comprising a reassignment of at least one of the customers to a different marketing activity, wherein a customer is not reassigned to a marketing activity to which it has previously been assigned; and
determines a first predicted value of the marketing campaign for each assignment of the customers to the marketing activities. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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