Method for establishing cooperative marketing groups
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1. A method of community marketing comprising:
- collecting customer information from at least two merchants;
categorizing the customer information into at least two predetermined categories; and
distributing a promotion to at least one of the at least two categories.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of marketing. The method includes collecting customer information from at least two merchants, categorizing the customer information into at least two predetermined categories, and distributing a promotion to at least one of the at least two categories.
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1. A method of community marketing comprising:
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collecting customer information from at least two merchants;
categorizing the customer information into at least two predetermined categories; and
distributing a promotion to at least one of the at least two categories. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of marketing comprising:
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collecting customer information from at least two merchants;
categorizing the customer information into at least one predetermined merchant category and into at least one predetermined community category;
distributing a promotion to customers in at least one of the at least one predetermined merchant category or the at least one predetermined community category;
collecting statistics related to the distributing of the promotion; and
optimizing the method of community marketing based on the statistics. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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