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Business method for promoting goods and services of providers

  • US 20060242024A1
  • Filed: 06/22/2006
  • Published: 10/26/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A business method for promoting goods and services of providers, comprising the steps of:

  • designating a group of targeted recipients;

    storing demographics information of each recipient in an electronic database;

    generating a plurality of direct mail items comprising provider promotions;

    marking each of the direct mail items with a machine-readable ID code unique to each of the recipients;

    sorting the direct mail items by their respective ID codes into cooperative mail packages, each mail package containing multiple items with common ID codes;

    forwarding the mail packages to respective recipients;

    after redemption of a direct mail item by a recipient, reading the ID code and electronically linking it with the recipient'"'"'s demographics information contained in the electronic database; and

    generating a report based on the direct mail items redeemed, said report comprising a geographic map which plots respective locations of recipients.

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