PORTABLE, ORGANIZED, SUSTAINABLE, TRANSPARENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL ALTERNATIVE PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND BUSINESS METHOD

• US 20110010236A1
• Filed: 07/11/2010
• Published: 01/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michelle Bayana Trillana
• Original Assignee: Michelle Bayana Trillana
• Inventors: BAYANA TRILLANA, MICHELLE
• Application Number:
  US12/834,012
• Publication Number:
  US 20110010236A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.23
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0222 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0253 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of combining an incentive or promotion program with an electronic commerce system as a new and useful improvement to the Art and System of Modern Business Data Processing using different types of Content Management Systems such as a commercial digital directory, reservation system, remote sales personnel system, customer relationship management system, reputation system and digital knowledgebase system over the World Wide Web, for the purpose of providing a compilation of publicly recorded economic activities of individuals and enterprises useful for determining who their customers are, the products and services they need and want; informing customers of their existence; showing customers their products and services and getting them to purchase; tracking resources, and billing and payments; and creating a whole new method of using an incentive program to generate an unlimited number of jobs, sources of income, and fund raising sources for non-profits.

Claims

1. A business method of combining an incentive or promotion program with an electronic commerce system using a collection of Content Management Systems over the World Wide Web comprising a computer-implemented collaboration of a Digital Directory Content Management System, Member Services System, Remote Sales Personnel System, Customer Relationship Management System, and Reputation System accessible over the World Wide Web as a Commercial Electronic Portfolio Management System representing the Sustainable Business Method for the purpose of advertising, job generation, and financial accountability monitoring, and the stimulation of trade on a local, national, and international scale.

2. A business method according to claim 1, wherein the computer-implemented Digital Directory Content Management System comprised of systems, functions, and arrangements of computerized information storage called a portfolio or directory listing is configured to contain a set of information on an individual or entity'"'"'s various services and products offered as an online commercial product offered for free or for a price to any individual person or separate legal entity to advertise or make publicly available information about their products and services through the portability and convenience of remote retrieval and storage of data through the World Wide Web.

3. A business method according to claim 2, wherein every portfolio or directory listing is the central component of the invention created, stored and organized into an electronic directory of different livelihood and business activities as reference for business process outsourcing for the generation of advertising, jobs, and financial accountability.

4. A business method according to claim 2, wherein every portfolio or directory listing is the product and central component used in the implementation of the part of the invention where sales, commissions, and donations are derived from that directly affects the transactions in the Member Services System, Remote Sales Personnel System, Customer Relationship Management System, and Reputation System as a Sustainable Business Method.

5. A business method according to claim 1, wherein the Member Services Systems uses a Subscription System to collect, store, and process the necessary requirements to register, validate, maintain an online user'"'"'s personal information as a member profile, control the permission levels of the various users to view or access the public or private components of the system through the Implemented Website, contain functions that allow members access to their own member-account control panel to view, maintain and update their own member-account profiles and other member-usable features of the system.

6. A business method according to claim 1, wherein all members of the Digital Directory Content Management System, called Builders, and the Remote Sales Personnel Content Management System, called Remote Sales Personnel, are required to be alive and human for the generation of unlimited number of online jobs as independent remote sales and marketing personnel for the online or offline promotion, marketing, reputation building, and customer relationship development of new and existing businesses, goods and services portfolios.

7. A business method according to claim 1, wherein the Remote Sales Personnel Content Management System is a web-based integrated sales, marketing, incentive, commissions and recruitment monitoring system, comprised of a Sales Campaign System, populated by Remote Sales Personnel and the Non-Profit Remote Sales Personnel using a multilevel online Recruitment Process.

8. A business method according to claim 7, wherein the Sales Campaign System is a configurable system for the creation, monitoring, recording, and development of various multi-level recruitment, commission and donation structures, containing sets of marketing and recruitment materials.

9. A business method according to claim 8, wherein each Sales Campaign assigns each Remote Sales Personnel a unique number or ID to identify the Sales Campaign the Remote Sales Personnel has joined to monitor online and offline for sales, marketing and recruitment performance processing.

10. A business method according to claim 8, wherein each Sales Campaign records, monitors and stores the commissions gained by the Remote Sales Personnel and donations due to be given to a non-profit beneficiary from sale of non-free portfolios or directory listings from the Digital Directory Content Management System.

11. A business method according to claim 9, wherein each Sales Campaign records, monitors, and stores the recruitment activities and performance of the Remote Sales Personnel for the generation of reports and content of visual performance monitoring tools.

12. A business method according to claim 10, wherein a sale of a portfolio or directory listings by a Remote Sales Personnel follows a Sales Transaction Process called a Claim Listing Module.

13. A business method according to claim 12, wherein the Claim Listing Module requires that the purchase of a portfolio or directory listing from a Remote Sales Personnel goes through a bidding process open to multiple bidders at a third-party online auction website with the minimum bid price determined by the Builder where winning bidder becomes the owner of the auctioned portfolio or directory listing.

14. A business method according to claim 13, wherein the winning bidder of the auctioned portfolio or directory listing is then required to pay a regularly scheduled subscription fee for the continuous maintenance of the online presence, marketing tasks, content updating tasks, customer relationship management tasks for the purchased portfolio or directory listing, and choose a verified and validated project of a member non-profit beneficiary to support.

15. A business method according to claim 14, wherein the regularly scheduled subscription fee is the regular income derived from the system to produce a Sustainable Business Method to provide regular commissions as regular income to the Remote Sales Personnel and Builders becoming recipients of job opportunities as independent remote sales and marketing personnel, and regular donations as funding for verified and validated projects of member non-profit beneficiaries.

16. A business method according to claim 6, wherein the Remote Sales Personnel of purchased portfolios or directory listings aid in the compilation of publicly recorded economic activities of individuals and enterprises, monitoring of business initiatives for the improvement of decision-making of both business owners and customers, and the creation and maintenance of an electronic directory of different livelihood and business activities as reference for more sources of jobs and income-generating opportunities.

17. A business method according to claim 6, wherein Non-Profit Organizations can register as both donee institutions and Remote Sales Personnel, represented by a live and human staff, to generate more funds for their socially responsible projects by combining income generated through commissions as Remote Sales Personnel and donations as donee institutions, in a way that is portable and cost-efficient to both donors and the non-profit organizations within a transparent financial accountability monitoring system.

18. A business method according to claim 1, wherein the Recruitment Process is the part of the system that is used to populate a multi-tier structure with Remote Sales Personnel where the depth and breadth of the multi-level structure and its commissions structure is based on the configured multi-level structure of the Sales Campaign the Remote Sales Personnel has joined.

19. A business method according to claim 1, wherein the Reputation System and Customer Relationship Management System are integrated into the system to enable customers to post feedback about the quality and value of products and services offered in the portfolio or directory listing to help build the reputation of member advertisers to potential and existing customers, develop a customer-centered certification of credits and credentials of the individuals and enterprises publicly listed in the Digital Directory Content Management System, encourage and motivate Builders and owners of portfolios or directory listings to implement and improve customer relations, and provide technical support to all users of the system.

20. A business method to address the economic need to generate jobs and income directly using the Remote Sales Personnel Content Management System and indirectly using the invention to assist in the promotion and growth of new and existing businesses to eventually hire more people for their own operations, using the information collected and made publicly available through the invention leading to the constant creation and evolution of businesses by propagating the limitless capability of a person to imagine and create new sources of complementary income-generating activities, services and products and serve as a conduit for economic growth on a local, national and international scale.