Method Employing Two-Sided Promotion for Uniting Clients With Businesses
First Claim
1. An incentive-based method for introducing customers to businesses and providing feedback to businesses providing incentive offers, said method employing a provider computer means having data storage means, network communications and means to communicate with users having one or a plurality of computing device including desktops, laptops, pad devices, and smartphones, and employing software adapted to the steps of:
- communicating a graphic interface to a video display viewable by a remote user;
employing said graphic interface to elicit and communicate user information data, said user information data including at least user contact information, and a user location;
assigning a user-identifier to each respective said user providing said contact information;
storing respective said user information data related their respective user-identifier;
assigning each respective said, a user maximum number of said incentive offers which may be accepted without said respective user providing feedback on said offers;
inputting to said data storage means, incentive offers available to users from subscribing businesses, in combination with a provision-location, where each respective business provides said incentive offer;
matching said incentive offers and their respective provision-location with users having a proximate user-locations;
publishing said incentive offers in a manner viewable by said users;
allowing said users receiving said incentive offers to communicate acceptance;
upon communication of said acceptance, ascertaining said user is below said maximum number of said incentive offers accepted, and is therefor an eligible user;
communicating said user-identifier of said eligible user to said business providing said incentive offer as a means to identify arriving said users as eligible;
providing said users means to input said feedback regarding said business providing said incentive offer; and
providing said feedback from said users, to said respective business providing said incentive offer.
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Abstract
A system is provided for introducing customers to local businesses using incentives such as free goods or services. The system employs a server having a database and network communications and software capable of communicating with one or a plurality of user computing devices including a desktop, laptop, pad device, and smartphone. The system also includes inducements to the customers to continually provide valuable feedback to the business by limiting and increasing the number of incentives a user may have based on the number and quality of the feedback each user provides. Because the identities of the users visiting the businesses are known, the system provides a means to insure more constructive feedback to the businesses who are aware their identity is known, as opposed to the current mode where anonymous feedback is communicated which may be less than honest or actually placed by a competitor.
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20 Claims
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1. An incentive-based method for introducing customers to businesses and providing feedback to businesses providing incentive offers, said method employing a provider computer means having data storage means, network communications and means to communicate with users having one or a plurality of computing device including desktops, laptops, pad devices, and smartphones, and employing software adapted to the steps of:
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communicating a graphic interface to a video display viewable by a remote user; employing said graphic interface to elicit and communicate user information data, said user information data including at least user contact information, and a user location; assigning a user-identifier to each respective said user providing said contact information; storing respective said user information data related their respective user-identifier; assigning each respective said, a user maximum number of said incentive offers which may be accepted without said respective user providing feedback on said offers; inputting to said data storage means, incentive offers available to users from subscribing businesses, in combination with a provision-location, where each respective business provides said incentive offer; matching said incentive offers and their respective provision-location with users having a proximate user-locations; publishing said incentive offers in a manner viewable by said users; allowing said users receiving said incentive offers to communicate acceptance; upon communication of said acceptance, ascertaining said user is below said maximum number of said incentive offers accepted, and is therefor an eligible user; communicating said user-identifier of said eligible user to said business providing said incentive offer as a means to identify arriving said users as eligible; providing said users means to input said feedback regarding said business providing said incentive offer; and providing said feedback from said users, to said respective business providing said incentive offer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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