TRACKING BRAND STRENGTH USING CONSUMER LOCATION DATA AND CONSUMER SURVEY RESPONSES
First Claim
1. A method of analyzing impressions by consumers of a business in a market category, the method comprising:
- analyzing a plurality of units of location data for a plurality of consumers to determine a first number of visits made in a time period by the plurality of consumers to businesses in the market category and a second number of visits, of the first number of visits, made in the time period to the business by the plurality of consumers, the plurality of units of location data having been received from mobile devices operated by the plurality of consumers;
in response to determining that a unit of location data received from a mobile device operated by a consumer indicates that the consumer visited a location associated with one of the businesses in the market category, soliciting the consumer to identify one or more businesses that the consumer considered for fulfilling a commercial purpose for which the consumer visited the one of the businesses, wherein soliciting the consumer comprises transmitting at least one message to the mobile device;
determining, of a first number of responses to the soliciting in the time period, a second number of responses that identify the business; and
generating information on a brand strength of the business, the information on the brand strength comprising information determined based at least in part on the second number of visits and the second number of responses.
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Abstract
Techniques that may be used by a consumer analytics system to track consumers'"'"' knowledge of brands and interactions with brands based in part on location data for consumers and responses to surveys that are distributed to consumers based at least in part on location data for the consumers. Such location data may be received, for example, from mobile devices operated by the consumers. A brand strength may represent any suitable measurement of a fraction or share of a market category. In some embodiments, a consumer analytics system may determine brand strength for a business using factors that each represent a “share” of a market category held by a business. The system may additionally track changes in these factors over time. Examples of factors that may be tracked include brand awareness for a business, brand accessibility for the business, brand consideration, brand usage, and brand favorites.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of analyzing impressions by consumers of a business in a market category, the method comprising:
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analyzing a plurality of units of location data for a plurality of consumers to determine a first number of visits made in a time period by the plurality of consumers to businesses in the market category and a second number of visits, of the first number of visits, made in the time period to the business by the plurality of consumers, the plurality of units of location data having been received from mobile devices operated by the plurality of consumers; in response to determining that a unit of location data received from a mobile device operated by a consumer indicates that the consumer visited a location associated with one of the businesses in the market category, soliciting the consumer to identify one or more businesses that the consumer considered for fulfilling a commercial purpose for which the consumer visited the one of the businesses, wherein soliciting the consumer comprises transmitting at least one message to the mobile device; determining, of a first number of responses to the soliciting in the time period, a second number of responses that identify the business; and generating information on a brand strength of the business, the information on the brand strength comprising information determined based at least in part on the second number of visits and the second number of responses. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon executable instructions that, when executed by at least one computer, cause the at least one computer to carry out a method of analyzing impressions by consumers of a business in a market category, the method comprising:
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analyzing a plurality of units of location data for a plurality of consumers to determine a first number of visits made in a time period by the plurality of consumers to businesses in the market category and a second number of visits, of the first number of visits, made in the time period to the business by the plurality of consumers, the plurality of units of location data having been received from mobile devices operated by the plurality of consumers; in response to determining that a unit of location data received from a mobile device operated by a consumer indicates that the consumer visited a location associated with one of the businesses in the market category, soliciting the consumer to identify one or more businesses that the consumer considered for fulfilling a commercial purpose for which the consumer visited the one of the businesses, wherein soliciting the consumer comprises transmitting at least one message to the mobile device; determining, of a first number of responses to the soliciting in the time period, a second number of responses that identify the business; and generating information on a brand strength of the business, the information on the brand strength comprising information determined based at least in part on the second number of visits and the second number of responses. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. An apparatus comprising:
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at least one processor; and at least one storage medium having encoded thereon executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to carry out a method of analyzing impressions by consumers of a business in a market category, the method comprising; analyzing a plurality of units of location data for a plurality of consumers to determine a first number of visits made in a time period by the plurality of consumers to businesses in the market category and a second number of visits, of the first number of visits, made in the time period to the business by the plurality of consumers, the plurality of units of location data having been received from mobile devices operated by the plurality of consumers; in response to determining that a unit of location data received from a mobile device operated by a consumer indicates that the consumer visited a location associated with one of the businesses in the market category, soliciting the consumer to identify one or more businesses that the consumer considered for fulfilling a commercial purpose for which the consumer visited the one of the businesses, wherein soliciting the consumer comprises transmitting at least one message to the mobile device; determining, of a first number of responses to the soliciting in the time period, a second number of responses that identify the business; and generating information on a brand strength of the business, the information on the brand strength comprising information determined based at least in part on the second number of visits and the second number of responses.
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