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Using commercial share of wallet to compile marketing company lists

  • US 8,175,945 B2
  • Filed: 10/14/2011
  • Issued: 05/08/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for evaluating business prospects of a company, comprising:

  • modeling, by a computer-based system configured to evaluate the business prospects of a company, industry spending patterns using individual corporate data and aggregate corporate data, wherein the computer-based system comprises a computer processor and a tangible memory, and wherein the modeling comprises;

    identifying the cost of goods sold and operating expenses from at least one of the individual corporate data and the aggregate corporate data;

    at least one of identifying the cardable operating expenses from the operating expenses and identifying a cardable operating expenses ratio from aggregate corporate data;

    at least one of summing the cardable operating expenses with the cost of goods sold and summing the cost of goods sold with the product of operating expenses and the cardable operating expenses ratio;

    estimating, by the computer-based system, a commercial size of spending wallet for the company based on, at least, financial statement data of the business, total known business spending of the business, and the model of industry spending patterns, wherein the commercial size of spending wallet is the total cardable business spending of the business; and

    rating, by the computer-based system, the company based upon the commercial size of spending wallet of the company.

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