Custom advertising and trade facilitation system for internet or e-mail implementation

A custom advertising system for directing advertisements to selected users of the system and for implementation over a telecommunications network comprising:

• a server computer connected to the network, the server computer including or interactively coupled with a database for storing the following information:
• a selection of computer-readable advertisements, target data associated with characteristics of targeted users for each said advertisement;
• user-operable means for inputting profile data into the input device as computer-readable data;
• processing means within or coupled to the server computer for selecting a particular computer-readable advertisement from the database dependent upon a correlation between target data from a particular advertisement and profile data for the user;
• means for transmitting or displaying the particular computer readable advertisement from the server computer to the user.

A user-accessible monitoring and notification method for implementation over a communication network and using a host computer, comprising the steps of:

• defining and maintaining a database in or interactively coupled to a host computer;
• receiving at the host computer request data from users via remote electronic access, and storing the request data in the database, the request data being associated with selected characteristics of notices requested by the users;
• receiving at the host computer multiple notices of existing or potential commercial transactions, each said notice being received as computer-readable data;
• comparing each notice with the request data for each said user;
• and
• transmitting from the host computer an alert relating to a received notice to selected users when the received notice corresponds to the request data for such selected users.

A monitoring and notification system for interaction with users of the system and for implementation over a telecommunications network, the system comprising:

• a server computer connected to the network, the server computer including or interactive with a database;
• means within or associated with the server computer for receiving request data from each said user, and correlating and storing the request data in the database;
• means within or associated with the server computer for receiving multiple notices of existing or potential commercial transactions from users and optionally from other sources;
• means within or associated with the server computer for comparing each notice with the request data;
• means for transmitting an alert to a selected user when a notice corresponds with request data associated with such user.

A method for automatically creating associate websites comprising the steps of:

• establishing a server computer connected to the Internet;
• defining at least one associate website location on the server computer;
• creating a master source code for a master website;
• inserting tags into the master source code text relating to aspects of the master website interface or functionality for exclusion or substitution in the associate website;
• automatically generating the associate website source code by means of a “build” software program;
• and
• generating an associate website from the associate source code.