Systems and methods for promoting daily deals
OwnerLouis Lamoureux, Serene Hopeinventors
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Abstract
Systems and methods provide a variety of ways in which to generate and promote multi-merchant deals spanning multiple geographical regions and/or multiple industries. In deals involving merchants from two or more industries, customers may be provided with one ticket per person per industry. Any goods and/or services provided by the merchants from different industries are not intertwined with one another so as to form one experience. Further, in deals involving merchants from the same industry, the customer may be provided with a choice as to which merchant to redeem the goods and/or services. Likewise, in some examples, the customer may choose in which geographical region to receive the goods and/or services.
Claims21
A method of promoting a multi-industry daily deal, the method comprising steps of:
- identifying a first merchant from a first industry and a second merchant from a second industry to participate in a daily deal;
- specifying terms of the daily deal, wherein at least one of the terms of the daily deal calls for each of the first and second merchants to provide a good, a service, or a combination of the good and the service;
- distributing at least a portion of the terms of the daily deal;
- and
- providing a customer with a first ticket redeemable at the first merchant and a second ticket redeemable at the second merchant.
A non-transitory computer readable media having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a computer, perform steps comprising:
- providing a user of a website with a list of merchants;
- receiving input from the user regarding a deal, the input including a selection of a first merchant and a second merchant to participate in the deal, wherein the first merchant is from a first industry and the second merchant is from a second industry;
- and
- generating for a customer of the deal a first ticket redeemable at the first merchant and a second ticket redeemable at the second merchant.
A method of promoting a deal, the method comprising steps of:
- identifying a first merchant and a second merchant to participate in a deal, wherein the first and second merchants are independently owned, wherein the first merchant is associated with a first brand and the second merchant is associated with a second brand;
- specifying terms of the deal, wherein at least one of the terms of the deal calls for the first merchant or the second merchant to provide a good, a service, or a combination of the good and the service;
- distributing at least one of at least a portion of the terms of the deal or a coupon associated with the deal;
- and
- providing a customer with a ticket that is redeemable at the first merchant or the second merchant based on a choice of the customer.
A non-transitory computer readable media having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a computer, perform steps comprising:
- providing a user of a website with a list of merchants;
- receiving input from the user regarding a deal, the input including a selection of a first merchant and a second merchant to participate in the deal, wherein the first and second merchants are independently owned and associated with different brands;
- and
- generating a ticket for a customer that purchases the daily deal, wherein the ticket is redeemable at the first merchant or the second merchant.
A non-transitory computer readable media having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a computer, perform steps comprising:
- receiving data from merchants that is indicative of a quantity of customers that have redeemed tickets, wherein each redeemed ticket is associated with one of the merchants and with a deal;
- displaying a merchant interface on a website that at least shows information regarding a number of tickets that were redeemed at a first merchant, wherein the merchant interface includes at least one of a graph or a chart, wherein the information regarding the number of tickets that were redeemed at the first merchant is at least one of filterable or sortable by at least one of a daily deal firm or a customer.
A non-transitory computer readable media having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a computer, perform steps comprising:
- receiving data from merchants that is indicative of a quantity of customers that have redeemed tickets, wherein each redeemed ticket is associated with one of the merchants and with a deal organized by a promoter;
- displaying a promoter interface on a website that at least shows information regarding the quantity of customers that have redeemed tickets, wherein the information regarding the quantity of customers that have redeemed tickets are at least one of filterable or sortable by at least one of a deal, a geographical region, a daily deal firm, a merchant, a timeframe, or an industry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.