Gift messaging based customer acquisition

Apparatus operable in a network communications environment to operable to perform operations comprising:

• receiving from a client network node associated with a gift recipient, a request associated with a gift purchased from a vendor by a product purchaser for the gift recipient in connection with a purchase transaction;
• based on receipt of the request, transmitting to the client network node a network resource comprising a message delivery control to deliver a message regarding the gift and a marketing preference control to indicate a preference regarding receipt of direct marketing communications, wherein the network resource comprises an interface that concurrently presents on the client network node a graphical representation of the message delivery control and a graphical representation of the marketing preference control comprising a user-changeable indicator of the gift recipient's marketing preference regarding receipt of direct marketing communications;
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• in response to receipt of a user selection of the message delivery control from the client network node, delivering the message regarding the gift and generating a marketing preference record comprising a marketing preference indication corresponding to the indicator of the gift recipient's marketing preference and information evidencing the indication of the marketing preference by the gift recipient.

At least one computer-readable medium having processor-readable program code embodied therein, the processor-readable program code adapted to be executed in a network communications environment by one or more server network nodes to perform operations comprising:

• receiving from a client network node associated with a gift recipient, a request associated with a gift purchased from a vendor by a product purchaser for the gift recipient in connection with a purchase transaction;
• based on receipt of the request, transmitting to the client network node a network resource comprising a message delivery control to deliver a message regarding the gift and a marketing preference control to indicate a preference regarding receipt of direct marketing communications, wherein the network resource comprises an interface that concurrently presents on the client network node a graphical representation of the message delivery control and a graphical representation of the marketing preference control comprising a user-changeable indicator of the gift recipient's marketing preference regarding receipt of direct marketing communications;
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• in response to receipt of a user selection of the message delivery control from the client network node, delivering the message regarding the gift and generating a marketing preference record comprising a marketing preference indication corresponding to the indicator of the gift recipient's marketing preference and information evidencing the indication of the marketing preference by the gift recipient.