A method being implemented by an improved computer system programmed for matching in accordance with the method, comprising:
- electronically obtaining, by a specially programmed computer matching system, via a computer network, business information regarding a plurality of businesses and a plurality of offerings offered by the plurality of businesses;
- wherein:
- 1) the plurality of offerings comprises services, products, or both;
- 2) the business information comprises:
- i) information about each business being submitted by such business in accordance with at least the following conditions agreed to by each business:
- a) the information being submitted is complete,
- b) the information being submitted is truthful, and
- c) the information being submitted is accurate;
- ii) business profile information corresponding to at least one of business profile personality tiers, comprising:
- a) a first business profile personality tier comprising responses to a Y(1) number of psychometric questions displayed to at least one representative of such business,
- b) a second business profile personality tier comprising responses to a Y(2) number of psychometric questions displayed to the at least one representative of such business, and
- wherein the Y(1) number being less than the Y(2) number;
- wherein the plurality of businesses comprises at least one thousand business;
- storing, by the specially programmed computer matching system, in at least one database, the business information regarding the plurality of businesses and the plurality of offerings offered by the plurality of businesses;
- electronically receiving, for each business of the plurality of businesses, by the specially programmed computer matching system, via the computer network, from at least one first consumer of a plurality of consumers, utilizing at least one first computing device, responses to at least one consumer rating survey having a predetermined number of questions, wherein the predetermined number of questions are divided into a plurality of groups, wherein each group of questions is correlated to a respective rating category of a plurality of rating categories, comprising at least the following rating categories:
- 1) service,
- 2) value,
- 3) ethics,
- 4) competence,
- 5) environment, and
- 6) price;
- analyzing, for each business of the plurality of businesses, by the specially programmed computer matching system, the responses based, at least in part, on predictive analytics to calculate or recalculate a respective rating category score for each of the respective rating category of the plurality of rating categories, comprising at least the following rating categories:
- 1) service,
- 2) value,
- 3) ethics,
- 4) competence,
- 5) environment, and
- 6) price;
- causing, by the specially programmed computer matching system, via the computer network, to concurrently display at least one first graphical user interface to at least one first group of consumers of the plurality of consumers on respective computing devices of the at least one first group of consumers, wherein the at least one first graphical user interface is configured to electronically obtain from each consumer of the at least one first group of consumers at least:
- i) personal identifying information of such consumer to be validated prior to conducting a personalized two-way personality matching of such consumer to at least one business;
- ii) personal consumer psychometric profile information comprising responses to at least ten personality psychometric questions displayed to such consumer;
- (iii) at least one business identifying matching parameter, identifying at least one identifying characteristic associated with at least one of:
- 1) at least one business, offering at least one service, at least one product, or both, being desired by such consumer,
- 2) the at least one service, the at least one product, or both, being desired by such consumer, and
- 3) a combination of thereof;
- iv) at least one geographic indication, identifying at least one geographic location associated with the at least one business, offering the at least one service, the at least one product, or both, desired by such consumer;
- v) ranked filtering criteria, wherein the ranked filtering criteria are ranked categories of the plurality of rating categories, comprising at least the following rating categories:
- 1) service,
- 2) value,
- 3) ethics,
- 4) competence,
- 5) environment, and
- 6) price;
- wherein the plurality of consumers comprises at least one thousand consumers;
- prior to conducting the personalized two-way personality matching for the respective consumer of the at least one first group of consumers, validating, by the specially programmed computer matching system, each consumer of the at least one first group of consumers based on the personal identifying information of such consumer;
- based on an outcome of the validating, concurrently conducting the personalized two-way personality matching, by the specially programmed computer matching system, between each consumer of the at least one first group of consumers and at least one business,
- i) wherein the at least one business has been selected based at least in part on:
- 1) the at least one business identifying matching parameter respectively obtained from each consumer of the at least one first group of consumers,
- 2) the at least one geographic indication respectively obtained from each consumer of the at least one first group of consumers,
- 3) the ranked filtering criteria respectively obtained from each consumer of the at least one first group of consumers, and
- 4) the plurality of rating category scores,
- ii) wherein the personalized two-way personality matching between each consumer of the at least one first group of consumers and the at least one business is based on:
- 1) the personal consumer psychometric profile information of such consumer, and
- 2) respective responses to psychometric questions from at least one of the business profile personality tiers associated with the at least one business;
- and
- causing, by the specially programmed matching computer system, to concurrently output, via the computer network, utilizing at least one second graphical user interface at the respective computing device of each consumer of the at least one first group of consumers, a respective personalized two-way personality matching result to each consumer of the at least one first group of consumers, wherein the respective personalized two-way personality matching result identifies an existence of a respective personalized two-way personality match between such consumer and the at least one business.