Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed including a computer-implemented sales Lead Marketplace System (LMS) configured to provide sales leads or information associated with customers to merchants. In various embodiments, the lead marketplace presents a user interface, implemented using various software modules running on a computing device, to customers to specify their identities and the goods and services they seek. The customer information is packaged as a sales lead and sold to merchants via the lead marketplace. The LMS imports consumer and merchant calendars to coordinate the service schedule and sends automatic reminders to both to ensure service is performed as scheduled. LMS may also collect various information about the merchants and the customers, such as customer satisfaction, merchant's quality of work, merchant's and customer's behavior, and the like to build a profile for each to allow matching of customers and merchants for high quality results for both.

Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed a self-service computing platform having a software interface, such as a webpage, which allows a merchant or advertiser to create a customized merchant platform and use it to enroll or register itself in a marketplace. In various embodiments, a webpage is provided pre-filled merchant-specific information including offers and incentives related to customer leads. A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) service is provided to assist the merchant in contacting and managing the given customer leads. Dynamic CRM (DCRM) and Advertiser CRM (ACRM) services may further assist the merchant in managing the sales and marketing activities relating to the given customers. Such activities may include contacting, engaging, status inquiry, and sales with respect to customers whose lead information were provided to the merchant. In various embodiments, incentives given to the merchant may include new customer leads, credits, discounts, services, and the like.

Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed including computer software interface, such as a webpage, which allows a user to enter one or more merchant identification information and displays automatically computed merchant score(s) to the user indicating a level of influence and/or quality of the entered merchant(s) as perceived by its customers or other businesses. The displayed merchant score may be computed based on multiple predefined parameters collected from various data sources including social networks like Facebook, Google+, Tweeter®, Linkedin®, and the like, as well as from other sources such as internet blogs, newsletters, industry web portals and discussion forums, commercial databases, chamber of commerce, other ratings, coupons, published articles, reviews, and the like.