Patent ID: 8112327

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of bi-directional marketing with feedback, comprising: establishing a first contractual relationship with a first consumer, via a computing device, the first contractual relationship permitting the consumer to purchase commodities, services, or both, from one or more authorized suppliers including a first supplier; establishing a second contractual relationship with the first supplier, via a computing device, the second contractual relationship permitting the supplier to offer one or more commodities, services, or both, to one or more approved consumers including the first consumer; when the first supplier completes a-sales transactions with the first consumer, charging the first supplier a commission for each sales transaction according to the second contractual relationship; granting the first consumer a consumption credit for each sales transaction, via the computing device; and returning a monetary interest payment to the first consumer for each sales transaction according to the first contractual relationship, once the first consumer's accumulative consumption credit reaches a standard value, wherein the interest payment is based on an amount of the sales transaction between the first consumer and the first supplier and the commission charged to the first supplier; wherein an amount of the monetary interest payment returned to the first consumer for a particular sales transaction is greater than an amount of the commission received from the first supplier for the particular sales transaction such that the amount of the monetary interest payment for the particular sales transaction is equal to N times the amount of the commission charged to the first supplier for the particular sales transaction wherein N is a real number larger than 1.