Patent ID: 8429045

Claim:
An information handling system associated with a financial services company, comprising: a member communication engine configured to communicate a financial services company member login web page to a client computer and receive an authentication request from the client computer, the information handling system being communicatively coupled with the client computer via a public packet-based network, the member communication engine including an authentication module configured to authenticate the authentication request as being associated with a member; a member database communicatively coupled to the member communication engine and configured to provide to the client computer for display after authentication, a user web page providing a menu of accounts provided by the financial services company and belonging to the member, the menu of accounts to include at least one general-purpose email account and at least one financial account provided by the financial services company; and an email server communicatively coupled to the member communication engine and configured to implement the at least one general-purpose email account; wherein the member communication engine is configured to detect when the member is using the system, and in response, transmit a marketing material and a competitor comparison to the general-purpose email account of the member.