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A business to media (B2M) reservation standard provides for the visualization and reservation of various resources, simultaneously, in real time, and over multiple analog and digital media in multiple analog and digital marketplaces. The B2M reservation standard describes a business environment which may involve four roles (clients, marketplace suppliers, the scheduling agent supplier and offer providers) and three component types (media, marketplaces and a scheduling agent). In accordance with the B2M reservation standard, one embodiment of a method for facilitating reservations by clients of services offered by service providers includes: (a) conducting an offer construction process involving one or more services providers offering services available for reservation by customers and the scheduling agent supplier providing the scheduling agent to which offers of services are communicated; (b) conducting a marketplace construction process involving one or more marketplace suppliers providing one or more marketplaces and one or more media for customer communication with the marketplaces, wherein services available on the marketplaces are provided by the scheduling agent; and (c) conducting a reservation process wherein the single scheduling agent operating separately from the one or more marketplaces processes reservation requests from clients relating to services offered by the one or more service providers on the one or more marketplaces and presented to the clients through the one or more media.
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