Establishing and Managing Online Presence of a Business

摘要

Certain embodiments of these teachings include collecting business profile information from a plurality of end user business entities, and associating each of the end user business entities with at least some online directory listing verifiers. An electronic address for each of the end user business entities is created and portions of the respective collected business profile information are optimized with respect to the associated online directory listing verifiers. In parallel, some of the respective business profile information is electronically submitted to a business profile for the respective end user business entity at each of the associated online directory listing verifiers. For each of the end user business entities, a report is outputted which lists for each associated online directory listing verifier whether the business profile has been verified or actions that are needed to complete verification.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
collecting business profile information from each of a plurality of end user business entities, at least some of the end user business entities being independent of any other of the plurality; associating each of the end user business entities with one or more online directory listing verifiers; establishing an electronic address for each of the end user business entities; for each of the end user business entities and each of respectively associated online directory listing verifiers, selecting portions of the respective collected business profile information for optimization with respect to said respectively associated online directory listing verifier; in parallel for each of the end user business entities, electronically submitting at least some of the respective business profile information to a business profile for the respective end user business entity at each of the associated online directory listing verifiers, including the optimized business profile information to the respectively associated online directory listing verifier; and for each of the end user business entities, outputting a report listing for each associated online directory listing verifier whether the business profile has been verified or actions that are needed to complete verification.