Select Comfort bought ads in local newspapers, which instructed users to send the company an SMS message with their zip code.

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The company currently publishes over 10, 000 zip code market and neighborhood level real estate reports a week off a single raw real estate data feed.

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The company has not only a large user base but highly targeted demographic information about its users including age, gender and zip code that is sought after by campaigns.

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