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US 2003/0126007 A1Published application
Network marketing franchise system
OwnerBernadino Pavone, Gloria Tactac +1inventors
InventorsBernadino Pavone, Gloria Tactac, Abood Samaan
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Abstract
A method of operating a network marketing company in which a franchise opportunity is offered to persons who would not be entitled to the franchise opportunity in a traditional network marketing environment.
Claims12
A method of operating a multi-level network marketing company with independent sales representatives comprising the steps of:
- providing a multi-level network marketing company;
- providing a tiered compensation level system for payment of said independent sales representatives, movement between said tiers being a function of productivity of said independent sales representative;
- providing at one or more of said tiers an entitlement for said independent sales representatives to open a retail outlet of said network marketing company;
- offering to persons who do not have an entitlement to open said retail outlet an option to open said retail outlet under a franchise arrangement, said option being conditioned upon a refusal by any qualified existing independent sales representative to open said franchise retail outlet;
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- offering said opportunity to open a franchise retail outlet to said qualified existing independent sales representatives.
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