Automated network marketing system

#The present invention relates to network marketing systems and, more specifically, to an innovative method of automatically conducting a network marketing business.

#Consumers and commercial enterprises buy and sell a vast array of goods and services in the United States each year using network marketing. Based on the proposition that customers are often the best advocates for the products and services they buy, network marketing offers customers of a product the opportunity to sell the products to others and to build networks of others like them.

#Firms that sell products and services using network marketing (each a “network marketing company”) typically recruit independent sales representatives. The independent sales representatives then may (but are not required to) recruit others, who may then (but are not required to) recruit still others. For example, using a basic assumption that each of a firm's independent sales representatives recruits three others, and that each of those recruits three others, the firm can have almost a thousand independent sales representatives by the sixth iteration of the process.

#FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrates a multi-level marketing hierarchy.

#FIG. 2 is a diagram which illustrates multiple compensation levels.

#FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the method of the present invention.

#In order to provide a better understanding of the present invention, the following terms are defined herein, but such definitions shall not limit the ordinary meaning of these terms:

#(a) “downline” means the marketing network of independent sales representative(s) recruited by a given independent sales representative, whether directly (by personally recruiting such independent sales representatives) or indirectly (by having such independent sales representatives recruit still another independent sales representatives, and so on in each iteration).

#(b) “network marketing company” means a person that sells goods or services through a network. A network marketing company is part of every independent sales representative's upline and every independent sales representative is part of the network marketing company's downline.