Method for motivating persons in a business field

Abstract

A method for motivating independent business owners in which the independent business owners are divided into at least two teams, each team having a plurality of persons who are independent business owners. A plurality of business activity categories which relate favorably to success of the independent business owner in his or her business field is identified. Thereafter, the effort expended by each person on each team in each category is inputted, preferably by computer over the world wide web, at predetermined time intervals, e.g. weekly, over a predetermined time period, e.g. three months. A score is assigned to each person in each category during each time interval and these scores for each team are then tabulated over the preset time duration. The team achieving the highest win/loss record for each time interval is named the winning team and accorded appropriate recognition, prizes or the like.

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