Patent ID: 7149707

Claim:
A method for compensating a plurality of participants comprising the steps of: forming a multi-level sales force based upon sponsoring of participants into the sales force, the multi-level sales force having at least some of the participants having sponsored at least two subsequent levels of participants into the sales force; collecting a royalty fee from the commission of each selling agent participant in the sales force based upon the revenue generated by the sale of real estate property by the selling agent participant; providing each participant a percentage of the revenue generated by the selling agent participant's sale of the real estate property; placing the collected fees into a revenue sharing pool; and distributing royalty fees from the revenue sharing pool to the participants based upon: (i) a first level percentage of the royalty fees paid into the revenue sharing pool by a first level of participants sponsored by a participant, plus (ii) a second level percentage of the royalty fees paid into the revenue sharing pool by a second level of participants sponsored by the first level of sponsored participants.