MEANS OF AMASSING THIRD-PARTY CONTACT INFORMATION FROM DIRECT MARKETING MEMBERS

• US 20140032289A1
• Filed: 07/24/2012
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huhem, Mitch
• Original Assignee: Huhem, Mitch
• Inventors: HUHEM, Mitch
• Application Number:
  US13/556,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20140032289A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.16
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A method and computer program product are disclosed for amassing contact information of DS prospects commonly acquainted with an DS member. The method requires a DS member to provide a list of contacts, those contacts are solicited by a DS employee, and the DS member is compensated for revenue generated from contacts joining the DS company. Unique multimedia presentations are shown to each contact who responds to electronic solicitation from the DS company, which presentations are personalized for the contacts. In some embodiments, prospects in the list are assigned value identifiers and into a hierarchal direct sales (DS) structure for solicitation by DS personal trained to commence cold contact with third-party prospects to build a commission downline for current the member with whom the prospects are commonly acquainted. Unique standardized valuation identifiers are generated by the disclosed method and computer program product for estimating commercial viability of each DS prospect.

Claims

1. A method of amassing contact information and company valuation estimates of prospective direct sales (DS) members, wherein the prospective DS members are personally acquainted with a current DS member, the steps of the method comprising:

incorporating a member into a hierarchal DS structure such that the member is positioned to be remunerated by the DS structure in the form of commissions on sales realized from additional members joining the DS structure after the member is incorporated;

requiring the DS member to provide a list of personal contacts as a condition of continued incorporation, the list comprising one or more of the names, telephone numbers, email addresses, income, religious affiliation, health, age, gender, native language, and mailing addresses (collectively the “

contact information”

) of one or more of family members, friends, coworkers, acquaintances, and neighbors (collectively the “

personal contacts”

);

wherein the list further comprises a numerical valuation estimate exclusively associated with each personal contact, the valuation estimate for each person contact comprising a value representative of the strength of the DS member'"'"'s belief that the personal contact will form a good DS member in the future;

storing data in the list in a database;

generating a standardized valuation identifier for each personal contact by standardizing each valuation estimate;

plotting the standardized valuation identifiers as a bell curve on graph;

digitally contacting each personal contact via one or more of email, text message, and facsimile with a message seemingly from the DS member informing the personal contact of imminent future contact by an DS employee;

systematically initiating telephonic contact with the personal contacts in sequence beginning with those contacts at the high end of the bell curve progressing to those at the low end by an DS employee;

soliciting the personal contacts to join the DS structure;

incorporating one or more of the personal contact(s) into the hierarchal DS structure in a downline of the member, wherein the personal contact(s) are remunerated by the DS structure in the form of commissions on sales realized to additional members joining the DS structure after the personal contact(s) are incorporated;

generating a unique productivity value for the DS member in response to the number of personal contacts joining the DS structure; and

directly associating the DS member'"'"'s downline commissions with the unique productivity value.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising paying residual commissions to the DS employee responsible for initiating telephonic contact with the personal contact who incorporated.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising creating a DS compensation criteria with both the DS member and DS employee in the same upline revenue stream.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising remunerating to the DS member a flat fee amount for creating the list.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising remunerating to the DS member a flat fee amount for each contact identified in the list.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising remunerating to the DS member fees on a graduated scale for the amount of information provided about each contact identified in the list.

7. A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer usable program code executable to perform operations for amassing contact information for commonly acquainted DS prospects, the operations of the computer program product comprising:

incorporating a member into a hierarchal DS structure such that the member is positioned to be remunerated by the DS structure in the form of commissions on sales realized from additional members joining the DS structure after the member is incorporated;

requiring the DS member to provide a list of personal contacts via a web browser as a condition of continued incorporation, the list comprising one or more of the names, telephone numbers, email addresses, income, religious affiliation, health, age, gender, native language, and mailing addresses (collectively the “

contact information”

) of one or more of family members, friends, coworkers, acquaintances, and neighbors (collectively the “

personal contacts”

);

wherein the list further comprises a numerical valuation estimate exclusively associated with each personal contact, the valuation estimate for each person contact comprising a value representative of the strength of the DS member'"'"'s belief that the personal contact will form a good DS member in the future;

storing data in the list in a database;

generating a standardized valuation identifier for each personal contact by standardizing each valuation estimate;

plotting the standardized valuation identifiers as a bell curve on graph;

systematically initiating contact with the personal contacts in sequence beginning with those contacts at the high end of the bell curve progressing to those at the low end by an DS employee, wherein the contact is seemingly from the DS member;

incorporating via a web browser one or more of the personal contact(s) into the hierarchal DS structure in a downline of the member, wherein the personal contact(s) are remunerated by the DS structure in the form of commissions on sales realized to additional members joining the DS structure after the personal contact(s) are incorporated;

generating a unique productivity value for the DS member in response to the number of personal contacts joining the DS structure; and

directly associating the DS member'"'"'s downline commissions with the unique productivity value.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the contact information is stored in a B-tree data structure on a computer readable storage device in contact the with computer program product.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, further comprising splicing together multimedia segments exclusively associated with information in the list to form a multimedia presentation personalized for the contact, and showing said multimedia presentation to the contact.

10. The computer program product of claim 7, further comprising adding a multimedia segment to a multimedia presentation in response to one or more values in the list satisfying a predetermined criteria.

11. A method of amassing contact information and company valuation estimates of prospective direct sales (DS) members, wherein the prospective DS members are personally acquainted with a current DS member, the steps of the method comprising:

requiring the DS member to provide a list of personal contacts as a condition of continued incorporation, the list comprising one or more of the names, telephone numbers, email addresses, income, religious affiliation, health, age, gender, native language, and mailing addresses (collectively the “

contact information”

) of one or more of family members, friends, coworkers, acquaintances, and neighbors (collectively the “

personal contacts”

);

wherein the list further comprises a numerical valuation estimate exclusively associated with each personal contact, the valuation estimate for each person contact comprising a value representative of the strength of the DS member'"'"'s belief that the personal contact will form a good DS member in the future;

digitally contacting each personal contact via one or more of email, text message, and facsimile with a message seemingly from the DS member informing the personal contact of imminent future contact by an DS employee;

systematically initiating telephonic contact with the personal contacts in sequence beginning with those contacts at the high end of the bell curve progressing to those at the low end by an DS employee;

incorporating one or more of the personal contact(s) into the hierarchal DS structure in a downline of the member, wherein the personal contact(s) are remunerated by the DS structure in the form of commissions on sales realized to additional members joining the DS structure after the personal contact(s) are incorporated; and

compensating the DS member a commission for each contact who incorporated into the DS structure.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, further systematically mailing post cards to each contact on the list.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, further systematically mailing letters to each contact on the list.