| 摘要 |
A rewards based viral marketing system for use over a computer network is disclosed. The computer network includes at least one client computer associated with one or more users, at least one server associated with a provider of goods or services, and at least one server associated with a referral site, the referral site receiving a commission from providers of goods and services based upon sales corresponding to referred users. The method comprises (a) providing, at a client computer, to a first user of the referral site the option to send to other users of the computer network a sign-up offer from the referral site; (b) providing the first user the opportunity to receive compensation for sending the sign-up offers by associating the other users of the computer network who accept the sign-up offers with the first user; (c) creating a pool comprising a predetermined portion of the total of the commissions received, during a predetermined time period, by the referal site; and (d) distributing to the first user a percentage of the pool, the percentage based on the number of other users of the referral site attributable to the first user over the sum of the total number of users attributable to every other user of the referral site.
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