Today's rapid progress in both transferring facilities and computer technologies, especially those related to the Internet, has enabled small businesses to access their customer more easily and directly. This is why utilization of direct distribution is getting more and more important for new business. Amazon.com corporation is one of the best examples. But how can a new business establish such sophisticated direct distribution system? The followings are the list of my findings.

WEB Sources

http://www.mdm.com/mdmweb/resources.html

mdm (modern distribution management) resource links site

The benefit of this site is that it suggest us the most useful and practical resources and sites which small business manager would like to see. For example, it gives you such information, as Electronic Commerce, Association of wholesale/distribution sites, Distribution consultants, Internet information/education, Distribution software provider, Distribution company sites of the Internet, etc. These articles are all practical and comprehensive. This site is brought to you by Modern Distribution Management, Inc. It has some more related sites, which also give you useful information about the industrial distribution channel, current news about distribution, etc.

http://www.fashionmall.com

The Internet Fashion Mall

This is the splendid example of successful virtual shopping mall, which can provide entrepreneur wonderful chance to access their customer. This is a very efficient way, because, by only putting some Home Pages in this virtual mall, more than 200,000 customers or potential customers will visit your shops.

The Internet Fashion Mall, founded by Ben Narasin in 1995, a virtual mall specializing in fashion. Targeting both the mass market and the fashion trade, the IFM provides Fashion Assistants to aid customers with their purchases. You can make same kind of malls in your industry.

http://bengal-grp.com/direct.html

The BENGAL group, Inc., An Entrepreneurial Web Store

The goal of this site is to provide you with the knowledge you need to be a successful Mail Order entrepreneur. Whether you are a home based startup or on your work becoming a direct marketing mega-operation, knowledge is the key. One of the features of this site is that it provides useful information to entrepreneurs, such as how to start your own business for less than $100.