Product/Service Distribution

You can choose a wide variety of methods to distribute your products and services. You’ll probably end up with a variety of methods.

Direct distribution methods include your providing your products and services directly to your customer. Direct methods are, for example, direct mail, retail, catalogs, or even over the Internet.

Indirect methods include having a middleman. Indirect methods include, for example, using wholesalers and distributors, or retailers (the middleman is a large chain of retail stores, for example, Kmart).

Various Perspectives

• Choosing a distribution system or distribution agent
• Create and Set Up a New Distribution Channel

Learn More in the Library’s Blogs Related to Product Distribution

In addition to the articles on this current page, see the following blogs which have posts related to Product Distribution. Scan down the blog’s page to see various posts. Also see the section “Recent Blog Posts” in the sidebar of the blog or click on “next” near the bottom of a post in the blog.

• Library’s Business Planning Blog
• Library’s Customer Service Blog
• Library’s Leadership Blog

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