About four years ago, Robert Olson was researching interactive television when he realized that the Internet would be the ideal marketing tool for products that required good information to entice a buyer.

"Sheer madness," and a strong gut feeling inspired him to team up with his brother-in-law, Peter Granoff, a wine expert, to launch Palo Alto, Calif.-based Virtual Vineyards. The pair are now considered the granddads of Internet commerce, credited with being among the first entrepreneurs to enter cyberspace. Although Olson won't release sales figures for the privately held company, he says sales have increased 10 percent per month since they started. Last year, the company sold wine on-line to 20,000 customers.

This is just one success story among many. The burgeoning industry of online marketing and sales is estimated to be 2.5 BILLION dollars by the end of 2000, and those estimates are comparatively conservative by most standards.

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