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As with most things in life, there is an easy road and there is a tougher road that demands more work. The results that one gets are often direct in line with the effort one puts in.

eBay provides you with a cross-promotional tool, where you can present a buyer with similar or related items when they view an auction listing, and when they go through the checkout process.

The easy way out of using this feature is to simply let the system decide which auction listings to show to the buyer. That is probably also the least efficient way of using the cross-promotional tool. However, if most of your listings are regular time-limited auctions, then you do not have much choice other than using the auto selection feature.

A more efficient and effective way of using the tool is to promote your more expensive items when a buyer views an auction listing. This method is actually even more important for when the buyer is going through the checkout process. At checkout time you know that you have a paying buyer who is interested in the particular purchased item. Now is the time to use that knowledge and up-sell.

Often, your more expensive items are the ones that move much slower. That can be for a variety of reasons, such as buyers limiting their searches to specific dollar limits, buyer confidence in you as a seller, and buyer confidence in the broader eBay auction system.

Hence, you must use every sensible opportunity you get to promote your more expensive items.

To do this effectively, you must fully understand your products and how they relate to one another. In addition, you must understand your buyer.

You must know that if the buyer purchased your red $10 widget, then they are most likely to be interested in your related $120 widget because the red widget works with or enhances the performance of your more expensive widget.

In this scenario, you would list your red $10 widget as a regular eBay auction and list your related $120 widget as a store inventory item. Using the cross-promotional tool, you would then manually select the more expensive widget to be shown on in the cross-promotional tool, as well as other items that might relate to the red widget or the more expensive widget.

Cross-promotion can be very effective in generating more sales, but you cannot expect the optimal results if you choose to rely on automatic selection. Put in some thought and work, and you should see far better results.

How To Market Your Product

The percentage of internet users having a business/personal email account is about 90% Unites States. Internet businesses are very different then traditional businesses, many times you don't speak or see the customers you only deal with them through the internet. Many types of Internet advertising don't work as well as they once did.

Your most valuable asset is a list of people who have given you their permission to email them periodically. Using email confirmation is a great way of keeping your list clean, your list will only consist of people who have a real email address and who took the time to the confirm there email. We all put a lot of effort into our internet business. We all have the same hopes and dreams about where our internet business will go. Many people starting out on the Internet believe that their main marketing tool is their website. Many webmaster think that if they have a list of people and they blast a sales letter to all of them they will automatically receive traffic and sales.

If you own an auto responder many have used tricks to get by some spam filters, you can change words around like using f^ree for the word free, since spam filters have been getting smarter they are now blocking most of the tricks. Spam blockers help the email user control the amount of junk they receive to their email boxes, now the email user has the power to decide what they will read and see and what they will not.

When creating your website you should make sure you have away of capturing email addresses, this is important when building your list. Frequently, people opt-in to receive these types of e-mails so you are not spamming people with unwanted mail. By hosting the auto responder on your own website, you have complete control over the program. If your auto responder is remotely hosted, you will not be able to get an auto responder that matched your domain name. A desktop-hosted auto responder is just a program that is run directly on your own workstation or computer. A locally-hosted auto responder is one that is hosted on your own web server. An auto responder that is hosted means that the actual software is kept on someone else's host and you have the ability to use but not control the software.

The consumer of today is increasingly bombarded by marketing messages from various media channels. When sending your email to people email addresses you will be competing with many other emails, make sure you use a catchy subject to grab the person's attention. The people, who you are sending your messages to, want your information. Email marketing is directing your messages to targeted addresses.

A common practice in today's e-commerce environment is to use email marketing campaigns to launch advertising initiatives for products and services offered online. Sending out a round of promotional emails, through a 3rd party provider, can be a measurably effective way to get the word out about your company, your products and your services.

A great way to promote your website is to provide a newsletter which revolves around your business and give them a reason to visit your site. Creating a newsletter for visitors adds value to your site and keeps your company in front of your prospects.

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