Leading Online Auction Sales Management Firm Taps Core Customer Base; Over

13,000 eBay(R) Sellers Join in Beta

    SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Vendio(TM), a leading
 provider of services that empower online merchants to reach consumers and
 manage transactions, today announced that it has launched an affiliate
 program for its popular comparison shopping toolbar, Dealio(TM). The
 program, intended to raise awareness and drive downloads of the Dealio
 Toolbar(TM), is targeted to customers of Vendio's Sales Manager product,
 which helps sellers publish attractive and professional listings to eBay(R)
 and other online auction sites. During the affiliate program's beta period,
 more than 13,000 online merchants opted in and continue to post links to
 www.dealio.com in several areas and pages of their online auctions.
     "Given the generally thrifty mindset of the average eBay buyer,
 presenting them with information about Dealio is a natural fit," said
 Rodrigo Sales, co- founder and CEO of Vendio. "As the only comparison
 shopping toolbar to effectively incorporate eBay listings into its search
 results, Dealio enables eBay shoppersto quickly find the best deal on
 literally anything sold online."
     The affiliate program delivers revenue to affiliates each time a
 consumer clicks through to the Dealio Website and downloads Dealio.
     Affiliates can choose to promote Dealio through a number of promotional
 placements:
     -- Post-sale messages: Placing a Dealio promotion at the bottom of
 e-mails that are sent to buyers after a transaction has occurred.
     -- Super-sized image pages displayed on eBay:Placing a Dealio promotion
 below Vendio-hosted images, making Dealio just a click away on over 1
 million eBay listings per month.
     -- Vendio Store pages:Placing a Dealio promotion at the bottom of each
 Vendio Stores page.
     -- The seller's Website:Placing a Dealio promotion into any Web page.
     With more than 1 million installs since its launch in November 2005,
 the Dealio Toolbar has been extremely popular despite minimal use of
 traditional advertising or promotion. The affiliate program represents the
 first true advertising for Dealio, which searches more than 100,000
 qualified merchants' inventories of over 30 million products. Online
 merchants can sign up for the Dealio Affiliate Program by registering for
 Vendio's award winning Sales Manager service, Image Hosting, Vendio Stores,
 and Buyer Appreciation. More information is available at www.vendio.com .
     About Vendio
     Vendio enables merchants to reach consumers, manage transactions, and
 profitably grow their businesses. Dealio, Vendio's new comparison shopping
 service, empowers consumers to find the best deals quickly and easily from
 respected merchants while shopping online. Vendio's award winning sales
 management services include Sales Manager Inventory Edition (named by eBay
 as the most innovative application for the eBay platform in 2005), Vendio
 Gallery, Vendio Image Hosting, and several other applications that save
 merchants time and increase their sales.
     Vendio was founded in January 1999 and is the independent leader in
 online sales management. Each month, tens of thousands of small businesses
 utilize Vendio's sales management and merchandising services to sell over
 $50MM of products on both their own branded stores as well as the Web's
 leading marketplaces. In May of 2006, Vendio acquired a majority stake in
 longtime competitor, Andale. The company is privately held, recently
 celebrated their third year of profitable growth, and is headquartered in
 Silicon Valley with offices in Eastern Europe.
     NOTE: Vendio and Dealio are trademarks of Vendio Services, Inc. eBay is
 a registered trademark of eBay, Inc. All other trademarks and registered
 trademarks are the property of their respective owners, without intent to
 infringe.
 
 

SOURCE Vendio

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