Free listing online classified services are stealing advertisers, revenue and shoppers from North American newspapers, and the competition gets tougher all the time. Free listing services have already cost newspapers millions in lost classified revenue.

eMarketplaceXpress enables newspapers to meet their online-only competitors on a level playing field, while leveraging the value of heir current classified offerings. This feature-rich platform allows newspapers to create stand-alone classified marketplaces that replace or parallel their existing classified sites.

eMarketplaceXpress offers newspapers a wealth of new revenue-generating opportunities and features, including multiple photos and enhanced displays, contextual ad placement, optimized search capabilities, forums, local business storefronts, and a comparison-shopping feature based on RSS feeds from other classified providers.

Newspaper groups can link individual city sites running on eMarketplaceXpress in a larger network with wide reach and selling power.

Everybody wins!

Here's how eMarketplaceXpress is a winner for your newspaper, your advertisers and your readers:

Your newspaper...:

	Starts competing now with free listing services that are stealing your advertisers and your revenue.
	Develops ongoing online revenue streams from your customers with virtually no maintenance and support.
	Offers a feature-rich marketplace that will attract power sellers from local and other markets.
	Expands online content, builds site traffic, and drives demand for other newspaper products, protecting traditional print revenue streams.
	Allows customer migration from print to online to take place organically.

Your advertisers:

Enjoy better functionality and more sales and payment options than free listing services can offer.

Your readers:

Shop locally in a marketplace that carries your trusted brand.

How does eMarketplaceXpress work?

Your newspaper can use eMarketplaceXpress in one of two ways:

When it runs in parallel with your existing classified site, your current systems remain in place while you benefit from a powerful and full-featured online classified system. Print ads are collected by current resources such as your phone room or online ad-taker. These ads are exported in bulk to the eMarketplaceXpress system where they may be enhanced with photos, expanded text, priority listings, bold backgrounds, business information and storefronts.

If you choose to replace your current system, CityXpress provides a complete online classified marketplace, branded for your newspaper. Customers can choose free or paid listing packages and use a variety of up-sell features to enhance or ecommerce enable their listings. Ads collected through your phone room are exported in bulk to your classified marketplace. eMarketplaceXpress can also accept listing feeds from other providers and display them in the marketplace.

Newspaper groups can link local city sites in a national network of similar sites running on eMarketplaceXpress, just like your free listing competitors.

Tell me more!

Find out how eMarketplaceXpress can help you meet free listing competitors head-on, develop new revenue streams and add value to your current classified products:

	Visit our live demo.
	Download eMarketplaceXpress brochure (PDF)
	Download XpressStores brochure (PDF)
	Newspaper Association of America study: "C Change in Classified."

For more information, email sales@cityxpress.com or phone 604.638.3825.