newsXpress Leongatha has an excellent additional display promoting slow cooker cookbooks which feature in the latest newsXpress book sale. This is bigger than the display we featured here a couple of days ago. By adding some simple yet creative elements – table cloth, pumpkin – they have made an appealing and commercial display.
Well done to everyone involved at newsXpress Leongatha!
The team at newsXpress Glendale is making good use of their flexible fistures with this display for their latest newsXpress Book Sale. Attracting shoppers as they pass by the store and driving sales to existing shoppers, this stand is an important part of the success at newsXpress Glendale.
The range of books from our preferred book supplier, ABW, is excellent as usual. newsXpress members like Glendale are enjoying terrific business.
The team at newsXpress Leongatha created this terrific impulse purchase display promoting the ACP Women’s Weekly Slow Cooker title as well as another popular Slow Cooker cookbook.
This display on the dance floor is in the right place to drive success with the popular titles.
Thanks to newsXpress supplier relationships, Leongatha and other newsXpress stores have been able to ensure good supply of the Women’s Weekly Slow Cooker title.
Watch for more newsXpress cookbook promotions – the food category is HOT!
newsXpress Bairnsdale got right behind the 2010 FIFA World Cup with a bold Window display. As well as supporting the event, the window demonstrates some good old Aussie patriotism. It also helped to promote a terrific range of World Cup magazine titles as well as World Cup merchandise.
newsXpress provided all newsXpress members with free double-sided A2 posters and access to supporter material from a preferred supplier.
The result was a cracker World Cup for our stores, especially those who embraced it as they did at newsXpress Bairnsdale.
The newsXpress member meetings which start next week in Sydney will include a discussion among newsXpress members on business performance and retail in general.
Our approach of using member meetings for business discussions is popular among newsXpress members. While we still present supplier deals and talk about marketing strategies, it is the business discussions which unlock opportunities for members to take away and use in their businesses.
The Mid Year Book Sale being run in newsXpress stores is proving to be a hit with shoppers. newsXpress members are reporting excellent sales to new customers and existing customers. The value of extending the shopping basket on an impulse purchase is considerable. newsXpress has enhanced the book sale by sharing ideas for driving impulse business.
newsXpress is continuing a long-standing and commercially successful traditon of arranging QCS packs for Queensland newsXpress members. These packs are useful for students participating in the QCS exam in September. Details for ordering the QCS packs for 2010 were announced by newsXpress on Monday.
newsXpress exclusive member meetings for July start next week. This round will feature terrific supplier deals, newsXpress exclusive business development strategies and an opportunity great newsXpress networking.
The dates and locations are:
The meeting start at 10am. The early arrival is an opportunity to check out supplier deals.
The team at newsXpress Knox setup a terrific, and successful, display promoting Tour de France titles.
Capping the entrance to the main magazine aisle, the display has drawn great attention and driven excellent sales. The success of the display demonstrates the value of focusing on events like the Tour de France.
The display will run for just a few days more as we are close to selling out of stock.
newsXpress has been offered a greenfield newsagency opportunity in a Woolworths centre for someone wanting to buy a newsagency. With the backing of newsXpress strategies and expertise, this opportunity would be ideal for someone entering the newsagency channel for the first time.
For more information on this opportunity please call Mark Fletcher on 0418 321 338. We expect that this opportunity will be taken quickly.
Buying a Newsagency can be an opportunity to increase your capital wealth over time. Newsagencies, run well, are good businesses to own and operate. They respond well to hard work and good management.
It is important to remember that when buying a Newsagency it is not always a license to print money. Your chances of success will be better if you do some research into the industry first to get a feel for the problems you might encounter as a business owner.
The business has more chance of success the more it matches your interests and business strengths.
To be a successful Newsagent, you must be 100% committed. Anything less and you will significantly reduce your chances of success. You have to ask yourself is a Newsagency the best solution and will be suitable for me and my lifestyle.
Consider your own level of knowledge and interest along with having the skills, experience, time, resources, vision and commitment to make the Newsagency a success.
This is where newsXpress can help. Our team of Business development Managers work with newsXpress members, in store, to build stronger, more efficient and more profitable newsagencies. This is the newsXpress difference.
Newsagencies can be very demanding with long hours. While it may provide independence and the opportunity to earn more money, you must also consider that it can place a lot of pressure on you personally, family, friends. It can affect your relationships and lifestyle. You will also have to be in good physical condition especially if you are purchasing one with a paper run and you plan to do the deliveries yourself.
newsXpress can help with back office processes, front of store processes and marketing to help attract new customers.
Before you start looking at a newsagency to buy, consider whether you are ready for this decision yourself. Are you up for the hard work? Are you physically able? Do you have the financial and emotional capacity? Do you enjoy retail? Are you motivated to make a real difference in a business? Do you know the type of Newsagency you are looking for?
To find out more about how newsXpress can help you in buying a newsagency, please contact Ben Kay, newsXpress General Manager, on 0419 678 754.
The merchandise team at newsXpress has been busy negotiating excellent deals for newsXpress members with four new suppliers announced in the last week.
The details of the new suppliers, their offers and trading terms have been communicated to newsXpress members. We will not be publishing details here since the information is commercially sensitive to newsXpress members.
The new products on offer extend the range available in our stores and in newsagencies more generally. One supplier in particular opens what will be a new category for many newsagents.
We hosted an online focus group of selected members last week to discuss our plans for Christmas. During the session a range of products were shown and feedback solicited. By using online meeting technology, newsXpress is able to pull on the advice and knowledge of newsXpress members from around the country. The result will be a Christmas offer based on significant member input.
newsXpress is hosting member meetings this month in four cities:
We have a terrific business building agenda planned along with some excellent product opportunities on show.
Warrick Hosking has propelled newsXpress Gympie to take out the number 1 Emerald title in the Connections with ACP marketing program. Through intensive in-store marketing, social media activity and other initives, Warrick is driving excellent traffic and leading good sales grrowth.
This is a coveted title among newsagents. Warrick and the team at newsXpress Gympie should be proud!
Read some of what has been published at the Connections website:
In a Connections first newsXpress Gympie broke the one thousand Credit mark and accrued 1,190 Activity Credits by dedicating their window, promotional space and counter unit to Connections, reading their newsletter every week, participating in the fortnightly polls and surveys, completing their returns online, making regular online redemptions, and participating in any over and above initiatives from Connections.
The deciding chunk of Activity Credits always comes down to the level of store participation in Local Store Marketing activities. From January to June Warrick executed 78 LSM campaigns accumulating over 800 Activity Credits which gave him a healthy lead.
Since the introduction of Facebook into his business Warrick has moved majority of his campaigns online and continues to build his social network to drive magazine sales.
newsXpress is thrilled to welcome three new members starting with us this month:
newsXpress looks for proactive newsagents regardless of store size and location.