Hallmark, a strategic partner of newsagency marketing group newsXpress, offers the best greeting card licences in the world. take Peppa Pig – newsXpress members are enjoying excellent success with this mega brand with plush, activity packs, toys and other items from several preferred suppliers. Add the Hallmark cards to the mix and our members have a perfect range of Peppa Pig products. This is where the Hallmark relationship delivers excellent rewards – leveraging their many licences to sell with gifts and other items created under licencing agreements.
Author: mark
I am a Director of newsXpress, a marketing group for newsagents keen for a bright future. You can reach me on +61 418 321 338 or mark[at]towersystems.com.au
Newsagency marketing group opens with hilarious video
Check out the video that opened the newsXpress conference in Melbourne last week:
Newsagency marketing group announces better supplier terms
newsXpress last week announced better supplier terms with three existing newsXpress preferred suppliers. These better terms ensure newsXpress offers best-practice genuine discounts off invoice to newsXpress members, delivering excellent commercial benefits to members in return for their support of the preferred suppliers.
Our supplier discounts are off published wholesale figures. Suppliers are not encouraged to inflate their prices before applying our member discount.
the new discount opportunities announced help newsXpress members to save even more money through their membership.
Newsagency marketing group announces eight new preferred suppliers
newsXpress announced eight new preferred suppliers at its national conference last week in Melbourne. These new suppliers added in recent weeks have enhanced the commercially valuable supplier range offering available to newsXpress members. It’s part of an extension of the newsXpress opportunity for members, an opportunity through which newsXpress members can expand their product offering, reach more customers and make more thanks to preferential pricing.
Each supplier has been vetted, considered and brought on to complement existing opportunities in the newsXpress portfolio.
More commercial benefits for newsXpress members.
newsXpress Albany Forest wins Pacific Magazines reward
newsXpress members have taken our $500 cash awards in each of the last three weeks for terrific displays, excellent sales and great results from the WIN A CAR promotion. This week, newsXpress Albany Forest has been announced the winner. $500 coming their way. Great news!!!
How to avoid a Fair Work dispute – practical help for newsXpress members
A popular session at the newsXpress national conference earlier this week was a presentation from a lawyer expert in the field of industrial relations. From hiring with professionally prepared contracts to managing employee relationships, the advice shared was insightful and valuable – helping newsXpress members take care of business – & enjoying a point of difference.
Social media advice for newsXpress members
Trevor Young, a social media expert, commentator and coach provides wonderful insight into the best-practice use of various social media platforms at our national conference in Melbourne yesterday. With more than 150 in the room including 100+ newsagents, the session provided newsXpress members with valuable practical advice on leveraging social platforms using our own voices.
Pacific Magazines and Hallmark help newsXpress grow
With our national conference in Melbourne today it is appropriate we take a moment to thank two particularly helpful business partners: Hallmark and Pacific Magazines.
Hallmark and Pacific Magazines are our two strategic partners. Their relationship with and support of newsXpress and newsXpress member businesses has been key to what we have achieved as a group so far.
The commercial agreements in place have helped newsXpress fund valuable activity for members such as today’s conference including flights for many members.
The return for Hallmark and Pacific is active support by newsXpress members. Support in the form of proactive engagement and promotion of their products – for mutual profit.
Newsagency marketing group newsXpress pitchers: GROW YOUR OWN WAY
Here at newsXpress our commitment is to helping newsagents to grow their own way.
Hence our marketing pitch.
GROW YOUR OWN WAY.
We offer help, advice and support. You have many choices. Ultimately, we understand that it’s your business.
This is why we are committed to our message in all we do for newsXpress members:
GROW YOUR OWN WAY.
2014 is proving to be a terrific year!
newsXpress Gympie wins $500 in WIN A CAR promotion
Congratulations to newsXpress Gympie for winning $500 from Pacific Magazines as a proactive member of the fantastic nexus program from pacific magazines and their WIN A CAR promotion. newsXpress members around Australia are engaged in the sales-driving opportunity.
Supplier deals for newsagents
newsXpress newsagency marketing group has launched supplier deals for members attending it’s national conference next week in Melbourne. These deals and more to come offer newsXpress members excellent exclusive buying opportunities that will provide even better GP than the excellent GP newsXpress delivers to its members through supplier relationships already.
While all eyes will be on Melbourne for the national conference next week, newsXpress members are already benefiting from the attention brought by excellent group buying.
newsXpress members share ideas on inspiring gift opportunities
newsXpress newsagency marketing group members love sharing ideas, insights and inspirations with each other. They di this at member meetings and on the private newsXpress Facebook page which is open to members-only.
The collaboration and sharing between members speaks to the strong relationships in the newsXpress community – members supporting each other and supporting newsXpress preferred suppliers.
The image shows a series of photos shared by newsXpress Inverloch showing off some of the inspiring new gift displays they have created in-store.
newsXpress members promoting Loom Bands with exclusive collateral
Newsagency marketing group newsXpress has published exclusive collateral for promoting Loom bands in newsXpress stores.
Released last week, this latest collateral is being used by newsXpress members to tap into the extraordinary interest in Loom Bands.
The exclusive collateral is driving traffic from outside the stores and in-store driving engagement of existing shoppers.
newsXpress is helping newsXpress members make the most of the Loom Bands product opportunities.
This is another valuable newsXpress difference.
All supplier positions full at newsXpress national conference
Newsagency marketing group newsXpress has filled all available positions at the trade show which is accompanying the newsXpress national conference in Melbourne at the MCG next week.
The mix of suppliers is broad and the deals that will be presented offer excellent buying opportunities for newsXpress members.
This is set to be an excellent business-building and commercial event for participating newsXpress members.
newsXpress helps newsagency marketing group members promote toys
newsXpress has provided newsXpress members with fresh and exclusive collateral for promoting toys in-store.
Provided in multiple sizes, the artwork is designed to act as a sign-post – telling shoppers that the store carries an excellent range of toys in-store.
This new collateral is one design of several released gy the group to give newsXpress members options and variety when promoting their businesses.
The new collateral in in the private area of our website now.
Great win for newsXpress Eli Waters
Pacific Magazines awarded newsXpress Eli Waters a $500 prize as part of their retailer incentives for the WIN A CAR promotion currently running in newsagencies. The $500 win is a proactive member incentive from the Nexus newsagency marketing program funded by Pacific Magazines. newsXpress Eli Waters won for the excellent job they have done in promoting the campaign to their customers.
newsXpress shoppers are winners!
newsXpress members are sharing photos of customers who won the tablet computer that was part of the latest HOT ink! promotion. The $20,000 promotion made some newsXpress shoppers very happy including this lucky winner at newsXpress easy T in Robina Queensland.
This EXCLUSIVE TO NEWSXPRESS promotion drove ink sales and provided newsXpress members with an offer no one could match. It helped our members attract more traffic – this is a core goal of the HT ink! campaigns.
newsXpress is a marketing group that offers a layered well-considered plan for business growth.
More newsXpress stores embrace jewellery
More and more newsXpress newsagency businesses are reporting excellent success with jewellery products from newsXpress preferred suppliers.
With in-store merchandising solutions, excellent product labelling and wonderful range support, newsXpress and its suppliers are able to help newsXpress members do well from the jeweller space opportunity.
Jewellery is another way the newsXpress newsagency marketing group is helping its newsagent members drive business growth and business gross profit.
newsXpress promotes gifts for socially aware
newsXpress through its preferred supplier partners is promoting a range of gifts and personal use items for women who are what we would call socially aware. Gifts such as a wonderful aromatherapy range are ideal for women who are positive and like to surround themselves with positive influences and scents.
The photo shows part of the range from one of several suppliers in this space. It’s a display created in a newsXpress store to launch this new line. Customers are responding with purchases.
newsXpress helps members uncover new opportunities.
Sydney gift fair report for newsXpress members
newsXpress has published a confidential report to members of insights and opportunities explored at the recent Sydney gift fairs. This document highlights to members newsXpress exclusive and preferred opportunities, helping those who could not attend to gain benefits for themselves off of which to drive business growth in terms of traffic and sales.
The newsXpress merchandise team had a busy time at the fair negotiating with suppliers and unlocking some new opportunities for members.