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Newsagency marketing group helping newsagents with lease negotiations

newsXpress has offered assistance, guidance and support to newsXpress newsagency members in lease negotiations for years. We have a structured process through which we provide the service. We also tap into a network of lease professionals to ensure access to best-practice lease advice.

From high street small landlord situations to major national landlords, the newsXpress approach is transparent, co-operative and focused on delivering the best outcome for the newsXpress member.

Our recent success in highly competitive situations gives us good comparative stories against others negotiating leases in the newsagency space. newsXpress has information it can share on a confidential basis that sows the value of the newsXpress approach to negotiating a lease.

As tenants ourselves in three major shopping centres and with personal experience in high street tenancies, newsXpress senior management is able to help in a range of situations. We can bring calm to what is often a stressful situation.

Newsagency marketing group members benefit from Europcar car rental discount

For ages newsXpress members have had access to special, discounted, rates through Europcar. We were reminded of the value of this recently hearing of money saved by a member renting a car and using our special rates. We heard from another newsXpress community member who received an upgrade to a luxury car on a cheap car rental price.

These are just some of the benefits of the Europcar relationship negotiated by newsXpress on behalf of its members, just another way we bring more value for newsXpress membership.

All newsXpress members and their employees have access to these fabulous benefits – for no extra cost.

Newsagency marketing group expands supplier portfolio

Newsagency marketing group newsXpress has continued to expand its preferred supplier portfolio in 2013 adding a range of new and valuable preferred suppliers.

One new supplier shared with newsXpress group members is brellerz, a supplier of high quality umbrellas. These quality products meet high standards and offer newsXpress members a good margin product they can be proud to sell.

Timed perfectly to be available in store for Winter, the brellerz range is a nice expansion to the newsXpress preferred supplier portfolio and demonstrates the continued expansion commitment from newsXpress to its members.

We now rarely mention new preferred suppliers here as some others chase them for their groups. If you want to know about newsXpress preferred suppliers contact us and we’ll share the good news with newsXpress members.

Newsagency marketing group helps newsagents promote Christmas in July

newsXpress has provided members of its newsagency marketing group with collateral promoting Christmas in July.

this exclusive to newsXpress marketing collateral has been provided as part of our regular marketing support for members – demonstrating support for non-traditional seasonal opportunities for newsXpress members. Also, provided at no additional cost.

Newsagents are wary of promises made and not delivered. newsXpress members, through additional collateral, marketing opportunities and business management support have regular access to more than the group has promised.

Each week, in a structured and professional member communication, we share opportunities and assistance with members for their decision on engagement. This Christmas in July material is another example – engagement is optional and has no cost.

newsXpress is a strong vibrate marketing group assisting newsagents to grow better businesses.

Wonderful Mother’s Day promotion

newsXpress Central Highlands in Emerald Queensland has been promoting Mother’s Day across the front of the store, embracing the season to shoppers as they pass the business in front of the mall. This is excellent use of the Hallmark and newsXrpess seasonal collateral and a wonderful promotion of the Napoleon Perdis make-up kit on offer for one lucky Central Highlands customer.

Sydney newsXpress members meet for networking discussion

newsXpress members in the Sydney metro area met yesterday for a newsXpress cluster meeting. This was a business discussion / business building meeting, a terrific opportunity for newsXpress members to network, share business ideas and discuss newsXpress plans for NSW.

This was our fourth cluster meeting this year.

Cluster meetings are free – an excellent opportunity for newsXpress members to connect and derive more value from being part of the group.

We appreciate newsXpress member commitment for engaging in the cluster meetings and being part of the dynamic and exciting discussion.

newsXpress members promoting the Win a Car promotion

newsXpress members are loving the Win a Car promotion from Pacific Magazines. They love that one customer will win a car and that they too could win a car. It’s double the reason to get behind the promotion, double the reason to be promoting Pacific magazines titles in prime position in store and in front of the store. This time last year we achieved a channel leading sales uplift as a result of engagement in the promotion. 2013 could be the same all over again.

newsXpress promoting Hallmark greeting cards

newsXpress is helping members promote the greeting cards connection with this excellent email banner provided by the company. Based around Hallmark’s successful international brand marketing, this email banner connects newsXpress stores with the campaign, making our store well thought of when we want to share thoughts with loved-ones.

With email replacing much mail in business, having professional messages on each email is important to help a business promote the brands that are most important to it.

newsXpress members are encouraged to use our professional email footers on all business emails.

We are grateful to Hallmark for their support and for their own investment in ensuring they remain the best known card brand in the world.

Newsagency marketing group helps newsagents promote free hugs

While some retailers look at a teddy bear as a product to sell, the newsXpress newsagency marketing group sees it as something that will be cherished for a lifetime, something that becomes part of the family history … giving love at every touch.

This message is part of a very unique newsXpress customer newsletter for May.

Headlined WE ALL NEED HUGS, this newsletter is fresh, heartwarming and connecting newsXpress businesses with their shoppers in a unique and emotional way. It’s innovative marketing yet heartfelt warmth.

This newsletter shows a point of difference for newsXpress that many of our members love. The reaction to the newsletter has been excellent.

Here is the text of the newsletter that customers and newsXpress members are responding so well to:

We all need hugs!

Hugs are the fuel of life. Hugs make us feel good giving them and they make us feel good receiving them. Yes, hugs are important.

We sell hugs here at newsXpress. Well kind of. Our soft toys, plush we call them, are huggable. They’re adorable, warm, loving, soft and furry … perfect for hugging.

Years ago, teddies and other plush items were purchased for new babies. Today, we have customers buying plush items for all sorts of situations …

A young guy buying his first sweetheart a cute bear to hug when he’s not there.

A friend buying a cute cat for cat lover in a nursing home who can’t have a cat there for themselves.

A sister buying her brother a cute plush dog when his dog died.

A grandparent buying their grandchild their first bear.

A parent buying someone their first, politically incorrect, golliwog.

A twenty-something girl buys a Beanie Kid to add to the collection she has been building for more than ten years.

Each of these items is bought to share warmth and to provide hugging opportunities. This is what plush, soft toy, products are about and we are thrilled to offer them to you here at newsXpress.

We source quality products for all sorts of occasions and for people of all ages. If we haven’t got what you are looking for, ask and we will try and get it for you. You’re welcome to hug our plush – our little furry friends will love you for it.

Here at newsXpress we want to spread the love and there is no better way to do this than with a nice teddy bear, Beanie Kid, Ty plush item or any of the other plush items we have here for you.

At newsXpress we offer newsagents innovative support for driving shopper traffic and shop floor engagement.

Promoting Mother’s Day using various mediums

In addition to the excellent range of A1 Mother’s day posters (landscape and portrait), newsXpress has provided members of its newsagency marketing group with art for A4 and A3 posters plus an image-based email footer – to help pitch newsXpress for Mother’s Day shopping in emails from newsXpress businesses.

Visually connecting a season in out of sore communications, in the window, on the shop floor and elsewhere is a key way for a business to make the most from a major season like Mother’s Day.

The newsXpress coverage of Mother’s day collateral is an excellent point of difference delivered by our marketing group for newsagents.

Newsagency marketing group newsXpress promotes magazines

Leading newsagency marketing group promoted magazines nationally in April through its in-store and over the counter shopper newsletter. The newsletter, exclusively to newsXpress, promoted newsXpress outlets as the place locally to buy magazines.

In a pitch against Australia’s supermarket duopoly, the newsletter made the case for buying magazines at newsXpress including our exclusive shopper loyalty program – the longest running and, by all accounts, most successful loyalty marketing program in newsagencies.

This latest newsletter from newsXpress continues a trend established in 2013 of using the platform to communicate a valuable point of difference to shoppers and to reinforce the values newsXpress holds dear.

Shopper reaction has been excellent. newsXpress member reaction has also been excellent.

For a proactive and engaged newsagency marketing group working on your long-term core and working on your future, newsXpress is the answer.

newsXpress leadership team at Hong Kong Gift Fair

newsXpress was well represented at the Hong Kong Gift Fair over the weekend and into this week. A group flew in especially for the trade show to meet with existing suppliers and to discover new opportunities.

With several successful exclusive products under our belt in 2012, 2013 is shaping up as an even better year for newsXpress members in the exclusive products space. That’s been a key focus of the work in Hong Kong over the last few days.

None of the products sourced are being sent to newsXpress members without permission. newsXpress members are presented products and get to choose what they take or don’t take. Sometimes, with limited stock available for a new release, the first movers really do get an advantage.

newsXpress will not announce details of products here. Rather, it shares that information with members on a confidential basis 0 to protect the benefits negotiated by our buying team. What we found in Hong Kong is exciting and presents excellent opportunities in line with the core product ranging values of newsXpress.

newsXpress features in UK retail review

newsXpress Southland is featuring at UK website Better Retailing, the website for enterprising independent retailers. The interview and story focus on our new corporate store, newsXpress Southland where we are playing considerably beyond the traditional newsagency model.

newsXpress Southland is our third corporate store and our most innovative yet. Some of what we are doing at Southland is already being embraced by newsXpress members. Other innovations will be discussed in the second half of this year once we have data on performance.

Being covered by a respected UK independent retailer website is terrific kudos for newsXpress and everyone involved in Southland. It holds our innovation up on a respected world stage for others to learn about and consider for their businesses.

newsXpress Southland, and indeed all of our corporate stores, are part of what is different about newsXpress. We genuinely innovate in our corporate stores and share the results of this innovation with our members. The result benefits all.

newsXpress Southland receives many visitors each week as a result of the word of mouth about the store and what it’s doing in terms of GP result and sales. We share more detail with newsXpress members for the benefit of our banner group.

Launching newsXpress employer assist

newsXpress have launched newsXpress employer assist, a HR service exclusively for newsXpress members.

Provided to newsXpress members at no extra cost, the service will include access to a 1300 hotline for answering your HR or IR issues, regular news in this newsletter on HR issues and a discounted rate for services such as contracts of employment, terminations and Fair Work Australia representation.

We have been working for some time to source an offer for members in the HR area and are pleased to have found an organisation positioned to professionally serve your needs nationally.

This is another excellent and valuable difference delivered from newsXpress to its members.

Promoting Mother’s Day in a newsXpress newsagency

newsXpress members have excellent collateral with which to promote Mother’s day. The materials from Hallmark are supported with materials from newsXpress including A1 professionally designed and printed posters.

In considering the message for Mother’s day, rather than a pure commercial play, we went with the simple Thanks Mum! This says it all and tested well when we put our pitch options to a panel for consideration.

We’re aware that for seasons like Mother’s day retailers bombard shoppers. We preferred to step back. It’s working well.

Newsagency marketing group helps newsagents promote their point of difference for magazines

newsXpress has provided members with professionally produced posters for promoting the newsagency channel’s longest running and most successful loyalty program, the newsXpress Magazine Club Card.

This collateral is bonus collateral provided to newsXpress members at no cost for promoting a category that continues to deliver good and valuable results to newsXpress members.

Designed to drive loyalty in the form of above average magazine purchasing by a customer, the newsXpress Magazine Club Card program is a tremendously successful program, resulting in well over $100,000 of benefits being delivered to newsXpress members each year.

This is a practical, easy to engage with and commercially valuable program for newsXpress members and newsXpress customers.

Launceston newsagent meeting latest networking opportunity from newsXpress

newsXpress hosted what we call a cluster meeting in Launceston on Tuesday last week. This is a round table business discussion / business building meeting where newsagents can talk freely, suggest ideas to others, discuss challenges and network about business generally.

The Launceston, funded and facilitated by newsXpress, is another example of the difference we bring to the life of a newsXpress member, helping by providing time out of the business to work on the business with colleagues.

The result of cluster meetings is usually a to do list back at the shop – based on comments and advice from your peers.

newsXpress leads the newsagency channel in providing networking opportunities.

newsXpress members embrace exclusive Christmas product offer

newsXpress gave its members less than a week to place orders for an exclusive Christmas product opportunity. We have a tough minimum order quantity to reach and just a few days to do it.

Within the deadline, newsXpress members stepped up to the challenge. They overshot the minimum order quantity by 20%, locking in an excellent exclusive product for Christmas 2013. This is the first of what is expected to be a number of opt-in exclusive Christmas opportunities.

No newsXpress member is required to take stock – this is what makes it an opt-in opportunity. That so many have ordered so much speaks to the value of the opportunity.

We’re not detailing the product here as some love to copy us.

Halloween 2013 offers out for newsagency marketing group members

newsXpress has launched a series of Halloween 2013 offers to members, presenting excellent impulse and destination purchase opportunities for newsXpress members who want to embrace this lucrative and growing season.

Offered for members without obligation and requirement, Halloween 2013 products include a range of new items as well as the proven everyday Halloween items that have been so successful over the years.

With Halloween worth more than $10,000 in sales in some stores, it’s a valuable season that can set the business up for a good Christmas.

newsXpress stores set to give away $65,000 in prizes this Mother’s Day

newsXpress stores are set to give away $65,000 worth of prizes this Mother’s Day with the largest single national Mother’s day promotion in the newsagency channel.

The amazing Napoleon Perdis gift pack, valued at over $500, is a gift mum’s will love as a bonus Mother’s Day gift. Specially selected and packed with valuable Perdis items, this gift makes newsXpress stores the go to places for Mother’s day cards from Hallmark.

newsXpress has facilitates the provision of these gifts to newsXpress members for shopper prizes without cost to newsXpress members. It’s another newsXpress difference.

newsXpress helps newsagents grow sales with excellent gifts for loyal shoppers. This is what good shopper loyalty programs are about.