Category: newsagency management

newsXpress helps Australian newsagents turn their situation around

newsXpress has plenty of experience in turnaround situations, helping newsagents. While we will not reveal details of our strategy here, we note that it takes time, commitment, honest communication and a wish for change. We start by understanding the truth of a situation. We dig deep into the newsagent business data to get to the facts. This provides a basis for advice we provide.

Our turnaround work can consist of as little as suggestions on changes or as much as developing a comprehensive long-term plan.  Each newsagent turnaround situation is different – hence our position that a turnaround starts with understanding the situation of the business and the business owners.

We actively work with newsXpress members to understand the needs of their newsagent businesses, working individually, practically and locally.

This is another service from our engaged newsagency marketing group, helping newsagents create more valuable and sustainable retail businesses.

WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO US?

By understanding what is important to us you can discover what we focus on for newsXpress members. Here are the top things we think are important:

  • Helping you save money. Because, cash is king.
  • Exclusive products. Through which to differentiate your business.
  • Helping you find customers you would not usually reach.
  • Change is inevitable. COVID-19 brought about urgent change and newsXpress was engaged from the outset, supporting, guiding, helping … providing confidence.
  • Good business data can help reveal trends. newsXpress has been first with advice to leverage fads and when to exit.
  • Brands support newsXpress and member businesses. We put brands first.
  • We love to see and hear newsXpress members talking with each other, sharing experiences and insights. Great ideas have been discovered on a shop floor.
  • The journey. We prefer to focus on the steps we take today rather than where we might be tomorrow because we know in small business, in retail and in newsagencies, tomorrow is an unknown. We focus on what we know and the next step we will take.
  • New traffic. We chase products and opportunities to drive new traffic, people you do not usually see in your business – ideally, new traffic that will return.

newsXpress helps newsagents through COVID-19

Newsagency marketing group newsXpress continues to support small business newsagents through the challenges of COVID-19. It is doing this through a range of platforms such as:

  • Daily Zoom meetings. These are a live meeting of members who are available at 2pm every day Monday to Friday. The sessions and filmed and made available to those unable to attend live.
  • Personal support. We work with retailers one-on-one on re-casting their business based on data and using videos and photos from in-store.
  • Virtual trade shows. Introducing suppliers and their products to retailers through video presentation and live Q&A – like a personal trade show experience.
  • New suppliers. newsXpress has welcomes eight new suppliers in recent weeks with each helping extend the shopper appeal for newsXpress members.
  • Mental health support. Offering encouragement and strategies for dealing with the mental health challenges of 2020.
  • Deals. newsXpress has unlocked some high value deals for its members, helping them drive excellent gross product percentage results that are best-practice.
  • Cash flow beneficial. newsXpress has provided cash-flow benefits to members through a range of negotiated arrangements.

COVID-19 is challenging for many. newsXpress is here to support retailers and provide them with tools they can leverage for a better 2020 for their business and all who rely on it.

We hope your 2020 is going well and that you are safe.

We are newsXpress #notanewsagent

Your local newsXpress is not a newsagent. In fact, your local newsXpress is nothing like a newsagency you may remember and here is how:

  1. We love trusted brands.
  2. We love collectors who love collecting.
  3. We love beautiful things and try and fill our shops with these.
  4. We love hunting down that special gift you are looking for.
  5. We love colour.
  6. We love quality.
  7. We love the keepsake of a beautiful card for that special occasion.
  8. We love the laughter of children as they play with the toys and gifts we sell.
  9. We love supporting community groups that support local retail shops.
  10. We love the internet and the new people it connects us with.
  11. We love seeing people celebrate life’s milestones through carefully selected cards.
  12. We love the opportunity of a future of change.

Like we said #notanewsagent

newsXpress offering free social media master class

newsXpress trains its members on how to use Facebook and other social media to attract new customers. As a gift, this training is being made available to all newsagents in a FREE live workshop.

  1. Discover how to attract new shoppers with Facebook.
  2. Learn the most time-efficient way to post to Facebook.
  3. Look behind the scenes at the best newsagent Facebook posts and learn how to use these ideas in your business.
  4. Find out how to reach beyond those who like your page.
  5. See how to thoughtfully target Facebook posts so they reach those you really want to reach.
  6. Find out how to organise photos for the best possible impact.
  7. Join a discussion about what time of day it is best to post.
  8. Find out which posts Facebook users like the least.
  9. We will do posts live for in the workshop, so you can learn first-hand.

BOOK NOW. Here are the dates:

  1. ADELAIDE. November 9 @ 10am. Rydges South Terrace. Book now.
  2. GOLD COAST. November 10 @ 12 noon. Sofitel. Book now.
  3. MELBOURNE. November 15 @ 10am. Hawthorn Arts Centre. Book now.
  4. SYDNEY. November 16 @ 10am. The Lakes Golf Club. Book now.
  5. BRISBANE. Nov. 17 @ 10am. The River View Hotel Kingsford Smith Drive. Book now.

How newsXpress helps newsagents confront challenges and changes

newsXpress is a newsagency marketing group. We provide marketing assistance, management advice, supplier deals, business planning support and a range of other services to newsagents in businesses of any size and in any location.

In this document we put in writing what we do for newsXpress members. By putting this in writing, we hold ourselves to account and provide you a document you can use to compare us.

The most important service provided by newsXpress is the optimism it builds with members and those who work for them:

  • optimism in a bright future, that you can change your business
  • optimism that you can overcome road blocks
  • optimism that you can enjoy your newsagency business
  • optimism that you can make your business asset more valuable.

Watch this video explaining what we do and why it matters:

newsXpress helping small business newsagents at the Melbourne Gift Fair

Wow! what a terrific few days this week at the Melbourne Gift Fair. newsXpress offered a range of business meeting opportunities for its members as well as networking opportunities. Indeed, over the course of the Fair there were five separate events offering value to newsXpress members.

This is in addition to the considerable one on one support and assistance provided by newsXpress through the event – including hosted tours of supplier stands at the gift fair.

newsXpress provides small business newsagents with free lease advice

Newsagency members of the newsXpress newsagency marketing group have access to a free lease advice service. Not mandatory, the service offers lease terms reviews, negotiation support, operating cost guidance and plenty more in pursuit of more equitable terms for newsXpress members in their landlord dealings.

In one recent case a newsXpress member achieved a rent level 30% lower than the landlord starting point and 20% lower than the amount the newsXpress member budgeted for the major shopping centre location.

newsXpress provides small business newsagents free HR / IR assistance

Newsagency marketing group newsXpress has for years offered a free HR / industrial relations advice and assistance service. There is no additional cost for this service to members of the growing newsagency marketing group. The scope of the service and the value delivered make for a significant benefit for newsXpress members.

The service offers another opportunity for newsXpress newsagency members to not pay an extra fee to belong to a newsagency association like NANA, VANA or the ANF, which is now called ALNA.

Your locally owned newsXpress has the best range of Funko Pop! Vinyls in Australia

For Pop! Vinyls from all the movies and TV shows, get to your local newsXpress Funko Pop! Vinyl stockist. If they don’t have what you are looking for, they will hunt it down from the network of more than 100 newsXpress stores selling Pop! Vinyls.

We will do this because we love Pop! Vinyls. Many of our team members are collectors.  One made this beautiful homage to iconic Pop! Vinyl characters.

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newsXpress newsagency workshop digs deep into business

Day two of the newsXpress national conference in Sydney inc;lured a four hour business building workshop / round table with members attending participating on building stronger healthier businesses. People get out what they put in and this group of seventy newsxpress members did put in – it was a terrific and eye-opening event.

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newsXpress Gympie brings Funko Pop! Vinyls to Gympie

newsXpress Gympie is now stocking Funko Pop! Vinyls. They have a wonderful range and more coming. If you live in Gympie and love Doctor Who, Batman, Spiderman, Orange is the New Black, Star Wars, the Flinstones and any other pop culture licence, get to newsXpress Gympie – the best newsagency in Gympie Queensland.

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newsXpress swamped with competition entries

newsXpress has been running another shopper competition – this time giving away a $200 leather handbag. In a matter of days we received hundreds of entries driving engagement with our brand, our retailers and the supplier with whom we partnered.

The result is an excellent outcome for all concerned including one lucky customer set to received a beautiful bag valued at close to $300.

The good news is we will be running a similar supplier funded promotion very soon.

We will round out 2015 having given away thousands of dollars of sought after prizes to engaged newsXpress shoppers – spreading the love far and wide and helping people enjoy their newsXpress engagement more.

Newsagency marketing group members love change

Change is everywhere, especially in retail and even more especially in the newsagency channel.

Newsagency marketing group newsXpress helps its members pursue, embrace and leverage change to commercial advantage.

Our commitment to and knowledge of change helps newsXpress members play well ahead of the pack in trends and in categories that are not trends in the newsagency channel but are valuable trends in retail channels outside the newsagency channel.

Large and small, city and country, we help newsagents grow their businesses through change while respecting products that are core to the newsagency Australian consumers know.

This is a newsXpress difference.

Pop! Vinyls: Goku vs Perfect Cell & Frieza – a video from newsXpress the Pop! Vinyl experts

Screen Shot 2015-07-30 at 6.53.09 amnewsXpress has produced a stop motion video for Dragon Ball Z fans: Pop! Vinyls: Goku vs Perfect Cell & Frieza. Being released on YouTube, this video is part of the Pop! Vinyl fun from newsXpress in support of its Pop! Vinyl stockist network. This is an example of a newsagency of the future, playing in a fresh and fun space attracting new shoppers to the business. It’s a newsXpress difference.

newsXpress newsagency marketing group adds video training

Screen Shot 2015-07-13 at 8.20.56 amnewsXpress has enhanced the video training suite available to members. The latest video training launched two weeks ago trains newsXpress members in successful facebook advertising. It is an extension of training already provided at conferences and cluster meetings. Members can access the training as often as they like and from any location.

Funko Pop! Vinyl in newsXpress stores nationally

IMG_7903Close to 100 newsXpress stores have Funko Pop! Vinyl characters – bringing these sought-after collectibles to businesses around Australia. We have Funko Pop! Vinyls for Star Wars, Inside Out, Ghostbusters, Game of Thrones, The Walking dead, Breaking Bag, Scooby Do, The X Files, Batman, Firefly, Adventure Time, Dr Who and plenty more.

newsXpress is the place for pop culture, the place for fun.