nextra Robina Town Centre is gone, replaced with newsXpress Robina Town Centre … and customers love it. They love the new excitement, new products, engaged customer service and the wonderful vibe to the business. newsXpress Town Centre is a tribute to all things newsXpress. Karen and the team are creating a wonderful business and an excellent promotion of the newsXpress brand!
Category: newsagency management
Exclusive Itty Bitty opportunity for newsXpress newsagency marketing group members
newsXpress members are loving the opportunity of exclusive Itty Bitty lines for newsXpress locations. These adorable collectibles are being snapped up by shoppers already – ahead of the release of our exclusive lines.
With Itty Bitty units rolling out across the country right now, newsXpress members are making the most opt the opportunity with the excellent floor display unit places in prime location driving shopper traffic and extending the basket with excellent impulse purchases.
Hallmark and newsXpress will benefit from more innovation following a recent study trip to the Hallmark headquarters in Kansas City.
Newsagency marketing group helps to turn products into cash
In addition to sourcing excellent product deals for newsXpress newsagency marketing group members, newsXpress also provides advice, guidance and assistance on merchandising the products to maximise sales revenue. The faster we can turn an item into cash the more valuable for the newsXpress member. This is a core focus of the group – opportunities for members to turn good deals into cash.
Fantastic State of Origin range at newsXpress Sarina
newsXpress sarina owns State of Origin in Sarina in Queensland. They do an excellent job every year with State of Origin merchandise. This photo shows part of the range being set up recently – ahead of State of Origin fans buying up big.
The team at Sarina leads in this State of Origin space. Kudos to them for this and the help they have been to many other newsXpress members.
Just wonderful!!
New ink offer for newsagency marketing group members
newsXpress has finalized a new HOT ink! Offer for newsXpress newsagency marketing group members with the new catalogue being printed this week ready for wide letterbox distribution. This latest ink offer provides customers with the opportunity of winning a beautiful canon PIXIMA printer that will be given away in each of the participating HOT ink! Stores. This is an excellent opportunity for newsXpress members to drive ink traffic as well as engage with more business customers.
Enjoying your newsagency business
Running a newsagency business can be tough – demanding on your time and resources. newsXpress members have access to a deep well of ideas, in-store help and advice and valuable insights than can help you enjoy your business more.
Not only do we help newsagents make more money in their businesses, we also help them find greater enjoyment. Key to greater enjoyment is networking opportunities with like-minded newsagents. newsXpress offers plenty such opportunities locally, state-wide and nationally. It also leverages technology to connect those who may not otherwise be able to easily connect with colleagues.
newsXpress newsagents to benefit from Hong Kong buying trip
The newsXpress team had a busy time at the Hong Kong Gift Fair last week meeting with Australian suppliers also at the fair, checking out possible new products, connecting with potential new suppliers from Australia as well as taking in the vibrant retail scene in Hong Kong. It was a busy few days packed with meetings, trade show time and opportunities.
With more than 4,000 businesses at the trade show and plenty of trade halls to visit, the newsXpress team walked, on average, 12 km a day.
newsXpress members are also hearing about results with opportunities already under development.
We are excited for what will start arriving soon to help newsXpress newsagents further expand the appeal of their businesses.
Newsagency marketing group opens with hilarious video
Check out the video that opened the newsXpress conference in Melbourne last week:
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.
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 newsagency marketing group members benefit from better terms
newsXpress this week is announcing details of even better terms with another major supplier, continuing the trend of recent weeks of enhancing trading terms for members.
The goals of the merchandise team at newsXpress are to help members buy better through range, exclusivity and terms. These goals are backed with insights and assistances to help turn the excellent margin product faster than might otherwise be the case.
The latest term improvement has come about because of the success delivered by newsXpress and its members to the supportive supplier.
We’re not publishing the details here as the terms are exclusive to newsXpress members.
Selling kids tents in the Australian newsagency
newsXpress innovation is paying off with members having success at selling kids tents. better still, these Australian designed tents are attracting new shoppers – kids with parents in tow who in-turn, purchase other items. Strategy beyond the tents themselves is the key here.
The tents are fun, exciting and eye-catching … delivering commercial benefits well beyond the sale of the tents themselves.
This is wonderful product innovation for newsXpress members from the newsagency marketing group. members love the opportunity and that we are supporting a small Australian supplier.
One newsXpress store has some more than forty of these tents in several months – delivering an excellent return on floorspace and an excellent return on investment.
newsXpress meets with suppliers to share insights and opportunities
Members of the newsXpress management and merchandise teams met with newsXpress preferred suppliers in Sydney yesterday to explore opportunities. This was our second supplier forum in just over a month. Combined, we have now met with close to 100 suppliers, formally and informally to work on an exciting 2014.
The agenda for yesterday’s newsXpress newsagency marketing group suplier forum was:
- What and who we are
- What we stand for
- The 3 things that matter the most
- Success stories
- Contact point opportunities in 2014
- Open forum
newsXpress is thrilled with the support from suppliers, their engagement in these forums and the plans already committed for 2014.
Between exclusive deals, early to market opportunities, excellent rebates and other benefits, newsXpress members can be assured of excellent opportunities for 2014.
More business development training opportunities for newsXpress members this week
newsXpress is this week running another business-building training opportunity for members of the proactive newsagency marketing group. This latest session was booked out in a day of being announced, causing newsXpress to make plans for a repeat of the session.
Providing small business newsagents with business management training is over of the many services provided by newsXpress above and beyond access to excellent products teams and exclusive products. The training provides insights into strategies and tactics that can be used to turn product opportunities into real cash that hits the bottom line.
Making newsXpress businesses more successful and therefore more valuable is a core goal of the newsXpress head office team. This latest training serves that goal. The take up indicates wonderful support from newsXpress members.
newsXpress national conference bookings filling
The newsXpress national conference in March this year at the hallowed MCG is set to be a busy and full few days with buying tours, Toy Fair tours and some excellent business sessions fulling the agenda.
newsXpress members are responding to the opportunity by booking early to ensure they lock in the various events that make up the three days in Melbourne.
Sure to provide excellent networking and business building opportunities, the first newsXpress national conference for 2014 is looking like it will be a valuable time in a busy year schedule.
Helping newsagents promote school holiday sales using newsagency marketing group marketing
Christmas is over and school holidays are well and truly under way. newsXpress is helping its newsagency marketing group members to more valuably connect with the school holiday opportunity with this fresh school holiday marketing collateral.
Provided in two sizes, this collateral is helping newsXpress members to embrace the school holiday opportunity in a fresh way.
The more we promote our newsagency businesses as different to the traditional newsagency the more successful our business will be. newsXpress is committed to helping members pitch their businesses differently.
newsXpress members achieving above-average magazine sales growth
newsXpress members are achieving excellent year on year sales growth for a range of top selling magazines ahead of the newsagency channel average. This result is a direct result of exclusive training for newsXpress members at our conference and member meetings this year. The data is in and we can see the results of the work in the form of excellent sales results.
This sales growth is another way newsXpress is helping members to grow their businesses in a vitally important core category like magazines.
By sending emails and text messages, engaging in best-practice product displays and providing exceptional customer service newsXpress members are showing that you can grow magazine sales without having to discount them. This preserves margin dollars for the business and ensures maximum value for the business from the magazine category.
Details of first 2014 conference in final stages
newsXpress will be hosting the first of two national conferences in 2014 to coincide with the national Toy fair in Melbourne. In addition to the one day business conference we will host a supplier buying day where we visit three selected suppliers in Melbourne for group buying as well as a Toy Fair buying tour.
As with all recent national conferences newsXpress will be putting funding on the table to financially support members travelling from interstate to attend the conference. This funding helps members to attend who might otherwise not be able to do so.
Instant rewards shopper loyalty program differentiates newsXpress locations
More and more newsXpress members are embracing the Instant Rewards program first launched by the group earlier this year. Like all initiatives from newsXpress, engagement is not mandatory – newsXpress members are encouraged but not forced to take on the marketing opportunity. To help newsXpress members understand how this works and how to engage actively for maximum value, the group published a how-to guide. This has just been updated and provided again to members along with practical tips and customer information sheets.
The sales response we are seeing shows the value of Instant rewards (discount vouchers) as an excellent way of demonstrating a point of difference over confusing and old-school points-based loyalty programs.
newsXpress is leveraging the point of difference in Instant rewards for its members through a range of member support activities.
newsXpress newsagency marketing group promotes environmentally responsible greeting cards
Our newsXpress INSTORE Newsletter for November promotes the environmental friendliness of Hallmark cards.
Acting as unexcelled educational piece, this newsletter gives our customers another reason to trust the newsXpress brand while helping them to understand additional value supporting the Hallmark brand.
newsXpress provides these INSTORE newsletters for local use by newsXpress members. The newsletters can be customised to be from each local business for their local customers.
newsXpress members love these newsletters.