newsXpress is thrilled to welcome more new members this week. We’re not public with specific store names as we prefer to do that once they are settled in. We have found in the past that new members have been hounded by competitors when we have announced their details early in their membership.
The latest new members continue the excellent broad mix of newsXpress members: shopping mall, regional and rural. This diversity in membership is something newsXpress members appreciate.
Newsagency marketing group newsXpress is thrilled to have achieved a 65% GP deal for its members from a major national supplier this week. This newsXpress exclusive deal is an excellent opportunity for newsxpress members to make even more GP from these highly sought after products.
Being part of newsXpress delivers excellent benefits.
Newsagents attending the newsXpress National Conference in Melbourne this week have loved the networking opportunities, the connections made and the friendships renewed. This photo is from our trade show early in the time together. The room filled plenty more.
Another hit at the newsXpress National Conference and Trade Show this week was our new premium bag supplier offering excellent products with a terrific reputation and for a price that helps members achieve a stellar margin. This product category fits with two others which are developing well in newsXpress businesses.
More than 180 people are heading to Melbourne at the weekend for the first newsXpress national conference of 2015. We have a packed agenda, plenty of networking opportunities, some exciting buying opportunities and wonderful insights to share and many local business stories to learn from.
newsXpress is grateful to so many for their time to be at the various events which are part of the overall conference experience.
In Sydney earlier this week newsXpress newsagency marketing group members got together for drinks to talk business and life. It was a terrific evening. Lots of laughs. Lots of good discussion. Sharing friendship.
This is the newsXpress difference.
Being Chinese New Year and situated at the beautiful Darling Harbour on the edge of Chinatown, we, of course, repaired to a Chinese restaurant for a banquet where we talked more business and life.
Networking is an important part of enjoying your newsagency marketing group.
newsXpress Northgate is looking good decked out in newsXpress colours and reflecting significant changes in the business.
The transformation at newsXpress Northgate is terrific and reflective of excellent newsXpress members embracing opportunities as they redefine their business to serve the local community.
From inside to out rebranding takes time as the whole of the business in impacted and transformed as a result.
Good job newsXpress Northgate in Brisbane!
January is Jigsaw month, the newsXpress exclusive promotion, continues to drive wonderful sales success for newsXpress members.
The latest success story is from newsXpress Trentham in Victoria where yesterday they sold an 18,000 piece Ravensberger Jigsaw puzzle. This feat caps off an excellent few weeks of sales for the business – generating new traffic and more revenue.
The bonus is the newsXpress exclusive deal supporting January is Jigsaw month with newsxpress members achieving 25% off wholesale for orders supporting the campaign.
Well done newsXpress Trentham!
Small newsagency marketing group The Lucky Charm appears obsessed about newsXpress and its members as evidenced by yet another spam email campaign sent from them to newsXpress members.
Rather than serving other newsagents with valuable insights that help the channel, TLC spams newsXpress members with a claim that members are enjoying double-digit growth. The numbers presented cannot be verified.
Tired of the TLS spam, newsXpress members mock their communication in private discussion as desperate communications from a group struggling to grow to be big enough to make a difference.
Newsagency marketing group newsXpress is helping members to grow jigsaw sales with its january is Jigsaw Month promotion.
Supported with excellent deals and terrific in-store collateral, this special promotion is already tracking excellent results for newsXpress members with some already ordering additional jigsaw stock to service shopper demand.
This excellent promotion is the first of many unique and exclusive promotions planned by newsXpress for 2015 – to drive store traffic and basket depth.
This is the newsXpress difference in action.
Newsagency marketing group newsXpress is helping members to encourage impulse purchases with over the counter dated discount coupons. Used infrequently, these coupons have a track record of driving impulse purchases. newsXpress first launched these coupons eight years ago.
Many newsXpress members have an exclusive six foot high light and sound show on display for Christmas thanks to a special import opportunity snapped up by newsXpress.
Playing Christmas songs and displaying coloured lights in sync this display is proving to be an excellent traffic generator for newsXpress member businesses.
There is nothing like this in any retail store in Australia … it’s another newsXpress difference.
The Christmas display was imported in partnership with Hallmark Cards following a study tour to the US earlier this year.
The newsXpress newsagency marketing group has launched a second Christmas catalogue. This time the focus is on good margin impulse lines around a Santa theme. Supported using our newsXpress collateral and representing products from a single supplier, this second catalogue is part of a considered Christmas campaign designed to help newsXpress members drive traffic using business personalised catalogues.
newsXpress Sydney members benefited from an excellent visit with prestigious gift wholesaler The Russell Collection last week. It was a terrific opportunity to learn more about their products and to understand positioning against retailers who may sell similar lines. The insights are tremendously valuable.
While there we were given some excellent products deals that are available to all newsXpress members. This meeting is another example of newsXpress leveraging product knowledge to help members drive sales.
newsXpress members from Melbourne met at the Head Office of national Toy supplier Head Start where we shared in terrific insights into Head Start brands and had access to excellent deals that give newsXpress members bonus margin opportunities through the Christmas period. we were also treated to the Head Start TVCs and insights into how to compete with major retailers.
In addition to excellent product deals we benefited from some excellent networking.
newsXpress members in the Launceston area got together last week to discuss business, opportunities and plans as part of the national series of member cluster meetings. No suppliers, no pressure – just good networking among colleagues shearing ideas and encouragement to help each other enjoy their businesses more. We are grateful to have been part of this.
Here is one side of the HOT ink! Flyer being distributed to hundreds of thousands of homes around participating newsXpress outlets.
Focussing only on brand name ink, this catalogue offer is a genuine sale which demonstrates to shoppers that newsXpress members can work together to deliver pricing that beats the majors. It pushes back on the idea that newsagencies are expensive – well not all thanks to newsXpress HOT ink!
HOT ink! is a an EXCLUSIVE TO NEWSXPRESS campaign.
Newsagency marketing group newsXpress is helping members connect with shoppers and Christmas mail to the North Pole with these cute post boxes.
While initially offered as a homewares line in our stores, this post box is being more often used as a letter box for santa in a nice piece of retail theatre for newsXpress members and their customers.
newsXpress is regularly sourcing exciting and innovating product in a range of categories. This is another thing newsXpress members love about the group.
newsXpress Retailer of the Year award winner newsXpress Eli Waters received excellent coverage in the Hervey Bay Independent this week:
