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.
Category: Newsagency marketing group
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.
New products generate new newsagency traffic
newsXpress launched a new outdoors range more than a month ago and newsXpress members are reporting terrific sales as well as new traffic thanks to this innovative range.
Newsagents wanting to be challenged into growing into new areas that are aligned with existing traffic generators ought to look at the strategic supplier decisions being made by newsXpress.
Helping newsagency marketing group members to harvest customer details
newsXpress has a multi-layered approach to helping members to harvest customer details. One way we help members is through a cloud-based entry process whereby customers can scan a QR code and access a facility for entering details.
newsXpress members have access to this and similar tools for free – all part of the newsXpress service.
newsXpress also provides free access to promotional collateral for supporting this campaign in-store.
newsXpress launches marketing seminars
newsXpress is hosting marketing seminars for newsagents over the next few weeks in most capital cities. At these events newsagents and suppliers can learn more about newsXpress: the services we offer, the deals available and the opportunities of membership.
Leveraging already excellent membership growth achieved this year these new sessions will help more newsagents connect with the newsXpress story of opportunity and to feel personally the optimism at the heart of the newsXpress model.
newsXpress helps newsagents explore opportunities appropriate to their local needs.
Newsagents selling edible bouquets for Mother’s Day
newsXpress newsagency marketing group members are set for training in new and exclusive Eat The Bouquet products for our Mother’s Day 2014 offer. ETB is a retail concept launched by newsXpress last year and embraced by many members to drive traffic and margin dollars. It is proving to be an excellent way to drive seasonal sales. Mother’s Day training starts this week.
newsXpress adds three more locations
newsXpress this week has signed up three new members, recently bringing to fifteen the new members joining our newsagency marketing group. This is great news. But it does not stop there with more good news on new members set to be announced in the next week.
newsXpress is growing on the back of excellent services to members including great supplier deals, access to exclusive products, traffic generating marketing campaigns, new free IR advice and support on awards and a fresh-eyes in-store advisory service.
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.
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!!!
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.
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 connects radio, in-store, catalogue and social media with integrated newsagency marketing campaign
Newsagency marketing group newsXpress has engaged in a professional and integrated marketing campaign promoting ink in newsXpress stores. Running across multiple consumer-engaged marketing platforms, the latest HOTink! leverages the very latest social media innovation with a highly targeted campaign, in-store live radio, in-store shopper opportunities and other marketing platforms to drive traffic and sales of ink for newsXpress members.
This is the newsXpress difference – driving traffic for members and encouraging shoppers.
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.
Newsagency marketing group helps newsagents grow their businesses
EXCLUSIVE TO NEWSXPRESS.
It’s one thing for a newsagency marketing group to negotiate excellent prices – as newsXpress does – and another to provide marketing merchandising and other insights to help move stock – as newsXpress cones. But these opportunities turn into excellent success when the products are EXCLUSIVE. newsXpress has more exclusive products, high in demand product, for its member newsagents.
Charming the Monkey is a very popular line in the highly sought-after collectible Beanie Boos range. It’s a Valentine’s Day special and it is EXCLUSIVE TO NEWSXPRESS.
newsXpress newsagency marketing group members selling donuts!
Donuts anyone?! Don’t eat them. No! These delicious looking donuts are actually soap – gift packaged and ideal for a gift for a neighbour or an old family friend or loved one.
Imagine how nana, grandma or granny will react when she opens a birthday gift and thinks you’ve bought her a donut. She will love that the donut is soap – she will be the talk of her friends.
This delicious looking donut is just one item from a innovating range of items available to newsXpress members from preferred suppliers to pour newsagency marketing group.
Innovative products are competitive prices backed by retail shop-floor and marketing strategies are what make newsXpress loved by its members.
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.
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.