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New Royal Australian Mint coins this Thursday

Along with plenty of newsXpress stores we will have the new Royal Australian Mint coins released this Thursday. We are not taking preorders. We can’t get to every call, email or message asking for us to hold stock for you. Sorry. It’s first in best dressed on the day. Limits apply. Our online store will release stock at 8:30am Thursday: www.mintcoinshop.com.au.

newsXpress helps small business newsagents grow their retail businesses

When you join the newsXpress family, you’re not just buying into a retail network; you’re gaining a dedicated partner committed to your success. Our approach is tailored to your unique needs, from the smallest newsagent to the largest convenience store.

Understanding Your Business: A Personalised Approach

Every newsXpress member is different, and so are their goals. To provide the most effective support, we take a personalised approach to understanding your business. We assess factors such as your location, product mix, financial resources, and people resources to identify opportunities and challenges.

Our Comprehensive Support Services

While all newsXpress members benefit from our preferred suppliers, network-wide connected websites, seasonal collateral, digital assets, and networking opportunities, it’s our personalised, business-specific support that truly sets us apart.  

Retail Expertise at Your Service

When it comes to in-store retail, we offer a range of services designed to help you optimize your operations and improve your bottom line. These include:

  • Buy Price Optimisation: We help you access deals with suppliers to ensure you’re getting the best possible prices.
  • Stock Turn Management: Our expertise helps you identify fast-moving and slow-moving products, enabling you to optimise your inventory and reduce waste.
  • Shrinkage Reduction: We provide strategies to help you minimize losses due to theft and damage.
  • Differentiation: We assist you in creating a unique and memorable shopping experience to attract and retain customers.
  • Customer Acquisition: We help you develop effective marketing campaigns to attract new customers and increase foot traffic.
  • Overhead Control: We offer guidance on managing your operating costs to improve your profitability.

A Collaborative Partnership

At newsXpress, we believe in a collaborative partnership. We work closely with our members to understand their specific needs and develop tailored solutions. Our goal is to empower you to achieve your business objectives.

The newsXpress Advantage

By joining newsXpress, you gain access to a network of experienced professionals who are dedicated to your success. Our comprehensive support services, coupled with our personalised approach, can help you:

  • Increase profitability
  • Improve customer satisfaction
  • Strengthen your brand
  • Stay ahead of the competition

Ready to Take Your Business to the Next Level?

If you’re looking for a partner who can help you achieve your business goals, newsXpress is here to support you. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you make things happen.

At newsXpress: nothing is mandatory. You are always in full control.

NAIDOC 50c coin now in circulation from some newsXpress stores

Plenty of newsXpress shops are grateful to be able to exclusively offer the 50c NAIDOC coin in change we give to customers from tomorrow. While there will be many visiting to buy the coin due to its rarity in circulation, it’s available for change only. By giving it only as change customers who purchase something, we help the celebratory coin reach more people.

 

Help price websites for newsagents

newsXpress members have access to beautiful half price websites for their businesses. Created by the web development professionals at Tower Systems, newsXpress members have access to the full fixed price website package solution from Tower Systems for half price.

If you are considering a website for your business, this solution could be ideal.

Here are some recent websites our web development team has completed:

To find out more speak with newsXpress or with the Tower sales crew: sales@towersystems.com.au or call 1300 662 957.

newsXpress to host a national conference for newsagents

In the newsXpress member community, we see a powerful force: a community of passionate small business owners. We may run different shops, cater to different customers, but we share a common ground – the drive to succeed, to build, and to serve our communities.

The world throws challenges our way, from economic shifts to ever-changing consumer trends. But here’s the secret weapon of small businesses: we are not alone. This conference is about the power of “Together We Can.”

We can share best practices, learn from each other’s triumphs (and maybe even a few stumbles!), and build a network of support that strengthens us all.

So, let’s use this conference to connect, collaborate, and unlock the incredible potential we have together. Together, we can navigate any challenge, seize every opportunity, and create a thriving future for our businesses and our communities.

Monday September 9 is a full business day, focussed on sharing insights on newsagency retail transformation and how to execute this on a limited budget.

We will look to 2025 and beyond and consider ways we can make our businesses more resilient and valuable.

We’ll talk through how we can better support each other.

And, we will consider how to navigate challenges faced baby legacy products.

This is a conference for retail newsagents, designed to offer support and encouragement, to help us all find an enjoyable path to the future.

Thants to supplier support and support from newsXpress itself, participation is free.

If you are interested, please email help@newsxpress.com.au.

At the we conference, we anticipate we will launch an exclusive for newsXpress members range of limited-edition products with a significant partner already delivering terrific traffic and sales for newsXpress members.

Here what to expect at the conference:

  • Networking. You’ll get to meet fellow newsXpress members. This is thebiggest value members tell us about conferences. Catching up with others in a relaxed environment. Sharing, learning, nurturing.
  • It’s a no pressure event.
  • You can provide feedback we use to shape what the group does and offers.
  • You will be presented actionable opportunities.
  • Have a laugh.
  • Challenged. Not openly, not in public. Listening to the sessions though some of what you currently do may be challenges, and that’s good because change is vital.
  • Energised. We’re sure you will come away with an action plan.

If you’re an introvert and are concerned that you’ll find it uncomfortable. Hang out with me, we can talk one on one, privately. There will be plenty of us introverts at theconference.

How does the newsXpress newsagency marketing group help newsagents?

newsXpress is an Australian owned marketing group that serves Australian newsagents.

newsXpress is not a franchise or anything like a franchise, it does not fall under the franchise code of conduct.

newsXpress is a marketing group created to help local independent retail newsagents run more enjoyable and profitable businesses. For a modest monthly fee, newsXpress helps newsagents in many different ways.

Here is how newsXpress helps Australian newsagents:

  1. It leverages the common ownership of Tower Systems (the most widely used software in the newsagency channel) and newsXpress for evidence based guidance to more profitable business decisions. Through this, it also offers half price websites.
  2. It offers innovative pricing for EFTPOS, lower cost than least cost routing.
  3. newsXpress offers bias-free data-based card performance analysis that typically results in an increase in card sales of 15% or more.
  4. Member businesses benefit from an exclusive $1,000+ a year per store in-store marketing campaign – provided at no cost to the members.
  5. newsXpress runs a national in person conference with free accommodation for 2 nights and all meals covered.
  6. newsXpress helps newsagents with practical business advice, in-store support, awesome supplier deals and plenty of new traffic generating exclusive products.
  7. newsXpress directly owns and runs shops as testing grounds for innovation, sharing results with members.
  8. newsXpress direct imports good margin products.
  9. newsXpress is the only group to have authorised account access to four different Mints for access to new coin releases.
  10. newsXpress has suppliers who otherwise will not supply newsagents.
  11. newsXpress provides in-store visits from a business development manager.
  12. newsXpress provides visual merchandising materials including posters and on-location call-outs for all major seasons.
  13. newsXpress have access to a member only portal with a fully populated knowledge base and extensive business development resources.
  14. newsXpress members have access to a digital collateral library and cloud based resources for easy store level customisation.
  15. newsXpress members have access to a full video library of social media collateral and easy access to store level customisation.
  16. newsXpress offers signage and graphic design services at no cost.
  17. Rather than access to an Are Media account manager we provide a whole of magazine category problem resolution service. For free.
  18. Rather than a free postage for Christmas cards offer we provide free exclusive high-quality cards for Christmas for captions not covered by card companies.
  19. Each member has access to a dedicated and retail experienced business development manager.
  20. newsXpress helps with Google Business, Bing, and various maps profile setup and maintenance.

What newsXpress does for each member depends on their situation and what they want from from their engagement with newsXpress. Every business is different. Every business owner has different needs.

While all newsXpress members have access to our preferred suppliers, network wide connected websites, seasonal collateral, digital assets and networking opportunities, it is in our personal, business-specific, help where value can be found for plenty of newsXpress members.

We assess your business data as we prefer to offer advice based on evidence. Often when we do this we discover opportunities missed, low hanging fruit to be picked.

The approach is whole of business, considering location, product mix, financial resources, people resources and what you want and need from the business.

While we have members who prefer to do this work for themselves, we have others who appreciate a more engaged approach.

How much or little newsXpress members and our head office team members work together is entirely under control of each newsXpress member.

Nothing is required or mandatory.

When it comes to in-store retail though, we help you with the everyday:

  • Buy price. We help you buy better.
  • Stock turn. We help you sell products sooner.
  • We help you reduce the cost of theft.
  • We help you cast your business differently, to help improve shopper stickiness.
  • New traffic. We help you attract people not shopping with you today.
  • We help you tame them.

We help you make things happen by being actively engaged.

So what does newsXpress do for newsagents? It does all of this and much more, and it’s been doing it since 2001.

newsXpress members are loving in-store business advice and assistance visits

Here’s what one newsXpress member said yesterday:

It was great to have you visit. Your visit just highlighted how beneficial it is to actually have somebody on the floor with you to discuss our thoughts/ plans and to receive your/their feedback and suggestions. Your visit has lit a flame and inspired us to do the card review and ultimately the removal of the magazine stand which is something that we had talked about previously but done nothing about.

newsXpress helps newsagents have a wonderful 2024 and beyond

At the start of 2024 we set this year’s theme as MAKING THINGS HAPPEN.

It was a commitment to action, growth, success and enjoyment for newsXpress members.

Mid way through this year we are seeing terrific results.

We have helped members attract new shoppers with several exclusive new product ranges.

We have newsXpress members recording double-digit card sales growth because of our exclusive store specific card performance data project.

We have helped stores recalibrate their commitment to magazines to make this low margin category work, freeing high value space for better margin product.

Our retail insights trip to Berlin and London was a terrific success with excellent in-store initiatives flowing as a result.

This is what MAKING THINGS HAPPEN is about.

Nothing we pitch is mandatory. We are not a franchise.

We’d love to help if you are keen for it.

Retail transformation: newsXpress Mount Waverley

newsXpress Mount Waverley is a corporate store, it’s one of our own shops where we experiment with tech and retail. It’s a shop we run on a tight budget.

In this video, Anthony from our newsXpress head office and Mark Fletcher our CEO discuss the transformation of the Mount Waverley business from 2018 to today. We also cover how this business spawned a second business, and online business, that outgrew the shop, and how it’s just launched its second online business – www.hugsandlove.com.au.

While the business identifies as a newsagency, it’s far removed from what Aussies consider to be a newsagency. It’s a gift shop, a haven for collectors and a place to shop for young kids.

This video shows how to go about changing a local high street shop on a small budget and the importance of being flexible to pivot when the world presents opportunities.

We are grateful for the opportunity to take you behind the scenes of one of our corporate stores, to show the value we harvest from being a POS software company that owns and runs retail businesses.