A popular session at the newsXpress national conference earlier this week was a presentation from a lawyer expert in the field of industrial relations. From hiring with professionally prepared contracts to managing employee relationships, the advice shared was insightful and valuable – helping newsXpress members take care of business – & enjoying a point of difference.
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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.
107,000 view newsXpress Facebook ad
Our newsXpress Facebook ad promoting newsXpress outlets as the places to purchase a range of Pacific Magazines titles and get into the running for a new car has been seen by more than 107,000 according to Facebook data.
This is an excellent result, promoting the newsXpress brand widely on the popular social media website and through its apps – connecting our retail locations with the opportunity to win a car.
newsXpress actively uses social media in support if its member businesses.
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.
HOTink! driving customer traffic and ink sales for newsXpress newsagency businesses
newsXpress members are loving the latest HOTink! promotion. The photo shows part of the HOTink! promotion at newsXpress Eli Waters. They are using the collateral provided for the tablet computer give-away in-store, a terrific price that will be won by one lucky shopper at newsXpress Eli Waters. We have shipped many tablet computers for similar in-store give-aways.
Driving additional traffic and achieving incremental sales and locking in new ink customers is a great way to start off 2014 for newsXpress members.
The latest HOTink! campaign shows off a real newsagency marketing group point of difference: good buying, excellent marketing, in-store engagement mechanics and extra special value for newsXpress shoppers and newsXpress members.
This is fun!
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.
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.
More exclusive product success for newsXpress members
The reports from newsXpress members of success through Christmas of EXCLUSIVE product are fantastic to hear. Members are thrilled with the success they had as a result of the exclusivity. Besides price flexibility they also love the traffic generated by products unavailable from elsewhere. This is a great story of success for newsXpress members.
newsXpress has already announced product that is set to be a sure fire EXCLUSIVE success in 2014.
Welcome newsXpress Coomera
newsXpress Coomera opened a few weeks ago, bringing the newsXpress newsagency experience to the folks of Coomera in this new business in a terrific location.
This terrific looking shop is packed with excellent product from the traditional to the not so traditional. Well signed with newsXpress branding and staff in uniform – the shop is set to benefit from newsXpress brand promotion.
Welcome newsXpress Coomera!
Welcome newsXpress North Lakes
newsXpress North Lakes is now open in Queensland. This new business in a new centre is a fresh newsXpress offering in the North Lakes region. Packed full of stock from many newsXpress preferred suppliers and staffed with a friendly team, this business was open just a few days before Christmas. This was a massive challenge with many suppliers and others working to help get the business open so close to Christmas.
As the opening date changed suppliers adjusted plans to ensure they could respond when the shop was ready. Over the coming weeks the team will settle the business and bring newsXpress magic to the region.
newsXpress members loving EXCLUSIVE Valentines Ty Beanie Boos plush already!
The EXCLUSIVE TO NEWSXPRESS Ty Beanie Boos product for Valentine’s Day 2014 is selling well across our group of proactive newsagents.
Released a couple of weeks ago, customers have been purchasing this exclusive line so they don’t miss out. Ty plush collectors have been seeking out newsXpress locations since newsXpress stores are the only only retail outlets with this item.
This is one of the many benefits of newsXpress – exclusive product. It generates net new traffic and drives a more valuable shopping basket from existing traffic.
newsXpress landing these deals for newsXpress members is another example of us delivering real value to members.
Ready for Boxing Day
newsXpress members are getting ready for Boxing Day Sales with newsXpress exclusive collateral for the big day provided by the group to members.
With traditional Boxing Day Sales running for two weeks, the collateral provides members with posters to use right away from december 26 for promoting that their business is participating in this legendary sales event.
The collateral has been provided by newsXpress in several sizes for local store use.
newsXpress has released two other collateral opportunities to members this week.
newsXpress members benefit from central billing
newsXpress has offered central billing services to its members and to preferred suppliers for years. In addition to a discount off invoice benefit newsXpress members benefit from extended terms. In a recent comparison we discovered that for many central billing suppliers we offer the best deal in the newsagency channel in terms of a total package of discounts and time to pay.
This point of difference makes newsXpress even more valuable for newsXpress members.
newsXpress newsagent supplier forum a hit in Melbourne
On Friday in Melbourne we hosted more than 50 newsXpress preferred suppliers to a two-hour briefing on newsXpress, what we stand for and what our members look for in preferred supplier relationships.
We outlined our plans for 2014 and opportunities for their support of newsXpress members businesses.
Following the session several suppliers approached us with new opportunities for exclusive engagement. We’ll share more on that soon … very exciting.
We will share an overview of the newsXpress supplier forum content with members at our first round of member meetings in 2014. Watch for those dates soon.
We were thrilled that suppliers flew interstate to be at the session yesterday. We will be hosting one in Sydney early in 2014.
This session yesterday is an important point of difference for newsXpress. That’s what suppliers attending told us. We’re thrilled to have had the opportunity – especially at such a busy time of the year.
newsXpress well represented at Lovatts event
newsXpress appreciated the opportunity to network with many in the newsagency channel at the Lovatts Christmas drinks function in Sydney this week. newsXpress was the only newsagency marketing or franchise group represented at the event.
In the photo we have Warrick Hosking from newsXpress Gympie with newsXpress directors Mark Fletcher and Graham Randall.
newsXpress supports the magazine category for the valuable traffic it generates. beyond the sales of magazines, sales data is leveraged by our group to drive sales of other product categories.
Pacific Magazines is a strategic partner, working with newsXpress to maximise sales of their titles in our retail network.
Terrific newsXpress member meeting in Brisbane
Our Brisbane area members had an excellent members meeting this past week at the head office of preferred supplier Wild Republic. We were treated to some delicious hospitality, some excellent product insights and valuable networking with each other.
More and more members are engaging in our cluster meetings and the feedback following each is excellent.
Wild Republic is a valued supplier to the newsXpress family, offering quality products that connect with educational opportunities. From toys to large plush items the Wild republic line is proving to be a wonderful point of difference for newsXpress members.
Tents a hit in newsXpress stores
The Australian designed tents we launched in newsXpress stores earlier this year following the Melbourne gift fair have been a hit in the newsXpress locations where they have been taken on. Some stores have struggled to keep up with shopper demand as word of mouth spread about the excellent Christmas gift idea for families with kids.
Beautifully designed and well made the tents have been working very well in newsXpress locations – attracting shoppers to the businesses and delivering incremental sales.
Taking on these tents is another example of newsXpress leadership for the newsagency channel.
Promoting Movember in newsXpress stores
newsXpress members are embracing the Movember opportunity with products sourced from newsXpress suppliers and with collateral created by newsXpress for promoting the Movember connecting. The terrific Movember product and the collateral tell a great story connecting with the season and all it stands for.
Besides the fun of the Mo, Movember at participating stores is about connecting with fundraising and community engagement.
newsXpress sourced products and collateral for members from a range of suppliers.