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newsXpress leadership in Kansas City

The newsXpress leadership team spend a week in Kansas City at the headquarters of Hallmark, a strategic partner of newsXpress. In meetings, product presentations, store inspections and business insights, the newsXpress team was able to tap deep into the Hallmark organisation to find product and other opportunities for newsXpress members. Of particular value was next season product insights.

We are grateful to Hallmark for their generosity of time and support leading up to and through this ground-breaking visit.

Newsagency marketing group newsXpress adds another supplier

Newsagency marketing group newsXpress last week announced details of another new supplier to members of the group. This supplier is providing access to an excellent range of unique products that play into a valuable point of difference for newsXpress members.

2014 is proving to be an excellent year for expanding the supplier suite range for newsXpress members.

We’re excited and our members are loving access to even more products.

Promoting toys at newsXpress Wynnum

Here’s an example of newsXpress engaging proactively at the local store level helping a member to promote their business. Our back office team tailored newsXpress exclusive toy promotional collateral for newsXpress Wynnum to use to promote their massive range of toys.

newsXpress members have access to an extraordinary range of local area marketing collateral for all sorts of occasions and opportunities. They also have access to material that can be modified to serve specific needs.

These resources are part of tyhe newsXpress offer to newsagents to help them grow their businesses for a brighter future.

Brilliant new young family gift for newsXpress members

Last week newsXpress announced an exclusive new product opportunity for members, a gift that is ideal for young families. This unique gift life is already generating excellent interest from members. They are thrilled to have such an exclusive line and that it is an Australian developed product.

Having this product on the counter is sure to bring kudos to newsXpress members for the innovative product, that it is ideal for a young family and that it’s Australian innovation.

We are thrilled to have this opportunity.

newsXpress team visiting with Hallmark in the US

newsXpress Directors Graham Randall and Mark Fletcher and newsXpress National Sales Manager Peter Francis are in the US this week to participate in a major retail conference with Hallmark Gold Crown operators, to look at retail trends and to discuss opportunities for newsXpress members.

In addition to engaging in excellent networking opportunities with Hallmark team members and Hallmark retailers, this trip is also providing an opportunity to gain retail insights that are relevant to niches in which Australian newsagents operate today and could operate in the future.

Insights will be shared with newsXpress members at forthcoming member meetings.

Catalogues to drive more traffic for newsXpress newsagents

newsXpress members have been given another supplier-supported traffic-generating catalogue opportunity. Forecast at our national conference, this latest catalogue drives traffic for a desirable high-margin product niche. Supplier funding makes the catalogue more accessible and this helps drive newsagent member engagement.

newsXpress leads the newsagency channel in offering catalogue opportunities across a diverse portfolio of products. Beyond ink, newsXpress offers members flexible promotional opportunities off of which members can leverage new traffic and thereby drive business relevance.

In not relaying o traditional newspaper, magazine and lottery traffic, newsXpress is offering more future-proofing opportunities to members.

Newsagents sell hugs thanks to newsXpress

newsXpress members sell hugs! That’s what a new poster just released pitches for our members.

we sell hugs so you can give hugs.

We are thrilled to be providing our members with such a fun and emotion-focussed poster. It helps our newsXpress members connect with something many people love to give and to receive.

This latest marketing collateral is another newsXpress exclusive.

Newsagency marketing group embraces Hallmark licences opportunities

Hallmark, a strategic partner of newsagency marketing group newsXpress, offers the best greeting card licences in the world. take Peppa Pig – newsXpress members are enjoying excellent success with this mega brand with plush, activity packs, toys and other items from several preferred suppliers. Add the Hallmark cards to the mix and our members have a perfect range of Peppa Pig products. This is where the Hallmark relationship delivers excellent rewards – leveraging their many licences to sell with gifts and other items created under licencing agreements.

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.

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.

How to avoid a Fair Work dispute – practical help for newsXpress members

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.

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.