Category: newsXpress difference

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

NXPPosters_Page_03newsXpress 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

hmklicHallmark, 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

lawyerA 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

NXPStrategicPartnersPullupBannerWith 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

LoomBandsA3Newsagency 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

nxpfacebookOur 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

IMG_1716newsXpress 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

charmingthemonkeyEXCLUSIVE 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

nxcoomeranewsXpress 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

nxnorthlakesnewsXpress 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!

beanievalThe 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

BoxingDayA4newsXpress 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.