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2022 Tooth Fairy Kit from the Royal Aust. Mint is out now

We are grateful to offer the 2022 Tooth Fairy Kit from the Royal Australian Mint now.

What a perfect gift to give this 2022 Tooth Fairy Kit coin set is. we ship online, well packaged and safely to you or to the family you are buying the gift for.

This 2022 Tooth Fairy Kit is another of the wonderful gifts available at there Mint Coin Shop as well as at many local newsXpress businesses. The 2022 Tooth Fairy Kit coin set has only just been released by the Royal Australian Mint and already it is a hit with our customers.

This 2022 Tooth Fairy Kit includes some wonderful delights to commemorate the occasion of losing a tooth, including:

  • A special uncirculated coin.
  • A bamboo toothbrush.
  • A floating glitter fairy pen.
  • A tooth chart.
  • And, a very special message from the Tooth Fairy.

newsXpress  is proud to offer these wonderful products to bring joy to the experience of losing a tooth and being visited by the tooth fairy. This is a lot of fantasy and fun for families across Australia.

The 2022 Tooth Fairy Kit from the Royal Australian Mint is part of the newsXpress special gifting experience through which we help families and their friends and loved-one have access to gift opportunities that bring excitement and joy, happiness and love. These are very special occasions and gifts like the 2022 mint coin Tooth Fairy Kit help to bring the experience to life, and create wonderful m memories for the whole family.

By ordering online from the Mint Coin Shop your order will be fulfilled bay the newsXpress business. Your Tooth Fairy Kit will be carefully packaged and posted to your designated address, quickly bringing to life the fun and jy of being visited by the Tooth Fairy. What a treat! What a joy!

We have other wonderful gifts too, like CoComelon, Jellycat and Beanie Boos – all wonderful products bringing happiness and joy to families as they experience the growth of their young ones.

newsXpress stores are around Australia. Locally owned and run. Serving local communities. Helping people to express themselves for life’s special occasions. helping people make the most wonderful of memories.

newsXpress newsagency marketing group helps local Aussie newsagents cultivate joy in their businesses

This cultivating joy pitch from newsXpress is real, heartfelt and backed by actionable items you can take, any newsagent can take, in any size newsagency business, in any situation – city or country try.

You can bank on it.

To us here at newsXpress, joy comes from a business making good money, where people love to work and shop, a business that is worth more when you choose to sell.

Profit is the measurement of success, and a core for joy.

The newsagency channel was created in the 1880s to distribute a magazine through the goldfields of Victoria. Some of the agency arrangements put in place then can be seen in business arrangements today.

While we understand and respect the history of the channel, the future for our shops is the future. It’s nothing like those goldfield days.

Making the most of the opportunities of the future is about what we talk about in this document.

What you sell. How you sell. When you sell. The customers you sell to. It’s all up for grabs, there for the taking. It starts with the narrative of your business, how you pitch yourself.

Our advice can include encouraging you to let go of some things that don’t make money and don’t, as Marie Kondo says, spark joy.

How far you go is 100% up to you. Our job is to pitch ideas and opportunities. What you do with them is up to you. Once you decide, we can help with practical steps.

While we understand that for plenty of newsagents, old-school products and services are valuable, their value is declining. Acting now can protect your business against those declines.

You’re not alone. We help you, work with you, hold your hand and encourage you – as much or as little as you want.

For each of us in business, what we achieve is up to us. Our future is about what we do today.

newsXpress is a marketing group for local small business newsagents. We are not a franchise group.

We offer evidence-based advice to back our suggestions. What you do in your business is 100% up to you.

We help businesses that have limited or no capital grow in value. Our team of twelve retail professionals has a deep well of skills and experience.

For $175.00 a month, we think that newsXpress offers the most valuable marketing group membership available.

We’d love to help you run a more valuable business and more enjoyable business. If you’d like that, let’s talk.

What does being in an engaged newsagency marketing group look like?

There are more newsagents not in a marketing group than there are in one. This is why we thought it could be useful to explore what being in a marketing group looks like.

For newsXpress members, the cost of being in the group is around $10.00 a day. This provides each newsXpress member tangible value in the form of:

  • Higher profit. Thanks to an exclusive data based approach to driving high margin lines, helping you take control of buying – leading to significant sales growth.
  • Supplier discounts. Often worth $10,000 or more a year.
  • Buying rebates. Often worth $10,000 or more a year.
  • Lower lease costs. Thanks to practical advice and help on lease negotiation.
  • Lower labour costs. Thanks to a data based approach to rostering.
  • From community engagement with the newsXpress family.

Being part of newsXpress delivers more than this short list though. To explore what members receive, in specific and practical terms, this list details everything included in the membership fee:

  1. Regular member meetings. Via Zoom. Weekly and often at weekends for those who prefer that. Supporting each other. Sharing ideas. Learning. having fun.
  2. Supplier launches / presentations. Filmed by us, for newsXpress members exclusively. Includes insights that help drive sales.
  3. Seasonal marketing collateral. Exclusive. A1. Double-sided posters.
  4. Digital collateral. 100s of exclusive assets for your personal use each year. Images and videos that are Instagram and Facebook ready.
  5. Digital collateral for in-store use. Ready for you to print, and use.
  6. Buying rebates. Money put into your account, adding appreciated margin dollars.
  7. Free access to a cloud based commercial graphic design tool. Make what you posters and art need, easily.
  8. Customer loyalty cards. Free stock for 3 different product categories.
  9. Exclusive to newsXpress seasons. To help you attract new shoppers.
  10. 100+ preferred suppliers. Better margin. Faster selling. Good terms.
  11. National consumer facing websites. Connection for your shop is easy.
  12. Half price website. Based on Shopify. Connected to your business, made for you.
  13. Supplier problem resolution. We actively represent you.
  14. Landlord negotiation. We help you negotiate.
  15. Low EFTPOS rates. We launched least cost routing in Jan. 2018.
  16. Product buying. To your budget, we create orders for you to consider if you would like.
  17. Business management advice. Evidence-based advice.
  18. Team member training.
  19. Visual merchandising advice, training, and inspiration.
  20. Shop fit, and layout advice. We have helped save thousands of dollars.
  21. Timely access to award rates.
  22. Private Facebook group. Talk about anything, any time.
  23. Online knowledge base. 150+ exclusive business management articles.
  24. Deals envelope. Exclusive member deals from suppliers.
  25. Financial guidance. Helping you budget for profit.
  26. We can be your sounding board on anything.
  27. Mental health support. We will help any way we can.
  28. newsXpress does more than this every day.

In a practical sense, this is what members of the newsXpress marketing group have access to. It’s part about more profit, part about more enjoyment and part about strategic planning for the future.

Like any group one belongs to, what you get out of being part of newsXpress or any newsagency marketing group is up to you. Choosing to engage and seek out more value for your business is a good move.

newsXpress can be reached at help@newsxpress.com.au

newsXpress helps local newsagents with advice on pop-up retail

newsXpress helps local newsagents to run more engaged, interesting and fun retail businesses. We do this in many ways, helping local newsagents to discover the new and exciting.

When it comes to pop-up retail, we have plenty advice for newsagents including:

LOCATION.

With a pop-up shop you don’t have time to find your customers. The location needs to already have good traffic passing daily, traffic you can easily leverage. Even more so than in fixed-location retail, location is critical.

The best locations are shops that have good passing traffic that is of interest to you and that have been vacant for a while where a landlord might be happy with something rather than nothing.

OCCUPANCY COST.

Negotiate the lowest rent cost possible. Some landlords see pop-up offers as a reason to charge a premium. Only sign up for a price you are 100% happy with. If it is expensive and does not work financially, don’t sign hoping it works out, because in retail it rarely does work out better. In a pop-up business you have less time to see if it works out. Also, preferably, no contingency deposit.

LABOUR COST.

Staff the business with a lean roster. This shop is about selling. that means, products placed for a price proposition rather than beautiful displays that take time to maintain. Every staff member is there to sell and maximise revenue from every shopper visit. There is no room in the roster for fat.

FIXTURES AND FITTINGS.

Don’t spend a cent on fixtures and fittings. That needs to be your starting position. It’s a pop-up shop. People expect it to be  efficient, cost-effective. Using tables and boxes adds to the feel of the shop feeling low-cost and that can help drive sales. Suppliers can be a good source for loaned fixtures.

INVENTORY.

Ask suppliers to offer consignment stock or special clearance deals they’d like to move fast. Go for items that can be sold out of a box, to make display and ranging easier. In-box displays of particularly cheap items can work very well.

PRICING MODEL.

Price to sell. This means being below usual retail. Price to understandable price points. For example, you might have a $10 table, a $20 table and so on. Consider bundling items into packs, which make price comparison difficult.

PROMOTION.

Don’t spend money on sign writing or marketing. Use social media and bargain websites and anywhere similar where you can list the store and its products.

Host an opening party. List this as a local event on Facebook.

MANAGEMENT MINDSET.

Your mindset in managing the pop-up shop needs to be different to a fixed-location retail situation. Pop-up shops are about low cost, low overheads, low prices. Be ready to do deals. Those working in the pop-up shop needs to be different to how they would be in the fixed-location retail business.

SPEED.

You need to move fast. From the moment you sign a lease or agreement, the clock is ticking. Ideally, you’d open within 24 hours and when you are done, closing and clearing out the shop is done in 24 hours or less. This is all about maximising the time for income-production.

Newsagents are ideal retailers to create and run local pop-up shops.

newsXpress is grateful to support local newsagents to be smart, engaged and fun local retailers.

How newsXpress helped local newsagent businesses through Covid

newsXpress has helped many local newsagent businesses through Covid in many different ways. This help has ranged from the practical to the financial to the emotional.

Our mission is to help local newsagent businesses be more relevant to their community, more enjoyable to those working there and more valuable to those who own the business.

Most newsXpress newsagent shops are in regional Australia or suburban high street situations. Many are in small towns.

Here is some of what we have done with and for newsXpress newsagent members:

Early access to state and territory grants. Even where they did not quality for JobKeeper we helped plenty make the case for grant funding.

Rent relief. We have helped many newsXpress members with rent relief, which has ranged from 25% off rent for 6 months to 75% off rent for 6 months.

Bonus GP%. On top of newsXpress preferential pricing, 51 suppliers provided an additional 5% of GP April through June on all purchases in an exclusive

First with jigsaws. In February we pitched jigsaws as a growth category in a Covid world. Our members grabbed inventory, and achieved excellent sales.

Online with jigsaws. In March we turned on a national jigsaw website connected to newsXpress stores to win delivery and click and collect sales. It’s been a hit.

First with nesting. In March we identified nesting as a popular growth category. Members following our advice have added thousands of dollars in revenue.

New suppliers. We have brought on 15 new suppliers in recent months, almost all of whom have not previously dealt with newsagents.

Half price website development. With Tower Systems we’ve delivered beautiful POS software linked Shopify sites for individual stores for half price.

Daily email. Sent each morning, by 7am with updated supplier deals, to-do tips for staff and more. Designed for a fast, time-efficient, read.

Mask access. Months ago, we provided access to masks for sale. Today, we have 12 suppliers with handmade through to funky and fun masks.

Subsidised online sales. We launched subsidised shipping for online Beanie Boo sales for our website connected to 100+ local newsXpress stores. This site delivers hundreds of thousands of dollars across participating newsXpress stores annually.

Click and collect. From March we offered practical advice and guidance on how to do click and collect, to win new business. It’s been a hit.

Daily Zoom meetings. These started March 15 and have run Monday – Friday ever since. The sessions are filmed and 75+ members watch the videos daily. In the sessions we meet suppliers, stay on top of news, motivate each other and more.

Sunday drinks. Every Sunday @ 4pm. This is a more relaxed chat.

Engaging social media campaigns. Four months ago, we launched Storytime, daily social media targeted stories that provide an emotional narrative members can use on social media. They are a daily hit driving excellent feedback and engagement.

This list is not complete, we help and support local newsXpress newsagent businesses in many other ways.