The newsXpress member meetings which start next week in Sydney will include a discussion among newsXpress members on business performance and retail in general.
Our approach of using member meetings for business discussions is popular among newsXpress members. While we still present supplier deals and talk about marketing strategies, it is the business discussions which unlock opportunities for members to take away and use in their businesses.
newsXpress is continuing a long-standing and commercially successful traditon of arranging QCS packs for Queensland newsXpress members. These packs are useful for students participating in the QCS exam in September. Details for ordering the QCS packs for 2010 were announced by newsXpress on Monday.
newsXpress exclusive member meetings for July start next week. This round will feature terrific supplier deals, newsXpress exclusive business development strategies and an opportunity great newsXpress networking.
The dates and locations are:
The meeting start at 10am. The early arrival is an opportunity to check out supplier deals.
newsXpress has been offered a greenfield newsagency opportunity in a Woolworths centre for someone wanting to buy a newsagency. With the backing of newsXpress strategies and expertise, this opportunity would be ideal for someone entering the newsagency channel for the first time.
For more information on this opportunity please call Mark Fletcher on 0418 321 338. We expect that this opportunity will be taken quickly.
Buying a Newsagency can be an opportunity to increase your capital wealth over time. Newsagencies, run well, are good businesses to own and operate. They respond well to hard work and good management.
It is important to remember that when buying a Newsagency it is not always a license to print money. Your chances of success will be better if you do some research into the industry first to get a feel for the problems you might encounter as a business owner.
The business has more chance of success the more it matches your interests and business strengths.
To be a successful Newsagent, you must be 100% committed. Anything less and you will significantly reduce your chances of success. You have to ask yourself is a Newsagency the best solution and will be suitable for me and my lifestyle.
Consider your own level of knowledge and interest along with having the skills, experience, time, resources, vision and commitment to make the Newsagency a success.
This is where newsXpress can help. Our team of Business development Managers work with newsXpress members, in store, to build stronger, more efficient and more profitable newsagencies. This is the newsXpress difference.
Newsagencies can be very demanding with long hours. While it may provide independence and the opportunity to earn more money, you must also consider that it can place a lot of pressure on you personally, family, friends. It can affect your relationships and lifestyle. You will also have to be in good physical condition especially if you are purchasing one with a paper run and you plan to do the deliveries yourself.
newsXpress can help with back office processes, front of store processes and marketing to help attract new customers.
Before you start looking at a newsagency to buy, consider whether you are ready for this decision yourself. Are you up for the hard work? Are you physically able? Do you have the financial and emotional capacity? Do you enjoy retail? Are you motivated to make a real difference in a business? Do you know the type of Newsagency you are looking for?
To find out more about how newsXpress can help you in buying a newsagency, please contact Ben Kay, newsXpress General Manager, on 0419 678 754.
The merchandise team at newsXpress has been busy negotiating excellent deals for newsXpress members with four new suppliers announced in the last week.
The details of the new suppliers, their offers and trading terms have been communicated to newsXpress members. We will not be publishing details here since the information is commercially sensitive to newsXpress members.
The new products on offer extend the range available in our stores and in newsagencies more generally. One supplier in particular opens what will be a new category for many newsagents.
We hosted an online focus group of selected members last week to discuss our plans for Christmas. During the session a range of products were shown and feedback solicited. By using online meeting technology, newsXpress is able to pull on the advice and knowledge of newsXpress members from around the country. The result will be a Christmas offer based on significant member input.
newsXpress is thrilled to welcome three new members starting with us this month:
newsXpress looks for proactive newsagents regardless of store size and location.
newsXpress received a wonderful note from Annette Sym, author of the Symply Too Good cookbooks, thanking us for our support of her efforts to raise money for breast cancer reseatch.
Here is what Annette had to say:
Thank you and NewsXpress so much for providing us with your fabulous NewsXpress black enviro bags, caps and water bottles for our Symply Food, Symply Fit, Symply Pink breast cancer fundraising event on the 22nd June 2010. The first 100 people who booked to attend our event received their wonderful gift bags on the night, which contained a fantastic array of donated goodies including your caps and water bottles, and we could see that everyone was absolutely thrilled to receive them. We were also able to auction one of the gift bags on the night, which generated further fundraising. Thank you for being so generous and helping to make it such a special night – we greatly appreciate it – and a big thank you from Annette for all your support.
Please find attached our Sponsor’s Thank You page which was given to all 200 attendees, as well as being shown on our large presentation screen during the night.
We are absolutely delighted to announce that the fundraising goal set out in December 2009 has officially been reached! Due to all the amazing people who volunteered their help, time and resources we have raised over $10,000 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. As you are aware our first event, held in February 2010, was the Train Like a Girl Breast Cancer Challenge and then last week, Symply Food, Symply Fit, Symply Pink! The two events combined have raised a total of:
$10, 510.50 !!!
Without the spirit and generosity of our community, this goal would never have been achieved.
Finally, on behalf of Jen’s sister Michelle and family – THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!
Thank you for helping us to make a difference
The team at newsXpress Sunbury Square (VIC) has put together a terrific promotion for products related to the Toy Story movie which opened this week. They have sourced licenced product from Hallmark and another newsXpress preferred supplier.
The range of products on offer is considerably more than you will see in a traditional newsagency – this is the newsXpress difference on show in Sunbury and exclusively at newsXpress Sunbury Square.
Cleverly placed on the dance floor near greeting cards, the display is designed to attract kids, parents and grandparents.
The team at newsXpress Wetherill Pack is backing their bold cinema advertising campaign promoting eclipse movie merchandise campaign with an excellent display. The photo to the left shows just part of the display.
All of the eclipse products, clothing, games, calendars, boxes and other product have been sourced through and with the help of newsXpress preferred suppliers.
This display is an inspiration to all newsagents.
newsXpress is helping its members plan for the gift fair season which starts next week in Sydney. We have shared details of newsXpress preferred suppliers at each of the fairs and offered access to our merchandise resources to help members make selections as they expand their gift ranges.
At some fairs we plan to facilitate members getting together to compare notes and learn from the shared experience.
newsXpress members are loving the IN STORE OFFERS newsletter which we provide free for members to customise and print locally. The June newsletter highlights the World Cup promotion, a Hallmark card special, UHU glue sticks, Better Homes & Gardens and the ACP Slow Cooker cookbook.
We have newsXpress members distributing these on stands in front of their stores, with accounts, to letterboxes and through other forms. The feedback is that the newsletters are driving good shopper engagement.
newsXpress offers its members a range of customisable flyers like this for members to use to drive traffic and sales.
newsXpress Wetherill Park is advertising their range of Twilight eclipse merchandise in the cinema in their centre. The eclipse merchandise has been sourced through newsXpress preferred suppliers.
The newsXpress marketing team helped the Wetherill Park team with the script for the advertisement and some of the collateral used.
newsXpress radio is running an interview with the happy winner of our Back to Work competition after they have taken delivery of their brand new Toyota Yaris. Following such a large competition through to the conclusion and sharing the joy of the winner with our customers – over newsXpress Radio – is exciting for our stores and also transparent.
We take the competitions we run seriously and are pleased to have an in-store radio medium through which we can promote successes such as our Toyota Yaris giveaway.
The team at newsXpress Terrigal has created am excellent window display promoting the 2010 World Cup. Using newsXpress World Cup collateral across the top of the window as well as World Cup material from other suppliers the team has created a window display which is sure to be hit with customers and the talk of the town.
This window display sets a high benchmark for newsXpress members and newsagents generally.
newsXpress is proud to be the exclusive newsagency channel partner for Red Nose Day again this year. A excellent range of high profile retailers support Red Nose Day including Big W, Target, Blockbuster, Mobil, Dick Smith, Spotlight and Priceline.
newsXpress stores are offering a range of Red Nose Day merchandise in support of fundraising for this important cause.
newsXpress has published a two page newsletter to newsagents sharing insights into embracing change. Called Transformations, the newsletter shares some newsXpress success stories as well as some of the value newsXpress brings to the newsagency businesses with which it partners. To see a copy of the newsletter, please click here.
newsXpress has created a training video for newsXpress members and their employees on how to leverage maximum sales from ACP Magazines’ Women’s Weekly Slow Cooker cookbook. This training video is accessible now at the newsXpress website, in the members area. members can watch this online or download the video for sharing among all employees. Access is free to all members.
Our initiatives on the Slow Cooker title have seen our members achieve record sales. This has been done by driving shopping basket efficiency, doubling and sometimes tripling the value of a sale.
The newsXpress difference is that we use a range of business driving levers to help our members make more from the traffic in their stores. We do this using newsXpress exclusive initiatives and materials. Our newsXpress exclusive training video published this week is further evidence of this.
Some of what we have been able to do with this title is further evidence of our valuable magazine publisher relationships.
newsXpress has brought on a large number of new preferred suppliers in the past three months to provide a wider range of products and opportunities for their members to add to their retail mix. One such supplier, Jacman Designs who produce named gifts & novelty products were initially treated with apprehension by newsXpress Wetherill Park.
However, Ginella and her team decided to trial them based on some previous success with newsXpress supported suppliers and installed a spinner late last week. In just over 7 days they had sold no less than 107 units at $7.99 each, an outstanding success in any measure of this result.
They now believe these are a huge hit and the sales figures certainly back this up, and encourage other newsXpress members to give them a try as they could work in almost all locations!