Heartfelt congratulations to newsXpress Gympie for winning Hallmark Alliance retailer of the Year award – announced yesterday. This is great news and wonderful kudos for an energetic and successful newsXpress business in the competitive Gympie marketplace.
newsXpress is thrilled for Warrick and Jo Hosking!
newsXpress members have got together in local area meetings over the last week in Newcastle, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth to talk business, hear about some stunning supplier deals and network with colleagues. The photo shows our Melbourne meeting held at the offices of Artwrap where we got to see some exciting new products and tap into some exceptional deals. The opportunity proved wonderful for our members who actively engaged with what was on offer.
A feature of these meetings has been showing off exclusive to newsXpress product lines that offer a valuable point of difference to newsXpress members.
Congratulations to newsXpress Laidley for making the front page of the Laidley Plainland Leader with a terrific story about selling a first division winning lottery ticket.
What a great story and what a wonderful photo of two happy looking newsXpress members!
Russell and Helen you do newsXpress proud every day!
It’s a thrill to see another lottery win for a lucky newsXpress shopper.
Thanks to the folks at the Laidley Plainland Leader for sharing this good news.
newsXpress newsagents have several opportunities for connecting with high-profile commercial free-to-air TV campaigns right now thanks to engaged preferred supplier relationships. With two new TV campaigns starting in the last week, newsXpress members have been given information that helps them make the most of immediate brand awareness opportunities.
Not only does newsXpress help members buy better, it also helps them turn good buying into cash through timely information, advice and insights.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
Newsagency marketing group newsXpress is gaining traction with newsagents through its Grow Your Own Way call to action campaign.
Delivering access to a model of business flexibility backed by a broad range of valuable supplier options the Grow Your Own Way campaign is resonating with newsagents for its positivity, flexibility and recognition that newsagency businesses are local businesses with local needs.
newsXpress gives members flexibility to grow their businesses in areas appropriate to those businesses. Our job as a newsagency marketing group is to give members the tools and opportunities at the best possible terms.
More and more newsXpress members are attracting new shoppers thanks to free email campaigns that newsXpress helps members to create and send.
Sent as personal emails from each local business to local customers, newsXpress and its members are able to reach out to local known shoppers to attract them to the business for an offer, promotion or new product.
This free local area marketing is another way newsXpress is helping members attract more feet through the door without having to spend any money on advertising.
The newsXpress help includes training in access to the platform and content to send.
One member achieved additional sales worth in excess of $300 within 24 hours of sending one email we suggested to them. This is money in the back as the $300 in sales came with a GP of more than 65%.
What a great deal!
More newsXpress members have been enjoying sales success driven by free email marketing from the nexus newsagency marketing platform funded by Pacific Magazines. In the latest round of marketing newsXpress members are reporting specific sales successes attributable to nexus.
newsXpress worked with Pacific in trialing nexus several years ago and today all newsXpress members have fee access to this excellent marketing platform.
newsXpress businesses across Australia are embracing the Halloween opportunity with products appealing to all ages and tastes. From the low cost kids items through to centrepieces for Halloween dinners through to zombie party requirements, Halloween 2013 is in full flight with newsXpress.
Thanks to a broad range of good-margin supplier relationships, newsXpress members are able to take their Halloween pitch to a more creative place than you see in traditional retail. They are also able to more effectively compete with the major retailers as we can access some Halloween product they do not have access to.
Attracting new shoppers and driving a deeper basket from existing shoppers, Halloween continues to be an excellent newsXpress success story.
In addition to being commercially valuable, Halloween plays a vital role in attracting additional shoppers in the lead up to Christmas. This works a treat for newsXpress members and has done so for many years.
In the newsagency channel, newsXpress owns Halloween.
The latest brochure from newsXpress shows off some of the marketing collateral produced by the group in A1 size (landscape and portrait) and provided to members for use during major and minor seasons through the year. All the marketing artwork is newsXpress exclusive and helps connect newsXpress retail locations with these wonderful seasonal opportunities.
Feedback from newsagents to the GROW YOUR OWN WAY marketing campaign being run by newsXpress has been terrific this week. Newsagents have contacted us to find out how we can help them grow. Others have let us know they love the positivity of the campaign and that it’s inspired them to look at their business differently.
Designed by newsXpress to encourage all newsagents to love their businesses more, GROW YOUR OWN WAY is an excellent example of the forward-thinking approach of newsXpress on behalf of its member newsagents.
Inside the four page brochure spearheading the campaign are ideas and thoughts to help newsagents look at their businesses differently and positively.
Developed internally by the creative team in Newsagency marketing group newsXpress, the feedback is that this campaign inspires newsagents to follow their instincts, to pursue change and to make their own success.
Inspired by the Go Your Own Way song from Fleetwood Mac, GROW YOUR OWN WAY is a call to positivity for newsagents.
To find out more about newsXpress and how you can grow your business please contact our National sales Manager: Peter Francis on 0423 298 020.
GROW YOUR OWN WAY an inspiring call to action marketing campaign from newsXpress is encouraging ALL newsagents to chase growth.
This is an uplifting campaign designed to encourage all newsagents, not just newsXpress members. It’s another way newsXpress is putting back into the newsagency channel – by encouraging all newsagents to chase growth for the sake of their own future.
Developed internally by the creative team in Newsagency marketing group newsXpress, the feedback is that this campaign inspires newsagents to follow their instincts, to pursue change and to make their own success.
Inspired by the Go Your Own Way song from Fleetwood Mac, GROW YOUR OWN WAY is a call to positivity for newsagents.
To find out more about newsXpress and how you can grow your business please contact our National sales Manager: Peter Francis on 0423 298 020.