newsXpress helps local newsagents create more value in and from their local retail businesses

The value a retailer derives from their business depends on decisions they make daily.

In a newsagency it can be challenging with some of the requirements relating to some of the products sold.

newsXpress helps local retail newsagents pours value in a range of ways from the big picture to the small and local – like at the individual product level.

The value of a product depends on the gross profit for that product, what you sell it for less what you paid for it. The real value of a product is the gross profit less the labour, and retail space costs for the product. The value of a product over a year is these things times the quantity of the product sold.

If you sell a gift for $250 with a GP% of 50%, you make $125.00. That’s the same as the GP you would make from around 380 newspapers, 85 magazines or 100 or so lottery tickets.

The challenge is to have the right higher price point items that sell at good volume to deliver more bankable margin dollars than you will make from lower margin legacy products.

This is where newsXpress helps its retail newsagent members grow profit, and through this cultivate greater value for their businesses, and from that flows enjoyment.

Can anyone sell items worth $250 or more? In our experience, yes!

But, value is about more than the ticket price of an item. Other factors:

– Buy price.

– Stock turn.

– Shrinkage.

– Differentiation.

newsXpress offers advice and support to local retail newsagents on these, helping you to maximise every value opportunity.

We know that if we help you maximise value at the transaction level, it plays our wonderfully when the time comes for you to sell your business.

Helping local retail newsagents cultivate value.

We guide local retail newsagents to harvest greater value, profit, and thereby make your business worth more.

Our community of supporting and engaged preferred suppliers offer members better margin opportunities.

We shine a light on products that turn faster.

We have preferred suppliers who: provide exclusive product and who offer first to market opportunities.

Exclusive. Plenty of our preferred suppliers do not sell to other newsagents.

Our central billing program unlocks for you delayed billing terms, and more.

Our shop floor tactical training and guidance can help you achieve higher inventory turn rates, delivering a better return on investment, better return on floor space, and better return on labour.

This is key – buying a product at a deal price is good, but not the answer if that product does not sell in an efficient way. newsXpress helps you drive product turn efficiency.

Enjoying your local retail newsagency business.

Okay, this is important for any retailer and especially for local retail newsagents.

Enjoying your business helps you make better decisions. It also helps those with you in the business make better business decisions.

Through our newsXpress community you have friends you can have a laugh with, and folks you can trust to decompress with.

In our Zoom meetings and other contact points we, together, have a laugh.

The business itself becomes enjoyable when speed bumps are overcome and stormy weather guided away. Having access to your own business mentor can help achieve these things.

Success is enjoyable. We encourage and help to find success so you can feel the happiness it brings.

We understand, too, that enjoyment can be different for each of us. We are keen to know what enjoyment feels like for you, to make sure that we tap into enjoyment in a way that is meaningful to you.

Now, let’s turn to the how

Nurturing your success – a message for local retail newsagents.

newsXpress helps local retail newsagents nurture success through opportunities you can leverage, often needing little or no capital investment. We share these in one of our regular (at least twice a week) member emails, or our regular member Zoom meetings.

Opportunities can be new suppliers, new products, in-store tactical changes, out of store marketing ideas. Often, they are early adopter opportunities that can help our members win before other retailers know about the opportunity.

We lay out for your consideration a pathway to a success. These are curated by business, considering local needs and owner situations.

Opportunities can be sales to people who will never visit your shop through any of several national #1 ranked consumer facing websites, and / or your own exclusive website, under a brand you choose.

newsXpress is a local retail newsagency marketing group. Our goal is to help our newsXpress member retail shops to be the best locally, the happiest, and the move valuable. What we offer and do is different business by business, depending on their needs, and focussed on their situation.

This is not a one size fits all approach, because local retail is not one size fits all. It’s what makes local retail so loved by folks in the local community.

How newsXpress helps newsagents confront challenges and changes

newsXpress is a newsagency marketing group. We provide marketing assistance, management advice, supplier deals, business planning support and a range of other services to newsagents in businesses of any size and in any location.

In this document we put in writing what we do for newsXpress members. By putting this in writing, we hold ourselves to account and provide you a document you can use to compare us.

The most important service provided by newsXpress is the optimism it builds with members and those who work for them:

  • optimism in a bright future, that you can change your business
  • optimism that you can overcome road blocks
  • optimism that you can enjoy your newsagency business
  • optimism that you can make your business asset more valuable.

Watch this video explaining what we do and why it matters:

Fantastic Sydney Gift Fair for newsXpress

newsXpress and newsXpress members had a fantastic Gift Fair in Sydney over the last five days thanks to the pre-planning done by the head office team. The handy fair maps, meet-ups, dinners and other connections made the fair more useful for newsXpress as did co-ordinated buying, guided buying and the other services provided by the group to enhance the member experience.

This is a massive newsXpress difference – the care and attention to detail around events like the Sydney Gift Fair – helping newsXpress members get the best possible value from attending the fair and being part of newsXpress.

A bonus from this fair was the prospective members we got to connect with. What a thrill.

#funkopop New York Comic Con Pops a hit for newsXpress

The limited edition New York Comic Con Pop! Vinyls from Funko have been a hit for newsXpress Pop! Vinyl stockists. The latest limited edition products continue a trend of engagement by newsXpress for collectors and for small business newsagents in the newsXpress group.

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Meeting suppliers in Hong Kong

At the Hong Kong gift fair today, newsXpress has setup meetings with suppliers to explore more product opportunities inside and outside existing supplier relationships.

Engaging with international events such as the Fair opening today has helped newsXpress and its retail network expand beyond what has been traditional in the newsagency space. It has helped us find new products as well as opportunities allied to existing products – thereby extending the margin dollars newsXpress stores make from destination products.

Already from pre fair meetings we have discovered fresh opportunities.

newsXpress training video library expands

Last week, newsagency marketing group newsXpress released another comprehensive training package to its members including an in-house produced video speaking to new training.

The video is wide ranging, covering multiple product categories and exploring new traffic opportunities across valuable demographics. It is also confidential and hidden.

The new training is part of fresh resources on which newsXpress members can rely to enhance the benefits they leverage from their membership of our group of proactive and engaged newsagents. Here is a still from one of the new videos but don’t assume the content based on what you can see.

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newsXpress adds five new members last week

newsXpress welcomed five new members last week in a continuation of the excellent membership growth in 2015.

We don’t name the members here as we have found it better to not provide our competitors with this information too early.

The latest growth is coming at a time when newsXpress members themselves are reporting good news around traffic growth, revenue growth and GP % growth.

Our goal is to help newsXpress members grow and be a local competitive force to be reckoned with. This is helped y our continuing to grow as a group.

We appreciate the support of newsagents switching to newsXpress and embracing the opportunities we present to them.

What an exciting year this is!

Newsagency marketing group newsXpress says no to discount wholesalers

As part of its commitment to premium brands, newsXpress has recently said no to approaches from two discount wholesalers who offer lo price point average margin product.

Our belief is that you cannot grow long-term customer relationships selling cheap products like those in discount variety stores.

Successful newsXpress members today make far more money from premium brands that attract premium margins.

Our strategy is a key factor in our margin transition campaign.

New supplier opens 41 new accounts

One new newsXpress supplier is thrilled to have opened 41 new trading accounts in a short period of time. They are even happier that plenty of accounts have reordered with the opening order having sold through so well.

newsXpress members are very happy with the results, excellent sales from high margin product which offers them a point of difference and helps them attract new shoppers.

This is a proactive newsagency marketing group in action – driving good outcomes for members, delivering excellent results for newsXpress members and suppliers.

Newsagency marketing group deals pack a hit

nxdealsnewsXpress members are loving the deals in the latest deals pack sent out. better still, newsXpress suppliers are loving the deals. Printed and collated without cost to suppliers or newsXpress members, the deals pack offered an excellent variety of brand-name quality products at excellent prices, giving newsXpress members more good-margin opportunities. This is another successful newsXpress initiative – helping our businesses grow.

newsXpress members booking in for local business building meetings

newsXpress members have been booking in good numbers for our April round of cluster meetings – where we will talk business planning, new traffic opportunities and tactics for driving margin even further than members are achieving today.

This next round of meetings will be hosted through a partner supplier and events will include special yet strategic buying of quality products around which newsXpress members will be able to build an exciting seasonal repetitional story.

Te participating supplier is exclusive to newsXpress, offering a valuable point of difference to our members and back to the supplier.

This next round of cluster meetings is an excellent opportunity for us to show off the newsxpress difference.

Newsagency marketing group helps newsagents achieve stellar jigsaw sales

brandingNewsagency marketing group newsXpress is helping its newsagency business members to drive excellent sales of Ravensberger jigsaws thanks to professionally printed A1 size double sided colour posters.

The Ravensberger branded poster is part of a professional marketing pack provided to newsXpress members for out of season marketing. The result is increased sales, faster stock turns, better return on inventory investment.

This is great news for newsXpress members.

The posters are just part of the newsXpress marketing assist.

 

Newsagency marketing group helps newsagents drive social media engagement

Newsagency marketing group newsXpress is helping members achieve excellent success with facebook and other social media engagement through organic and paid campaigns which connect with different demographics around different product opportunities.

Based on sound research by social media experts, the newsXpress approach is delivering excellent results for these independently owned small businesses – generating net new traffic and helping to encourage shoppers to travel to a newsXpress location with EXCLUSIVE or special interest products.

Newsagency marketing group EXCLUSIVE

EXCLUSIVE is a word newsXpress newsagency marketing group members are hearing more and more as the group accesses for them from suppliers keen to work with engaged newsagents.

Whether it is EXCLUSIVE pricing, EXCLUSIVE products or EXCLUSIVE marketing investment, benefits delivered only to newsXpress members make them more successful and they help them enjoy their businesses more.

EXCLUSIVE is a difference for newsXpress members, something on which they can rely to help make their businesses more valuable.

This is another newsXpress difference.

Newsagency marketing group newsXpress buys together

buyingTake a look at this photo. Look at all the people on one stand at Toy Fair last week. What you can’t see is the other thirty people inside the stand, behind the wall. So big was our Toy fair buying group that we had to break into two. Suppliers closed off their stands for us. the results were stunning. newsXpress buying made the Toy fair for some suppliers. They are thrilled with the results. newsXpress members are thrilled with the deals. They love the EXCLUSIVE opportunities. Toy Fair was a hit. What made us laugh was the competitor following us around trying to access similar deals. One person saying they represent hundreds is not the same as filling a stand with business owners ready to write orders on the spot.

This is newsXpress in action. yes, actions speak louder than words.