What's included
Here is a list of what's included in the low monthly membership fee:
- Low EFTPOS rates.
- Seasonal marketing collateral. Beautiful. Exclusive. A1. Double-sided.
- Digital collateral. 100s of exclusive assets for your use each year.
- Digital collateral for in-store use. Ready for you to print, and use.
- Catalogue opportunities. While catalogues don't work the way they used to - just ask Coles, Woolworths or Ovato - we do offer specialty / niche product catalogue opportunities from time to time.
- Customer loyalty cards. For 3 different categories. Free to members.
- Exclusive to newsXpress seasons. To help you attract new shoppers.
- 100+ preferred suppliers. Better margin. Faster selling. Good terms.
- Social media collateral. Images, and videos ready for you to use.
- National consumer facing websites. Connection for your shop is easy.
- Half price website. Connected to your business, made for you.
- Supplier problem resolution. We actively represent you.
- Landlord negotiation. We help you negotiate.
- Product buying. To your budget, we create orders for you to consider.
- Business management advice. Evidence-based advice.
- Team member training.
- Visual merchandising advice, training, and inspiration.
- Shop fit, and layout advice. We have helped save thousands of dollars.
- HR. Timely access to award rates.
- Member meetings. Online. Via Zoom. Recorded for later watching too.
- Supplier launches / presentations. Filmed by us, for you.
- Private Facebook group. Talk about anything, any time.
- Online knowledge base. 150+ business management articles.
- Deals envelope. Exclusive member deals from suppliers.
- Financial guidance. Helping you budget for profit.
- Listening. We can be your sounding board on anything.
- Mental health support. We will help any way we can.
- More. We do more than this every day.
The membership fee is paid each month, by direct debit. This is your membership fee. It pays in part for our services. We also receive rebates from suppliers. these are disclosed to members annually.
You are under no obligation to purchase from newsXpress preferred suppliers.
Suppliers appreciate the commercial context we provide for products they offer and pay us a rebate to help fund what we do for our members.
In all of our years of operation, there has been no profit distribution from newsXpress. Everything earned by the group has been reinvested for the benefit of member businesses.
Once a year, we share with our members our P&L, offering transparency as to income, and expenses.