Here’s a grab bag of resolutions for 2011 newsagents could consider.
- Reconfigure the floor space allocation of your newsagency to reflect your plans for the future.
- We drive serious debate about the green challenges of the magazine supply model.
- To act on what you think needs work with the traditional newsagency model.
- To get serious about theft management in your store.
- To stop supplier reps from placing orders and take full control of reordering for yourself.
- To reconnect with the local community.
- To carry stock which actually sells rather than being the retailer of last resort for many lines.
- To more actively engage in managing the magazine floorstock by more intelligent and timely early return.
- To present a fresh face to the newsagency from the front window and throughout the store.
- To introduce at least one completely new department.
This could be a year of significant change if we decide to lead our businesses rather than follow.
off topic but with no supplys coming in today for some of us with hiways closed all over the country ,should we still be charged this month for them ?
Not if you don’t receive.
Thats an interesting question because the invoices have been printed and stock allocated.They would have to manually adjust for you,I would ring and make sure,never expect them to do the right thing.
If you weren’t meant to get a delivery it would be different but since it is floods stopping you then i would check.
You must first go on line and report all that you did not receive. If you don;t do this they will consider them delivered. They will most like have been dispatched and on the road somewhere. I beleive some staff of QNF hasve gone back to work from holidays and are talking to suppliers about these problems.
I have always believed and stated the when we stop re invigorating our business with new lins and ideas, it will be time to get out.
On a separate note; Australia Post are closed today….what a joke they are!
hear hear Vaughan. Pathetic for their corporate stores to be closed today.
And they will turn around & do it again at Easter!
Anyone got any suggestions for the lines.
Wendy i am going with the toys, as Mark said “we can take back the farm”.
Wendy, plenty – books, gifts, ink for starters.
Question for the Newsagent market. We provide a bill payment service – http://www.billstrust.com.au.
We could provide that service to newsagents – relatively easily. However the paying client would have to pay for the service – maybe $2.5 per bill and we would provide a share of that revenue to the agent.
Are you guys over bill payment after the decline of BillExpress?
Would love your thoughts.
$2.50 per bill.Tell him he’s dreamin
Chris,
I think after Bill Express it would be an extremely hard sell.
But aside from that, many newsagents would not want to enter a market in sharp decline.