Well its taken a while but this is the first blog entry for Forest Hill. We are alive with Easter at the moment, we have decided to go nuts with our Easter Darrell Lea range and we have taken on four times as much stock as last year. There a number of reasons would decided to do this, firstly Darrell Lea has made a company decision not to supply any of their easter product to any of the major supermarket chains. If they support us with such a move then i am only happy to support them.

Secondly I recently attended a visual marketing seminar hosted by the Australian Retailers Association Young Executive Group (which i have also joined so you probably hear more about these guys in further entries). The takeaway from the session was that if you are going to give you customers a visual display, then make a statement, dont half do it and have the stock to back it up. If you take a look in the photos section you will see we have made a statement about Easter we have done the front window, easter dump bins, posters and props etc etc. We probably spent about $300 on items for the display including some moving lights that we hired. Whislt this may seem like a lot i see it as an investment in the future and better visuals means better sales.

Ben Kay
Manager

This is the first entry in a what we hope will be a warts and all blog about life in a busy Australian Newsagency.

We’ve owned Forest Hill Newsagency since February 1996. It’s a very busy retail shop plus there is a home delivery round, large magazine distribution round and sub agents to manage.

We bought the business to gain first hand experience in running a newsagency – the software we write is for newsagencies.

Anyway, 9 years on and we’re still here and still learning.

You can see photos of our shop here.