The Newsagency of the Future workshop series starts at the end of this month. Anyone is welcome to attend, newsagents, newsagency employees, would be newsagents and newsagency suppliers. You can book by faxing in a booking form or registering through the online booking facility on the Tower Systems website.
At this workshop I will share the very latest retail trends based on what I saw at the National Retail Federation Retail conference in New York last month and will see at the Retail Week conference in London next week.
I will also share my thoughts on the factors we need to consider in planning our future – migration to digital, online shopping, competition from supermarkets and others, the growing cost of labour and retail real-estate and changes in attention from core newsagency suppliers.
The last time I ran such a workshop was mid 2010. So much has changed since then. Many new challenges have emerged and many new opportunities are before us.
I don’t profess to have the answers. That said, I certainly see plenty of options for us. My sense is that newsagents want to discover and understand their options.
If you can’t make one of the capital city events I do plan to consider regional events if the interest is there in this series first. I’ll keep you posted.
I notice this seminar is free to all news agents. I am considering buying a news agency in the future would this seminar be of any benefit to me and could I attend?
Thanks
Certainly Darren. You’d be welcome. Book by fax or online.
I’ll get to the Perth one if I can. How far in advance do we need to book?
Vicki, ideally a week but that’s not set in stone.
Wow! “A Free Newsagency of the Future” workshop. I know the price is dropping of newsagencies but I didn’t know they would be free in the future. Count me in baby.