The first two of the Newsagency of the Future sessions have gone well. Today is Canberra with Adelaide and Brisbane rounding out this week. next week it is Hobart and Melbourne on Monday and tuesday respectively. At these sessions I am trying to reset how newsagents view their businesses and how they respond to the economic, print media disruption and retail challenges of today’s world. Click here for the booking form.
- Adelaide. March 29. Rydges South Park Adelaide, 1 South Terrace, Adelaide
- Brisbane. March 30. Brisbane Technology Park
- Hobart. April 2. Mercure Hotel Hobart, 156 Bathurst St, Hobart
- Melbourne. April 3. Amora Hotel Riverwalk, 659 Bridge Rd, Richmond
Anyone is welcome. Attendance is free.
i went to canberra yesterday, thanks mark.
alot of great info and tips…..
if it is coming to a town near you, i belive it is well worth the time
Have just come in from the Newsagency of the Future seminar held in Adelaide this
morning.
It was a double edged sword. The negatives were obvious – online shopping etc but the positives were also
outlined. I am about to start putting in my standing order figures for stationery. I can’t believe I haven’t done it before but I am absolutely going to finish it within the next month because I agree with the objectives of so doing.
Thanks Mark and Tim — as usual no BS and lots of things for us to consider. There are no magic bullets but consistent improvement can not but help us all. Altogether – most informative. Interesting to see a publisher there and the Sales manager of Ancol (stationery).
I think our problems are also their problems. I admire you Mark for allowing anyone to sit in on the seminar and on the business- like way you conduct them.
If there is a seminar near you – don’t miss it because it is a valuable resource.
June what do you mean by -I am about to start putting in my standing order figures for stationary
To start reordering using the software. This is part of the process of taking greater control over the business.
Shaun, I did a ranked sales report on my
top 50 items from Ancol (stationery)
and I am putting in at the stock item level
the amount of stock I want to have on the
shelves of that item at any given time.
I know the system does this but I will have
to ring support to go to the next level I
think. When this is done I will be able to
generate an order for Ancol with no rep.
calling on me and no extra stock ordered that I might not want – should help the
cashflow enormously.
Just printed out the ranked sales report and it was amazing the things that I thought would be the top sellers weren’t even showing up in the top 50. You can
do as many items as you like (top 100 e.g.)
It is a powerful tool and I am ashamed to say I have never used it before.
Ok , I have never let my stationary rep,near my shelves this we have always done ourselves I thought this was the norm . My rep gets a coffee out of me and that’s about it .he normally tells me about a new stock item (that we have been selling already for 3 months) and then on his bike to the next agent where he spends a few hours doing an order .
Shaun, I agree about the reps but the seminar this morning made me think that
there will be “no reps” sooner rather than
later so I thought I should let my computers work more advantageously for
my business.
For the record I always accompany the rep
while he does the stationery but it is still
time consuming and not always satisfactory. The ranked sales report was
very telling as it pointed out so many items that I thought were absolutely essential and they didn’t even figure in the top 50 so that was my reasoning for
doing it via the reporting system in Tower – simply to get a much more accurate data sample —- and I did.
Now I feel remiss that I haven’t tackled this earlier.
Going home now – long day!!
Worked on my business instead of in my business today – feels good!!!!
The key is to print a reorder report as your order. Don’t let a human get in the way of accurate ordering.