If the ANF wants newsagents to support them as an industry association they need to retreat for commercial activity. Yesterday, the ANF sent out an email to newsagents promoting Hubbed. The communication has no disclosure as to commercial arrangements between Hubbed and the ANF.
A while back, following an outcry from newsagents, the ANF said it no longer had shares in Hubbed.
The marketing material sent yesterday was sent by the ANF, is copyrighted by the ANF and the contact address is the ANF address. This suggests a commercial relationship between the ANF and Hubbed.
If there is a commercial relationship newsagents need to know about it so they can make an assessment of what the ANF says regarding Hubbed compared to other services the ANF may not cover at all in its various communication platforms with newsagents.
Newsagents interested in Hubbed may want to start with questions about what appears to have been a restructure of the business last year.
My personal view is that industry associations ought to focus on being associations rather than engaging in commercial activity.
For the record I have no commercial relationship with any service competing with Hubbed.
If ANF members who have taken on Hubbed and are now loosing money on it . Do the ANF assist them to exit their contracts
Dear ANF, WTF don’t you understand about all these schemes you get sold to you? It is obvious your focus is solely on the financial survival of the ANF as opposed to the welfare of the members you purport to represent. Do us all a favour and just disappear gracefully.
There are stories that the ANF has helped newsagents out of their Hubbed contracts but there are stories of others who the ANF has not helped. It would be good if the ANF made a public statement about this.