Slides from Mark Fletcher's presentation to the QNF Newsagent Conference March 2009. The presentation was an encourage to newsagents to embrace change and pursue an optomistic future in doing so. For too long newsagents react as victims - by understanding the coming change, newsagents can get ahead of the game.

1. What do we stand for?

2. Our mission is to help newsagents make good business decisions at the right time.

3. Our mission is to make newsXpress newsagencies the most successful and sought after newsagencies in Australia

5. www.newsagencyblog.com.au

11. newspapers magazines lotteries the newsagent freeway the newsagent opportunity

12. Controlling our space, controlling our outcomes.

14. Missed opporunities.

19. Never before have we had such opportunities.

22. What is happening with core newsagency products… Why we need to become an entrepreneurial newsagent.

23. Old vs New

24. Old vs New

25. Background

37. For too long publishers and newsagents have said Australia is different

38. The global economic crisis has shown we are not different. It has fanned the impact of disruption of print media.

39. Job losses at US newspapers are up 50% on last year.

40. 525 magazines closed in the US in 2008. 48 magazines have closed in the US so far in 2009. Source: Crain’s and Magazine Death Pool .

41. How that that affect us?

43. Other pressure

44. More news online

46. Alternatives to quilting magazines There are more than 10,000 quilting specific blogs online from local club blogs to commercial enterprises created by magazine publishers.

47. Lottery traffic moving online Online lottery sales are growing faster than sales at any other single lottery outlet.

48. Are newsagents ignoring the opportunity of change?

49. Some newsagents are embracing the opportunity You?

51. How we can respond www.bartuf.co.uk www.kleerex.ie

53. How one company turned a challenge into an opportunity.

57. The opportunities available to us are limitless.

58. Smart newsagents are chasing change rather than waiting for it to happen.