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Subscriptions information sheets

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A client asked me to send her some subscriptions information sheets. The great beauty of the web for support is often I can do one job for many almost as quickly as for one. As one wants it, I am sure others will too.

So I will put up information on how to create a subscription in a customer order screen and another sheet showing an example of how to do it.

They are now in our subscription section.

 

MPA magazine charts on demographics and magazine categories

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The Magazine Publishers of Australia (MPA) have put together a great on-line site about magazines for advertising agencies and marketers. It has some great features for newsagents thinking about doing category analysis on their products.

One tip I can give you is when you talk to magazine producers they are always talking demographics and magazine categories, so keep that in mind while using this screen. The logic here is for an advertiser of a product, not a newsagent. Having said that they have made it easy for you on this screen to put in the various population segments and then you to study what types of magazines should go well in your area. Then it is up to you to see why they are different.

Having said that I doubt there will be any surprises to anyone as the best magazine buyers are young, socially aware, big spending, and intelligent women from families with good incomes. I suppose the question now becomes is your shop the place where these women would want to shop for magazines?

Dos Training with Rob from Parkmore Centre Newsagency

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Rob came in to get some help with his Dos system from Leon and me. We predominately spoke about invoicing magazines from XChangeIT. He was having this issue where when he brought in the magazines they were linked to the wrong items. This was causing him major issues with putaways – customers would have the wrong magazine assigned to them when they come in. Also occasionally when he scanned a magazine in the register it would come up with the wrong item. This is all due to incorrect invoicing. Leon and I took Rob through the process of bringing in the magazine and either matching it to an existing item or if the item is not in his system, creating a new one and establishing the link.

Rob had a few other small queries which we answered and by the end of the session he was feeling a bit more confident – we gave him some documents to take home and go through. We told Rob to call if he had any further issues or just wanted to make queries. It was nice to be able to show the client what to do rather than describing it over the phone like I am used to. Hopefully, when he goes back to his store he’s now able to invoice like we showed him and avoid those problems he was coming across.