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I only got a chance to snap a couple of pictures today, we were so busy!! There were so many new customers inquiring about our window's software PosBrowser, and wanting demonstrations! We also had a chance to catch up with many existing users, and show them a lot of the newer features. Our customer display screen was particularly popular, as well as the Ipad! We are preparing for an even busier day tomorrow, as Sunday is traditionally the busier day for us! I will try and take some more pictures tomorrow.

As you can see from the picture, we had all the interest!! There was no room to move most of the day at our stand!!

Cheers,

Garth

The Melbourne GNS Fair is going to be held this weekend on Saturday July 31st and Sunday August 1st at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre (Jeff's Shed). So don't bother going out to Mooney Valley like you have in the past!

It is a chance for many people, whether they have a big newsagency or just a small one, to see our smart newsagency software. If you already have our software, we have some exciting new technology to show you.

We also will have both members of our sales and experts from our support department!

"Test the waters" and get the feel of the smart newsagency software at this year's NSW GNS Market Fair.

Whether you have a big newsagency or just a small one, what you need is the best one. You can try it out at the show check out its flexibility.

See it for yourself.

If you already have posbrowser, then we have some exciting new technology to show you

It is a great opportunity as members of our sales team will be there, with experts from our support department!

It is this Saturday and Sunday

at
'The Dome'
Sydney Showground
Showground Road
Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127

Regards

Garth

The Melbourne GNS show is this weekend and we are busy with last-minute preparation. It provides a great opportunity to meet everyone in the newsagency industry so we intend to have sales, support and programmers there.

We will also be showing the latest version of our software on the new generation terminals. Here is one being set up.

The screen is the computer too. So they are small. They can be run purely under touch so making them easy to use. Plus they are extremely cost-effective. Once seen, people's responses have been excellent.

If you are at the GNS Fair please drop in, say hello and see the latest newsagency software working.

The show is at the
Mooney Valley Racecourse
MacPherson Street
Mooney Ponds

Melway reference: 29 A7

This client of ours, Esperance Newsagency has sold five major winners, including four division one winners since 2007. They have had three major wins in the last few months.

A brochure was sent to all newsagencies today. 

Like our other brochures, this one shows the positive benefits of software that is newsagency rather than computer focused. As with this software, you don’t need a computer expert in your shop. For example, you do not need to learn about updates as our software does it automatically. Nor do you need to stay up late every night to do backups as again the software does it automatically.

What it shows point by point is how software can go beyond saving time and money, by increasing productivity and improve your profit by growing your top lines and removing dead stock.

This new brochure is directed at newsagencies and should arrive to you this week.

If you want to see more now, please contact Zac

This GNS Market Fair is now on. This is the trade show for industry suppliers to exhibit to Newsagents. In the past, it has proven to be an exciting and popular event in Sydney.

Here was a scene at the Melbourne GNS Market Show just held as you can see it was packed.

I am sure that Garth will do a similarly outstanding job at presenting some of our advanced technologies to you there including integrated bill pays, EFTpos and security systems.

We hope to see many of you at the GNS Market Fair

Where
Dome, Dome Theatrette ,Pearson Room ,Somerville Room

For information on how to get there please click here

Dates & times:
Saturday 23rd August 2008, 9.00am - 5.00pm
Sunday 24th August 2008, 9.00am - 5.00pm

Yesterday was the last day of the show and here below, are some scenes from the show from our stall.

My first impressions were the show numbers were about the same as last year. Then that many suppliers did not show up such as Fairfax and the magazine companies.

The stall holders had fewer items that were fascinating but not relevant, like the Staedtler who last year set up an old factory like it was about 500 years ago where they made pencils like they used too. Now they just concentrated on product. I could see the show deals offered were better than last year. It probably worked as several stall holders reported the orders were up on last year.

To a supplier like us, the costs of coming are considerable. As about half the people are already our clients, we came out with support staff to help them. Of course, what we are hoping for is a few of the other half comes into our stall. So like any other supplier, we came armed with a few show deals to attract them. It will be much later though before we know whether for us enough of these came though for the show to pay its way. Still it was pleasing that our stand was always full and we had people in the corridors waiting to get into the stall. For the number of people, we needed a bigger stand.

Although my presence was not required, as Phil and Garth did such a good job. Still, I like to come to meet my clients. If they have an issue, I think they also appreciate that the director of the company is there and available to talk to them.

Can you please email us your details if you have installed E-Pay and would like to be able to sell phone cards directly from the register (integration).

Please this is very important to us!

The Melbourne Age has a price rise coming soon. So we have put together for the price change, an information sheet.

It is available now.

Another lot of information sheets were added today dealing with
Magazine Management Returns

You will find it here.

Over the years, word-of-mouth has been our best advertisement. Still, you need to write advertisements to promote our software. As the saying goes “The world never beat a path to your door.” So we are putting together a new ad for our DOS clients to promote our windows upgrade. If you are one of our DOS users thinking of going to upgrade, I invite you to read it.

Technology has moved on. It is not so much in what is there but how you get it. It will change the way, you think about your business and this new step is waiting for you now.

I was told that our stand was just jammed pack.

I am sure most of it is the interest in the wireless PDA.

We have just introduced a new advertising campaign designed to shines a spotlight on newsagency software.

People don’t go to a travel agent thinking that one holiday is the same!

Yet too often people, yet unbelievable as it may sound, think that one window software is the same as another. So the focus on this campaign is to show the difference. To show the intense pride that we feel for our software by getting people to check out posbrowser features.

So we are coming out with a new tagline, “Software beautiful”, to reflecting this campaigns focus.