I have written plenty here about what AI can do for a local retailer: the sales data it can read, the hours of writing it can save, the questions it can answer between customers. The most common response I get is some version of: I believe you, but I don’t not know where to start.
So we (newsXpress) built the place to start.
We are launching two AI training packs made specifically for independent retailers, like newsagents, open to any independent retailer in Australia, whatever group you belong to or none.
This is not generic tech training with a retail slide bolted on. The one-on-one sessions are built around shop questions, run by people who work in this channel every day.
The first pack, Getting Started with AI, is for owners and staff who have never touched AI, or tried once and gave up, or who don’t think AI is for them. Eight hours, delivered live and one on one, by call or video call, scheduled in blocks you choose: one-hour weekly sessions, two-hour sessions, or bigger chunks if you prefer. An hour a week is what most owners protect, but the timing is yours. You will set up accounts, write prompts for your own shop, produce a week of content in a session, and build a 20-minute weekly AI habit. From this pack alone, a retailer can expect time savings worth many times the cost within a few months. No jargon. Nothing you do can break your business. We will be as clear about what AI gets wrong as what it gets right.
This pack comes with a guarantee: if you feel that it’s not helped you, you will get half the cost returned to you.
The second pack, AI on Your Own Business Data, is twelve working hours, not classes. You bring your sales history, we clean it, and prompts are developed for your business. The sessions run deep research on your data, take your feedback, then go deeper. The result is a revised plan of action for your business to attract more shoppers and grow sales. Every session ends with a number you did not have and a decision you can act on that week.
Who delivers it? Someone with local small business retail experience who listens to you and talks in terms you can understand, terms relevant to your type of shop. People with retail experience and AI skills who speak your language. This crew has been helping local small business retailers put AI to work for several years, with terrific results: hours saved every week, better quality decisions, and owners seeing things in their business they could not see before. Whatever software runs your shop, we can help you benefit from AI. Two people per store. Full refund after session two if it is not for you.
And if you want to test the water first, do this: send us a sales extract from your POS and we will send back one page, free, showing what AI can see in your numbers. That page tends to answer the “why bother” question better than anything I could write here.
Details and bookings: help@newsxpress.com.au.