New service: AI training and support for local independent retailers

The AI training newsXpress announced this week assumes nothing. That is worth spelling out, because the people who most need it are the people most likely to think it is not for them.

You do not need to be technical. You do not need a new computer. You do not need to know what a prompt is. Nervous is normal and assumed. In the first session your account is set up with you, and you get one useful answer to a real question about your own shop before the call ends. That is the whole first hour.

The ground rules for the whole course: no jargon, no homework that takes more than 15 minutes, no question too basic, and nothing you do can break your business. The training is also plain about what AI is bad at, because a tool trusted blindly is worse than no tool at all.

It is delivered live, one on one, by call or video call. Not a webinar, not a recording of someone else’s shop. Your shop, your questions, your pace, in session blocks that fit your roster.

Do the first session and decide it is not for you, and the fee is refunded in full. No awkward conversation required.

Free: one page on what AI can see in your sales data

Here is an offer with no catch, because the fastest way to answer the “why would I bother” question is to show you.

Send a sales extract from your POS. Any POS. One page comes back showing what AI can see in your numbers: where the money is made, what is quietly growing, what is quietly dying, and one thing worth acting on this month.

No charge. No obligation. Ten minutes of your time to export the file.

This kind of analysis has now been run on plenty of shops, and the owner who was not surprised by something on the page has not yet turned up. Sometimes it is dead stock they had stopped seeing. Sometimes it is a category growing 40% from a shelf nobody had touched in a year. The numbers are already in your POS. Most owners never get the time to ask them anything.

There is room for a limited number of these. Email help@newsxpress.com.au to engage.

If you have never touched AI, this new service for local retailers was built for you

newsXpress launches AI training built for local independent retailers

Plenty has been written about what AI can do in business. Many find it hard to know where to start.

newsXpress has been using AI in retail for years. We have the runs on the board. Now, we have packaged that experience into AI training for local small business retailers in Australia.

AI is a proven game-changer: the sales data it can read, the hours of writing it can save, the questions it can answer between customers.

The most common response from shop owners is some version of: sounds right, but where would you even start?

This is the place to start.

Two AI training packs have been built specifically for independent retailers, open to any independent retailer in Australia, whatever group the shop belongs to or none, whatever software runs the counter.

That’s right, this training is available for any retailer, any type of business.

The first AI training pack: Getting Started with AI. This is for owners and staff who have never touched AI, or tried once and gave up, or who may be nervous about AI. Eight hours, delivered live and one on one, by call or video call, scheduled in blocks the retailer chooses: an hour a week suits most owners, but the timing is yours. You set up accounts, leave with prompts ready to use, and build a time-saving AI plan for your shop. 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. The training is as clear about what AI gets wrong as what it gets right.

The second, AI on Your Own Business Data, is twelve working hours, not classes. You bring your sales history, the data cleaning is done for you, 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. The team behind the training has been helping local retailers put AI to work for several years: hours saved, better decisions, owners seeing things in their business they could not see before.

newsXpress is leveraging its retail and AI experience to help others. Our goal is to help you save time, make more money and feel better about your business.

Full refund after session two if it is not for you. Two people per store at no extra cost. Everything recorded and yours to keep.

Details and bookings: help@newsxpress.com.au.