AI for Shop and Small Business Owners
You already know how to run your shop. This course gives you the marketing and paperwork help you could never hire for. Over seven practical days you will set up WhatsApp Business properly, let AI draft your customer replies in Hindi and English, design festival offer posters in Canva, fix your Google Business Profile, and respond to reviews like a professional. We also cover simple bookkeeping help, price lists, and catalogues. The course ends with you building a 30-day marketing calendar for your own shop, in class, with posters and messages ready to go. Everything is done on your own phone, for your own business.
Who is this for: Kirana owners, boutique and salon owners, restaurant owners, and traders who want more customers without hiring an agency
Where this course sits
For complete beginners. No AI experience needed, and no coding, ever. If you can use WhatsApp, you are ready.
Prerequisites: You run a shop or small business and use WhatsApp. That is all. No computer, no English fluency, no marketing background.
Exactly what happens in these 7 days
No vague promises. Open each day and see what you will learn and the real thing you will make.
Day1
AI meets your shop
First hands-on use of AI for your real business within 30 minutes
- Your first task in 30 minutes: AI writes a customer reply for your shop, in Hindi and English
- Voice typing in Hindi or Hinglish so you never struggle to type
- ChatGPT, Gemini, and Meta AI on WhatsApp: which to use when
- Where AI gets facts wrong and why you always check prices, dates, and claims before sending
- Privacy for business owners: never paste customer numbers, payment details, or full ledgers into AI
You make today: A saved bank of 15 ready customer replies for your shop's most common questions, in Hindi and English
Day2
WhatsApp Business, set up properly
Turning your WhatsApp into a professional front counter
- WhatsApp Business setup: profile, timings, location, catalogue
- Greeting and away messages drafted by AI in your shop's tone
- Quick replies for prices, availability, delivery, and payment questions
- Broadcast lists done right, so customers get offers without feeling spammed
- Handling an angry customer message calmly, with AI drafting the first reply
You make today: A fully set up WhatsApp Business profile for your shop with greeting, away message, and five quick replies
Day3
Posters that pull customers
Designing offer posters and status images in Canva, no designer needed
- Canva basics on your phone: templates, text, your shop's name and colours
- A festival offer poster from scratch, sized for WhatsApp status
- Using Canva's AI features to generate and edit images
- Writing offer lines with AI: clear, honest, and in your customer's language
- One poster, three sizes: status, full-screen forward, and print
You make today: A finished festival offer poster for your own shop, exported in WhatsApp status and print sizes
Day4
Get found on Google
Your Google Business Profile and the reviews that decide new customers
- Claiming or fixing your Google Business Profile step by step
- Photos, timings, categories, and descriptions that help nearby customers find you
- Replying to 5-star reviews so customers feel valued
- Replying to angry or unfair reviews professionally, with AI drafting and you deciding
- Honesty check: never post fake reviews, and how fake reviews eventually damage a shop
You make today: Your live, improved Google Business Profile plus AI-drafted replies posted to your real reviews
Day5
Price lists, catalogues, and paperwork
Clean price lists, catalogues, and simple bookkeeping help
- A neat price list in Canva you can update and forward in minutes
- Building your WhatsApp catalogue with photos and clear descriptions
- AI summaries of daily sales and expenses into a simple Sheets record
- UPI payment reminders and confirmations: firm but polite messages, and trusting your soundbox or bank alert, never a customer's screenshot
- What AI bookkeeping help is not: your accountant and GST filings still matter
You make today: A forward-ready price list and a simple daily sales record sheet, both for your own shop
Day6
Customer messages that sell
Festival campaigns, new stock announcements, and winning back old customers
- The festival campaign: poster plus message plus follow-up, as one set
- New arrival and restock announcements customers actually read
- Win-back messages for customers who stopped coming
- Translating every message properly between Hindi and English with AI
- Reading what works: which messages got replies, and doing more of that
You make today: A complete festival campaign set for your shop: poster, announcement message, and follow-up message
Day7
Your 30-day marketing calendar
Building next month's complete marketing plan for your own shop, in class
- Planning 30 days around festivals, paydays, weekends, and your slow days
- Filling the calendar: which poster, which message, which day
- Preparing the first week's posters and messages before you leave
- A 20-minute weekly routine to keep this running without stress
- Final safety recap: scams targeting shop owners, from fake payment screenshots to fake supplier offers
You make today: A complete 30-day marketing calendar for your shop with the first week's posters and messages ready to send
Walk out able to do this
- Set up WhatsApp Business with catalogue, greeting, and quick replies for your shop
- Draft customer replies in Hindi and English with AI in under a minute
- Design festival offer posters and status images in Canva
- Claim and improve your Google Business Profile so nearby customers find you
- Reply to good and bad Google reviews professionally
- Use AI to summarise daily sales and expenses into simple records
- Build and start a 30-day marketing calendar for your own shop
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Tools you will use
To bring: You run a shop or small business and use WhatsApp. That is all. No computer, no English fluency, no marketing background.
You leave with real things
Your WhatsApp Business setup, festival posters, price list, review replies, sales record sheet, and a 30-day marketing calendar, plus a workbook with every prompt from class.
Your study material pack
- The full course workbook, chapter by chapter
- Every prompt used in class, ready to copy
- Checklists and templates from the exercises
You get a batch access code during the workshop. Enter it any time on the study material page to download everything.
Questions people actually ask
I barely get time to sit during shop hours. How will I manage this?
The class is 2 hours a day and everything we build is for your shop, so class time is work time. Batches are scheduled keeping shop timings in mind, and the weekly routine we teach takes about 20 minutes.
My English is weak and I type slowly. Is this for me?
Yes. You will use voice typing in Hindi or Hinglish from Day 1, and AI drafts your English messages for you. With voice typing in Hindi or Hinglish from day one, you never need to type more than a few words.
Will this replace the money I spend on a designer or agency?
For most small shops, honestly, yes for the routine work: posters, offers, replies, and reviews. For a big campaign or a full website you may still want a professional, and we will tell you where that line is. Add up what you paid for posters, banners and offers in the last twelve months and compare it with this one-time fee: everything you build in class belongs to you afterwards.
Do I need a computer or any paid apps?
No computer needed, your phone is enough. All tools we use are free. Canva has a paid version with extra features, but the free one covers everything in this course.
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