AI training and tools for small businesses
Put AI to work for your business. Learn how to sharpen your strategy with AI, applying it to everything from automating tasks to making data-driven decisions and creating content. Grow your business with confidence using our step-by-step tutorials and hands-on coaching.
Learn how AI can help your business
Watch tutorials from Google experts and real business owners to learn how AI tools can help you streamline customer support, improve marketing, manage finances, and more. Discover how to use AI to adapt and grow—helping you achieve more for your business in less time.
Build promotional videos
Create professional content fast with Gemini in Google Vids. Personalize AI-generated videos with your business branding.
Learn about new clients & industries
Use NotebookLM to gain insights from client materials. Deliver smart solutions and improve customer relationship management.
Brainstorm and customize social media posts
Turn one idea into posts for every platform. Use AI to quickly produce on-brand content for your audience.
Turn meeting notes into easy follow-ups
Save time by turning meeting transcripts into emails, briefs, or action items with Gemini.
Build an employee resources hub
Use NotebookLM for AI in HR. Build training manuals that answer policy questions for a smooth onboarding experience.
Create manuals for customer support
Build training manuals fast with NotebookLM. Organize research into a curriculum to improve customer service and save time.
Analyze and manage your finances
Master your business finances. Upload financial reporting documents into NotebookLM and simplify your data into actionable business insights.
Draft business proposals
Turn heaps of documents into winning business proposals. Use NotebookLM to generate credible business strategies in minutes.
Write and optimize emails in seconds
Simplify email marketing with Gemini. Learn to use AI to customize messages and craft strategies that save time and drive small business sales.
Brainstorm and customize social media posts
Turn one idea into posts for every platform. Use AI to quickly produce on-brand content for your audience.
Build promotional videos
Create professional content fast with Gemini in Google Vids. Personalize AI-generated videos with your business branding.
Write and optimize emails in seconds
Simplify email marketing with Gemini. Learn to use AI to customize messages and craft strategies that save time and drive small business sales.
Build an employee resources hub
Use NotebookLM for AI in HR. Build training manuals that answer policy questions for a smooth onboarding experience.
Create manuals for customer support
Build training manuals fast with NotebookLM. Organize research into a curriculum to improve customer service and save time.
Turn meeting notes into easy follow-ups
Save time by turning meeting transcripts into emails, briefs, or action items with Gemini.
Draft business proposals
Turn heaps of documents into winning business proposals. Use NotebookLM to generate credible business strategies in minutes.
Analyze and manage your finances
Master your business finances. Upload financial reporting documents into NotebookLM and simplify your data into actionable business insights.
Learn about new clients & industries
Use NotebookLM to gain insights from client materials. Deliver smart solutions and improve customer relationship management.
Unlock the power of AI tools for your small business
Whether you want to simplify data entry, streamline your document management system, or find a tireless brainstorming partner, Google AI tools help your business work smarter.
More training for your small business
Ready to learn more? Discover trainings and resources designed to help you save time, reach new customers, and grow your business.
Join our free, in-person ‘Make AI Work for You’ workshops happening across the country in partnership with local chambers of commerce to create a personalized AI plan for your business.
Join your local coach for live workshops and ongoing opportunities to master new skills from e-commerce and online marketing to AI.
Discover AI-powered tools and resources from Google to help you reach more customers and operate more efficiently, plus watch stories of how small businesses have found success using these tools.
Hear from small business owners
“As a small business owner, time is precious, so I appreciated how practical the [Make AI Work for You] class was and learning when and how to use AI. During the workshop, I identified real business challenges and got hands-on practice at solving them using AI in ways that will save me time.”
Sandra S. Integro
“My advice to small businesses who aren't using AI, I would just start one prompt at a time, see what happens.”
Michael S. Heritage Bicycles and Coffee
"I’ve always been passionate about productivity, and Gemini helps me overcome that blank-page problem. It reduces a lot of the friction I feel as an entrepreneur, allowing me to pick up momentum in a way I never would have been able to before."
Kevin D. Moterra Campervans
“As a small business owner, time is precious, so I appreciated how practical the [Make AI Work for You] class was and learning when and how to use AI. During the workshop, I identified real business challenges and got hands-on practice at solving them using AI in ways that will save me time.”
Sandra S. Integro
“My advice to small businesses who aren't using AI, I would just start one prompt at a time, see what happens.”
Michael S. Heritage Bicycles and Coffee
"I’ve always been passionate about productivity, and Gemini helps me overcome that blank-page problem. It reduces a lot of the friction I feel as an entrepreneur, allowing me to pick up momentum in a way I never would have been able to before."
Kevin D. Moterra Campervans
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Frequently asked questions
Make AI Work for You is a course that teaches you how to delegate tasks you've been putting off, brainstorm solutions to get unstuck, and free yourself from repetitive work. This course is for anyone eager to grow in their careers and looking to get more done, faster at no cost.
You’ll learn how to use Gemini, Gemini Live, Google Workspace with Gemini and NotebookLM.
Yes, watch Make AI Work for You at no cost, on our Youtube channel.
Make AI Work for you is for anyone eager to grow their careers or business, and looking to get more done, faster.
We’re offering an in-person version of the Make AI Work for You course for a limited time. This free workshop is touring the country in collaboration with local chambers of commerce with past stops including Columbus, OH, Dallas, TX, Grinnell, IA, Omaha, NE, Richmond, VA, San Diego, CA, and Washington, D.C.– and more stops are planned through the end of 2025.
All tour cities have been selected. If you’re unable to join a tour stop, you can watch the course on YouTube and explore ongoing training opportunities through our Grow with Google Coaches.
Grow with Google Coaches are local marketing experts and entrepreneurs who help small businesses grow. They offer live training and hands-on coaching on topics like how to improve productivity with AI, connect with customers, and sell products online.
The Grow with Google coaches teach a variety of business skills, including digital marketing strategies and small business sales. You can find your local coach on the coaches page here.
Make AI Work for You tutorials provide actionable lessons across marketing, finances, operations, and more. You’ll learn how to streamline customer service with AI-driven manuals, analyze finances by bringing cloud accounting software data into NotebookLM, and improve customer relationship management using Audio Overviews for client pitches. Whether you’re a solopreneur or a new business manager, these tutorials show you how to apply AI to the essential tasks that drive growth.
Gemini is Google’s AI assistant designed to help you write, plan, and brainstorm for your business more efficiently. It offers specialized tools to streamline your daily workload, from Gemini Gems that act as your own team of AI experts to Gemini Live, which allows you to talk through ideas and practice for sales pitches or meetings in real time. By acting as a versatile collaborator, Gemini handles time-consuming tasks so you can focus on what matters most: growing your business.