Tower Systems‘ free online training courses are a real hit with newsagents. Hundreds have participated from the comfort of their homes and offices. Courses covered so far include: magazine management, new newsagent training, stock management, magazine returns and putaways. We have also run training sessions for suppliers with staff involved from different state offices.
One of the two sessions covered yesterday was on stock management. Jonathan Tay, pictured, led the session. Eight newsagencies from around the country participated. This is what makes online training valuable – we are able to connect newsagents who would otherwise not talk with each other. Connecting them as we do opens more possibilities for fresh business ideas.
One reason the Tower courses are rated highly is the technology purchased by the company to ensure the best possible attendee experience. Tower uses tools from WebEx. While these are expensive, the experience is better and the knowledge shared therefore more valuable. People who have had bad online training experiences have usually been using cheap online training software and infrastructure. This is not something you can be cheap with.
We are developing more online training and expect to announce new courses to the 1,500+ Tower Newsagents next week.
Tower continues to offer face to face free training as part of its user meeting program, having just completed a thirty city tour across the country. We also continue with our free face to face training for new owners out of each of our offices around the country.