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Is It Worth It?
It comes down to one trade: $97 and an evening against months of piecing AI together from free videos and tool lists. If the room saves you a few hours a week or gets one cold lead followed up, the seat has paid for itself. If it does not, tell us before you leave and we refund your registration fee.
- The cost side: $97 and one evening.
- The comparison is not other seminars. It is the slow, free version you are doing now.
- Seeing it live removes the guessing that free videos and tool lists leave behind.
- The guarantee caps the downside: decide in the room, before you leave.
The question underneath the question
Nobody actually wonders whether $97 is affordable. What they are weighing is the evening, and underneath that, a fair suspicion: that this is another thing that sounds useful, takes a night, and changes nothing.
That suspicion is earned. Most business education does exactly that. So the case for the room has to be made on that ground rather than on the price.
What you are actually comparing it against
The alternative to a live evening is not doing nothing. Almost nobody does nothing about AI at this point. The alternative is the free version: a video here, an article there, a tool somebody mentioned, an hour on a Sunday that ends with three tabs open and no output.
That path is free in money and expensive in the only resource that is actually scarce. It also has a specific failure mode. It gives you opinions about AI instead of output from it. Six months in, you can talk about it, and your follow-up still is not happening.
On your own, it is easy to bounce between tools, prompts, and videos without a clear path. The room is the compressed version: you see plain-English demonstrations turn direction into usable work, and you skip the six months.
Why live is different from watching a video of live
You watch the work happen instead of guessing from another article, video, tool list, or sales promise. That sounds like a small distinction and it is the whole thing.
A recording shows you the take that worked. A live room shows you the speed the work really takes, the first draft that was not good enough, and the correction that fixed it. The correction is the skill. It is also the part that every recording removes, because it is the boring part, and it is the reason people who have watched forty AI videos still cannot do the thing.
Being in the room also means you can ask about the specific part you did not understand, in the moment you did not understand it, about your own business rather than the generic example.
The arithmetic, done plainly
Put a number on your own hour. Most owners land somewhere between fifty and a few hundred dollars once they count what only they can do.
Now find one task in your week that AI could take: the quotes, the follow-up, the marketing that waits on you, the customer questions you answer for the fortieth time. If the evening moves one of those, at one to two hours a week, the seat is paid for inside the first week and everything after that is margin.
That is the low bar. The higher one is a lead that would have gone cold and did not, which for most businesses is worth more than the entire year of hours.
One attendee described the effect this way: work that used to drag out for three months now gets delivered by their team in two or three days. Another said one idea from the room showed them how to save thousands of dollars a month. Those are the top of the range rather than the promise. The point of the arithmetic is that the seat clears its cost long before you get anywhere near them.
Who it is not worth it for
This is worth being straight about, because a page that claims something is right for everybody is telling you nothing.
If you have already built AI into your marketing, your follow-up, and your daily output, and you are looking for advanced technique, this is not the room. It is built for people at the start of the curve, not the end of it.
If you want a certificate, a framework to file, or a forecast about where technology is headed, it is also not the room. The evening is aimed at output, and if output is not what you are after, the seat is not for you.
And if you are not willing to change anything about how your week runs, no evening will help. The room hands you a tool. Picking it up is still your job.
The cost of waiting one more quarter
The comparison so far has been the evening against the free version. There is a third option that most people actually pick, and it deserves to be priced too: doing nothing for another three months.
It feels free. It is the most expensive one on the list. Every week you run the slow version of a task that could be fast, you pay for it in hours you will not get back, and the bill arrives quietly enough that nobody notices it. Three months of that is a real number, and it is considerably larger than $97.
The other half of the cost is the part that does not show up on your side of the ledger at all. Your competitors are making the same decision this quarter. Some of them will make it differently. You will not find out which ones until a customer chooses somebody who answered faster, and by then the information arrives too late to act on.
The reason the downside is capped
You do not have to resolve any of this in advance. That is the entire function of the guarantee: attend, watch the work happen, and decide with your own judgment. If it is not right for you, tell us before you leave the room and we will refund your registration fee.
So the real question is not whether it is worth $97. It is whether it is worth an evening to find out, with the money protected either way. Choose your city and date while the early-bird reservation is available.
The short version
- The comparison is the free version. Months of videos and tool lists cost no money and a great deal of the time you do not have.
- The correction is the skill. Live shows you the first draft that missed and the fix. Recordings edit that part out.
- One task pays for it. One or two hours a week back, or one cold lead saved, and the seat has cleared its cost.
- It is not for everybody. If you are already advanced, or you want theory rather than output, this is not your room.
The rest of the questions
What actually happens at a Winning With AI seminar?
You watch AI applied to real work in plain English: useful pages, customer messages, follow-up, content, notes, summaries, daily tasks, lead handling, and practical next steps. The point isn’t to memorize theory. The point is to see useful output happen live, understand how it works, and know what to do next.
How much does it cost to attend?
The current early-bird seat reservation is $97 while it’s available. Your reservation covers the live room, the AI Business Readiness Checklist, attendee software access and resources included with the event, and the money-back guarantee.
What will you actually demonstrate?
You may see pages, customer messages, review replies, posts, emails, follow-up, notes, summaries, and business examples. The exact examples can change, but the promise is the same: useful work, shown live, in plain English, with the focus on empowering you.
Can I follow this if I’m not technical?
Yes. If you can use a phone, email, or a browser, you can follow this. The seminar is plain English, with no coding and no assumption that you already understand AI.
How is this different from trying AI tools on my own?
On your own, it’s easy to bounce between tools, prompts, and videos without a clear path. At the seminar, you see plain-English demonstrations turn direction into usable work: pages, content, follow-up, customer messages, summaries, and other everyday business output.
Will this only be about websites?
A page or campaign demo may be used as proof, but the bigger point is output across marketing, sales, support, customer replies, follow-up, and daily business work.
Who’s this built for?
It’s built for practical business owners, employees, and managers who want AI connected to customers, follow-up, marketing, support, daily output, and clearer next steps.
How is this different from hiring an agency?
An agency usually starts by selling services, campaigns, and monthly retainers. This seminar is built to empower you first. You see the work built live, learn the plain-English thinking behind it, and get attendee software access and resources included with your event seat so you can take more control before deciding what outside help you still want.
Can this help if I serve customers beyond my local market?
Yes. If your business sells through websites, funnels, ads, referrals, sales calls, content, or national lead flow, the examples still apply. The point is faster lead generation, sales support, follow-up, fulfillment, and daily output.
My team needs this more than I do. Can I send them?
Your team may benefit, but leaders get the most leverage by seeing it first. When the owner or manager understands what AI can help with, it’s easier to decide what to delegate, improve, automate, or stop doing the slow way.
How does this help employees and managers?
Owners use AI to grow the business. Employees and managers use AI to become more productive, more valuable, and better positioned for raises, promotions, or better roles.
How does this help me stay valuable at work?
The seminar is designed to help you become the person who can use AI to get clearer, better work done faster.
Will my boss pay for it?
Maybe. But the skill belongs to you. If you learn it first, you become more valuable wherever you work, whether your company pays for it or not.
Who’s Mike Filsaime and why should I listen to him?
Mike has spent decades building and teaching digital business. His companies and platforms include WebinarJam, EverWebinar, Kartra, Groove.cm, and Scale.gg. The reason he is teaching this is simple: he has helped people cross major technology shifts before, and AI is the next one.
Will Mike be involved in the seminar?
The page is built around seeing Mike teach AI in plain English. Choose your city and date from the current schedule to see the reservation details for that event.
What happens after the seminar?
You’ll leave with the included resources, practical examples, and simple ways to keep using what you saw live.
How do I reserve a seat?
Click your state on the map, choose the city and date closest to you, and follow the reservation details. Seats are limited in each room, so the safest move is to choose your city while the early-bird reservation is available.
What if I still have a question?
Use the contact page or choose the seminar closest to you and ask us directly. The goal is clarity, not pressure.
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