Winning With AI, No Jargon, Live in Grand Rapids
You run the business and you also run the inbox. That is who this evening is for, whatever you sell. Owners from Wealthy Street storefronts, crews working out of Wyoming and Kentwood, offices downtown, studios on the West Side, and people running the whole thing from a laptop at home. Same tools, same night.
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What is the seminar in Grand Rapids, MI?
Winning With AI is one live evening in Grand Rapids, Michigan, open to business owners and managers of every kind. You work through AI for answering customers, following up on leads, writing quotes and proposals, producing marketing, cutting scheduling messages, and handling routine written admin. Plain English throughout, no coding, and no experience assumed.
- Format: One evening in the Grand Rapids area, in person, laptop welcome but not required
- Who is there: Owners and managers across every kind of local business, from single-person shops to small companies with a few sites
- Instructor: Mike Filsaime, 25 years spent building companies, including Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar
- Ground covered: Customer answers, follow-up, quotes, marketing, scheduling, written admin, and the work to keep away from AI
- Price: $49 early-bird while available, money-back guarantee attached
What does the evening in Grand Rapids actually cover?
Think of it as a working night rather than a talk. Tools go up on screen, get pointed at real jobs, and run until the output is something you would actually send. The reply to a customer from Thursday. A quote built out of scribbled measurements. Six weeks of posts drafted at once. A confirmation that ends a scheduling thread.
Everybody in the room sells something different and everybody is stuck in the same place: more to do than hours, and nobody left to hand it to. A caterer, a heating contractor, an accountant in Ada, and a two-person marketing shop all leave with roughly the same fixes.
It is one evening and then you are done. No course to finish, no tool you are required to buy, no recurring anything.
Is AI worth it for a small business in Grand Rapids, Michigan?
Add up the hours that go into work needing none of your judgment. Typing the same answer again. Following up with the person who asked for a number and disappeared. Making an estimate look presentable. Writing the email you meant to write Monday. AI handles that category well.
It handles other things badly, and the evening says which. Pricing decisions, the conversation with an unhappy customer, anything that carries your name in public. Those stay yours. The line matters more than the tool list.
Judgment happens in the room, on your own work. If the night is not worth what you paid, say so before leaving and the registration fee is refunded.
Why is this AI seminar built for Grand Rapids businesses?
Grand Rapids gets described by its big employers, but the count that matters is the other one: hundreds of independent shops, trades, offices, and service businesses running out of Grandville, Wyoming, Kentwood, Rockford, and the neighborhoods along Plainfield and Division. That is the audience for this evening.
The market sits close together and customers shop around fast. A homeowner comparing two roofers, or a business comparing two bookkeepers, tends to hire whoever got back to them first. Faster answers beat almost any other improvement you could make.
Winter changes the pace here, and so does the stretch of good weather that follows. A tool that keeps quotes moving in February and keeps up with the calendar in June is doing work no seasonal hire can cover.
What do Grand Rapids attendees walk away with?
- Replies stop piling up. Get the common questions answered in writing once, then reuse and adjust instead of typing from scratch.
- Estimates out before the day ends. Take measurements and notes from a walkthrough and come back with a priced quote ready to check and send.
- Nothing falls off the follow-up list. Every person who asked about your work gets reached again, without you tracking it in your head.
- A month of marketing at once. Sit down one time and come away with posts, emails, and descriptions ready to go out.
- Fewer messages to book anything. Handle times, confirmations, and reschedules in writing so the calendar stops taking your afternoon.
- What stays off limits. A plain account of the work AI should not be given, from pricing calls to anything public.
Who is the Grand Rapids seminar for?
What solo and small-team owners in Grand Rapids get out of the Grand Rapids evening
One person up to a dozen, where the owner is still selling, doing the work, and chasing invoices.
- Take on more before you hire
- Answer people during a packed week
- Publish marketing on a real schedule
What trades and service crews across West Michigan get out of the Grand Rapids evening
Heating and plumbing crews, painters, cleaners, haulers, repair shops, and anyone scheduling people all day.
- Quote from the truck, not at midnight
- Reopen estimates nobody answered
- Shrink the evening paperwork
What shops, offices, and practices get out of the Grand Rapids evening
Retail, restaurants, salons, gyms, real estate, accountants, law offices, dental and medical offices, nonprofits, agencies, and online sellers.
- Reuse answers instead of retyping
- Book more with fewer messages
- Keep past customers hearing from you
How does a live seminar compare with free videos and an online course?
| This live seminar | Free online videos | Self-paced AI course | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | One evening near Grand Rapids, in a room where you can interrupt and get an answer. | Watching alone, with no way to ask why your result looks different. | Modules you get to eventually, in whatever hour the week leaves open. |
| Who walks in | Owners from any trade, any size, with nothing technical assumed. | Aimed at some imagined viewer, often one who already uses the tools daily. | General business content that may not fit how a small local shop runs. |
| First real output | You do it on your own work during the evening, so it is finished once before you leave. | The gap between watching and doing is left for you to cross. | Weeks of material usually pass before anything touches your business. |
| Who else is there | Grand Rapids owners from unrelated trades trading notes on identical problems. | No local angle, and nobody around to compare results with. | Cohorts exist, though rarely with anyone working in your market. |
| Cost and commitment | $49 early-bird while available, a single evening, money-back guarantee, nothing to cancel later. | No cost up front, plenty of hours lost sorting good advice from bad. | Usually a monthly fee that runs whether you log in or not. |
What is Grand Rapids, MI actually like?
The Grand River splits the city, with Monroe Center and the downtown blocks on one bank and the West Side and Bridge Street on the other. Wealthy Street, Eastown, Uptown, and Creston each carry their own row of small businesses.
Out from the core the region takes in Grandville, Wyoming, Kentwood, Cascade, Ada, and Rockford, where a large share of the area's independent operators actually work. 28th Street handles the commercial traffic. Heritage Hill and East Hills fill in with smaller storefronts and studios.
This is a referral town. People ask a neighbor before they search, which helps a local owner considerably, as long as the reply comes back before the neighbor's second suggestion does.
How Grand Rapids businesses are using AI right now
Owners in the area reach for AI on a short list of tasks, and the trade barely changes it. Writing back to a question that landed after closing. Turning a job walkthrough into a priced estimate. Nudging the customer who asked in April and never answered. Pulling a month of posts from photos already on the phone.
Then there is the back-office half: straightening out a customer list, drafting a help-wanted post, condensing a long thread before a meeting, writing down the process only you know. Nothing new gets installed for any of it.
Who teaches the Grand Rapids seminar?
The instructor in Grand Rapids is Mike Filsaime. Twenty-five years of building companies sits behind the material, Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar among them, which is why the workflows in the room were solved on his own desk first.
Everything is in plain English. He does not use jargon and he does not assume you know how any of it works. If you can explain the job, you can follow the steps.
He builds each example live in front of the room and takes questions from the people in the seats. Grand Rapids sees the thing assembled, which is the part a recording never captures.
What do people who have seen this say about it?
He'll not only make it simple, he'll make it very profitable.
When I saw what Winning With AI could do, I knew we had to move fast. Work that used to drag out for three months now gets delivered by my team in two or three days.
I'm a tougher critic, but Winning With AI blew me away. One idea showed me how to save thousands of dollars a month.
I had no coding experience. No technical background. Nothing. After seeing how to use AI in plain English, I built software and workflows that completely changed my company.
When is the seminar coming to Grand Rapids?
We have not set the Grand Rapids date yet. Pre-register and you will be the first to know when we do, before seats go on sale to everyone else.
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What do people in Grand Rapids ask about the seminar?
Who should be in the room at the Grand Rapids seminar?
Owners and managers of any business in the Grand Rapids area. Trades, shops, restaurants, salons, gyms, offices, practices, agencies, nonprofits, online sellers, and one-person operations all belong at the same evening.
Is there any technical requirement to attend in Grand Rapids?
None. Writing a normal email is the only skill needed. Nothing gets installed beforehand and no code appears at any point.
What will I be able to do after the Grand Rapids evening?
Write customer replies and follow-ups with AI, build a quote from rough notes, produce marketing in batches, cut down scheduling messages, and get routine written admin done. Each one gets practiced in the room.
Is the Grand Rapids seminar focused on one type of business?
No. It is mixed by design, and every topic was picked because it works for anybody with customers, quotes, marketing, or paperwork. The examples come from a spread of local trades.
What is the price for Grand Rapids and is there a refund?
Seats are $49 early-bird while available. Come to the evening, and if it is wrong for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
Has a date been set for the Grand Rapids seminar?
Not yet. Pre-registration is open, and pre-registered owners get the date and venue before anyone else is told.
How do I get on the list for Grand Rapids?
The registration button on this page is all it takes. You will be contacted first once the Grand Rapids venue and date are locked.
Who is running the Grand Rapids session?
Mike Filsaime, with 25 years of building companies behind him, including Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar. He teaches plainly and puts each workflow together live.
How much time does the Grand Rapids seminar take, and is there homework?
It is a single evening with nothing before it and nothing after it. No course, no assignments. You use the tools that night and carry on the next day.
Where does the Grand Rapids evening sit in the wider program?
The Grand Rapids room is one stop on the Winning With AI seminar, the touring live AI seminar Mike Filsaime teaches one evening at a time in cities across the United States. Same teacher, same demonstrations, same money-back guarantee in every city; the examples change to match the businesses in the room.
Which other Michigan cities have a seminar page?
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