Minnesota, Here Comes Winning With AI
Three hours, a laptop, and the part of your week you keep putting off. Owners drive in from Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Rochester, Duluth, and the small towns along the Iron Range, and they leave having handed some of that week to AI.
What is the seminar in Minnesota?
Winning With AI is a one-evening, in-person seminar for Minnesota business owners of every type, from a two-truck plowing outfit to a downtown Minneapolis law office. It shows you how to use AI for customer replies, follow-up, quotes and proposals, marketing, scheduling, and routine paperwork. Plain English, no coding, no prior experience, and nothing else to buy afterward.
- Minnesota has close to 11,800 lakes and roughly 90,000 miles of shoreline, and a lot of the state's business calendar bends around the seasons because of it.
- The Twin Cities metro holds about 3.7 million of the state's 5.7 million residents, so a Minneapolis or Saint Paul evening is within driving range for most owners.
- Outside that metro, business clusters around Rochester, Duluth, St. Cloud, Mankato, and Moorhead, each one a hub for the towns around it.
- Winters shorten the working season for anybody who works outdoors here, which puts a premium on paperwork that never gets the chance to pile up.
Which cities in Minnesota have a seminar page?
- Minneapolis, MN · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
- Rochester, MN · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
What happens on the night in Minnesota?
Three hours, in person, on a single evening. You bring a laptop and one real task out of your own business, and you work it through with the tools open in front of you instead of watching a slide about them.
The room is mixed on purpose. Contractors, restaurant owners, salon and gym owners, repair crews, landscapers, cleaners, real estate agents, accountants, dental and medical offices, nonprofits, online sellers, and plenty of one-person operations. What AI takes off your plate looks about the same whether you sell haircuts or hay.
Mike Filsaime teaches it. Twenty-five years building companies, including Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar. He works the examples live, in plain English, and takes questions from the floor.
How business actually works in Minnesota
Minnesota's business map is a handful of centers with a lot of open country between them. The Twin Cities carry most of the payroll. Rochester anchors the southeast, Duluth sits at the head of Lake Superior and its shipping season, St. Cloud and Mankato serve the middle of the state, and Moorhead runs as one economy with Fargo across the Red River.
Most of what fills that map is small. The state counts more than half a million small employers and sole proprietors, and the typical one has a few people on the payroll, an owner who still answers the phone, and nobody whose job is the computer.
Distance is the quiet cost up here. An owner in Bemidji and an owner in Bloomington run the same kind of company with the same stack of paperwork, but one of them loses an afternoon to the drive. Work that gets handled by typing instead of traveling counts for more the further north you go.
How Minnesota businesses use AI right now
Answering what comes in all day. Hours, availability, price ranges, do you come out that far, do you have parking, can you fit me in this week. AI drafts the reply in your wording and you send it or fix it first.
Following up so nothing goes cold. The estimate you sent Tuesday, the customer who came in once in March, the quote nobody ever answered. AI keeps the list and writes the next message.
Turning notes into documents. A voice memo from a walkthrough becomes a written quote. Scribbled measurements become a proposal. A phone call becomes a summary you can hand to whoever does the work.
Producing marketing in batches rather than one panicked post at a time, and cutting the number of messages it takes to settle on a time.
There is also a list of things to keep away from it. Pricing judgment stays yours. So does any hard conversation with an unhappy customer, and anything that goes out in public with your name attached.
What do Minnesota attendees take home?
- Get the inbox answered before the day starts. The questions you get are mostly the same dozen questions. You will set up replies in your own wording, review the drafts in a couple of minutes, and stop losing evenings to typing.
- Stop letting quotes sit unanswered. Work gets lost in the silence after the estimate, not during the pitch. You will build a short check-in that goes out on its own and does not read like a robot wrote it.
- Turn a walkthrough into a written quote before you leave the driveway. Talk through what you saw, hand the notes over, and read back a quote you can send from the truck. You still set the number.
- Get a month of marketing done in one sitting. Posts, an email, a few photo captions, batched together and written in your voice. A short season is no time to be sitting down to write captions.
- Cut the scheduling back-and-forth to one message. Appointments, estimates, and callbacks eat a surprising share of the week. The evening shows how to let AI do the offering and the confirming while the final say stays with you.
- Know what to keep away from AI. Pricing calls, an angry customer, anything public with your name on it. The evening is as clear about the work you keep in your own hands as it is about what you hand over.
What do people who have seen this say about it?
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.
My project lead was wearing too many hats, and the team felt it. This one event showed us how AI could take that work off people's plates. The impact on our sanity has been massive.
Thank you for your incredible knowledge and insight. It made a powerful impact. I don't take anyone's time lightly, least of all someone with your level of marketing genius.
He'll not only make it simple, he'll make it very profitable.
What do people in Minnesota ask about the seminar?
Is the Minnesota Winning With AI seminar only for tech-minded owners?
No. The room is deliberately mixed, and most people in it have never used AI for anything past a search box. Every tool runs in a browser and nothing gets typed that looks like code.
When is Winning With AI coming to Minneapolis or Saint Paul?
Minnesota dates are not locked yet. Pre-registering puts you on the notice list and holds the $49 early-bird rate for you when one goes up.
How far do Minnesota owners usually travel to something like this?
Plan on driving to the nearest metro. Twin Cities evenings pull from Rochester, St. Cloud, and Mankato, and if enough interest comes out of Duluth or the Red River valley, a northern date gets added.
What should I bring to the Minnesota seminar?
A laptop and one task you have been avoiding. Working on your own business beats working on an example, and there is time set aside for exactly that.
What if the Minnesota evening turns out not to be for me?
Say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded. That is the whole guarantee, with no form to mail in later.
Where do the Minnesota dates sit in the wider program?
Every Minnesota room is one stop on Winning With AI, the touring live AI seminar Mike Filsaime teaches one evening at a time in cities across the United States. The teacher, the demonstrations, and the money-back guarantee are the same in every city; the examples change to match the businesses sitting in the room.