Winning With AI Reaches Ohio Business Owners
The truck is moving by seven and the writing waits until nine at night. That gap shows up the same way in Toledo, in Athens, and on the west side of Cleveland.
What is the seminar in Ohio?
Winning With AI is one live evening for Ohio business owners of every type, whether that is a roofing crew out of Akron, a bakery near Findlay Market, a two-chair barber shop in Dayton, or a bookkeeper working alone in Lima. The night stays on the work these tools genuinely take off a small operation: answering customer questions, keeping follow-up going so leads do not go cold, turning rough notes into quotes and proposals, writing marketing in batches, cutting the back and forth it takes to book a time, and clearing routine written admin. Mike Filsaime teaches it in plain English and types every example live in the room. No code, no prior experience, and no course to buy afterward. Early-bird seats are $49 while available, and if the evening is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
- Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati sit roughly two hours apart along I-71, so one day of customer calls can touch all three and still get you home.
- I-70 and I-75 cross near Dayton and the turnpike runs the top of the state, which is why most of Ohio can be reached without thinking about the route.
- The southeast is different country. Past Lancaster the hills start and the roads bend, and Athens or Marietta becomes a real drive rather than a quick run.
- Lake Erie sets the summer calendar up north. Sandusky, Port Clinton, and the islands fill from June through Labor Day and empty out fast after.
Which cities in Ohio have a seminar page?
- Cleveland, OH · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
- Columbus, OH · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
What happens on the night in Ohio?
Doors open, laptops out, tools live on the screen at the front. Three hours, in person, with other owners sitting around you. Bring something real off your own desk, an old estimate or a message you never answered, because you work on your own material rather than a sample.
The teaching is Mike Filsaime's. Twenty-five years of building companies stands behind it, Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar among them, and it comes out the way one owner explains something to another. Examples get typed live, so you watch the wording instead of reading a finished slide.
Nothing gets installed and nothing gets pitched at the door. There is no course waiting at the end of it and no subscription. What you carry out is the set of examples you built, in your own words, on your own work.
How business actually works in Ohio
Columbus grew outward instead of up. The Short North and German Village keep the walk-in trade, Grandview and Clintonville run on regulars, and the ring past I-270 is where newer shops, offices, and service outfits set up. A business there can serve four suburbs that behave like four separate towns.
Cleveland works neighborhood by neighborhood. Ohio City and Tremont hold their own customer base, Detroit Shoreway and Lakewood run west, and the east side suburbs each keep a main street of their own. Cincinnati is similar, with Over-the-Rhine, Hyde Park, and Northside pulling different crowds, plus the northern Kentucky side of the river feeding in every day.
Outside the three metros the pace changes. Akron, Canton, Toledo, Youngstown, and Dayton each anchor a stretch of the map, while Holmes County, Athens, and Marietta run on people coming back rather than new traffic. Work is not the problem in any of them. Getting it written up after hours is.
How Ohio businesses use AI right now
A Tremont restaurant has the overnight messages drafted before the first prep cook clocks in. A Canton fencing crew talks the job over on the drive back and gets a written estimate out of it. A Toledo window company stops letting bids go quiet after the first email.
A Put-in-Bay gift shop writes an entire season of emails in one sitting. A Grandview dental office turns the new hire instructions it repeats every year into one standard document. A Cincinnati yoga studio gets booking down to one message each way.
A Marietta landscaping outfit finally gets its spring flyer written. An Athens nonprofit walks out of a board meeting with a summary and a list of who owes what. Pricing, the call that needs care, and anything reputational stay with the owner.
What do Ohio attendees take home?
- Morning starts with reading, not typing. Everything that came in after you locked up is written up and sitting there waiting on your yes. A counter in Akron and an office in Dublin both open the day at the same spot.
- Say the job out loud, get the estimate back. Describe the work while it is still fresh and it comes back as a quote with your terms already in it. The number is still yours to set. The typing and the layout are what you hand off.
- Follow-up that does not depend on remembering. More work is lost to silence than to a cheaper bid. Who is still waiting gets tracked for you, the next note gets drafted, and it reads like you wrote it.
- Get the season's marketing out of the way early. Come spring the phone does not quit and marketing is the first thing dropped. One sitting is enough to write a season of emails, posts, and offers, and then they go out without you touching them again.
- Same room, every line of work. Roofers and bakers, salon owners and gym owners, cleaners and landscapers, agents and accountants, law offices and dental offices, nonprofits, online sellers, small agencies, and the one-person operation that is all of the above. None of that changes what the tools do.
- The line you do not cross. Pricing, the conversation with someone who has had enough, and anything that touches your name in town belong to a person. The evening marks that boundary out loud.
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 Ohio ask about the seminar?
When is Winning With AI coming to Columbus or Cleveland?
No Ohio date is set yet. Pre-register and you are told first when one lands, Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, or Toledo, and the $49 early-bird price is held for you.
Is the Ohio seminar aimed at one particular industry?
It is not. Every kind of owner is in the room. A concrete crew out of Canton, a coffee shop in Ohio City, a title office in Springfield, and somebody shipping orders from a garage in Westerville all lose the same hours to the same repeating tasks.
I run a small shop in Akron and I am not technical. Can I keep up for a night?
Yes. Everything is typed in plain language, closer to sending a text than anything technical. Mike works each example live and takes questions from the floor, and there is nothing to set up beforehand.
What does a seat cost in Ohio, and what if the night is not worth it?
Early-bird is $49 while seats last. Sit through the evening, and if it was not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
What should an Ohio business keep away from AI entirely?
Pricing decisions, the customer who is already angry, and anything that affects your reputation locally. Those stay with a person, and the evening spends real time drawing that line.
Where do the Ohio dates sit in the wider program?
Every Ohio room is one stop on Winning With AI live seminars, 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.