Winning With AI, One Evening in Columbus, Ohio
In every small business in central Ohio, the same short list of jobs takes the week: answering people, chasing the ones who stopped replying, writing the quote, writing the marketing, picking a time, retyping the same document. For one evening in Columbus, those jobs get worked through on stage in plain language. Pre-register and the date and the room reach you before anyone else.
Coming soon to Columbus, OH. The date and venue are not set yet. Pre-register to be the first alerted when they are.
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What is the seminar in Columbus, OH?
Winning With AI is a live, in person seminar coming to Columbus, and it is open to owners, managers, and staff from every kind of small business in central Ohio, whether that is a shop on High Street, a heating and cooling crew running out of Hilliard, or one person working alone from a spare room in Bexley. Mike Filsaime spends the evening on answering customer questions, following up so leads do not go cold, turning notes into quotes and estimates and proposals, producing marketing in batches, reducing the scheduling back and forth, and clearing routine written admin. Early bird seats are $49 while they last, with a money back guarantee. No coding, no jargon, no prior experience, and nothing to buy afterward. A Columbus date has not been set yet, so pre-registration is open.
- One evening in Columbus, in person, with no recording to fall back on.
- Any small business in central Ohio is welcome, whatever the trade or the storefront or the office.
- $49 early bird while seats last. Say it is not right for you before leaving the room and the fee is refunded.
- Plain language from start to finish. No coding, no jargon, nothing to learn first.
- No course and no subscription after the night. You keep the steps and that is the end of it.
- The Columbus date is not announced. Pre-register and it comes to you first.
What does the evening in Columbus actually cover?
One night in a Columbus room, with the steps typed in front of everybody. Nobody presents a forecast about where this is all heading.
The list is the work every business already does. A question answered while somebody is still deciding who to call. A follow up on the third day whether or not anyone remembered. A page of rough notes turned into a quote or an estimate. A month of marketing written in one sitting. Half a dozen messages about a time reduced to one. The summaries, checklists, instructions, and standard documents somebody retypes constantly.
The night also spends time on what to keep away from it. Pricing judgment stays with you. So does the conversation with a customer who is unhappy. So does anything published under your name. The draft comes from the tool, the decision does not.
Is AI worth it for a small business in Columbus, Ohio?
Early bird seats are $49 while they last, and if you attend and it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and your registration fee comes back.
Around Columbus the shortage is not effort. It is hours. The inquiry that waited until Tuesday. The estimate written after nine at night. The month that went by with nothing posted. Four emails to set one appointment. The same intake sheet typed by hand for the tenth time.
The evening moves that pile to a tool built for it and keeps the parts that need a person. You take the steps home on paper. Nothing else comes after.
Why is this AI seminar built for Columbus businesses?
Anyone running a business in Columbus or the towns around the outerbelt can sit in the room. What you sell does not decide whether the night is for you.
A remodeling crew working Clintonville. A restaurant in Grandview Heights. A barbershop in Franklinton. A landscaper covering Worthington and Westerville. A two person tax office in Upper Arlington. A gym near Polaris. A cleaning company running Dublin and Hilliard. A nonprofit in Olde Towne East. A real estate agent working German Village listings. A repair shop off Broad Street. An online seller shipping from a Gahanna garage. A dental office in Bexley. Somebody who is the entire company. All of them doing the same paperwork.
That is why the examples on stage have to work everywhere. A step that only pays off for one kind of business does not make the cut.
What do Columbus attendees walk away with?
- Be the answer that shows up first. People here call two or three places before they commit. Having accurate answers ready for the questions you hear over and over means your reply is the one waiting when they check their phone.
- Follow up that keeps running. A lead from last Thursday is unattended, not lost. You will see the follow up built once so it keeps going through a full week, a quiet week, and a week you spend out on jobs.
- Rough notes into a finished quote. A voice note from the driveway or a page of handwriting becomes an estimate or proposal in your own wording, so it goes out before you get back to the office.
- Approve a batch instead of writing from scratch. One idea becomes several weeks of emails, posts, and offers. Monday changes from thinking up something new to looking over a batch and scheduling it.
- Settle the time in one message. Booking a time is the most avoidable back and forth in a small business, and it costs more when the job is on the far side of the outerbelt. There is a simple way to reduce it to one message.
- The paperwork nobody asks for. Summaries, checklists, instructions for a new hire, the standard document you rebuild every month. It is the least interesting part of the evening and the one most people write down.
- Where the line stays drawn. Pricing judgment does not move. Neither does the call with an unhappy customer or anything public with your name attached. The night is direct about that and about why.
Who is the Columbus seminar for?
What owners of any central Ohio business get out of the Columbus evening
Storefront, truck, office, or spare room. None of it changes the material.
- Move the writing and the chasing off your desk
- Handle more inquiries without another hire
- Leave with steps you can set up the next morning
What managers and the people at the keyboard get out of the Columbus evening
You already know which part of the week goes nowhere.
- Cut the repetitive typing out of the team's day
- Turn work around in far less time at the screen
- Be the one on staff who understands this
What one person operations and side businesses get out of the Columbus evening
You are the front desk, the sales team, and the labor.
- Answer like a business with staff behind you
- Keep every lead followed up on your own
- Take back the evenings paperwork was eating
How does a live seminar compare with free videos and an online course?
| This live seminar | Free online videos | Self-paced AI course | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setting | A Columbus room, one evening, other owners in the seats next to you | Your phone, alone, late | A login you abandon around week three |
| Who can use it | Any small business in central Ohio, no industry requirement | Whoever the algorithm picks | A national crowd and a national example |
| Your own question | Asked out loud and answered the same evening | A comment nobody comes back to | A forum post that goes stale |
| Watching the build | Start to finish on stage with nothing skipped | Cut down to the part that kept attention | Filmed before the tools changed |
| What comes after | Nothing. No course, no subscription | Nothing, and no structure either | Usually a monthly bill |
What is Columbus, OH actually like?
Columbus behaves like several towns sharing one outerbelt. A storefront on High Street lives on people walking past. A crew based off 315 lives on the drive time between calls. Neither one looks like a small office out past Dublin where the customer never comes to you.
What holds everywhere is the pace and the geography. People want an answer today, and a call that goes to voicemail on Friday tends to get made to somebody else Saturday morning. Crossing town on I-270 to look at a job burns an hour before you have done any work, and a game day or a January storm can take a whole afternoon out of the schedule. Anything that can be handled in writing is worth handling in writing.
The evening is built for that. Everything shown is something you could put in place before the next morning starts.
How Columbus businesses are using AI right now
Around central Ohio a fair number of businesses already do parts of this, quietly, with nobody technical involved.
A garage door company answers the four questions every caller starts with. A caterer in Short North turns a phone conversation into a written quote before the next call comes through. A studio in Clintonville writes a month of posts in one Sunday sitting. A one person tax office feeds in a page of scrawled meeting notes and gets back a tidy summary and a list of what to do next. A snow and lawn outfit stopped trading emails over appointment windows. A sign shop off Fifth Avenue wrote its standard customer instructions once instead of retyping them per order.
None of it required a developer and none of it moved judgment away from the owner. Pricing, the hard phone call, the public reply: still done by a person who knows the customer.
Who teaches the Columbus seminar?
Mike Filsaime is one of the architects of the modern AI and online business world. He built Groove, a sales and CRM platform used by hundreds of thousands. He founded Kartra, an all-in-one business platform. He created WebinarJam and EverWebinar, the tools that defined how online seminars work. He is known across the industry for one thing: he takes technology that is complicated and tangled and makes it simple enough for any business owner to understand and use.
He does not do hype or jargon. He does not sell you on the vision of technology. He shows you the exact moves that work in a real business, explains why they work, and walks you through doing it yourself.
On stage at the seminar in Columbus, Mike brings that same approach. Hands-on examples from real Columbus and central Ohio businesses. Time for your questions. Tools you can set up and use the very next day.
What do people who have seen this say about it?
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.
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.
When is the seminar coming to Columbus?
We have not set the Columbus date yet. Pre-register and you will be the first to know when we do, before seats go on sale to everyone else.
Pre-register for the seminar in Columbus
What do people in Columbus ask about the seminar?
Is there a Columbus date yet?
Not yet. Pre-registration is open on this page, and pre-registered people are given the Columbus date and the room before it goes public, with the early bird price held while seats last.
Where in Columbus will the seminar happen?
The venue is not confirmed. It will be somewhere easy to reach from inside the outerbelt and from the suburbs around it, and pre-registered attendees get the address first.
Does the Columbus seminar target specific trades?
No. A remodeling crew, a restaurant, a salon, a gym, a cleaning company, an accountant, a law office, a dental office, a nonprofit, an online seller, a real estate agent, a one person shop. The night is about the paperwork every business has, so no trade is closer to the material than another.
What is the price of a Columbus seat?
Early bird seats are $49 while they last. Attend, and if it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and your registration fee is refunded.
Can somebody with no tech background follow the Columbus evening?
Yes. Nothing is presented in technical terms, there is no code, and nobody uses jargon. If email and a phone are familiar, the evening will be too.
What is on the agenda for the Columbus seminar?
Answering the questions customers ask, following up so leads do not go cold, turning notes into quotes and proposals and estimates, producing marketing in batches, taking the back and forth out of picking a time, and routine written admin such as summaries, checklists, and standard documents. It is equally clear about what to keep away from AI: pricing judgment, difficult customer conversations, and anything tied to your reputation.
Who teaches in Columbus?
Mike Filsaime takes the stage. He put 25 years into building companies, Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar among them, and he explains this without leaning on a single technical term.
Is there anything to pay for after the Columbus evening?
No. The night ends, the steps are yours, and no one asks you to join anything or pay anything further.
Can I bring people who work for me in Columbus?
Yes. The staff doing the repetitive writing usually get the most out of it. Register each person on their own while the early bird price holds.
Where does the Columbus evening sit in the wider program?
The Columbus 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. Same teacher, same demonstrations, same money-back guarantee in every city; the examples change to match the businesses in the room.
Which other Ohio cities have a seminar page?
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