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Winning With AI: Portland Business Edition
Portland built its reputation on people who work differently and move faster. AI changes the game for owners who know what moves matter. This evening shows you what to build, how to build it, and which step comes first on Monday. Pre-register to be the first to know when we lock the date and location.
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What is the Winning With AI seminar in Portland, OR?
Winning With AI Portland is a hands-on evening where Mike Filsaime shows Portland business owners and teams the specific AI moves that land customers faster, keep follow-ups automatic, and cut through paperwork. No setup delays. No hiring needed. Just the moves that work for Portland businesses starting Monday morning.
- Format: Live, in-person, one evening. Built for Portland owners and their teams, not a national webinar audience.
- Instructor: Mike Filsaime, founder of Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar. Known for taking complex ideas and breaking them into moves anyone can execute.
- Investment: Early-bird pricing locked in by pre-registering. Saves Portland owners five to ten hours per week. Money-back guarantee.
- For: Portland and metro business owners, managers, and employees. No prior AI background needed. No coding. No computer science degree. Plain English only.
- Why this matters: Your fastest Portland competitors are already moving on AI. The ones sitting still are losing customers to the ones who moved first. This shows you the exact moves to make before they do.
- Built for Portland: Every example is a Portland business problem. Restaurants keeping tables full. Shops managing inventory and customer orders. Trades closing jobs faster. Startups accelerating customer support. Services running leaner teams.
The Winning With AI seminar in Portland, explained
Winning With AI Portland is not a lecture about the future of technology or what AI could theoretically do in five years. It is a working session on what you can build and launch in your Portland business by Monday morning, using only the tools available to you right now.
You watch it happen live. A customer inquiry answered in two minutes instead of two hours, while competitors are still on their third draft. A week of emails and posts created in three hours instead of spread across the month, so your message hits while the prospect is still thinking about you. A scheduling mess that usually takes your team five hours a week, handled automatically while you focus on the work that matters. The invoices and quotes that used to need a human pulling numbers from three systems, built and sent in sixty seconds. Follow-ups that land before leads go cold and shop your competitors instead.
You leave Portland knowing exactly which tool to use for your specific problem, how to set it up without calling a developer, and what to do first thing Monday. The evening includes time for questions about your real situation and your Portland market. You walk out with moves you can use the same day. No theory. No waiting for implementation. Just the work you can actually do immediately.
Is AI worth it for a small business in Portland, Oregon?
Simple answer: yes. You will figure out whether to move on AI or not in one evening instead of spending six months researching while your competitors pull ahead.
Portland owns its independence and punishes anything that feels cookie-cutter. That independence is strength until a competitor moves faster. The Portland businesses winning right now are the ones who moved first on AI, not because they have bigger budgets but because they are not waiting. They took the busywork off the table and freed up hours for what only a human can do: close deals, build relationships, make judgment calls. The owners not using AI are watching faster, leaner competitors grab customers and wishing they had not waited.
This evening shows you that exact move. You leave knowing how to get customers to say yes faster, handle follow-ups without remembering to do them, build a month of marketing in an afternoon instead of a month, and free your team from the paperwork that eats their week. One evening for under $100 that adds five to ten hours of capacity every week across your team. That is a complete extra person's worth of work, backed by a money-back guarantee. The math works for Portland.
A practical AI seminar built for Portland businesses
Winning With AI Portland is built on the businesses that actually run this city, not a national audience.
Portland is a city of independent owners, makers, and problem-solvers. The Pearl has its design agencies, architects, and creative studios. Southeast has its restaurants, coffee roasters, bookstores, and neighborhood retail. Alberta and Northeast have their creative startups and makers. Beaverton and Hillsboro anchor a tech and semiconductor corridor where real hardware gets designed and manufactured. Lake Oswego, West Linn, and Oregon City are home to professional services, healthcare, and consulting firms. Trades work across the entire metro, from renovation shops to plumbing and electrical on job sites. Every one of these businesses faces the same challenge: customers expect faster answers, competitors are moving on AI, and the cost of staying still is real. This is not a seminar about the future of technology. It is a working session on the problems Portland owners are solving this week and next week.
What Portland attendees walk away with
- Answer customers in seconds, not hours. Set up AI to write replies, quotes, proposals, and follow-ups instantly, so a Portland prospect never waits for an answer while a competitor is closing the deal. Speed is competitive advantage.
- Keep every lead warm until they buy. Automate follow-ups so every prospect and past customer hears from you on time without you chasing it down or remembering to do it. Consistency beats sporadic effort.
- Create a month of marketing in one afternoon. Turn one idea into a full week of emails, posts, and content offers, so your message hits while people are still thinking about you, not weeks later after they have moved on.
- Give admin and paperwork to AI. Let AI handle invoices, scheduling, time tracking, and forms. The busywork that eats Friday afternoons gets done in minutes. Your team focuses on work that matters.
- Make your team more productive at their actual jobs. Teach the AI habits that make every person faster at their role, so you get a week of output in three days. Productive teams stay and grow with you.
- Move before your Portland competitors do. Take home the same moves the fastest Portland owners are using right now. Move first, and you set the pace. Sit still, and you spend next year catching up.
Who the Portland seminar is for
Portland owners and founders
You own the show. Every hour counts. You need speed and leverage.
- Bring in more customers without hiring more staff or burning money on ads that do not work
- Stop doing paperwork, quotes, and scheduling yourself. Give it to AI and focus on sales and strategy
- Move faster than competitors who think AI is still for tech companies and are months behind
Team leads and managers
You want your team faster and happier without burning them out.
- Cut busywork out of the day so your people have time for work that builds the business
- Become the leader who solved the productivity problem without hiring more bodies
- Be the person on the team who knows AI and can put it to work in a real business
Employees wanting to level up
You want to move faster than peers and become someone others ask for help.
- Get through your daily work in half the time without rushing or cutting corners
- Show your team new ways to work smarter and become the person people come to
- Prove you can do more with the same hours and earn bigger opportunities
A live seminar vs. free videos vs. an online course
| Winning With AI seminar | Free online videos | Self-paced AI course | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setting | Live with other Portland business owners who understand your market and your challenges | Alone on your screen at your own pace, watching content made for a generic audience | Self-paced modules spread over weeks or months as you fit them between work |
| Tailored for Portland | Yes, every example is a Portland business problem you are probably solving right now | No, scattered generic content from creators with no connection to Portland business | Rarely, mostly built for a broad national or international audience with different problems |
| Ask when you are stuck | Yes, ask it out loud and get an instant answer from someone who knows business | No, you are on your own with no one to guide you | Maybe, post in a forum and hope someone responds, possibly days later |
| See real work built live | Yes, live demonstrations you can follow as they happen so you understand every step | Sometimes, and often hard to replicate on your own or understand the steps | Sometimes, and often outdated or unclear by the time you find the right module |
| When can you use it | Monday morning, the same day you leave the evening session | Weeks of searching videos hoping you find exactly what you need | Weeks to months of modules before anything works in your actual business |
What is Portland, OR actually like?
Portland does not follow templates. A city that grew tech companies from garage startups, outdoor brands from a love of wilderness, and design agencies filled with people who refuse to do things the mainstream way rewards independent thinking and punishes anything corporate or mass-produced. That is not nostalgia, it is the business market at work. Portland customers know it. Portland competitors know it. The ones winning are the ones working smarter with their hours, not the ones with the biggest budget.
Portland businesses win on authenticity and speed. Whether you own a trade company, healthcare practice, restaurant, retail shop, design firm, tech startup, semiconductor manufacturer, consulting practice, apparel brand, or food and beverage operation, your customers chose you for quality and service, not because they have no other choice. No sales tax in Oregon means Washington customers cross the river specifically for you, which means you have to be worth the trip. Speed and quality are your advantage if you use them.
Winning With AI brings that working-smarter mindset to one evening, so Portland owners and teams can put AI to work immediately. Portland does not wait for perfect conditions. This is built for that.
How Portland businesses are using AI right now
The Portland owners moving fastest on AI are the ones not asking permission or waiting for perfect tools. They are building and shipping.
A Southeast restaurant owner writes a week of promotions in an afternoon and fills the dining room during slow season. A Beaverton contractor records voice notes on a job site, and the system turns them into a detailed quote before sunset, so the customer decides the same day. A Pearl District design agency sends clients same-day project summaries instead of waiting two days, books follow-ups faster, wins the retainer before the competitor can pitch. A Lake Oswego retail owner gets a morning summary of yesterday's sales, payroll, cash flow, and customer questions without logging into five systems. A Portland healthcare practice answers patient questions outside office hours without hiring night staff, so the clinic looks responsive and staffing costs stay flat. A Hillsboro tech company accelerates customer documentation and support, freeing engineers to code. A Northeast coffee roastery manages supplier orders and inventory tracking automatically. A West Linn consulting firm delivers client reports in half the time, so billable hours go up while the team hours stay the same.
None of it needs a tech hire or six months of setup. It needs the handful of AI moves that actually work for real Portland business, which is exactly what this session shows you how to build. Your neighbors are moving. The question is whether you move first or play catch-up later.
Headlined by Mike Filsaime
Winning With AI Portland is taught by Mike Filsaime, a pioneer in AI and online business who built Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar. Hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide use his platforms every day to run their operations, host their events, manage their teams, and sell their products.
Mike is known for doing one thing better than most: taking technology that looks complicated and breaking it down into the specific moves a Portland business owner can execute without hiring engineers or wading through jargon. No theory. No complicated explanations. Just the steps that work.
In Portland, Mike walks you through the exact AI moves you can build and put to work immediately, with time to ask questions about your specific business and market, and examples you can replicate and use Monday morning.
People who have seen Winning With AI in action
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.
Winning With AI is coming to Portland
We have not set the Portland 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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Winning With AI Portland: frequently asked questions
What exactly does this Portland session cover?
How to use AI to answer customers faster, keep leads warm automatically, build a month of marketing in one sitting, handle paperwork without doing it yourself, and make your team more productive in their actual jobs. You leave with specific, executable moves you can use immediately in your Portland business.
When and where is the Portland event?
Date and location coming soon. Pre-register on this page to hear the details first and lock in early-bird pricing when it is officially announced. Pre-registered attendees get first access to the best seats.
Do I need AI or tech experience?
No. If you can use email and a web browser, you can follow everything. The session is taught in plain English with no coding and no technical jargon. Beginners and people with some AI background both leave with moves they can execute.
Who is this for?
Portland and metro area owners, managers, and employees who want to land customers faster, manage follow-ups automatically, market smarter, and cut through busywork. It works for trades, restaurants, retail shops, offices, healthcare, tech companies, design firms, apparel brands, and their teams. If you have customers and paperwork, this is for you.
Is this useful for small Portland businesses?
Yes, completely. Every example is built for small Portland local businesses and single-location shops, so you leave with moves you can actually use Monday morning, not enterprise software that does not apply to you. Portland runs on small business.
What skills will I have after the session?
You will know how to answer customers in seconds instead of hours, automate follow-ups so no lead gets forgotten, build a month of marketing in one sitting, move paperwork and scheduling off your desk, and free up five to ten hours every week for work that matters.
Who is teaching this?
Mike Filsaime, founder of Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar. He is known for taking complex business technology and breaking it down into executable moves any Portland owner can actually do.
How much does it cost?
Pricing will be announced when the Portland date is locked. Pre-register now to get early-bird pricing when it is official. Early-bird pricing is always lower than regular pricing, and pre-registered attendees hear about it first.
How do I pre-register?
Use the pre-register button on this page. You will be first to hear when the Portland date and location are confirmed and first to lock in early-bird pricing. No credit card is required to pre-register.