A Winning With AI Night for Portland, Oregon

This metro is split by a river and stitched together by bridges, and the businesses on either side have almost nothing in common until you look at their desks. Then it is the same six jobs. Replies. Follow ups. Quotes. Marketing. Scheduling. The form nobody saved. One evening, all of it. Pre-register to hear the Portland date first.

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What is the seminar in Portland, OR?

• One evening, in person, in Portland. It starts and it finishes the same night.
• Every kind of small business in the metro is welcome, from a Mississippi Avenue storefront to a crew working Hillsboro to a one person operation in Milwaukie.
• $49 early bird while seats last. Attend, and if it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
• Taught in plain words. Nothing written in code, no acronyms, and nothing to install beforehand.
• Nothing sold at the end. No course, no membership, no follow on program.
• No Portland date yet. The pre-registered list hears the date and the venue before anyone else.

What does the evening in Portland actually cover?

This is a build, not a briefing. Somebody sits at the front, opens the tools, and does the actual job on screen while the room watches and takes notes.

Everything demonstrated is writing your business already turns out. The question that lands before somebody picks a company. The follow up on day four that never went. Notes from a walkthrough that have to be a proposal. Two months of emails and posts made in one afternoon. A scheduling exchange that ran nine messages. The document you rebuild because nobody saved it.

The night also draws a hard line. What you charge is judgment and stays yours. The tense conversation gets your voice. Anything going out in public with your name on it gets your read first. Take the draft, keep the call.

Is AI worth it for a small business in Portland, Oregon?

$49 gets you in while early bird lasts. Sit through the whole thing, and if it turns out not to be for you, say so before you leave and the registration fee comes back.

The problem here has never been effort. It is when the writing happens. Messages stack up while you are stuck on the Ross Island. Quotes get typed at ten. Marketing goes dark for a month. One appointment takes nine messages to pin down.

The evening breaks that pile into an order you can actually work. Whatever needs a person keeps a person, and everything else gets set up in one sitting.

Why is this AI seminar built for Portland businesses?

A room of Portland owners covers the whole map. A remodeler working Ladd's Addition. A taqueria on Foster. A barber in Kenton. A landscaping crew covering Lake Oswego and West Linn. A two person bookkeeping office in the Pearl. A gym in Hollywood. A dental office in Beaverton. An agent showing houses in Multnomah Village. A nonprofit in St. Johns. Somebody shipping goods out of a Gresham garage.

Different customers, different margins, the same six documents. All of them answer the same questions, miss the same follow ups, and rewrite what they already wrote once.

So nothing gets shown that only serves one trade. A demonstration that pays off for a single kind of business does not belong in a mixed room and gets cut.

What do Portland attendees walk away with?

• The inquiry that shows up after hours. People shop two or three places at once. Whoever has an answer sitting there while they are still looking usually books the work.
• Follow up that keeps going on its own. The bid from three weeks back went quiet, not away. You watch one follow up get built, then left alone to keep working.
• Notes crossing the bridge, quote in the inbox. Dictate the walkthrough on the drive back and read a written quote in your own wording before you have parked.
• Two months of marketing in an afternoon. One idea you already trust becomes the emails, posts, and offers for the stretch ahead, and you spend your time approving instead of writing.
• Cut the scheduling thread in half. Nine messages to agree on a time is normal and it does not have to be. You will watch the shorter version built.
• Write the standing document once. The intake sheet, the checklist, the new hire instructions, the notice that goes out monthly. Build it a single time and stop starting over.
• What the tools do not touch. Pricing, the difficult conversation, anything published with your name on it. The night is direct about why those stay with you.

Who is the Portland seminar for?

How does a live seminar compare with free videos and an online course?

What is Portland, OR actually like?

Portland is a metro of bridges, and everybody here plans a day around which side of the Willamette the work sits on. A job in Hillsboro and a job in Gresham are opposite ends of a long commute, even when they pay the same.

Eight months of gray does the rest. Work moves indoors, schedules compress, and the writing that could have gone out in March gets done in June. The person who asked in the rain has usually hired somebody else by then.

That is why this evening sticks to things one person can set up in a sitting, with no help, no budget, and nothing to download.

How Portland businesses are using AI right now

None of this is a preview. It is running around the metro already, mostly in the hands of people who would not call it technology.

A moving company in Gresham stopped writing the same job up twice. The walkthrough notes go in once and come back as the estimate, the confirmation email, and the crew sheet. A coffee shop on Killingsworth keeps its standard replies on file and answers the late messages the night they arrive. A bike repair shop in Sellwood turned its intake questions into one document it reuses on every ticket. A consultant in Beaverton writes a month of client updates in one sitting and edits instead of drafting for the rest of it.

None of that needed a hire or a budget. It needed one evening of sorting out which four or five jobs were worth handing over.

Who teaches the Portland seminar?

Mike Filsaime teaches the Portland, Oregon evening. Twenty five years of building companies sits behind it, Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar among them.

The thing people notice is that he never reaches for terminology. He opens the tool, does the actual work in front of the room, and calls out the parts worth your attention.

The examples he runs in Portland are the kind of writing a local business produces in an ordinary week, with time set aside for questions about your own situation.

What do people who have seen this say about it?

When is the seminar 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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Where does the Portland evening sit in the wider program?

The Portland room is one stop on Winning With AI with Mike Filsaime, 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 Oregon cities have a seminar page?

• Eugene, OR

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