Winning With AI, a Friday Night in Wilkes-Barre
Owners in the Wyoming Valley spend the week on the same short list. Answering people. Chasing the ones who stopped replying. Writing the quote. Writing the marketing. Trading messages to pick a time. Retyping the document you retyped last month. On Friday, August 21, that work gets handled live on stage at the DoubleTree on Wildflower Drive, in plain words, with the steps up where the room can copy them. Early bird seats are $49 while they last.
DoubleTree by Hilton Wilkes-Barre, 600 Wildflower Drive, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702 · Friday, August 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM · $49 early-bird seat.
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What is the seminar in Wilkes-Barre, PA?
Winning With AI is a live, in person seminar at the DoubleTree by Hilton Wilkes-Barre, 600 Wildflower Drive, on Friday, August 21, 2026, at 6:00 PM. Owners, managers, and staff from any small business in Wilkes-Barre and the Wyoming Valley are welcome, whether you run a storefront off Public Square, a plumbing truck out of Plains Township, a small office in Kingston, or the whole operation by yourself. Mike Filsaime works through answering customer questions, following up so leads do not go cold, turning notes into quotes and estimates, building marketing in batches, cutting down the scheduling back and forth, and getting routine written admin off your desk. Early bird seats are $49 while they last, with a money back guarantee. No coding, no jargon, nothing to know in advance, and no course or subscription waiting at the end.
- Friday, August 21, 2026, 6:00 PM start, one evening, in person only.
- DoubleTree by Hilton Wilkes-Barre, 600 Wildflower Drive, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702.
- Any Wyoming Valley business is welcome. The trade you are in does not decide whether it fits.
- $49 early bird while seats last. Sit through it, and if it is not for you, say so before you leave the room and the fee is returned.
- Every part of it gets explained in ordinary language. Nothing to install ahead of time.
- Nothing is sold afterward. No course, no monthly anything.
What does the evening in Wilkes-Barre actually cover?
One Friday night in a Wilkes-Barre room, with the actual work happening on screen and the steps written out slowly enough to copy into a notebook.
The subjects are the jobs that fill a week here. Replying to somebody who is still calling around. A follow up that goes out on the third day with nobody tracking it. Rough notes into an estimate. A month of posts and emails built in one go. A thread about scheduling reduced to a single message. The recurring paperwork that gets retyped instead of reused.
There is a section on limits too. What you charge, the phone call with somebody who is unhappy, and anything that goes out in public with your name on it: none of that gets handed over. A draft is fair game. A decision is not.
Is AI worth it for a small business in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania?
$49 for an early bird seat while they last, and if you sit through it and it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and your registration fee comes back.
Effort has never been the missing piece in the Valley. Hours are. The inquiry that sat until Monday. The estimate written at the kitchen table after everyone else turned in. Two months with nothing posted. Five emails to book one appointment. That same form typed out again from scratch.
Friday night moves that work onto something built to do it and leaves everything that needs a person alone. You take the written steps home. There is no follow on purchase.
Why is this AI seminar built for Wilkes-Barre businesses?
If you run a business in Wilkes-Barre, Kingston, Forty Fort, Plains, Nanticoke, Pittston, or the river towns on either side, the evening applies to you. There is no trade you have to be in.
A remodeling crew working South Wilkes-Barre. A pizza shop off Wyoming Avenue. A salon near Public Square. A landscaper covering Dallas and Shavertown. A two person accounting office on Market Street. A gym in Plains. A cleaning company running Kingston and Swoyersville. A nonprofit near the Kirby Center. A real estate agent working Back Mountain listings. An auto shop on Blackman Street. An online seller shipping out of a Hanover Township garage. A dental office in Forty Fort. Somebody who is the whole company. Same paperwork in every one of them.
Which is why nothing gets stage time unless it works across all of those. A trick that only helps one kind of shop is not worth the room's evening.
What do Wilkes-Barre attendees walk away with?
- Answer before the second call gets made. People here ring two or three places before deciding. Ready answers for the questions you field every week mean yours is the reply already waiting when they check the phone.
- Follow up that keeps going without you. Last Wednesday's lead is sitting there, not lost. The follow up gets built once in the room so it keeps going through a flat out week and a dead one.
- A quote out of a page of scribble. A voice note from a porch in Nanticoke or a sheet of handwriting turns into an estimate or a proposal in your wording, sent before you get back to Wilkes-Barre.
- Read a batch instead of writing one. One angle covers weeks of emails, posts, and offers. Monday turns into reviewing a batch and putting it on the calendar.
- One message instead of six. Picking a time generates more pointless messages than anything else in a small shop, and it is worse when the job is over in Pittston. There is a simple way to make it one message.
- The paperwork with no glory in it. The end of month summary, the checklist for a new hire, the form letter that gets rewritten instead of reused. Least interesting part of the night, most written down.
- What does not get handed over. You keep the pricing calls. You keep the unhappy customer. You keep anything published under your name. Friday spells out the reasoning.
Who is the Wilkes-Barre seminar for?
What owners of any Wyoming Valley business get out of the Wilkes-Barre evening
Retail space, a work van, a small office, or wherever you happen to sit. None of that changes what gets taught.
- Hand off the repetitive writing that fills your day
- Take on more work without another paycheck
- Have one thing running by Monday
What managers and whoever ends up doing the typing get out of the Wilkes-Barre evening
You know which hours produce nothing at all.
- Get the duplicate typing out of your day
- Hand in work that took a fraction of the time
- Be the person the team asks about this
What one person outfits and side businesses get out of the Wilkes-Barre evening
Reception, sales, and labor are all the same person here.
- Sound like a bigger operation than you are
- Keep every lead touched without a reminder
- Get back evenings that paperwork was taking
How does a live seminar compare with free videos and an online course?
| This live seminar | Free online videos | Self-paced AI course | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where you are | One Friday evening at the DoubleTree, Valley owners in the seats around you | Your phone, alone, whenever there is a gap | A login you stop opening |
| Who it fits | Any Wyoming Valley small business, with no trade requirement | Whoever the feed picks | A national crowd with national examples |
| Getting an answer | Raised in the room and answered that night | A comment left unanswered | A forum post somebody may see |
| Watching the work | Beginning to end on stage, nothing skipped | Cut to whatever kept people watching | Filmed before the tools changed |
| Afterward | Nothing at all. No course, no subscription | Nothing, and no plan either | A recurring charge |
What is Wilkes-Barre, PA actually like?
Wilkes-Barre runs on short distances and long habits. Public Square is a walking district where the customer decides at the door. Ten minutes out, along the levee towns and up the hill toward the Back Mountain, business is done from a truck and the customer never sees your office at all.
The pace is the same either way. People here expect an answer today, and a Friday afternoon call that goes to voicemail often gets made to somebody else on Saturday. Running up the Cross Valley to look at a job eats a chunk of the day before you touch any work, and a winter storm coming over the mountain can flatten a week of scheduling. Whatever can be settled in writing is better settled in writing.
The evening is built to fit that. Nothing gets shown on Friday that you could not have running by Monday.
How Wilkes-Barre businesses are using AI right now
Plenty of Wyoming Valley businesses already run parts of this, without any of it being announced and without anyone technical on the payroll.
A window company keeps prepared answers for the questions every first call starts with. A caterer in Kingston turns a phone conversation into a written quote before the next call lands. A barbershop near King's College writes a month of posts on one slow Tuesday. A one person bookkeeper feeds in a page of meeting scrawl and gets back a tidy summary with next steps. A paving outfit quit trading emails about appointment windows. An awning shop on Wilkes-Barre Boulevard wrote its standard customer instructions once and stopped rewriting them per job.
No developer involved in any of it, and no judgment handed over. Pricing, the awkward phone call, the public reply: those stayed with the person who knows the customer.
Who teaches the Wilkes-Barre seminar?
The Wilkes-Barre evening is taught by Mike Filsaime, who has spent 25 years building companies, including Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar.
He builds tools for working owners, so he teaches the same way. Plain English, ordinary business examples, and no assumption that you have used any of this before.
On Friday, August 21 at the DoubleTree, Mike works through each example live on screen. You watch the steps in order, you ask about your own business out loud, and you write down what you want to use on Monday.
What do people who have seen this say about it?
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.
When I saw what Winning With AI could do, I knew we had to move fast. Work that used to drag out for three months now gets delivered by my team in two or three days.
How do you reserve your Wilkes-Barre seat?
Friday, August 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM. DoubleTree by Hilton Wilkes-Barre, 600 Wildflower Drive, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702.
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What do people in Wilkes-Barre ask about the seminar?
Where is the Wilkes-Barre seminar, and when does it start?
DoubleTree by Hilton Wilkes-Barre, 600 Wildflower Drive, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702, on Friday, August 21, 2026, at 6:00 PM. Parking is on site and it is a straight drive from Public Square, Kingston, and the Cross Valley.
How much is a seat at the Wilkes-Barre evening?
$49 while early bird seats hold. Attend, and if it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
Do I need any background before the Wilkes-Barre seminar?
None. If you can send an email and open a browser you are set. Nothing gets coded on stage and no jargon gets used.
Which Wyoming Valley businesses is this for?
All of them. Shops and restaurants, salons and gyms, contractors and repair crews, landscapers and cleaners, real estate agents, accountants and law offices, dental and medical offices, nonprofits, online sellers, agencies, and people running the whole thing alone. The evening covers work every one of those does by hand today.
Can I bring the people who work for me in Wilkes-Barre?
Yes. Bring whoever does the typing, since that is the person whose day changes most. Each attendee needs their own seat, and the early bird price applies while it lasts.
I have a small shop in Wilkes-Barre. Will Friday apply to me?
Yes. Everything shown is sized for a small operation, a couple of people, or one. Nothing on stage assumes a department sitting behind you.
What am I able to do after the Wilkes-Barre seminar?
Answer the questions you get over and over, keep follow up running without remembering it, turn notes into a quote, write a stretch of marketing in one sitting, cut the scheduling messages down, and push routine written admin off your desk.
Who teaches the Wilkes-Barre seminar, and how do I register for August 21?
Mike Filsaime, who spent 25 years building companies including Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar. Use the reserve button on this page to lock a $49 early bird seat while they are available.
Where does the Wilkes-Barre evening sit in the wider program?
The Wilkes-Barre 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 Pennsylvania cities have a seminar page?
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