Winning With AI, an Evening in Charleston, West Virginia

Most of a Charleston business day ends up in writing. The email that has to go back tonight. The estimate sitting half finished. The customer three counties out waiting on a number. One evening downtown pulls each of those apart in ordinary words, step by step. Pre-register and the date comes to you before it goes public.

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What is the seminar in Charleston, WV?

• A single evening in Charleston, West Virginia, in person, finished in one sitting.
• Any small business in Charleston, Dunbar, St. Albans, Nitro, or the towns up the hollows is welcome.
• $49 early bird while seats last. Tell us before you walk out that it missed and the registration fee is refunded.
• Plain words the whole way through. Nothing to install, nothing to read first.
• Nothing gets pitched at the end. There is no course after this and no subscription.
• The Charleston, West Virginia date is not announced. Pre-register and it reaches your inbox early.

What does the evening in Charleston actually cover?

One night in a Charleston room with every step written large enough to copy. Nobody stands up there speculating about what the world looks like in ten years.

What gets worked on is the writing that already owns your week. The question from somebody an hour and a half up the interstate. The follow up nobody sent on Thursday. Notes from a walkthrough that have to turn into a number. A month of marketing done in one pass. Five messages to settle on a time. The standard form typed again because last month's version is gone.

Then the reverse side, the work that never leaves your hands. Pricing is yours. So is the phone call with somebody who is angry. So is anything published under your name. Hand over the draft, keep the decision.

Is AI worth it for a small business in Charleston, West Virginia?

A seat runs $49 early bird while they last, and if you sit through it and it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.

In the Kanawha Valley the squeeze is usually miles and hours. A quote written at nine at night after driving back from Logan County. A message that waited because you had no signal. A week of ice that rearranged the schedule. The same form filled out by hand because nobody kept a copy.

The evening puts that work somewhere else and leaves everything requiring a person alone. The steps go home on paper, and no one contacts you afterward trying to sell anything.

Why is this AI seminar built for Charleston businesses?

Anybody running a business in Charleston or the valley around it belongs in the room. The trade you are in does not decide whether the night pays off.

A diner off Quarrier Street. A plumbing outfit covering Cross Lanes. A barbershop on the West Side. A landscaper working South Hills and Kanawha City. A two person tax office near the Capitol. A gym in Dunbar. A cleaning crew handling downtown offices. A dental office out Corridor G. A nonprofit on the East End. An agent listing in Hurricane. A body shop along MacCorkle. An online seller working out of a garage in Nitro. All of them typing the same handful of things.

Which means nothing on stage can hinge on what you sell. An example that only helps one kind of shop does not make the cut.

What do Charleston attendees walk away with?

• The customer an hour up the road hears back. When somebody is deciding from a distance, your written answer is most of what they have to go on. Common replies prepared in advance means yours arrives early.
• Follow up that keeps running through an ice week. Set it once and day two and day six still happen whether you were on the road or shut down by weather.
• An estimate from the job, not from the kitchen at nine. Talk the notes through before you drive back, then check over a quote in your own wording instead of building it tonight.
• A month of marketing inside one afternoon. One idea turns into weeks of emails, posts, and offers, and the job becomes editing a batch rather than starting cold.
• Less back and forth to pin down a time. Scheduling messages cost more when the drive is long. One message carrying actual times handles it.
• Letters and forms, written properly once. Checklists, summaries, instructions for a new hire, the letter you rebuild every month. Saved and reused after that.
• The part that stays with you. Prices, angry customers, anything public with your name on it. The night marks that line clearly and says why.

Who is the Charleston seminar for?

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

What is Charleston, WV actually like?

Charleston sits where the Elk meets the Kanawha, and it is the town the rest of southern West Virginia drives into. A business here often serves people who live an hour or more away in every direction.

That decides what the job actually is. When the customer is up a two lane road, the whole deal happens in writing, and how quickly you answer decides whether they keep calling around. Winter sharpens it. Snow and ice take days out of the calendar, and the outfits that keep answering through it are the ones whose writing was already covered.

The evening is put together around that. Everything shown could be working before the next morning, on accounts you already have open.

How Charleston businesses are using AI right now

This is already running in businesses up and down the valley, mostly in the hands of people who would tell you they are not computer types.

Almost everybody starts with the reply. You write out the questions you answer over and over, and from then on the first response is sitting there ready. Then follow up, set one time so day two and day six go out no matter how the week went. Then quoting from notes, talked into a phone at the job and handed back as an estimate in your own words. Then marketing in batches, four weeks drafted in an afternoon. Then scheduling, one message with real times in place of five. Then the paperwork, the standard letter and the checklist written right once and saved.

Not one of them turned over judgment. Pricing, the difficult conversation, and anything going public still belong to the owner, and the evening is blunt about leaving it that way.

Who teaches the Charleston seminar?

Mike Filsaime teaches the Charleston, West Virginia evening, and 25 years of building companies sits behind it, Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar included.

His whole reputation rests on explaining things in plain English. Take a tool that looks like it needs a specialist, break it into moves an owner can write down and follow.

In Charleston he does the examples live rather than describing them. The screen is up, the work happens in front of the room, and you can put your own situation to him while it is on.

What do people who have seen this say about it?

When is the seminar coming to Charleston?

We have not set the Charleston 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 Charleston evening sit in the wider program?

The Charleston room is one stop on the Winning With AI seminar, 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 West Virginia cities have a seminar page?

• Morgantown, WV

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