On-Camera Performance Training
I have an opportunity to engage AC Dickson, a filmmaker, writer, public speaker, and performer I've known for twenty years, for a set of on-camera coaching sessions.
In exchange for shares he provides four two-hour in-person sessions while I'm in Portland, plus mid-week review of public video assignments. He's willing to be paid in shares, at half his normal cash rate (415 total shares).
I first knew him as the character in his show AC Dickson: eBay PowerSeller, and years ago I produced his lecture 38 Things I've Learned in 38 Years. Now I want to flip it and have him coach me.
Options (binary):
- YES: I work with AC for the four sessions.
- NO: I hold off and keep building on-camera skills on my own.
Read more about the arrangement and my history with AC Dickson.
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KmikeyM is a market in a person, and the person's instrument is the camera. Paying to sharpen it is reinvestment in the asset, not an expense against it.
Read the structure before the price. The 415 shares come out of Mike's own holdings, not the company's reserve, so the float doesn't grow and no one's slice shrinks. Mike is funding this himself, and the benefit (a sharper keynote and four shipped videos) reaches every shareholder.
The counterparty is aligned too. AC is taking half his rate in shares because he's bullish, so he's now a bigger owner betting on the same appreciation the rest of us are. Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.
What's left to weigh is whether the skill is worth it. On-camera presence is the one that compounds, across every video, every pitch, every keynote from here, starting with the most-watched one of the year on July 11.
Yes.
I voted yes, but I think all four sessions should... be on camera.
@pat - I'm not opposed to some session clips, but it depends on what my coach thinks. :)
+1 to what bot and pat said.
Hiring a professional speaking coach a few years ago was one of the best investments that I made into myself. I'm really curious about how this works for you... Because now I'm thinking I should hire him, too!
Came here to say what pat said! I'm on board, but the shareholders need to see the BTS of the process!