Information is no longer the thing a video production company owner needs to pay for. AI will answer most business questions in seconds. What it can’t do is know your business, or tell you what you don’t want to hear.

This is my first episode since August, and it covers two changes. The first is how far AI has gone inside the VBA Elite Boardroom. Members now run quotes, proposals and client-facing production trackers through their own AI operating systems, which is a different thing from asking ChatGPT in a chat window.

The second is why I’ve taken the training people paid thousands for and made it free, as close to 40 Field Guides for video production business owners.

What you’ll hear:

• What an AI operating system does inside a video production business, and why “if you can click it, it can do it” is now the rule
• Why AI advice tends to agree with you, and what that costs when you’re making business decisions
• What’s in the Field Guides: pricing, quotes, revision rounds, scope creep, follow-up, getting paid, LinkedIn, positioning, your first hire and getting your weekends back
• What’s still worth paying for once the information is free

Over eight years, VBA clients have generated more than $52M in additional revenue. The Field Guides are built from the processes behind that number.

Start with the guide that matches your biggest problem right now: denlennie.com/start

Learn about the VBA Elite Boardroom here: https://denlennie.com/mentoring

Mentoring options : www.denlennie.com

Connect with Den on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_lennie

Twenty-six video production company owners turned up to a webinar about finding clients with AI. When every attendee got a personal follow-up email asking for their key takeaway, four replied. This episode is about the silence from the rest.

If you run a video production business and keep telling yourself you'll fix it later, this one is aimed at you. Den unpacks what that silence really signals (not disinterest, fear), and tells the story of the January his own camera package, close to $60K of Sony F5 and Zeiss glass, sat in a corner gathering dust while he lay awake over cash flow. A mentor made him sell it. That was the turning point.

What you'll learn:

• Why "I'll do it later" just means delaying success, and what it costs you now
• The gear trap: why the camera was never going to win you the work
• What 26 attendees and four replies reveal about fear in the video production industry
• Why mass-market gurus leave you feeling behind, and why judgment from inside your niche beats inspiration from outside it
• Who the Elite Boardroom is for, and who fits Ascend, in plain terms

Den has spent three decades in production, around a decade of it running his own production company, and has personally worked with 178+ video production business owners who have generated more than $52M in additional revenue.

If you're at $200K a year or above, or ten-plus years in business, go to denlennie.com/mentoring and make an application for the Elite Boardroom.

Learn about the VBA Elite Boardroom here: https://denlennie.com/mentoring

Mentoring options : www.denlennie.com

Connect with Den on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_lennie

The gap that matters in video production right now isn't between owners who use AI and owners who don't. It's between people who read about it and people whose business runs on it.

This episode is sixty days of receipts from inside a video production business coach's own company: the $16,000 website replaced by a $70 subscription, then replaced again by pages he owns outright. The subscriptions cancelled one by one (Otter, Grain, ElevenLabs, Calendly, Typeform) because an afternoon of building now does the job better. A registration page built and shipped in an evening, no page builder, no developer.

What you'll learn:

• Why the boring back office (follow-up emails, lead lists, landing pages, reporting) is where a video production company leaks money, and why that's now buildable
• The word-of-mouth ceiling: why referrals stall most video businesses between £80K and £150K, and why that's a systems problem, not a lead problem
• What eleven owners built in a room in London, including a prospecting engine that finds and scores fifty leads while you make coffee
• The tool circus warning: why subscribing to five AI tools this afternoon is the wrong move

After eight years coaching 178+ video production companies, this is the fastest shift Den has seen.

Thursday 6 August, one hour, live, free, two sittings so nobody's up at 3am. Twenty-five seats per session, cameras on, no replay.

Register: https://denlennie.com/london-recap

Learn about the VBA Elite Boardroom here: https://denlennie.com/mentoring

Mentoring options : www.denlennie.com

Connect with Den on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_lennie