Live or recorded
Live Bootcamp vs Recorded Course
If you have bought a course before, you know the pattern: good videos, tidy notes, and an agency that looks the same a month later. The bootcamp is built the other way round: fourteen live sessions with the recordings included, and a room that expects you back next week with something done.
- Fourteen live sessions, three hours each
- Recordings included
- One session from $125
Three questions decide it
- Will you implement between sessions?The bootcamp assumes somebody will, even if that is only you
- Can you be live three hours a week?Fourteen Wednesdays, 2:00 to 5:00 PM Pakistan time
- Do you want your own situation answered?A recording answers the questions somebody else asked
Written byHamid MahmoodFounder, serial digital entrepreneur- Live sessions, three hours each
- 14Live sessions, three hours each
- Hours of live teaching
- 42Hours of live teaching
- Lead generation channels covered
- 12+Lead generation channels covered
- To start with a single session
- $125To start with a single session
Watching is not the hard part
Overview
Watching was never the hard part. The hard part is the Monday after, when the notes are tidy and the agency is exactly where it was. That is rarely a discipline problem. A recording cannot ask what you did since last week, and it cannot look at your list, your offer or your price and tell you which one is wrong.
The bootcamp is built around exactly those two gaps. Fourteen live sessions of three hours, one topic each, taught in person in Lahore and online at the same time by operators who run the same playbook in their own companies. After each one there is a small assignment and a Q&A thread for that topic, and a Basecamp roadmap holds the week by week plan.
It also contains everything a course would. Every session is recorded for up to two partners, the slides come with every seat, and the cohort tiers add the contracts, SOPs and sales templates. So the real difference in live bootcamp vs recorded course is not live against recorded. It is recordings alone, against recordings plus a room that expects you back with something done.
That expectation is what changes an agency, and the bootcamp asks for it plainly: turn up live, do the assignment, use the threads. If you want a library to work through alone, this is not it. If you want to finish fourteen weeks able to source a real list, run outreach at safe volumes and hold your price through the objections, it is.
What a course gives you
- Recordings and slidesThe course layer
- The sessionThe live layer
- Between sessionsThe implementation layer
What only a room gives you
One seat, three layers
What Is Inside
From what a course gives you to what only a room gives you. Choose what to compare, and each layer answers.
The course layer
Recordings and slides
What you get: Every session recorded for up to two partners, with its slides
What it asks of you: Nothing at all. You watch when it suits you.
What it is for: Catching up on a missed week, and letting a partner follow the material without a second seat
The live layer
The session
All fourteen sessions about The sessionWhat you get: Three hours live on one topic, in Lahore and online at the same time, with your own questions answered in the room
What it asks of you: Turn up live, every week. Being in the room is the first thing that counts.
What it is for: Having your own list, offer or price looked at, not a general answer. Objection handling runs as live hot seat drills.
The implementation layer
Between sessions
What you get: A Basecamp roadmap, a small assignment after each session and a Q&A thread per topic, plus, in the cohort tiers, contracts, SOPs, sales templates and the crowd fund on leads data
What it asks of you: Do the assignment before the next session, and use the threads to ask and to help.
What it is for: Something running in the agency by next week, instead of a folder of notes
That is what one seat holds. This is where to start with it.
Start from where you are
How To Use It
Pick the sentence closest to your agency today, and see where to start.
Recordings are included
What it means
Every session is recorded, and the room is still the point.
- Where to start
- One live session of your choice, with its recording to keep. The cheapest way to see how the room runs.
- The format
- Tier 5, one session, $125
The reader it is built for
What it means
This is exactly who the fourteen sessions are for.
- Where to start
- All fourteen live, an assignment after each, and the recordings and templates to keep
- The format
- Tier 2, all fourteen, $999
Fewer weeks
What it means
Then choose the sessions that matter to you now.
- Where to start
- Any six sessions of your choice, live, picked for what your agency needs now
- The format
- Tier 1, any six, $599
Wednesdays, 2:00 to 5:00 PM Pakistan time
What it means
That is 10:00 AM in the UK, 1:00 PM in the UAE and 5:00 AM on the US East Coast.
- Where to start
- Join live whenever you can. Every session is recorded, so a missed week does not put you behind.
- The format
- Any bootcamp tier
Before the bootcamp
What it means
Then a full cohort is not the right starting point yet.
- Where to start
- The freelancer community tier: any two sessions, plus the community
- The format
- Tier 7, $200
Beyond fourteen weeks
What it means
That is the fifty two week mastermind, and every bootcamp held during your membership year comes with it.
- Where to start
- All nine coaching tracks, twenty agencies at most, and one hour a week of one to one coaching
- The format
- Mastermind, $750 a month
Read next
Related Resources
Each of these goes deeper on one part of the bootcamp.
- All fourteen sessionsThe full bootcamp: every session, the outcomes and who teaches each one.
- Every tier, side by sideSeven ways to buy the bootcamp, from one session to six months of BD consulting.
- One session, $125The smallest way into the live room, with the recording to keep.
- Mastermind vs bootcampFourteen sessions against fifty two weeks, row by row, with a chooser.
- The coachesExperienced trainers including Hamid Mahmood, Asim Naeem and Umair Amjad, and what each one covers.
Live, with the recordings
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Single sessions from $125. Mastermind capped at twenty agencies.