Clay Clark | FullPackageMedia.com Success Story + Clay Clark Client Success Stories | From Startup to Multi-Million Dollar Business | “I’ve Been a Coaching Client Since the Beginning of Our Business.”

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Hey, how’s it going? I’m Thomas Croson, owner and founder of Full Package Media in Dallas, Texas. I’ve been a coaching client with Clay Clark since the beginning of our business. We started about a year ago, August of last year. I had no clients, no idea what we were doing, no clue really what was going on and now we’ve grown to where we’ve got six photographers, got office space here. I have an admin sales person that works for us full time, developing an online system and a lot of that growth we attribute to Clay helping us and there’s so many things that, I mean this stuff is not revolutionary, it’s not this crazy walk on hot coals and all this stuff. It’s just real stuff and like group interviews, we were totally against group interviews. We were like no we’re different and we’re special and we need to do one-on-one interviews so we can find good quality candidates and not just kind of do this group interview thing. We tried that and failed miserably. We did group interviews. Now we do them every two weeks and it’s awesome. It works good. We always have kind of influx of new people that we can train, get going. He’s helped us a lot with our website, graphic design, SEO. SEO is another thing that I thought before I started this business and before Clay, that it was kind of a joke or something that only your apples of the world and Amazon could get to the top of Google. But Clay said, no, just do these things, follow these steps, and you’ll get there. And I think now, we’ve looked today, and we’re number two for Dallas real estate photography. If you don’t believe me you can look. So we’re getting to the top of there, that’s really cool. It’s really awesome to get leads that people call you and say hey I found you on Google, we want to hear about your services. So that’s really great. I’d say there’s nobody out there that’s not about what the business is, what the specialty is, it’s about following the steps, doing what he says, you know, it’s a good thing. An hour a week, it gets you on track, it keeps you kind of in line with what you’re doing and what you shouldn’t be doing. And it’s good to kind of give you some flow and future goals of your business. And I remember our first meeting we set our goals and our goal was to do 16 shoots a week. And at the time me and my business partner slash girlfriend Gretchen were like oh that’s we’re never going to do 16 a week that’s like crazy. And today we’re doing 9 and we did about 54 last week. So he’s helped us grow you know we put in a lot of hours, a lot of hard work as well, but if you follow his steps and do what he says, there’s a lot of principles that he’s kind of taught and instilled in us that help us. So yeah, Clay Clark, he’s the way to go. I wouldn’t venture out to find someone else. They’d be more expensive and a lot more fluff and no real actionable work and things to get your business growing, so that’s the way to go. Thanks. I showed you. Jim Hay! I thought you smelled like a winner. You were smoking. You were smoking. Ladies and gentlemen, the judges score. The Thrive Time Show, two day interactive business workshops are the highest and most reviewed business workshops on the planet. You can learn the proven 13-point business systems that Dr. Zellner and I have used over and over to start and grow successful companies. When we get into the specifics, the specific steps on what you need to do to optimize your website. We’re going to teach you how to fix your conversion rate. We’re going to teach you how to do a social media marketing campaign that works. How do you raise capital? How do you get a small business loan? We teach you everything you need to know here during a two day, 15 hour workshop. It’s all here for you. You work every day in your business, but for two days you can escape and work on your business and build these proven systems so now you can have a successful company that will produce both the time freedom and the financial freedom that you deserve. You’re gonna leave energized, motivated, but you’re also gonna leave empowered. The reason why I built these workshops is because as an entrepreneur, I always wish that I had this. And because there wasn’t anything like this I would go to these Motivational seminars with no money down real estate Ponzi scheme get motivated seminars, and they would never teach me anything It was like you went there, and you paid for the big chocolate Easter bunny, but inside of it. It was a hollow Nothingness, and I wanted the knowledge you’re like oh But we’ll teach you the knowledge after our next workshop And the great thing is we have nothing to upsell. At every workshop we teach you what you need to know. There’s no one in the back of the room trying to sell you some next big business. Get rich quick. Hot coals product. It’s literally we give you the brass tacks, the specific stuff you need to know. I can’t really tell. What is… Vancouver, Vancouver, Vancouver, Vancouver. Jason, can you kind of pull this in maybe, so you can see it. Kind of pull it that way. Let’s get the link. I can’t tell without the link. It’s hard to tell. So that’s last year’s sales. So that’s last year’s sales. And the total is $8,000. $4,000. $7,000. $7,300. Same, the end year, 2015. The total is $3,000. $1,000. Beautiful. I’m going to go ahead and click on the link. I’m going to click on the link. I’m going to click on the link. I’m going to click on the link. We built this facility for you. Oh, wow. There it is. What? Awesome. I baked from home for years as I was raising my children and teaching. And it was there that people continually said, year after year, Kat, you really need to go into business. You should open a bakery. And I’m thinking, I don’t have time to open a bakery. I’m raising two kids, I’m getting my master’s degree, not to mention I know nothing about business. So here I am, I’m super thrilled. My little bakery is being built in Bixby and all is well. We move into the new bakery, the excitement is like over the top and three weeks into it my husband and I separate. Talk about a blow. That was the most difficult thing I had ever experienced to date. I had that blow and I did have to make a decision. Am I going to be a big girl? Am I going to get better or am I going to give up? I couldn’t give up, I’m a divorced woman, I have to earn a living, and so 18 hour days, you know, bring it on. Let’s do this thing. Four years later, my business partner’s husband, Demer, asked me a question one day. He said, Kat, are you going to continue treating this business like a hobby, or are you going to treat it like a business? That was huge for me, that was super significant in pushing me to get help, pushing me to find a way to make it work. Through several people encouraging me to become a Thriver with Thrive 15 was without question the pivotal moment in my business. I went from lacking some confidence to becoming empowered through knowledge of how to grow a business. Our sales are 50% plus what they were a year ago. I feel I’ve regained confidence in myself as an entrepreneur and in my business. Becoming educated through Thrive 15 is what made the difference. My name is Sharita Bent and I work on the leadership team here at thrive15.com. Our team is a group of dynamic individuals and we work really hard to deliver the goods for our clients. We have a variety of clients. Gosh, we work with people in all industries. Dentists, bakers, doctors, lawyers. We work with people stateside, we work with people abroad. Really we don’t have any limits to who will help. 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