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My name is Dr. Scottie Rae Lawrence. I am the owner and director of The Spa Health Source in Tulsa. I got involved in the spa industry because back in 2001 I started my first fitness and weight loss franchise and I quickly discovered the struggles that men and women were facing when they were dealing with weight loss, dieting, exercise and there was just not a lot of answers for them. And then I discovered a really great non-invasive procedure
that would help with their cosmetic needs and to spot target areas that they can’t get to by diet and exercise alone. And I brought that into my clinic and it’s been a game changer. All right, Thrive Nation on today’s show,
if you’re a doctor, you’re a dentist, you’re a lawyer, you’re a mechanic, you’re a home builder, you’re a home remodeler, you’re a carpet cleaner, you’re a dog trainer, you’re a dog trainer, you’re a dog trainer, dog trainer, you’re a dog trainer, dog trainer. You’re a business consultant and you don’t know how to do business consulting.
If there are anybody on the planet and you want to increase your financial and time freedom, this is a show for you. We’re interviewing today a client who we’ve had the opportunity to work with this year. And I just am super excited to see the growth
and the systemization occurring there. And again if you want to verify that this person is not just a male model, we did not just bring him in because he’s a beautiful man. No no no no no no, this man actually owns his own business. It’s called officialsynapse.com. That’s the website officialsynapse.com. You can verify he’s a real person. With that being said, Dr. Troy Spurl, welcome to The Thrive Time Show.
How are you, sir? I’m doing well, thank you, Clay. Okay, here’s the deep dive interrogation. How did you first hear about us? How did that happen? Well, it was on another podcast.
I actually was, I’m a big Kim Clement guy. And so I actually was watching a podcast and they talked about this Mr. Clark. And then that’s how I found you. And I reached out and the rest is history. It was a good fit.
It was what I was looking for. So on, on, they, they, they called you a very influential man and I can, I can basically validate that you’re very much a connector and, uh, so it was a good prophecy, I’ll say that. It’s so crazy. This is the first time anyone’s ever heard
about my business consulting through a prophecy. So thank you, Kim Clement. Okay, so now what we do and what Devin does to my right, she’s a consultant and her job is to help wonderful clients like you to implement a proven system and to help you grow.
And so I think what a lot of people do is they’ll go to thrive timeshow.com, they’ll look on the testimonials, but I know this because I talk to people every day that do it and they go to thrive timeshow.com, they click on the testimonials and they look at the growth of a company like Tip Top K9 and they go,
wow, you guys helped them to double their income. You helped them grow from one location to 10 locations in a very small period of time. It almost seems unbelievable. You know, they see something like a Tim Redmond saying he went from like two clients to somewhere between a five and 20 clients from five and 20 clients up to
where he’s got hundreds of clients and they go, it’s just, I don’t, I don’t know if it’s possible. You know, they see Jenny here and her husband, Mike, with their cute baby having eight times growth. They’re seeing the co-laws having three times growth. They’re seeing a Papa Gallo’s having eight X growth. So I want to get into the nitty gritty of what we’re doing
to help you grow your business. So first off, step one, with every client, we have to know your goals. I’m not asking you to share your goals publicly, but could you maybe share why that’s important for you and for every entrepreneur listening to know your goals?
Well, you have to have something to shoot for and it allows you to get an actionable plan together and then you know each week what you need to do. And I’ll share a couple of my goals. I mean, my big thing was that I was working a lot in my business, not having any time to work on my business.
And so that’s been one of the biggest shifts. I’m not even a year. We’re just barely a year in working with you. And I’ve gone from seeing patients personally five days a week to only two days a week. I’m actually here on my temporary second place right now.
I’m working remotely. I could never do that before. And so I’m working on my temporary second place right now, I’m working remotely. I could never do that before. And so I’m working on my business more, which is very, very helpful when it comes to just improving, hitting some of the other financial goals. So it’s not all financial goals for me.
I did want to pay off some debt from the equipment and other things like that. And we’ve hit a lot of those goals just in year one. We’re a little bit ahead of what I expected actually. You know, step one folks, I know it helps to see a linear workflow.
Devin, are you a visual person or do you prefer just to keep things in a kind of a written form in your mind somewhere? Oh, I you a visual person or do you prefer just to keep things in a kind of a written form in your mind somewhere? Oh, I’m a visual person. I need it written down on a piece of paper for me to look at. So the workflow to me is a lot of times, you know, consultants like yourself who work here or clients, they say, just seeing the workflow helps me a lot. So box one, you got to establish your revenue goals,
homework for everybody out there. You have to know your yearly revenue goals. All right. Then you have to know what are your total weekly gross revenue goals. What are your goals for the week?
If you have a goal for the year, what are your goals for the week? I’ll give you an example of kind of a fun story. Long time client of mine, he came to one of our workshops, he walks up to me, true story, he says, I figured it out. I said, you figured it out? This is on like session two of day one of our workshop. He says, I figured it out. I said, what’d you figure out? He says, I’m going to do it. I go, what? Not kidding.
Saw the guy about three years later for the free. He’s been a client the whole time, but most of our clients are not in Tulsa. So I hadn’t seen the guy in three years. He’s down like 90 pounds. And I said, how’d you do it?
He said, I figured out my yearly goal and I figured out my yearly goal and I figured out my daily goal so I made a to-do list of what I’m going to eat every day and I just put it on there and it was basically grilled chicken, broccoli for lunch, that’s it, every day. Grilled chicken, broccoli, lunch and he said you know I did that every single day since the conference and I’ve lost almost 100 pounds and I’m like get out of here. So no matter what you’re doing you got to have those those goals. The second thing you have to do in
business is you have to know your break-even numbers. Now now Devin you went to college and you know you studied a variety of things in college. When in college with the business classes did they ever talk about the break-even point? No. Mind-boggling. And it’s because typically a bureaucrat in a college, they don’t have the break-even.
If they ever go over the budget, they just raise taxes or find some way to increase fees. And the students aren’t actually paying for college. They’re using loans that are provided by the federal government. So nobody’s actually looking at a budget, but in a business, you have to know your break-even point.
And again, Dr. Spurl, I’m not trying to ask you personal questions about your break-even numbers, but do you know in your mind how many patients, I mean, just, I guess this is rhetorical, do you know how many patients you need to break even? Absolutely, we have the numbers established
and it’s not just myself. So now we have a full clinic. So I know how much each individual doctor needs to have each practitioner and then the clinic as a whole, how much they need to be seeing and then just the the minimal amount of services. So we track all of that, the exact services that the number of services that have to happen as well.
Now we can move on to the next box, defining how many hours per week you’re willing to work. Now this is hilarious. Did you meet Austin yesterday? I did. Okay, so Austin was a guy who used to work
in the same building as me. He went, he and his wonderful wife and their five kids, they decided to basically move into the mountains and take a year to recalibrate and really figure out what God had in store for them. So they actually as a family, which I think is incredible, they actually did it. A lot of people talk about it.
They actually did it. They moved to the mountains, really studied the Bible as a couple, really recalibrated, and he came back. He wants to come rejoin the team. And I have no problem with it. He left on good terms. And he and I share the same religious views. He and I both believe that the Bible is very clear. We should be resting on the seventh and working six days, rest on the seventh. You can find that in both Exodus and Genesis.
God laid out that pattern, work six days, rest on the seventh. And he believes that the Sabbath is Saturday. So he never works on Saturday. And I remember that about him, but he mentioned, he goes,
hey, I wanna work six days a week. I don’t wanna work four or five, but I want to work six, but I do take off Saturday. I don’t know if you remember that. And I said, I do remember that. So for him, he was very clear.
I want to work six days, but I don’t want to work on Saturday. Cause that was his particular, how he views the Sabbath based upon his interpretation of the Bible. But let me get your thoughts on that. I think a lot of business owners say, I’m going to do whatever it takes. And then they’re not.
Yeah. It’s like, so we got one guy right now, one of my longtime clients and friends. He’s at trade shows. He’s doing, I think, six weekends in a row doing trade shows.
And he also works five days a week because he has a goal in his mind of how many customers he wants to get. And he wants to get those customers before April. So he’s literally willing to work seven days a week and go to these trade shows. But I think a lot of people say,
I’ll do whatever it takes. They’re going, imagine dragons. And then they’re not. So I’d love to get your reaction to that. No, that was like a mindset shift that had to occur too. And it is funny how much, how mental that is.
And a lot of times you get into business and you think you’re doing it to retire. And when you kind of get rid of the word retire and you just kind of, you work and it’s something you’re passionate about, it actually doesn’t even feel like work.
And so, yeah, I’m on board with that. And one of the thing, I started getting up earlier because I’ve gone to your two days. I haven’t missed a two days since I’ve started with you. So I come down for all the two days because I hear something new each and every time. And I,
a lot of it had to do with the schedule too. So getting up earlier, and I’m not quite as insane as you as far as how early you get up and what you do, but I’m pretty close. I’m getting there. And so that was a big, big shift. It was a mental shift and things, just efficiencies started improving. Like just everything started to get better.
And that’s how I got freed up was by basically working more days and getting more organized, becoming more efficient. And then our capacity just is, we’re just primed to just explode right now. And our capacity is because of the extra work hours.
Have you listened to my interview with Rabbi Daniel Laffin? Have you heard that one? I haven’t. Oh, bro. I’m gonna put it on part two of today’s show.
This interview is sick. And the only part you won’t like about it, folks, is what I say. But this guy, he’s a rabbi. And how our conversation started was I had a lot of friends of mine who were wealthy Jewish people. And I kept asking my Jewish friends, I’m going, why are you guys so rich? What’s going on? What’s the move?
What’s the, I was 25 years old. And a friend of mine, he says, wealthy guys, he’s in his like 50s. He says to me, well, you know, if we’re in a foot race, we’re running 15% more than you. So what do you mean? He said, we all work six days a week. And I said, Oh, what? And he said, also the word work in Hebrew means worship. So worship means work and work means worship. So we don’t work for the customers. We don’t work for the
profit. We work as though we worship. So like that is our form of worship. You might do praise and worship. We view work as worship. Also the word vocation means calling and the word vacation means to retreat from. So we actually view retirement as an abomination.
I said, an abomination you do, huh? And he said, we view retirement as an abomination. Like in the same way you might view for he said, we view retirement as an abomination. Like in the same way you might view fornicating, we view retirement. We actually view the idea of retiring as a sin. And I’m going, get out of here. So it helped me a lot to understand that mindset of working as unto the Lord. Just powerful. I’ll put it on part two of today’s show. I promise folks it’s
going to blow your minds. So we go back here to this system here. Now box number four. Devin, you work with a lot of great clients. A lot of clients don’t know their unique value proposition. And so we always tell people you got to figure out your top three competitors. You got to mystery shop your top competitors. But at officialS dot com. Dr. Spurl he already knows his unique value proposition and already knew that before he met us. How rare is that Devin that the client actually already knows in his case it’s more of a holistic form of
medicine. They treat the because they don’t try to just push a pill for the ill. They don’t try to get people on big pharma. They try to get people off big pharma. How rare is it for somebody to actually have their unique value proposition figured out? It’s very rare.
It’s probably like one in 10. Yeah, and what I find is a lot of plumbers, doctors, dentists, lawyers, they’ll say things like, well, we’re the best. Like, OK, so you’re the best tile guy. OK. So that would imply the other guy is the worst, right?
Absolutely. And that’s the kind of the mindset. So we’ll work with you on that, folks, if you feel stuck. The branding, again, you’re a unique guy because you already had a lot of your branding nailed down before we met you.
With most of our clients, like we’ve worked with Tip Top Canine, we had to completely renovate everything. I mean, we had to do the logo, the auto wrap, the print pieces, the unique value proposition, the offer of the $1 first lesson, the polos, the one sheets. I mean, there’s really, I mean, we had to renovate the entire system, which was incredible. When you think about another client like Redmond Growth,
what I met with Tim, this is an interesting thing, because you’re in Minnesota, we couldn’t do this, but for Tim, we gave him free office space. He officed in our building for free. He was a business consultant,
but didn’t have a unique value proposition. So we actually had to teach him how to consult, how to grow companies. We had to provide the unique value proposition. We made his logo.
We made his website. We did all his print pieces. I mean, we went through a massive laundry list. Very unique, though, that someone already has their branding nailed down. De list, very unique though, that someone already has their branding nailed down. Devin, how unique is it that a client, because you work with a lot of clients, that the client
already has the branding nailed down? It’s very unique and it’s also, it’s great because when Troy and I first started, we were like, you know, right from the go, like getting the systems, doing that. So it was just, it was like 100 miles per hour, like from the first call. So the three legged marketing stool, this is the three moves that you need to use to acquire customers.
Now, for every client we work with, there’s a different three legged marketing stool as an example. Go back to Redmond Growth. A Redmond Growth in America today. If you want to get depressed, folks, go to usdebtclock.org It’s a great way to get depressed. Go to usdebtclock.org We have 9 million self-employed people in America when there’s 330 million Americans that we know of so you have 3% of the American
population is self-employed 3% of the American population is self-employed and according to Inc magazine 96% of businesses will fail in the first 10 years. So you have, it’s again, 3% of the population is self-employed, but only 4% of that 3% actually build a successful company ever.
So it’s a very rare thing that people are successful by default. So when we worked with Tim Redmond, I had to help Tim. I said, Tim, we got to contact business owners and we need to cold call them.
So I helped him get a list from a company called Data Axel and others. You pull a list of the contractors, doctors, dentists, lawyers, you gotta call them. Then once you call them, I had to help Tim write a script of what to say.
So the cold calling was one third of the business. The next third of the business was, he could invite his clients to one of my in-person workshops. So if I had people that came to my workshop and we were booked out, I could refer people to Tim. So we had the workshops going on, we had
the calls, and then I helped Tim learn how to turn his speaking events, he speaks publicly, into leads. And so that was his three-legged marketing tool. For your business you have a three-legged marketing tool as well. We got to get Google reviews, we got to get Google reviews. We got to get Google reviews. We got to get those Google reviews from a happy customers. Second is we got to make sure you’re getting on podcasts where
people can hear your voice. Very important that we do that. Um, and there’s other things we do too, but third, it’s the internal marketing, making sure that your customers and patients know about the services you offer. Can you talk about the mind freedom
that that gives you as a business owner, as a doctor, knowing that you have three primary marketing systems that you need to, three figurative spinning plates that you need to keep going and not 53? This actually is what probably, other than the entirety of seeing the layout and knowing that you’ve already figured it out, I just have to do the work. So this area with the marketing, this was a big, big deal for us because we kind of had all of our eggs in one basket, if you will.
So if something happened with that basket, then we’re stuck. Whereas now we have complete peace of mind because we have different funnels and different people coming in from different areas. We’re able to impact people from all over the country. We have multiple different systems in place, the podcast, the internal marketing, and a lot of the, we never got Google people from Google and now we’re getting consistently weekly people from Google.
So a lot of what you talk about when it comes to the marketing stuff, that was actually foreign to me. So we were pretty set up with branding and other stuff like that, but that was, boy, I was learning on the fly there. And boy, has it ever impacted us?
Because our numbers are significantly changed just in less than a year when it comes to just where our patients are coming from and our clientele. And, and that’s for me, that’s like one of the biggest. Just I’m just happy because there is peace of mind about and not worry about where are we going to get our next client or customer. It’s we’ve
got multiple funnels. It’s great. And I’m taking notes as you’re talking. So I’m making sure I’m not misquoting you. But I think you just said, we never got leads from Google. Now we’re getting a ton of leads from Google. I think that’s encouraging for somebody out there who doesn’t know how to generate leads
if you’re in the medical field or you’re a doctor, dentist, lawyer. And then I think you’d also said that we, you know, you, we were, we were barely with you a year. And how would you describe the transformation over that year? So, uh, this in one month, it’ll be a year. So it’s, we’re basically 11 months. And so the transformation has been, uh, I have the, the clinic itself really depended on me.
Like if I got sick and I went down, we probably lose 50% to 60% of our revenue. And that’s not good. Cause that means the business was about me. Right now, if I went down, the practice would probably improve.
And so, because we’ve got a team of doctors, we’ve got systems in place, and so we’ve got a lot of processes, and they understand it now. We’re working on scripts and all those things, because we keep identifying areas that we can improve on. And so now they get it. They understand the process and the flow.
They’re just getting to the point of doing it. And even with that, just having a great team, but also having people waiting in the wings to step up because now they want to be a part of this team. So we’ve got just a great system. That’s going to be very clear. Again, I’m repeating this because I think somebody needs to hear this.
You’ve barely been a client for a year and you’re saying we never got leads from Google. Now we’re getting tons of leads from Google. The clinic used to depend on you and now we have a team of doctors and systems in place. I just, I just encourage everybody out there. You can do it. Don’t be stuck. Okay, now back to box seven, sales scripts, recorded calls, one sheets, print emails, lead trackers,
box eight, we got to figure out your sustainable customer acquisition costs, we got to figure out what does it cost to get a new customer. Nine, you got to create these core repeatable actionable processes. I call it CRAP. Core repeatable, actionable processes. These repeatable, actionable processes. I don’t want to deal with all the detail crap. I’m more of a vision guy.
No, no, you’re a broke guy if you don’t have systems in place. Well, I don’t like to focus on the crap. I focus on the main idea. No, no, no, you got to master the craft, the core repeatable, actionable processes. You got to chop wood, master the art of chopping wood, hauling water, get good at the basics. Box 10, managing people. People? I want my people to work remotely and manage themselves. No, people cannot work remotely and manage themselves. Even huge companies like X, which I’m not a big fan of Elon Musk, but you got X.
I’m not a big fan of Elon Musk because he’s the one who created the mRNA technology in CureVac, which is putting all the shots, not a big fan of that. But even people like Elon Musk have found that when they lay off huge amounts of people that work from home, it doesn’t impact the company at all because they didn’t do anything. You’re seeing Bank of America now is threatening employees with. You have to come to work.
We’re not going to we’re not going to work anymore. Well, yeah, because the people that work from home do nothing. Why? Because people are wearing sweatpants till two in the afternoon. OK, 11, you got to create a sustainable and repetitive weekly schedule. 12, you got to create a human resources and recruitment system. 13, you got to nail down your accounting.
You got to automate the earning of millions. You can’t just make a lot. You got to keep a lot. It’s not how much you make. It’s how much you keep. And Devin, you get a chance to work with Dr.
Spurl every week. How would you describe what it’s been like to work with this man? He’s great. He’s always, you know, answers every call and the tracking sheets always filled out He does a great job, and I’m super glad that we work together. So I gotta ask you this here final thought here pretty buddy out There dr. Spurl if they go to thrive timeshow.com we say it all the time. I’ve been saying it for years We always do a free 13-point assessment. We do a business workshop every two months. What would you say to anybody out there that is watching right now
who’s thinking about becoming a client who’s pondering the idea? What say you, sir? Just do it and be all in if you’re going to do it, do it there. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. You just have to listen and apply the knowledge. And so it’s all right there. It’s kind of like the Bible. I read the Bible as well.
And when I read the Bible, I’ll learn something new every time. There’s always a gem. Every two day I’ve gone to, and I can’t remember how many you’ve had since I made four or five, but every two day there’s something new I hear from you or from one of your clients about stuff that they struggled with and then here’s a solution. So it’s just, you know, it’s just a good decision to get organized and improve just how your business is operating. But when you’re walking with people who are like-minded and focused,
and you just perform better. So many, many businesses I know are struggling and people are struggling to get it right. I just encourage people to take the leap and then just be all in, just be all in. Now, right now, I get, I have a documentation or I believe that you are up 114% growth and leads, uh, the lead flows up 114%.
Is that accurate or is that hyperbole? That is accurate and exciting. That’s incredible stuff. So my closing thoughts would be this. A, folks, to my right is Devin. If you decide to work with our consulting program, because I don’t work with seven clients, I work with 160 clients.
The only way to do that without cloning myself, which I don’t think is ethical, but Elon Musk is into that sort of technology. So back to Elon Musk. But no, seriously, if you want to work with our team, you’ll be working with happy people like Devin. And her job is to guide you down the proven path.
And then my job is to create that path. And so it all starts with a 13-point assessment, a brief assessment of where you are versus where you want to be, kind of a look in the mirror, kind of a check up from the neck up to look at your business, look at your plan, look where you’re going and to design a customized plan that will get you from where you are to where you want to be.
Dr. Troy Spurr, I’ll give you the final word, sir. Yeah, it’s been just a pleasure working with Devin and you, Clay. One of the reasons why, and Devin, I’ve never shared this with you, but I like working with you because if you help me duplicate my business, I know Clay’s doing what he needed to do, right? So what’s happening with you at Thrivedime
is exactly what I wanted with my business and it’s happening. And so right out of the gates, Devin was just super helpful with making changes on the fly. I’d never been in a meeting where we actually did what we were talking about in the meeting and it was done before the meeting was done. Oh, I do that all the time. If anybody, I know you do. You’ve got to come at some point to one of our Monday morning meetings and watch me do it because like I will stop the meeting. If someone’s like, we need to fix this on the website, I’ll say, let’s stop and do it now.
Or if someone’s, Hey, I didn’t get a chance to upload my video testimonial, but I’ll do it after the meeting. I’m like, no, let’s just stop the meeting and do it now. So I usually start and stop my meetings about four to five times per meeting. And it gets it gets it done. I can’t tell you how much of a game changer is to work with people who do that though, because it was instant results. And so it’s just like, it’s gratifying as a business owner,
instead of just doing a checkup, follow up constantly, week in, week out with this long list, you’ve got people just doing it right on the spot there. It was awesome to work with. You are the best. Thank you again, folks.
That’s official, synapse.com. That’s the best. Thank you again folks. That’s official synapse.com. That’s the website if you’re looking for a doctor in all 50 states that actually will treat the cause of the problem and not try to push a pill for every ill check out official synapse.com. That’s official synapse.com. Take care of sir. Have a great day. Thanks you guys too. Bye bye.
I started a business because I couldn’t work for anyone else. I do things my way. you guys too. Bye-bye. My thought when I opened my clinic was I can do this all myself. I don’t need additional outside help in many ways. I mean, I went to medical school. I can figure this out. But it was a very, very steep learning curve. Within the first six months of opening my clinic, I had a $63,000 embezzlement. I lost multiple employees. Clay helped us
weather the storm of some of the things that are just a lot of people experience, especially in the medical world. He was instrumental in helping with the specific written business plan. He’s been instrumental in hiring good quality employees using the processes that he outlines for getting in good talent which is extremely difficult. He helped me in securing the business loans. He helped me with web development and search engine optimization. We’ve been able to really
keep a steady stream of clients coming in because they found us on the web. With everything that I encountered, everything that I experienced, I quickly learned it is worth every penny to have someone in your team that can walk you through and even avoid some of the pitfalls that are almost invariable in starting your own business. I’m Dr. Chad Edwards and I own Revolution Health and Wellness Clinic. Hi, my name is Tim Johnson. I’m the owner of Tuscaloosa Ophthalmology as well as Southern Eye Consultants, two ophthalmology practices in Tuscaloosa,hthalmology as well as Southern Eye Consultants, two ophthalmology
practices in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and I’m a client of Clay Clark. He asked me to answer a couple questions. The first question was how did I hear about Clay Clark? I am a big fan of business podcasts and his podcast popped up as a recommended listening so I started listening to the podcast. I was a little suspicious or skeptical because I thought there was going to be like an upcharge or an upsell but the idea of the month to month canceling really appealed to me.
And I kept waiting for the shoe to drop and for the upsell or for the scam to come in, but it never did. It’s very legitimate. Since working with Clay, I’ve gotten a much firmer grasp on how business works. Even in medicine, business is business. I’ve learned a lot about marketing, especially how Google reviews work and how important that is.
That’s very important even in medicine. At least once a week, if not every every day I get a new patient because somebody googled eye doctor in Tuscaloosa or ophthalmologist in Tuscaloosa and you’d be amazed how many patients just look for an eye doctor that way. And so he’s really changed our business. Our business has grown a lot, maybe 15 to 20 percent this year. And so we’re really grateful for the things he’s done for
our business. And the last question was, when did I perfect the laugh? I would say that you can never perfect the laugh. You just keep working at it and just keeps getting better and better each day, but you gotta keep working at it. I’d like for you, if you can, Jenny here to give a word of encouragement, for any of our listeners out there that are a little bit on the fence right now and they’re going, you know, I have thought about scheduling a free consultation, but I don’t know.
I hear it’s $1,700 a month. Can you maybe explain your thoughts, what you’d say to anybody who’s a friend of yours or family that asks you about the value about the business consulting? Oh well I would say that the $1,700 a month is an excuse not to have someone to mentor you. It’s kind of like being in a gym when you need a trainer. We’re not always perfect and business owning is not easy and you need a trainer. We’re not always perfect and business owning
is not easy and you need a mentor. I’ve never missed the $1,700 a month, even when I was only six months in when we started with you guys. I’ve never, I’ve never even considered it a loss. It was, it was scary at first to make that, but that wasn’t an excuse. I knew I needed someone to guide me through this and you guys have guided us through this through the entire thing through employees, through income, through spending, through all of it and we come through
so many problems. There are a lot of problems that are established when you have a business. I mean you become very overwhelmed, very fast, and you need somebody that you can call who’s successful, who’s been there that says, you’re not crazy. This happens to all of us. Here’s what you do about it.
It’s been the best decision that we’ve made. Final question I have here for you. As far as having a turn, like a one-stop shop, years ago I hired a business consultant who was great. And he would say things like, and I’m not ripping him. I’m just telling you what would happen. He would say, Clay, you got to work on your
business and not in it. I’m going, that’s true. He goes, you got to delegate to elevate. That’s true. Clay, your website is not optimized. And I’m going, this is great. Fresh perspective. I go, Bruce, could you help me optimize? No, I don’t optimize. Could you help me work on it? No. Could you help me make a checklist?
No. Do you make, do you help me with the print pieces that I need to make? No. Can you make a video? No. Do you help me with my online ads?
No. Clay. Clay, and he would used to, he was kind of an Eastern, he’s an Eastern, Northeastern American guy, and he used to say, Clay baby, let me tell you what, I don’t, I don’t, I don’t make print pieces, what am I, a print piece guy? I’m not a web guy. We know what I am, I’m a work on the business guy, you got to find a good web guy. So every meeting we would have would result in me having to find another vendor to pay another $8,000 to build the website, $4,000 to make the video, $5,000 to do… So every time you give a recommendation, it would lead to another cost.
Can you maybe explain the value of having a flat monthly fee? Yeah, I don’t have to ever worry about it. I know if I need the website updated, it’s a text away. I know if I’m having trouble with an employee, it’s a text away. I know if I need the website updated, it’s a text away. I know if I’m having trouble with an employee, it’s a text away. I know if I need financial advice, it’s a text away.
And again, we meet every single week and all our questions are answered and we’re held accountable to what we need to be held accountable for. So it really works for us. Jenny and Mike, thank you guys for your time so much.
I really do value your time. I appreciate you guys being here today. And on part two of today’s show, we’re gonna tee up another success story because we want people to know it is possible, despite the financial jackassery
plaguing our nation right now, it is possible to become successful and you guys are a living example of it. Thank you guys for bringing your baby on the show. We’ll talk to you soon. Bye. Hey, this is Dr. Jay Schroeder from Health vs Chiropractic here in Franklin, just outside
of Nashville. And just wanted to record kind of my experience with Thrive over the last 16 months I think it’s been almost 18 months with these guys. They have really helped me turn my clinic around my clinics around. I came to Thrive in February 17. I could say 16 months later, I don’t know where we’ve been without these guys but I know where we’re at now. We’ve got systems in
place that make the practices no longer reliant on me being there for them to be successful. That was a huge goal of mine when I first talked to them. We’re working towards our financial goals. We’ll be there probably within six months. My stress level has gone down. I’ll be going on vacation next week, not worrying a bit about what’s happening with my two practices because I know the systems that we put in place is going to make them run as if I was there. So I don’t know what else to say but thank you guys.
I love, I look forward to my weekly coaching calls and it’s always something that I get out of those that I can plug in or talk to an employee and it’s always something that I get out of those that I can plug in or talk to an employee and it’s just the 2% you know they talk about 2% all the time you gotta improve by 2% you can’t do it all at once but that 2% over the last 16 to 18 months has made a huge difference for for my life my family our practices and again just the stress level that we were
at compared to now has been life-changing. So thanks guys, really appreciate all you do and look forward to the next 16 to 18 months and beyond. Thanks. Hey, I just wanted to take a minute to talk about Thrive15 and what they’ve done for me. My experience with them started with a weekend seminar.
I was just kind of feeling stuck and just needed something to light my creative juices. A friend of mine recommended I go check them out and I did and certainly nothing short of amazing just that weekend seminar as far as what it did for me. But based on that I wanted to learn more about what they could do to help me and
there’s no doubt without their help I don’t know if I would have got where I want to go and even to the point where I am now if you are someone who’s looking to start a business or expand your current business I highly recommend you give these guys a look as they will at least give you an idea of what it’s going to take to get you from where you are now to where you want to go in the future.
I’m a guy with big vision and I just didn’t quite know how to get from point A to point B and they’re certainly helping me get to that point down the road. If you look at this board behind you, this is all stuff that they’ve made me think about, if you will. So yeah, give them a look. I think it’ll be well worth your time.
The first time that I ever met you, Clay, was at that first conference in Tulsa, and that was an incredible conference. And I was so impressed with just the whole thing, just the professionalism, you as a person, your business, your work ethic, and really just who you are. And I was very impressed with all of that. And I thought, gosh, you know,
this might be someone that I would really consider working with, like maybe he could really help me. And that’s really what got me interested because I was so impressed with just the professionalism of all of it. And I learned a lot.
I come about once a year to a business conference and I’d like to come more, but every year I try to come with my marketing girl with me and we always learn something. We always learn something. And I think next year I’m gonna bring my husband
because he really needs to come too. Okay, Thrive Nation, on today’s show, I wanted to share with you a story about a good person who’s growing a good business by treating their customers the way they want to be treated. She’s a long time client.
We’re honored to serve her and help her grow her business. And I want you to hear a great success story. So that being said, Dr. Stephanie, welcome onto the Thrive Time Show. How are you? Hi, I’m doing great. Thank you so much, Clay. Well, first off, I’m going to pull up your website. So tell all the listeners, what’s the name of your website so we can verify that you are in fact a real orthodontist?
Okay. My website is smileshollywood.com. Okay, smileshollywood.com. smileshollywood.com, yes. I’m gonna pull this up real quick here. And as I pull this up, I’m gonna ask you a little bit about your background because you’re doing really well.
You’re based in McKinney, Texas. When did you have that vision to become an orthodontist? Like what age were you where you thought, you know what, I want to become an orthodontist? Well, that had to have been when I was visiting my own orthodontist,
Dr. Jim Boley, who’s retired now, but was an awesome, great orthodontist and one of the greats really. But what’s funny is, is that I actually wanted to be a medical doctor first. And I used to go into his office and he’d say, Stephanie, you don’t want to be a medical doctor.
You want to be an orthodontist. And I said, no, I don’t, Dr. Bolli. Why are you saying that? And he started telling me all of the great things about dentistry and why. No, I don’t, Dr. Bolli. Why are you saying that? And he started telling me all of the great things about dentistry and why it’s so great
because you don’t have to deal with people dying on you. You don’t have to deal with sick people. You get to make people look amazing and beautiful by straightening their teeth and you leave with happy patients. And you know, he talked me into it
and I thought that sounds like a great job. So that’s really how I became an orthodontist. And you’re in McKinney, Texas, right? So how long have you been an orthodontist in McKinney, Texas? So I’ve been an orthodontist for 26 years. Practicing in McKinney.
And when you went to medical school, what percentage of the time in medical school or dentistry school, dental school, did they spend teaching you how to market and or grow your own practice? Absolutely zero. Zero? Marketing skills. Zero marketing skills.
Okay, okay. And so one of the great things I love about working with you is, you know, we get to help you grow your business, but you know, you get to be more of who you are. I mean, you get to help more patients and help more people create great smiles. And then we get to do the, some of the nitty gritty stuff that maybe isn’t your highest and best use. And so I want to focus on some of the things we’ve been able to accomplish together
over these few years here. First off, from a branding perspective, I really do feel like your website is first class. And from when I talk to Andrew, you’re the coach who works with you, I’m always hearing that you’re more and more patients are coming in from Google. Could you talk about that? How much of an impact does it have having a, maybe a rebranded or updated website
and Google leads coming in? It has had a huge difference, absolutely huge difference in our patient load coming in. And you know, before I really wasn’t tracking really well. And that’s one of the things I learned from Thrive Time Business was how to track patients coming in, how to really, how to see where they’re coming from. And at the time, I really didn’t know much about Google. And, you know, being an orthodontist for 26 years,
I didn’t really know a lot of, I kind of went through a time where I went through shock. It was really what I call culture shock because the old ways of marketing were not working anymore. And because I really didn’t know about online marketing, I really didn’t, I was still doing, you know,
phone book ads and magazine ads and all of these things. And so Thrive Time has really helped. I started out with 97 reviews. Now we have almost 600 reviews. And you know, it takes a long time to get those reviews and you have to really work diligently. And you know, Andrew was amazing. My, my coach, he’s fantastic. Really, really had to prod me sometimes because, you know,
sometimes I was like an old mule and just stuck my feet in and said, no, I don’t want to do that. And he said, trust me, it works. And I just kept going and he kept pushing. And I tell you what, it’s really working. We’re getting a lot of patients from Google and it’s fantastic.
Now, as far as gathering patients from the Google search results, there’s a couple of things that have to happen. I mean, one, you’ve got to have the most content. There’s four variables. One, you have to have the most original HTML content or text. Second, you have to have the most
objective reviews from real customers. Third, your website has to be in constant mobile compliance where we’re updating the website to meet the current updated guidelines of the ever-evolving Internet and then we’ve got to make sure your website is canonically compliant where it basically follows all
Google’s rules. How much has that helped your peace of mind knowing that you have a team that’s helping you update your website every month and that you don’t have to do that? It is a huge relief, an absolute huge relief because I know that these things are being done, the SEO is being done properly. Um, the back riding under the website is being done properly and, and increasing and, and we’re relevant every single day.
We’re relevant because I know these things are happening. And before I actually was trying to do some of these things on my own and you know, I’m not the best writer. And then I realized why am I doing this myself? Because honestly, I don’t have the time. And so it’s really a great relief to know
that these things are being done and that they’re working. And I saw when I first started with Thrive Time, I was probably 11 or 12. I was working with an SEO company at the time. And I was probably coming up 11 or 12, which is really the second page when somebody brings you up on the computer. But now I’m at two, I’m at three, I’m at four, depending on the keywords. So I am more happy.
And again, if we do a search for orthodontist in McKinney, Texas, we can find you right there in the top three. Also, after you move past the three pack or the top three there, we can also find your site in the search results. And again, it’s not a result of luck. It’s not a result of some sort of woo-woo plan.
It’s specific, actionable processes. The next thing I want to talk about is just overall lead tracking and Dream 100 marketing. I think a lot of times people, not you, but other people, entrepreneurs, none of our listeners, we might market based on feel. So if we feel like we’re not getting enough leads, we might feel the need to go market.
And if we feel like we’re overwhelmed with leads, we might feel the need to not market. But one of the things that we try to teach to our wonderful clients like yourself is the importance of implementing a consistent and implementable plan, a consistent and practical plan. Could you talk about the importance of tracking your leads
and then also just consistently doing those marketing systems like the Dream 100 that do this route? So the Dream 100 has really been a great addition. We were doing something similar to that, but really not with the concerted effort and doing it on a regular basis. We were kind of doing it a little more haphazardly and I really have noticed a difference because when you are visiting dentist’s office
and you are and you’re developing a relationship with them and they are seeing you on a regular basis every week or every two weeks, they you know the staff starts to remember you and so you know you never know, a patient may come in tomorrow and you just dropped by their office with a goodie today. And then they are going to think of you whenever it’s time to refer for an orthodontist.
And that’s really made a big, big change in our practice too. And we track every single one of those. So we know how many Dr. X sent over and we know how many Dr. Y sent over. So we know our top referrers
and we know the ones that we need to kind of get to know better and help them send to us too. There’s somebody watching this right now who’s a doctor, a dentist, a lawyer, and they’re going, I don’t know if the Dream 100 works. What do you say to that person
who’s sitting down with you right now? And they go, yeah, I just don’t know if that works. I say it definitely works. And you definitely do have to get out and meet the dentist yourself at least one time. Even if you just, some of the dentists
I couldn’t actually just go meet, you know, to have lunch. They didn’t have lunches. So I just actually went by the office myself. I took a little goodie with me, you know, a muffin or something, and I’d go by maybe right before lunch and just introduce myself. And then when my gal would come by every
week or every other week to deliver things to their office, they at least knew who I was. I had introduced myself and we found that we started getting patients that way. So it definitely helps. Now, next thing I want to talk about is hiring. And I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like this. I’m sure you haven’t.
It’s probably just me. But whenever you have a garden that you plant, I’ll pull up a picture of a garden so we can all picture it in our minds. Whenever you plant a garden, there’s probably some initial excitement. You go, you know what?
I’m going to plant these tomatoes. I’m going to do it. I’m going to get after it. This is my year. I’m going to get the garden going. I’m excited.
I’m going organic. Let’s go. people stop pulling the weeds, they stop tending to the garden, and over time the garden becomes like an overgrown monster garden. The garden starts to become something that looks like a mistake, something that looks like an uh-oh, something where your neighbors say, are you going to mow that thing? And it gets bad. And the same thing is true with employees. If you have a team of people that work for you on your payroll, And it gets bad. And the same thing is true with employees.
If you have a team of people that work for you on your payroll and you’re a business owner, it turns out that the average American today, for whatever reason, and I’m going to pull some stats here so people don’t think I’m crazy. The US Chamber reports that 75% of employees
steal from the workplace. What? That’s the US Chamber reporting that 75% of employees steal from the workplace. What? That’s the US Chamber reporting that 75% of employees steal from the workplace. And you might say, really? Yeah, and 85% of employees, 85% of employees,
lie on resumes, meaning that they just make up some statistic on their, and they throw it on their resumes. 85% of employees their, and they throw it on their resumes. And 85% of employees are, again, are lying on their resumes. I’m pulling this up here, folks. But there are, there’s a certain group of employees
that they just lie on their resumes. Called 85% of job applicants lie on their resumes. And 75% of employees steal from the workplace. So in your business you have a great staff and you want to keep it that way. So you can’t hire the thieves, you can’t hire people that lie on their resumes. So that 85% of the population that lies on the resumes, they can’t work for you. And that 75% of the population that steals from the workplace, they can’t
work for you either because you want to wow your customers. Can you talk about embracing the processes that we teach of the ongoing hiring processes and just always recruiting new people? Absolutely. So we have taken on really the task of making sure that we have every single day, at any one time, there is going to be an ad out there for any position in our office.
And occasionally, we’ll have somebody come in, and we’ll have them, you know, just do a little affidavit or something. And what’s really interesting is that even my employees, even when I’m not as I’m not needing someone, my employees will be like, are we having somebody come in, do a working interview, you know, everybody gets really nervous, but it actually also helps them get on their best behavior again. So, but it’s like if you always have someone waiting
in the wings, then should you have someone that drops off? Maybe their husband gets transferred and they’re a wonderful employee, but it’s just now they have to move and now you’ve got someone that you can hire. Or if you have someone that’s like what happened in my office where, you know, it was a inventory day and doctors weren’t there and she decided to go work out and hang out with her boyfriend for five hours
and then forgot to clock out, you know? So that’s called stealing. Yeah, and I, you know, and recently, and these are just real examples I’m sharing with people. I’ve had some of my really, really nice employees, two of them decided to have a baby and start a family.
And so I’m not gonna hold an employee hostage. I’m not mad that they decided to move on, but you get to a place where if you’re not careful, folks, you’re going to find yourself in a kind of a defensive posture where you’re not going to be able to cover the appointments, the obligations, the customers that are reaching out to you. So if you’re out there today, hiring has got to be a process and not an event. So again,
just recapping the branding, the marketing, the search engine optimization, the hiring, the tracking. I want to talk about retargeting ads, retargeting ads. Whenever somebody goes to your website, we’ve got to have ads that follow people around the internet. So that way people constantly see smiles, Hollywood smiles, Hollywood smiles, internet. So that way people constantly see Smiles Hollywood, Smiles Hollywood, Smiles Hollywood. And that creates top of mind awareness.
Can you talk about how important it is for you to know that you have a team of people thinking about those kinds of things? So again, you don’t have to. Absolutely. And I think just being a Thrive Time customer really makes you feel like you’re taken care of in so many different areas, because I didn’t even know what those ads were when I first became a client.
I didn’t even know. I remember thinking, I wonder how you get to have an ad when you’re going you’re going to your bank account and then all of a sudden this Thing pops up, you know for some brand of sunglasses that you were just looking at I thought how do you get those ads, you know, how do you even find out about them? and so these are the ads that you guys fix this up with and they’re fantastic and I do know that they do bring in patients. Now coaching is an ongoing process. Every week Andrew meets with you, every week, and this might
sound shocking for folks out there, but every single morning our coaches have to meet with me at six in the morning and I ask them every morning, I say, how’s your client doing? And I go over all 160 clients. It’s a real thing. I go over 40 clients every single day. I go over the checklist of all 40 clients every day.
And we do that every single morning. So every week we review the files of all 160 clients to make sure you guys are thriving, you’re growing, you’re not backsliding, everyone’s doing well. Could you talk about the importance of having somebody who, A, helps you track but also kind of pushes you to be your best? Well, that has been a lifesaver because honestly, well, I kind of learned it on myself because Andrew was good about pushing me.
And he would say, okay, well, did you meet with your staff about this or that? And I said, oh yeah, I didn’t quite do that. And so he was really good about reminding me that I needed to meet with my staff once a week or once a day, whatever it was, depending on the item.
But I found like, for instance, with my front desk girl, she was fantastic, but she was supposed to be following up on leads. She was supposed to have a lead list. And so every week I would call her and say, hey, how’s that lead list?
And I would actually have Andrew on the phone with me. And we would talk and she kind of would say, oh yeah, yeah, they’re good. And then finally, I think she got it. She realized I need a list. And so I think she realized Dr. Christ
is going to ask me every week and I better get organized here. And so she actually came up with her own lead list in her own little system, which was fantastic, by the way, and it’s helped us tremendously at the front desk. And any time we go over the lead list, because I have several
of about three employees that have lead lists, different kinds of lead lists. And she is fantastic. I never have to worry about her lead list. The other two, I have to worry about her lead Liz the other two I have to check theirs but and that’s the thing is I think you start to really hold your employees accountable and
Andrew helps hold me accountable and make sure that I’m doing everything I’m supposed to be doing because let’s face it life gets busy You know And I mean I’m a mom and I’m a wife and I have all kinds of other things going on too. And so I want to have a thriving business, but you have to put the work into your business.
And it’s nice to have someone there prodding me along when I get lazy. Now you’re one of these wonderful folks where, you know, most of our clients, they actually come to the workshops. They also do coaching. And so you’re somebody who’s been to the conferences.
You do the weekly coaching. You’ve seen the whole experience. I guess some people describe our coaching system as life-changing, or they focus on the numbers. How would you describe how the one-on-one coaching in conjunction with the conferences
has impacted maybe you and or your business? Well, the first time that I ever met you, Clay, was at that first conference in Tulsa and that was an incredible conference and I was so impressed with just the whole thing. Just the professionalism, you as a person, your business, your work ethic, and really just who you are. And I was very impressed with all of that. And I thought, gosh, you know, this might be someone that I would really consider working with. Like, maybe he could really help me.
And that’s really what got me interested because I was so impressed with just the professionalism of all of it. And I learned a lot. I come about once a year to a business conference and I’d like to come more,
but every year I try to come with my marketing girl with me. And we always learn something. We always learn something. And I think next year I’m going to bring my husband because he really needs to come too. And he’s been going along with this with me and he’s thinking, wow, this is really working for you. Maybe I need to come. So we’ve loved it. So if somebody is watching right now, they’re on the website, they go to thrivetimeshow.com, they’re
thinking about scheduling a free consultation, or they’re thinking about coming to a workshop, what do you say to somebody out there that’s on the fence, thinking about coming to a conference, and or scheduling a free 13 point assessment? Well, I say absolutely do it.
Absolutely do it. And I will say that it’s a process. It doesn’t happen overnight, but if you stay the course, you’re going to see results because I’m absolutely convinced. Dr. Christ, thank you for allowing us to take up some of your valuable time today.
I really do appreciate you and I can’t wait to see you in person here soon. All right. Thanks so much, Clay. Ladies and gentlemen, a lot of people talk about having success, a lot of people want to have success, but there is a proven path to achieve success.
And about four years ago, I had the opportunity to connect with somebody by the name of Dr. Mark Sherwood. My good friend Aaron Antis swore by the results of Dr. Sherwood. My good friend Pastor Craig Hagan swore by the results of Dr. Sherwood.
And we had a chance to team up. And it’s been an honor to team up with his practice and to help him grow his medical practice. And if you’re out there today and you want to grow your business, on today’s show, we’re going to talk about growing your business
and what happens when you diligently implement a proven plan. And here to talk about it is Dr. Sherwood. Welcome to the Thrive Time Show. How are you, sir? I’m doing well, Clay.
Thanks for having me. And it has been an honor, hasn’t it? What a ride and what a journey it’s been. Now, without getting into the specific financial numbers, you and I were talking offline. And I believe since you and I first talked on the phone today,
I believe you’re about seven times larger. Is that an accurate number? Am I getting that number wrong in some capacity? No, it’s at least seven, closer to eight. Yeah. And that’s so many people talk about growing their business
by 2% or 5% or 12% I want to give people some real facts here. We’re going to go here to Inc. I’m going to do a search right now on Google. I want everyone to do it with me. Assume I’m making this up.
Inc. magazine reports that 96% of businesses fail. That’s according to Inc. magazine. That’s not clayclark.com. 96%. Now, if you go to usdebtclock.com, which is by the way, a great way to get depressed. If you go to usdebtclock.org, you’ll see that in America today, we only have 9 million, 9.3 million self-employed
people and a country of 336 million. So just if even 10% of our country was self-employed, that would be 36 million self-employed people. But we only have 9 million self-employed people. So we’re talking about, it’s like less than 3% of our population is even self-employed to begin with. And so if less than 3% of our population is self-employed and 96% of our population is even self-employed to begin with. And so if less than 3% of our population is self-employed
and 96% of businesses fail, by default, folks, you’ve got, you know, I mean, it’s a very, very small percentage chance of being successful by default. And so what I want to focus on is implementing a proven path and a proven system. So step number one, since you and I have connected, I didn’t teach this to you, but you do it, you diligently implement a plan. Can
you talk about that? Because every week, you and I, we connect every week, you know, in this case, there’s a plan that you do. And I won’t get into all the details, but you do it every single week. You do it in the gym, you do it in your business. Talk about implementing a proven routine every day. Well, I think the end of the story of a routine is it produces predictability. And so I look at it like this,
good habits done consistently over time provides reliability, which gives you consistency, which gives you faithfulness, which gives you trust. Now, trust is a big deal. Does that trust mean you trust yourself? I hope so. Does it trust mean that your customers or clientele trust
you? They do because it’s predictable. The thing that people can’t stand, Clay, is unpredictability or chaos or just anxiety that’s driven in businesses. So we facilitate that culture from the top down the bottom up. And as you mentioned, every day I get up and I’m very routine. And so are you.
We started working together. I remember you telling me you get up at 3 o’clock in the morning, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, I probably wake up about an hour after you, boom boom, but it’s very predictable. People know where we are, what we’re gonna do, what we’re about, and it creates an expectation, and I think that, among other things, has been a key element to experiencing the 800% growth
we’ve had, which is, to me, it wasn’t that hard because it’s a process that works. Now, next question I want to ask you is focus on what you need to do, but then say no to the things you don’t need to do. Again, you have to say no to the things you don’t need to do. Again, you have to say no to grow.
So yes, you’re diligent and you’re consistent, but you’re also saying no to grow. And now there are billboards, there are magazines, there are yellow pages. Yes, there are still a few yellow pages. There are billboards, there’s magazines, there’s local cable TV. There’s so many different ways that you could be marketing your business, but you’ve had to say no to grow. You’ve had to focus on, and you and your wife, you guys do books, you do documentaries,
you do podcast interviews. You have a proven path, a proven trajectory that you’re on, but you do have to say no to grow. And sometimes you have to say no to good things in order to say yes to great things. Can you talk about the importance of saying no to grow? Yeah, specifically in our job, what we do, you know, which is a kind of a wellness-based
optimization of health practice, right? So the bottom line is I run everything through that filter. And our filter is, does it bring healing to the person? Does it bring betterment to the person? And there’s all kinds of procedures, gizmos, gadgets, and whatnot that I hear that we could get involved in.
But I always look at it from this standpoint. It’s got to run through that filter and it’s got to pass the test. Is it going to take us more time? Is it going to take us more labor? What’s the expense of it going to be originally? And what’s it going to take for us to recoup the labor, what’s the expense of it going to be originally, and what’s it going to take for us to recoup the expense, if any. And so I run into that filter every single time, and if it doesn’t hash out, it may be
a good thing, but it’s not a good thing for us. And people don’t understand that, but sometimes the greatest answer is no, because it’s a no that protects you from getting hurt. And you mentioned all that advertising mess out there. Clay, we’ve been approached by, as you know, many, many people to advertise in all kinds of markets. But if you don’t know what kind of person that you’re after, what is your target demographic,
then you can’t just throw spitballs out there at the different sources because you will waste your time and money. And again, in that area, advertising, know to grow is critical. Now, the next area I want to focus on is having a linear workflow or a mapped out workflow or a written down process. to grow is critical. can see this, very predictable. If people go to thrivetimeshow.com, which by the way, folks, we have about five to 10 people a day that often reach out looking for help growing their company. Now, I only take on 160 clients.
That’s not a spiritual number. That’s not a reason. I don’t do that for any spiritual reason. It’s just I have found that with my team, I like to not have more than 160 clients so that I can meet all my clients.
And those clients, they schedule a free consultation. And in order to do that, I have a kind of a call screener that sets up an appointment. They hop on the phone. They find out if they’re a good fit for a free consultation. Then my team books the free consultation for me.
And because our average client is with us for six years or longer, if you do the math, we have an opening for a new client about every month or so. So if you look at TWA Photos, this is one of my longtime clients based in Chicago, him, and we’re going to hear his success story on part two of today’s show.
He reached out, he filled out the form. A member of my team called Tim to see if he was a good fit. I then coached Tim on the first call, found out he’s a good fit, did my assessment, found out he’s a good fit, coached assessment, found out he’s a good fit, coached him through what we’re gonna do, laid out the proven plan. True story, and you’re gonna hear it on part two of today’s show. Tim went on to build a very, very successful company and he
sold his business. Well, when he sold his business for a big-time exit, guess what that did? That created an opening for another client. And so the process we have over and over and over is you go to thriftimeshow.com, you can schedule a free consultation. My call screener vets that person to see if they’re a good fit. If they are a good fit, they do an onboarding with myself. Also, we have conference tickets. We do a conference every two months. And I’ve been doing this since 2005.
Since 2005, I’ve been essentially doing the same process over and over and over. That’s why when you click on testimonials, you will literally see thousands of client success stories,
just thousands, not 100, not 50, but thousands. So I want to see if you can walk us through, what does the workflow look like when people go to Sherwood.tv? What does that workflow look like? It’s fascinating. And again, you know, you and I just kind of hit it off because we think the same way. So we have, you know, we have an opportunity, people visit our website and we get, you know, hundreds of visitors every day and people can fill out a little questionnaire.
It’s like a health assessment question or it’s free. And they get put through a series of, um, you know, funnel emails to sort of qualify what they want to do. And it sort of kind of vets them at the outset. But if they want to work with us, just like yourself, we have a free webinar that they can go to.
At that point, after attending the webinar, Clay, they then have the opportunity at that point to schedule a one-on-one assessment intake appointment with my wife and myself. At that appointment, we determine whether or not they’re a good fit. If they’re a good fit, we develop a plan for those and execute the same plan with the same
full minutes. We’re personalized for their lives, much like you personalize that plan with the same general processes for that business, we personalized that plan of the same general processes for their life. Now, when people work with me, with my business, and I’m not a medical business, I have a proven process and a proven system, and so when people go. And they go to thrive, time, share.com and they look at the different success stories,
we have companies like oxyfresh.com. We’ve helped them to grow now to 570 locations, 570. And I could go on just listing examples all day. We take companies like Shaw Homes, help them grow from 15 million to $150 million of revenue.
And we just have so many success stories. It truly is epic. And that’s why the, my parent company is called Make Your Life Epic. That is what we do, Make Your Life Epic. Dr. Sherwood, I would say what he does is very analogous
to what we do for business, he does for your body. And so, again, I say what he does is very analogous to what we do for business, he does for your body. And so, again, I believe what he does, Dr. Sherwood, Sherwood.TV, what he does for your body is very analogous to what we do for business. We guide people down a proven path, and we actually tell people before they decide to become a client what the path is.
We tell people, this is what we’re gonna do to get you from where you are to where you wanna be. Now, I know a lot of people, I would say specifically, three people that I see on a weekly basis who have lost over 40 pounds since going to Sherwood.tv. So three people that I see on a weekly basis
have lost over 40 pounds as a result of going to Sherwood.tv, learning about the protocols you offer, and then following those. You tell people in advance what the protocol is gonna be. That’s very different from a lot of other medical programs that kind of hide the program or the protocol from the potential
customer, from the potential patient, they hide it and they say, once you sign up, then we’ll teach you the protocol. Why are you so transparent with teaching people what your protocol is going to be before they become a patient? I think it produces trustworthiness, Clay, because a lot of times with what we do, transparency is key because my wife and I do it too. And I, again, I’m not
knocking anybody else. I just know that what you just said is very true. It is analogous to you making someone’s company greater. I want to see their lives get greater. I want to optimize their health, give them the biological aging process of speed that’s optimal so they’re not aging too fast.
And so we live it out, we do it. And then it’s no secret, man, there are some processes that work. And I tell them, you know, if you’re willing to do this, this will work. And they see us doing it every day.
We don’t hide our lives and we don’t shield them. We don’t do something, tell them to do something we’re not doing ourselves. So I think it’s exactly as you said. And to your point, we deal with a lot of entrepreneurs
that have worked with you and do work with you. So the interesting overlap is cool. I can think of a couple of people that we’ve worked with that also have are your clients in their business and I’ve watched their businesses explode as their personal lives explode. So this energy there is just astounding to me as I think about that.
Now I want to walk people through this again here, folks. Again, we’re going to walk you through that. How is it that a doctor, a medical provider, a health facility is able to grow their revenue by eight times within a period of just a few years? How is that possible when 96% of businesses are failing? One is you have to just a few years. How is that possible? When 96% of businesses are failing,
one is you have to have a proven plan, two, you have to implement that plan each and every week, and three, you have to measure what you treasure. You just have to measure what you treasure. You have to track or it’s gonna slack. And that’s true with health, and it’s true with wealth.
You have to track or it’s gonna slack. And so any area of our lives, you’re listening right now, you talk about your faith, your family, your finance, your fitness, your friendship, your fun, any area where we are not achieving at our optimal performance,
it’s probably because we’re not measuring what we’re treasuring. It’s probably we’re not focusing on it. And again, I’m not attacking anybody out there. There’s somebody out there listening right now. You are in phenomenal physical shape
and financially you’re not in shape. There’s somebody else out there listening. You’re in great financial shape. You’re in great physical shape, but your family’s not in great shape. Somebody else out there, you say you got your family, you got your faith, you got your fitness, you got your friendship,
but you’re really, really in a bad spot in another area. So whatever we measure is what we treasure. Talk about that for a second, because you have a way of helping your patients and your clients to measure what they treasure and to track. And I see people all the time coming
into my office of being excited. They’ve lost four pounds, they lost six pounds, they lost nine pounds, they lost 20. They lost 21 pounds, they lost 27 pounds, they lost 30, they lost 40. And you see people gaining confidence every week
as they begin to take this massive goal they have and they start to see success day after day. Talk about measuring what you treasure. Yeah, one thing I forgot to add, too, in the process, we have quarterly events. I mean, and I didn’t have those things, too,
which are kind of cool. That’s kind of a culmination of stuff that people can celebrate. But when we talk about measurables, we talk about this all the time, you know, physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, financial, the five parts of a human, of a human experience, you know, and so, um, and I talked to them, I
don’t get into heavy dealing with their, their debt though, but I talked to them about eliminating debt and building equity, but I use that same terminology within health. I don’t want wellness debt, I want wellness equity. So in other words, if you can’t measure it, don’t do it. I never do a test unless I know what I’m asking,
what questions I’m trying to get answered, and why I’m measuring it. I don’t do that. You mentioned weight loss. We have a unique way to measure that. Not just about what the scale says, but I’m measuring their body composition, Clay. I’m measuring their percent body fat. I want to know how much muscle
they’ve maintained or grown and how much fat they’ve been able to lose. I want to know their visceral fat level. I want to know their blood pressure. I want to know all their scores that I can find. We’ve even got tests that can score their biological aging processes and speeds and actualities. It quantifies that into measurable components and so we’re actually developing right now and I haven’t got it rolled out yet, a quotient we’re going gonna call the FMI age,
and it’s gonna be a little massive thing that we’re gonna put together. Cause I think people are aging in a way that is probably too fast, and I think we can probably age better. But to your point,
I concur a thousand percent. If you can’t measure it and it’s not quantifiable, don’t do it because then it becomes a distraction. Now, I wanna tap into your wisdom on this, let you kind of show off what you do a little bit here. You know, one of my wonderful clients
is called Koloff Fitness. Koloff Fitness and Charles Koloff started out doing personal training. He started out doing personal training. And on part two of today’s show, folks, you’re going to hear his success story too. So you’re going to hear the success story of TWA photos. You’re going to hear the success story of Koloff Fitness.
He started out doing personal training and then he decided, you’re going to hear the success story of Kola Fitness. He started out doing personal training and then he decided, you know what, I want to open up a gym. And then he said, you know what, I want to open up a second gym. And that’s where we met him is as he was scaling the business. And so what he does when people want to lose weight, I’ll tell you his secret. He tells them, here’s the deal. I need you to not eat wheat, no sweets, and no alcohol. And people are like, what? He’s like, no wheat, no sweets, no alcohol.
We’ll see you three days a week working out. And he starts that process. He starts small, no wheat, no sweets, no alcohol alcohol three days a week working out and over time they start to add maybe more detail to it more supplementation uh more detail more maybe more vigorousness to it but they start off with no wheat no sweets no alcohol three days a week working out um and then they start to build on that foundation i I want to get your, just for anybody out there that’s thinking about becoming a Surewood.tv patient or client,
and they’re maybe concerned about what’s going to be required of them, what sort of life changes need to be made in the lives of people that are thinking about implementing the Surewood path? And I know there’s a lot of details, a lot of research that you do into each and every patient,
but what are a couple of practical steps that every single one of your patients has to implement right away? Well, I appreciate, I know Charles is one of great people by the way, and I concur with what he said. That’s a great start for anybody, right?
So at least take that. I think for us, our advice would be simply put, if it’s real food, eat it, don’t diet. If it’s an original package, it’s fine. If you can imagine it being in that package in the Garden of Eden, it’s fine. So I tell people typically to stay away. It’s gonna sound crazy. Anything the government subsidizes, don’t do it. That’s kind of what I tell them with food.
And then people can go, oh yeah, I get that because the government subsidizes wheat, corn, soy, dairy, and that kind of mess, you know? So I tell them stay away from that. Then I tell them that every day I want you to try to get, you know. So I tell them stay away from that. Then I tell them that every day I want you to try to get, you know, somewhere between about seven hours, give or take,
is probably if you can get that much. And then I tell them every day that you don’t move is a day you’re dead. So I want them to move more, sit less. The days you don’t move are the day that you are going to be in the rigor mortis.
So I make sure I tell them that. And then I want them to have the last little bit, speak life over self, man. Don’t speak death over self. Because many times people can walk themselves into a process of oblivion by talking themselves into death
every day saying they can’t do it. Now for anybody out there that hasn’t worked with us, I mean you and I have had the opportunity to work together faithfully each and every week now for years. What would you say the impact has been on your business, you know, working with us, you and I working together. For anybody out there who’s maybe thinking about working with us or becoming a client of ours?
Well, without question, people need guidance today, Clay. It’s like a ship without a rudder. You know, you represent the rudder. You can teach them how to drive, but you also shift that boat in the right direction. And I would recommend people do connect with you because you will do a good job. It will be consistent. It will be predictable. And if people just copy these habits, no matter what business you’re in, you can adapt them to the business, the habits work, and you will see a good return on an
investment, and it will exponentially grow. And then the last thing I’ll say with that, when you connect with Clay Clark, you need to set your bar high. He will not let you set that bar low because he’s going to stretch you, he’s going to push you, and he’s going to get the, on a set like this, he will he will pull the potential out of you and get you believing again in a good way. So highly recommend it. I highly recommend it. I just, it’s working with you has been an honor.
It’s a true win-win for anybody out there that’s looking for health optimization, check it out at surewood.tv, surewood.tv. And again, what you do is so analogous for health to what we do for wealth. And so for anybody out there,
if you’re looking to optimize your health, check out Sherwood.tv, Sherwood.tv. Dr. Sherwood, thank you so much. And again, for anybody out there that doesn’t know the story here, which should be everybody,
you and I were just talking offline the other day and you were saying, hey, you know, Clay, I just wanted you to know, since you and I first connected, we’re up eight times. And I just thought, well, man, there’s so much discouragement in the world we live in. We need to document this and get this on camera. So thank you for keeping us updated, sir. And
I can’t wait to have you on the show next week. You’re welcome. Thanks for having me, as always. Hi, I’m Ryan Wimpey. You’re welcome. Thanks for having me as always. When I was learning to become a dog trainer, we didn’t learn anything about internet marketing or advertising or anything at all. Just dog training. And that’s what’s so great about working with Clay and his team because they do it all for us. So that we can focus on our passion and that’s training dogs.
Clay and his team here, they’re so enthusiastic. Their energy is off the charts. Never a dull moment. They’re a threat. their energy is off the charts. Never a dull moment, very thrived. We’ve been working with Clay and his team for the last five months, two of which have been our biggest months ever.
One, our biggest gross by 35%. Clay’s helped us make anything from brochures to stickers, new business cards, new logos, scripts for phones, script for email, script for text message, scripting for everything. How I would describe the weekly meetings with Clay and his team are awesome.
They’re so effective. It’s worth every minute. Things get done, we’ll ask for things like different flyers and they’re done before our hour is up. So it’s just awesome, extremely effective. If you don’t use Clay and his team, you’re probably going to be pulling your hair out
or you’re going to spend half of your time trying to figure out the online marketing game and producing your own flyers and marketing materials, print materials, all this stuff like that. You’re really losing a lot as far as lost productivity and lost time. Not having a professional do it, it has a real sense of urgency and that actually knows what they’re doing when you already have something that’s your core focus that you already know how to do. You would also be missing out with all the time and financial freedom that you would have working with Clay and his team. We would recommend Clay and his team to other business owners because they need to be working
on their business, not just trying to figure out the online game, which is complex and changing daily. So no one has a marketing team, too. Most people don’t. They can’t afford one, and their local web guy or local person that they know probably can’t do everything that a whole team and a whole floor of people can do
in hours and not just weeks or months. There’s a definite sense of urgency with Clay and his team. I used to have to ride other web people, I mean really ride them to get stuff done, and stuff is done so fast here. There’s a real sense of urgency to get stuff done. And stuff is done so fast here. People, there’s a real sense of urgency to get it done.
It’s great. I’m Rachel with Tip Top K9, and we just want to give a huge thank you to Clay and Vanessa Clark. Hey guys, I’m Ryan with Tip Top K9. Just want to say a big thank you to Thrive 15.
Thank you to Make Your Life Epic. We love you guys, we appreciate you and really just appreciate how far you’ve taken us. This is our old house, right? This is where we used to live a few years ago. This is our old neighborhood. See? It’s nice, right?
So this is my old van and our old school marketing. And this is our old team. And by team, I mean it’s me and another guy. This is our new house with our new neighborhood. This is our new van with our new marketing and this is our new team. We went from four to 14 and I took this beautiful photo.
We worked with several different business coaches in the past and they were all about helping Ryan sell better and just teaching sales, which is awesome, but Ryan is a really great salesman. So we didn’t need that. We needed somebody to help us get everything that was in his head out into systems, into manuals and scripts and actually build a team. So now that we have systems in place, we’ve gone from one to 10 locations in only a year. In October 2016, we grossed 13 grand
for the whole month. Right now it’s 2018, the month of October. It’s only the 22nd. We’ve already grossed a little over 50 grand for the whole month and we still have time to go. We’re just thankful for you, thankful for Thrive and your mentorship, and we’re really thankful that you guys have helped us to grow a business that we run now instead of the business running us. Just thank you, thank you, thank you, times a thousand. Clay Clarke is here somewhere. Where’s my buddy Clay? Clay’s the greatest. I met his goats today. I met his dogs, I met his chickens, I saw
his compound. He’s like the greatest guy. I ran from his goats, his chickens, his dogs. So this guy is like the greatest marketer you’ve ever seen, right? His entire life, Clay Clark, his entire life is marketing. He is a best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, probably the best-selling or one of the best-selling business authors of all time and he’s going to be joined with Eric Trump. He’ll be joined by Eric Trump. We got Eric Trump and Robert Kiyosaki in the same place.
In the same place. Aaron, why should everybody show up to hear Robert Kiyosaki? Well you got billions of dollars of business experience between those two, not to mention many, many, many millions of books have been sold. Many, many millionaires have been made from the books that have been sold by Robert Kiyosaki. I happen to be one of them. I
learned from the man. He was the inspiration. That book was the inspiration for me to get the entrepreneurial spirit as many other people. Now since you won’t brag on yourself, I will. You’ve sold billions of dollars of houses, am I correct? That is true. And the book that that kick-started it all for you Rich Dad Pornhub, the author, the best-selling author of Rich Dad Pornhub, Robert Kiyosaki, the guy that kick-started your career. Yeah, he’s gonna be here He’s gonna be here. I’m pumped. And now Eric Trump, people don’t know this, but the Trump Organization has thousands of employees There’s not 50 employees. The Trump Organization, again, most people don’t know this, but the Trump Organization has thousands of employees. There’s not 50 employees. The Trump organization, again,
most people don’t know this, but the Trump organization has thousands of employees. And while Donald J. Trump was the 45th president of these United States and soon to be the 47th president of these United States, he needed someone to run the companies for him. And so the man that runs the Trump organization for Donald J Trump as he was the 45th president of the United States and now the 47th president of the United States is Eric Trump. So Eric Trump is here to talk about time management, promoting from within,
marketing, branding, quality control, sales systems, workflow design, workflow mapping, how to build, I mean everything that you see, the Trump hotels, the Trump golf courses, all their products, the man who manages billions of dollars of real estate and thousands of employees is here to teach us how to do it. You are talking about one of the greatest brands on the planet from a business standpoint. I mean,
who else has been able to create a brand like the Trump brand? I mean, look at it. And this is the man behind the business for the last, pretty much since 2015 he’s been the man behind it. So you’re talking, we’re into nine going into ten years of him running it, and we get to tap into that knowledge. That’s going to be amazing. Now, think about this for a second.
Would you buy a ticket just to see Robert Kiyosaki and Eric Trump? Of course you would. Of course you would. But we’re also going to be joined by Sean Baker. This is the best-selling author, the guy who invented the carnivore diet. Oh yeah. Dr. Sean Baker. He’s been on Joe Rogan multiple times. He’s going to be joining us. So you’ve got Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, Eric Trump,
Sean Baker. The lineup continues to grow and this is how we do our tickets here at the Thrive Time Show. If you want to get a VIP ticket, you can absolutely do it. It’s $500 for a VIP ticket. We’ve always done it that way. Now if you want to take a general admission ticket, it’s $250 or whatever price you want to pay. And the reason why I do that and the reason why we do that is because we want to make our events affordable for everybody. I grew up without money I totally understand what it’s like to be the tight spot. So if you want to attend it’s $250 or whatever price you want to pay That’s how I do it and it’s $500 for a VIP ticket
Now we only have limited seating here with them. The most people we’ve ever had in this building was for the Jim Brewer Presentation Jim Brewer came here that was for the Jim Brewer presentation. Jim Brewer came here, the legendary comedian Jim Brewer came to Tulsa, and we had 419 people that were here. 419 people. Yeah. And I thought to myself, there’s no more room. I felt kind of bad that a couple people had VIP seats in the men’s restroom.
Oh, no, I’m just kidding. But I thought so. I thought, you know what? We should probably add on. So we’re adding on what we call the upper deck the or the top shelf.
So the seats are very close to the presenters. But we’re actually building right now. We’re adding on to the facility to make room to accommodate another 30 attendees or more so again if you want to get tickets for this
event all you have to do is go to thrive timeshow.com go to thrive timeshow.com when you go to thrive timeshow.com you’ll go there you’ll request a ticket boom or if you want to text me if you want a little bit faster service you say I want you to call me right now. I just texted my number. It’s my cell phone number.
My personal cell phone number. We’ll keep that private between you, between you, me, everybody. We’ll keep that private. And anybody, don’t share that with anybody except for everybody.
That’s my private cell phone number. It’s 918-851-0102. I know we have a lot of Spanish-speaking people that attend these conferences. And so to be bilingually sensitive, my cell phone number is 918-851-0102. That is not actually bilingual. That’s just saying Juan for a Juan. It’s not the same thing. I think you’re attacking me. Now, let’s talk actually bilingual. That’s just saying Kwan for a one. It’s not the same thing. I think you’re attacking me.
Now, let’s talk about this. What kind of stuff will you learn at the Thrive Time Show Workshop? So, Aaron, you’ve been to many of these over the past seven, eight years. So, let’s talk about it. I’ll tee up the thing and you tell me what you’re going to learn here, okay? Okay. You’re gonna learn marketing, marketing and branding. What are we gonna learn about marketing and branding?
Oh yeah, we’re gonna dive into, you know, so many people say, oh, you know, I gotta get my brand known out there, like the Trump brand, right? You wanna get that brand out there. It’s like, how do I actually make people know
what my business is and make it a household name. You’re going to learn some intricacies of how you can do that. You’re going to learn sales. So many people struggle to sell something. This just in, your business will go to hell if you can’t sell. So we’re going to teach you sales. We’re going to teach you search engine optimization,
how to come up top in the search engine results. We’re going to teach you how to manage people. Aaron, you have managed, no exaggeration, hundreds of people throughout your career and thousands of contractors. And most people struggle with managing people.
Why does everybody have to learn how to manage people? Well, because first of all, people are, you either have great people or you have people who suck. And so it can be a challenge, you know, learning how to work with a large group of people and get everybody pulling in the same direction can be a challenge. But if you have the right systems, you have the right processes, and you’re really good at selecting great ones.
And we have a process we teach about how to find great people. When you start with the people who have a great attitude, they’re teachable, they’re driven, all of those things, then you can get those people all pulling in the same direction. So we’re going to teach you branding, marketing, sales, search engine optimization. We’re gonna teach you accounting. We’re gonna teach you personal finance, how to manage your finance. We’re gonna teach you time management. How do you manage your time? How do you how do you how do you get more done during a typical day? How do you build an organization
if you’re not organized? How do you do? How do you do organization? How do you build an org chart? Everything that you need to know to start and grow a business will be taught during this two day interactive business workshop. Now let me tell you how the format is set up here to get folks this is a two day interactive 15. Think about this folks. It’s two hours two days. Each day it starts at 7am and it goes until 5pm. So
from 7am to 5pm, two days. It’s a two-day interactive workshop. The way we do it is we do a 30-minute teaching session and then we break for 15 minutes for a question and answer session. So Aaron, what kind of great stuff happens during that 15 minute question and answer session after every teaching session? I actually think it’s the best part about the workshops because here’s what happens I’ve been to lots of these things over the years I’ve paid many thousands of dollars to go to them and you go in there and they talk in vague
Generalities and they’re constantly up selling you for something trying to get you to buy this thing or that thing or this program or this membership and you don’t you leave not getting your very specific questions answered about your business or your employees or what you’re doing on your marketing and what’s awesome about this is we literally answer every single question that any person asks. And it’s very specific to what your business is.
And what we do is we allow you as the attendee to write your questions on the whiteboard. And then we literally, as you mentioned, we answer every single question on the whiteboard. And then we take a 15 minute break to stretch and to make it entertaining when you’re stretching and this is a true story when
you get up and stretch you’ll be greeted by mariachis there’s gonna probably be alpaca here llamas helicopter rides a coffee bar a snow cone I mean there’s just you had a crocodile one time that was pretty interesting interesting. You know, I should write that down. Sorry for that one guy. We lost him. The crocodile, we duct taped its face.
So that, right, we duct taped. It was a baby crocodile. And we duct taped. Yeah, duct taped around the mouth so it didn’t bite anybody. But it was really cool to pass that thing around.
I should do that. I should do that. We have a small petting zoo that will be assembled. It’s gonna be great. And then you’re in the company of hundreds of entrepreneurs. So there’s not a lot of people in America today. In fact, there’s less than 10 million people today,
according to US debt clock, that identify as being self-employed. So if you have a country with 350 million people, that means you have less than 3% of our population that’s even self-employed. So, you only have 3 out of every 100 people in America that are self-employed to begin with, and when Inc. Magazine reports that 96% of businesses fail by default,
by default, you have a one out of 1000 chance of succeeding in the game of business stuff. But yet the average client that you and I work with, we can typically double this. I’m just no, no, no hyperbole. No exaggeration. I have 1000s of testimonials. To back this up. We have 1000s of testimonials to back it up. But when you work with a home
builder, when I work with a business owner, we can typically double the size of the company within 24 months. Yeah. Double, and you say double? Yeah, there’s businesses that we have tripled.
There’s businesses we’ve grown eight X. There’s so many examples. You can see it thrive timeshow.com. But again, this is the most interactive, best business workshop on the planet This is objectively the highest rated and most reviewed business workshop on the planet and then you add to that
Robert Kiyosaki the best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad you add to that Eric Trump the man that runs the Trump Organization you add to that Sean Baker. Now you might say, but Clay, is there more? I need more. Well, okay. Tom Wheelwright is the wealth strategist for Robert Kiyosaki. So people say, Robert Kiyosaki, who’s his financial wealth advisor? Who’s the guy who manages, who’s his wealth strategist’s his wealth strategist his wealth strategist Tom? Will write will be here and you say clay. I still I’m not gonna get a ticket unless you give me more
Okay, fine. We’re gonna serve you the same meal both days true story We have we cater in the food and because simple I keep it simple I literally bring in the same food both days for lunch. It’s Ted Esconzito’s an incredible Mexican restaurant that’s going to happen and Jill Donovan our good friend who is the founder of Rustic Cuff. She started that company in her home and now she sells millions of dollars of apparel and products. That’s rusticcuff.com.
And someone says I want more. This is not enough. Give me more. Okay, I’m not gonna mention their names right now because I’m working on it behind the scenes here. But we’ve got one guy who’s given me a verbal to be here.
And this is a guy who’s one of the wealthiest people in Oklahoma. And nobody really knows who he is because he’s built systems that are very utilitarian that offer a lot of value he’s made a lot of money in the uh it’s the uh it’s where you rent it’s short it’s where you’re renting storage spaces he’s a storage space guy he owns the what do you call that? The rental, the, uh,
storage space storage units. This guy owns storage units. He owns railroad cars. He owns a lot of assets that make money on a daily basis, but they’re not like customer facing. Most people don’t know who owns the mini storage facility, or most people don’t know who owns the warehouse. That’s passively making money. Most people don’t know who owns the mini storage facility or most people don’t know who owns the warehouse that’s passively making money. Most people don’t know who owns the railroad cars. But this guy, he’s giving me a verbal that he will be here and we just continue to add more and more success stories. So if you’re out there today and you want to change your life, you want to give yourself a
incredible gift, you want a life-changing experience, you want to learn how to start and grow a company, go to Thrivetimeshow.com, go there right now, Thrivetimeshow.com, request a ticket for the two-day interactive event. Again, the day here is March 6th and 7th, March 6th and 7th, we just got confirmation. Robert Kiyosaki, best-selling author, rich dad, poor dad, he’ll be here. Eric Trump, the man who leads the Trump organization.
It’s going to be a blasty blast. There’s no upsells. Uh, Aaron, I could not be more excited about this event. I think it is incredible. And there’s somebody out there right now you’re, you’re watching and you’re like but I already signed up for this incredible other program called smoke your way to thin I think that’s gonna change your life I promise
you this will be 10 times better than that it’s like I picked the wrong week we’re smoking don’t do the smoke your way to thin conference that is I’ve tried it don’t do it yeah chain smoking is not a viable I mean it is life-changing it is life-changing if you become a chain smoker it is life-changing best weight loss program though right not really if you’re looking to have life-changing results in a way that won’t cause you to have a stoma get your tickets at the Thrivetimeshow.com. Again,
that’s Aaron Antis, I’m Clay Clark, reminding you and inviting you to come out to the two-day interactive Thrivetimeshow workshop right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I promise you it will be a life-changing experience. We can’t wait to see you right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Whoa, man.
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