Business Podcasts | Clay Clark Case Study | “I’ve Worked with Clay Clark (for 7 Years Since 2016) Since the Beginning of Our Business. We’ve Grown from a Startup to Over $1,300,000 of Annual Sales.”

Hey, how’s it going? I’m Thomas Crosson, owner and founder of Full Package Media in Dallas, Texas. I’ve been a coaching client with Clay Clark since the beginning of our business. We started about a year ago, August of last year. Had no clients, no idea what we were doing, no clue really what was going on. Now we’ve grown to where we’ve got six photographers. We’ve got office space here. I have admin and sales person that works for us full-time, developing an online system, and a lot of that growth, we attribute to Clay helping us.

There’s so many things that… His stuff is not revolutionary. It’s not this crazy walk on hot coals and all this stuff. It’s just real stuff, like group interviews. We were totally against group interviews. We were like, no, we’re different and we’re special. We need to do one-on-one interviews so we can find good quality candidates and not just do this group interview thing. We tried that and we failed miserably. We did group interviews and now we do them every two weeks, and it’s awesome. It works good. We always have an influx of new people that we can train, get going. He’s helped us a lot with our website, graphic design, SEO.

SEO is another thing that I thought before I started this business and before Clay, that it was a joke or something that only your Apples of the world and Amazon could get to the top of Google. Clay said, no, just do these things, follow these steps, and you’ll get there. I think now we look today and we’re number two for Dallas real estate photography. If you don’t believe me, you can look. So we’re getting to the top of there. That’s really cool. It’s really awesome to get leads, that people will call you and say, hey, found you on Google. We want to hear about your services. So that’s really great.

I’d say there’s nobody out there that’s not a good coaching client for Clay. Anyone, regardless of the business, it’s not about what the business is, what the specialty is. It’s about following the steps, doing what he says. It’s a good thing. An hour a week, it gets you on track and keeps you in line of what you’re doing and what you shouldn’t be doing. It’s good to give you some flow and future goals of your business.

I remember with our first meeting, we set our goals and our goal was to do 16 shoots a week. At the time, me and my business partner/girlfriend Gretchen were like, oh, we’re never going to do 16 a week. That’s just like crazy. Today we’re doing nine and we did about 54 last week, so he’s helped us grow. We’ve put in a lot of hours, a lot of hard work as well.

If you follow his steps and do what he do what he says, there’s a lot of principles that he’s taught and instilled in us that help us. So yeah, Clay Clark, he’s the way to go. I wouldn’t to venture out to find someone else. They’d be more expensive and a lot more fluff and no real actionable work and things to get your business growing. So that’s the way to go. Thanks.

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