Business | “What Systematic Marketing Does It Makes You Pick Some Things And Stick With It. Just Having That Extra Eye On What I Do Is Making All the Difference In the World.” – Pastor Brian Gibson

What I’ve seen from Clay and his group at Thrive is they’ll give you a simple system. It’s the simple systems… are the ones that people can wrap their brain around. They’re the ones that people can work with on a day-to-day basis. That simplicity brings power with it. It shocked me how simple some of the stuff is. At times, I’m like, “Why didn’t I think about that?”

Workflow creation, systematic marketing, and coaching has helped our church so much. The workflow creation is… What it really is is they’re going to look and see every moving part of your church/of your ministry, what needs to be done. It’s going to go up on a massive board. Now, what it does is it takes what you know needs to be done out of your heart and out of your head, really takes the pressure/the stress off your shoulders. It puts it on the board where your entire team/your ministry can see exactly what you want them to do every day. They know this is the playbook. This is what we’re doing, and then there’s laser-sharp accountability with a meeting afterwards. Did it get done or not?

I’ll tell you. It’s changed the way we execute as a church so fast. It’s produced, really, an excitement because people… They want to get done. If they know what they’re supposed to do, a good person wants to get it done. It’s been massive for our team.

The systematic marketing has really been like this. In the past, we used to market. We would try something. I’ve done everything: billboards, ads, some mailers, internet, Facebook. But we would run something for so long, and then we wouldn’t see that it was producing the results we want. Instead of staying consistent, we would jump to another horse. Then, we would jump to another horse. What systematic marketing does is it makes you pick some things and stick with it.

Then, the coaching is massive. I think having a coach that looks and sees what you’re doing and can come help you make small adjustments… Once he gets everything set up, those small tweaks can make massive differences. A great coach doesn’t even have to play your sport, doesn’t even have to do what you do. A coach has an eye to see things that you can’t see or to see it from a different angle. Just having that extra eye on what I do and just… “Hey, have you thought about this?” it’s making all the difference in the world.

What Clay Clark and his team can provide for your church that you can’t do in-house and I can’t do in-house… Well, what’s been massive for me is that search engine optimization, how to get to the top of Google, taking care of transcribing all of my sermons to drive me up the list on Google, stuff that I don’t think about, and I don’t have time to do. I’ve got all these things I have to do as a pastor. I have sermons to preach. I have a staff to manage. I have a budget to take care of. I got sick folk to see about. I have a team that has to do that. You know how it is? You got to marry people. You got to bury people. We’re never going to stay in a dark room with a keyboard optimizing our Google presence, and these guys do that kind of thing for you.

Also, if you’re at a couple of hundred-member church, I remember how hard it was, back in the day, to take care of the website needs, to come up with graphic design. These guys are available to you for sermon slides, getting that kind of stuff done, where you can have a sharp-looking presentation of the gospel. It takes it off you. It puts it on them at a very reasonable price.

I really believe Clay Clark and his team can help a church with limited resources in a big way. I know what it’s like to be a church of limited resources. My wife and I… We walked into a town where we didn’t know anybody. We had a Bible, and we just had a few bucks in our pocket. When somebody introduced us to a couple of families, we started going there. I know what it’s like to be a church of two. I know what it’s like to be a church of 2000 and two different campuses now, a thousand apiece, and everywhere in between.

I love churches at every level. I believe God wants them all to grow. I think about the needs I had back in the day, the lack of direction I had. Man, I was working 80 hours a week all the time. But a lot of times, I was a shotgun instead of a rifle. I think, when you start, you can really hone in with the right coaching. You can get a lot of your different needs met in one place. Instead of having somebody on marketing and somebody on showing you how to do systems and somebody on graphic design, Thrive can do a lot of that for you at a very reasonable cost. I think it’s a great place to invest in the life of your ministry.

I’m telling you, I think you can get the results you want with the coaching here faster than any other way. It’s going to be powerful.

The Thrivetime Show 2-day Interactive Business Workshops are the highest and most reviewed business workshops on the planet. You can learn the proven 13-point business systems that Dr. Zoellner and I have used over and over to start and grow successful companies. I mean, we get into the specifics, the specific steps on what you need to do to optimize your website. We’re going to teach you how to fix your conversion rate. We’re going to teach you how to do a social media marketing campaign that works. How do you raise capital? How do you get a small business loan?

We teach you everything you need to know here during a two-day, 15-hour workshop. It’s all here for you. You work every day in your business. But for two days, you can escape and work on your business and build these proven systems, so now you can have a successful company that will produce both the time freedom and the financial freedom that you deserve. You’re going to leave energized, motivated, but you’re also going to leave empowered.

The reason why I’ve built these workshops is because, as an entrepreneur, I always wish that I had this, and because there wasn’t anything like this, I would go to these motivational seminars: no money down, real estate, Ponzi scheme, get motivated seminars, and they would never teach me anything. It was like you went there and you paid for the big chocolate Easter Bunny, but inside of it was a hollow nothingness. I wanted the knowledge. They’re like, “Oh, but we’ll teach you the knowledge after our next workshop.”

The great thing is we have nothing to upsell. At every workshop, we teach you what you need to know. There’s no one in the back of the room trying to sell you some next big get-rich-quick, walk-on-hot-coals product.

It’s literally… We teach you the brass tacks/the specific stuff that you need to know to learn how to start and grow a business room. But I encourage you to not believe what I’m saying. I want you to Google the Z66 Auto Auction. I want you to Google Elephant in the Room. Look at Robert Zoellner and Associates. Look him up and say, “Are they successful because they’re geniuses, or are they successful because they have a proven system?” When you do that research, you will discover that the same system that we use in our own business can be used in your business.

Come to Tulsa, book a ticket, and I guarantee you it’s going to be the best business workshop ever. We even give you your money back if you don’t love it. We’ve built this facility for you. We’re excited to see you.