Clay Clark Client Testimonials | “Clay Clark Tells You to Ignore These Things & Focus On These Things. It’s About a $20,000 Business Education for $250. It’s More Valuable Than Going to College.” – Anthony Baucum

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I’m Anthony from Tulsa. I downloaded the book online but I’ve also worked for Clay in the past so it’s kind of taken the six to seven years of knowledge and dencing it down. We have a used car dealership as well as a advertising firm and I wanted to get a more a more simplified version of the knowledge because there’s so much convoluted and all these things you think you need to do, but really it knocks it out into 13 steps and that helps give a more clear direction on where to go.

It’s always very high energy and get stuff done. That’s the main thing is not BSing around. It tells you that you really just need to focus on getting the things done and not fluffing around or really putting up with stuff that doesn’t get the results. That’s mainly it. And being outgoing, funny about it, but also, hey, it’s not a joke. They get it done. I would say simplify, systemize, and scale. That’s how I boil it down.

Simplify, systemize, and scale. Getting into technical details like what software you can use, the exact few steps you can do to make something happen. You can read a bunch of books about one thing, but if you can’t really boil it down into a few nuggets and actionable items,

it doesn’t matter. That would be the main thing is when he tells you to ignore these things and focus on these things. Because if you do two things, it gets results. It’s better than 20 things and don’t get results.

I would say you’re going to blow your money somewhere if you don’t spend the $250 on the conference because you’re going to spend 10 times that with other BS. So it’s about a $20,000 business education for $250. There’s really no reason not to learn these things. Whether it’s business or you’re a manager, there’s no reason. More valuable than going to college, I would say that. I have a Bachelor’s in Finance and this stuff is more valuable in two days than four years.

Hey, I’m Ryan Wimpey. I’m originally from Tulsa, born and raised here. I went to a small private liberal arts college and got a degree in business. And I didn’t learn anything like they’re teaching here. I didn’t learn linear workflows. I learned stuff that I’m not using and I haven’t been using for the last nine years. So what they’re teaching here is actually way better than what I got at business school. And I went what was actually ranked as a very good business school. The linear workflow. The linear workflow for us in getting everything out on paper and

documented is really important. We have workflows that are kind of all over the place. So having linear workflow and seeing that mapped out on multiple different boards is pretty awesome. That’s really helpful for me. The atmosphere here is awesome. I definitely just stared at the walls figuring out how to make my facility look like this place. This place rocks. It’s invigorating. The walls are super, it’s just very cool. The atmosphere is cool. The people are nice. It’s a pretty cool place to be. Very good learning atmosphere. I literally want to

model it and steal everything that’s here at this facility and basically create it just on

our business side. 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. Here you go. 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 fourteen 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.

So we really just wanna thank you, Clay, and thank you, Vanessa, for everything you’ve done, everything you’ve helped us with.

We love you guys.

Hi there, my name is Stephanie Pipkin. I am 24 years old, and I own Black River Falls Cleaning Services. We opened in April of 2019 and it is now mid-June of 2020. So I wanted to talk today about the success and growth I have achieved by implementing the Proven Path with Clay Clark’s team and my business coach Luke from Thrive Time. It has been insane to say the least.

I started working with them in mid-February of this year. So we’re about four months in of working together, and it has completely transformed my business in pretty much every facet. So I’m just gonna check my notes here. So in four months, my leads have tripled.

I was getting probably like two leads a week. Now I’m getting more in the like 10 to 15 leads a week. I have doubled my number of employees. I’m now hitting the highest revenue weeks in the history of the company week to week it seems like. We went from about six appointments today as our highest in February to now 14 to 15 appointments a day. And hiring quality employees has become much simpler and less stressful by using their systems for hiring.

I typically only get maybe two complaints a month, if that, and everybody shows up to work. I just have really high quality employees now, especially in something people typically consider a high turnover type of work, you know, cleaning houses, cleaning businesses. I have amazing employees now, and I get rid of the ones who are not so amazing and bring on new ones because of you know group interviews and higher interviewing every single week. It’s just been great and such a I don’t waste as much time on low quality candidates anymore. I have successfully gained

our second largest commercial client and that was during COVID. So again I started working with Luke and Clay in February, and then COVID hit in mid-March or so. So for the entire month of April, we were shut down residential, April and May, I believe. And so despite that, and again, being a new business and all this stuff, I mean, we came out of COVID

like stronger than ever, and now hitting our highest numbers in the history of the company. It just leads, just piling in. And the beauty is when people call us, they’re already sold because of our Google reviews, our online presence, the no-brainer offer that we now give to our clients, which

is if they book their second appointment within a month of the first, they get 50% off. And again, they’re just ready to book. I hardly have to do any work, it feels like, sometimes to actually book people. So that’s amazing. So every week I meet with Luke and it’s awesome. Obviously I’m in Wisconsin, he’s in Oklahoma, but we have a great time. I know I can text him at any time, call him at any time with any issues I’m having, especially when COVID did hit. They were so helpful in helping me get the PPP grants and everything settled away there and really pushed me to make sure I was on the ball and

getting all of the grants that I was possibly able to, which was amazing. So they’ve just been such a wealth of information and when I’m freaking out because, you know, a burning fire is happening, Luke’s there to calm me down and, you know, back me off the cliff edge. And it’s just awesome to have him, you know, as a resource there. So every week we meet and we have a big tracking sheet so we track all my leads, we track my

numbers, where the leads are coming from, any complaints. I love my tracking sheet. I know it’s probably a little extra, but I love it because I can see everything that’s actually happening in my business. This is so important because it’s not like I’m just saying, well, I feel like it’s busier. I know if it’s busier and I know are we making a profit every week?

Why or why not? It’s just amazing. And then I’m tracking my Google reviews, tracking my competitors’ Google reviews, and Luke is always pushing me to get more reviews, even though I was not very comfortable with that at first,

it felt just pushy, but now I’m seeing the effects of having a lot of Google reviews, a lot to me at least, it’s not very high compared to others, but people are finding us on Google and they’re already ready to book because of our reviews. So, you know, going for those reviews has been so integral in having basically easy sell leads. So tracking has been just

so vital and I really enjoy it actually. So anybody who is skeptical about working with Clay or Luke, you know, the whole team at Thrive Time. I was definitely skeptical and to me, again, new business, it seemed like a lot of money, but in comparison to other business coaches, especially like specific to the cleaning industry, like I’m in, I mean, you’re talking like ten thousand dollars a month and honestly, I feel like I get like that much value out of Luke, just Luke just my meeting with him once a week, it’s amazing.

And it has just transformed my business and in every single aspect, I mean, I always aspired to be a successful business owner. And now, I mean, it’s not even a question that this business is going to be successful, even if a pandemic happens and you have to shut down.

I mean, if I can make it through that and directly because of them, it is absolutely because of them. Obviously, I’m a hard worker, blah, blah, blah, all that, and I was made to be an entrepreneur. However, having them as the guiding light of this is what you need to do and it’s very straightforward, doesn’t mean it’s easy, but it is very straightforward of what needs to be done, and I like that. I like having that step-by-step process, and I love having the accountability,

because there’s a lot of stuff that they have me do that I don’t want to do. It’s not fun, but it works. And having that discipline to just do the things week after week, regardless if it’s dull or boring or you don’t want to do it, Luke really

pushes me to do those things, which I love. I mean, I hate it at the time, but I love it, because I can see how it’s affecting my business in a positive way. And I don’t wanna be just good, I wanna be the best. And I see them as an integral part of that.

And I will not be the best if I don’t have them with me. So I just, I love having them on my team and it just feels like the best decision I ever made in my business. And I know I’m still really small and things like that, but there’s a reason I reached out to them when I was

small because I want to be big and I want to not grow and then collapse because I grew too quickly without the correct systems in place. So it’s just, it’s been amazing and I would suggest anybody who’s willing to put in the work and do things that make you uncomfortable, reach out to them. But if you are not willing to change the way you are doing things, if you’re not willing to implement a no-brainer, if you’re not willing to ask for Google reviews,

if you’re not willing to write content, really, really boring content for your website so the Google bots find you, then don’t reach out. You need to be willing to put in the work as well. And your coach will hold you accountable, which I love. Again, the tough love is really great. Luke’s like a stern father figure, but he’s also nice, but also stern when he needs to

be when I’m being lazy and not doing the things that I know I need to do because I don’t want to do them. So that’s just great. Worth every penny. I mean I’d pay him a million dollars a month if I can and maybe someday I’ll be able to but I would just say go for it. If it seems like a good fit, just go for it. Do what they say even if you think it’s stupid or ridiculous. Just do what they say because it’ll work. You know people when they look at my business, you know people in my town, they think I’m lucky.

They think I’m just, things just happen for me. And you know, maybe I am lucky, but it has a lot to do with hard work and perseverance and working till you cry sometimes. That’s just being an entrepreneur, which if you’re a business owner, you understand that.

But it’s having these systems in place of, of course I’m gonna be successful. It’s an absolute, because I have all this stuff in the background happening and I have Luke and Clay and everybody on their team working really hard to make sure that I’m a success. And I can tell that they are just so excited every single week when I’m having all these wins and things like that. They’re so excited for me. So it’s the best thing ever and I would suggest to anybody to work with them. So, sorry for the long-winded reply,

but I just had so much to say, and I could go on for hours probably about how amazing they are. But thank you to Clay and Luke and the entire team there, everything you guys have done for me, and I am so excited to continue to work with you

for years to come.

Clay Clark is here somewhere. Where’s my buddy Clay?

Yeah, Clay Clark! Yeah! 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.

Okay, Aaron Antis, March 6th and 7th, March 6th and 7th, guess who’s coming to Tulsa, Russia? Ooh, Santa Claus? No, that’s March. March 6th and 7th. We’re gonna be joined by Robert Kiyosaki Robert Kiyosaki, best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, possibly the best-selling or one of the best-selling business authors of all time and he’s gonna be joined with Eric Trump. We’ll be joined by Eric Trump We got Eric Trump and Robert Kiyosaki? Well, you’ve 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 for the author the best-selling author of rich dad port at Robert Kiyosaki the guy that kick-started your career

Yeah, he’s gonna be here. He’s gonna be here I’m um 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 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. 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 10 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. You know, 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 in a 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 the most people we’ve ever had in this building was for the Jim Brewer presentation. Jim Brewer came here. The legendary comedian Jim Brewer came to Tulsa, and we had 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. No, I’m just kidding. So I thought, you know what, we should probably add on. So 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

ThriveTimeShow.com go to ThriveTimeShow.com. When you go to ThriveTimeShow.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. Just text 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, 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. Juan, zero Juan, zero two. That is not actually bilingual. That’s just saying Juan for a one. It’s not the same thing.

I think you’re attacking me.

Now, let’s talk about this. Now, 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 then you tell me what you’re gonna 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 got to get my brand known out there, like the Trump brand. You want to 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, you either have great people or you have people who suck. And so it could 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 going to teach you accounting. We’re going to teach you personal finance, how to manage your finance. We’re going to teach you time management.

How do you manage your time? 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 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. Again, folks, this is a two-day interactive 15… Think about this, folks. It’s two days. Each day it starts at 7 a.m. and it goes until 5 p.m.

So from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., 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 upselling 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 going to probably be alpaca here, llamas, helicopter rides, a coffee bar, a snow cone. I mean, you had a crocodile one time.

That was pretty interesting.

You know, I should write that down. And actually, that’s it.

Sorry for that one guy that we lost.

The crocodile, we duct taped its face. So that, right, we duct taped. No, 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 passing that thing around and testing. I should do that. I should. We have a small petting zoo that will be assembled. It’s going to 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 three 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 a thousand chance of succeeding in the game of business. It’s tough.

But yet, the average client that you and I work with, we can typically double this. No hyperbole, no exaggeration, and I have thousands of testimonials to back this up. We have thousands 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. And you say double?

Yeah, there’s businesses that we have tripled, there’s businesses we’ve grown 8x, there’s so many examples you can see at thrivetimeshow.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, Clay, is there more? I need more. Well, OK, 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? His wealth strategist, Tom Wheelwright, will be here. And you say, Clay, I still, I’m not going to get a ticket unless you give me more. Okay, fine. We’re going to serve you the same meal both days. True story.

We cater in the food and because I keep it simple, I literally bring in the same food both days for lunch. It’s Ted Escovedo’s, an incredible Mexican restaurant that’s gonna 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 going to mention their names right now because I’m working on it behind the scenes here but we’ve got one guy who’s giving 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 with it’s the it’s where you rent it’s short it’s where you’re renting storage spaces he’s a storage space guy he owns this what do we call that the rental the 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 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 an 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 of 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 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 going to change your life. I promise you this will be 10 times better than that.

It’s like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

Don’t do the smoke your way to thin conference. That is… I’ve tried it. Don’t do it.

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. It’s not the 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 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.

I promise you it will be a life-changing experience. We can’t wait to see you right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.