Clay Clark Client Testimonials | “We Do AV Production for Live Events. I’ve Applied So Many Things That I’ve Learned. I Love Being Here In Person! Hilarious!” + Celebrating the Epic Growth of LALightingAndSound.com

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My name is Elliot Samson and I’m from Los Angeles, California. The name of my business is Samson Sound and Lighting and we do AV production for live events. I’ve applied so many things that I’ve learned but I think specifically from today is making sure that some of my systems are in place when it comes to the three-legged marketing school. The atmosphere is amazing so I love to come back in person. It’s nothing like being here in person. Clay’s presentation style is super energetic and hilarious and at the same time filled

with a bunch of really practical and usable knowledge. Oh man, this conference is unlike any other. It’s environment and the energy is just fantastic. You know I know I got it I got involved by listening to the podcast and that’s great and the podcast is amazing and I recommend everyone subscribe, but there’s nothing like being here in person. When you’re here in person, you get to ask your own questions and you get to really meet everyone in person and have your business questions answered to your business specifically.

All right, we’re calling our next guest here, Jason. This is with Samson Sound and Lighting. We’re calling LA here now. Oh, yeah. Elliot. Elliot, what’s up, man?

Hey, hey. Good morning. I’m sorry for the delay here. We just did a call-in with a Thriver based in Florida, and now we’re switching coasts. For the listeners out there that are not familiar with where you’re located, where are you located, my friend?

Ooh, Los Angeles, California. What has caused you to live in Los Angeles? And are you not aware of the taxes? Oh gosh, Clay, I was born this way. So, yeah. Can you, I know you can’t necessarily

name drop all of the big clients you work with because, because certain things are private, that kind of thing. But could you share with listeners what the name of your company is and some of the big-time people you’ve worked with over the years. Oh Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thanks for having me on. Yeah, Samson sound and lighting. Okay, and We’ve worked most recently with la read

Julia Roberts the Wall Street Journal Dan blizzard and Jones day all-american rejects Gypsy Kings Twitter League of Legends USC Steve Aoki, Chicago, and The Doors. I have a couple of tie-ins to your name drops there. The founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, is also the co-founder of Square. We just interviewed the co-founder of Square, Jim McKelvey, this past week.

So a little connection there. And then Tony Braxton was who I was going to marry in middle school and high school. I was determined… That didn’t work out? No, I was determined that Tony was going to marry me and it didn’t happen. I’m glad it worked out great with my wife here.

But L.A. Reid is who produced and really introduced Tony Braxton to the world right there. Tony, L.A. Reid and Babyface. What was it like interacting with L.A. Reid? Is he a super cool dude? He is the only other guy who I know can wear shorts the way you can. I mean, just…

Nobody like you two. So, you know, I think you guys are really brothers secretly. So what was your experience with him? Were you doing a party for him in his backyard or a big client gathering or a big corporate event? What kind of event were you doing?

Yeah, so he’s got a new record company called Hitco Records that’s got Jennifer Lopez and some other big artists on it. And unfortunately, Tony couldn’t have made it, otherwise I would have tried to give her her number, figured it out. But they were doing a new artist showcase. And we got hired to do all the lighting for that.

So that was really cool. So what was your life like growing up there? Just so the folks out there who maybe aren’t familiar with your story, Elliot, what was your life like growing up as a kid? Yeah, like I said, I was born this way, so I grew up out in L.A. Good life growing up.

I enjoyed it. Grew up out here and then spent, I went to college in New York, studied abroad in Israel for a little bit, and then came back home because I decided I didn’t like the cold weather. And so you came back home, and when did you decide that you wanted to get involved in the lighting industry or the event decor industry? Sure.

Gosh, I think I kind of fell into that by accident. It was my hobby. I was playing drums growing up and actually put my way through school being a drummer. That’s kind of how I supported myself while I was in New York and then while I was back in L.A. Slowly but surely, it went from drums to sound to lighting to projection and pretty soon

my hobby grew out of control and here we are. What services do you guys provide now at Samson Sound and Lighting? So, because we do a lot of corporate events now at the moment, we used to do almost 90 weddings a year,

now we do a little bit more in the event space and the corporate space, but we do sound, lighting, and projection. So, anything from one mic to a 60-piece orchestra, two speakers to 20, any kind of stage, dance floor lighting, decorative lighting, custom logos in light for companies, and projection, projection I was at Jim Henson Studios, very famous out here,

for looking to do an event for a client and we’re looking at putting about eight projectors into that room to just have like a living decor for them. So it’s gonna be pretty cool. How did you fund and found your company? I mean, do you remember where you were located

when you started the company? Well, I was in the Oral Roberts University, my dorm room, and I just decided to start a DJ company. Oh, no, that wasn’t me. Oh, OK. Nice. I was going to say, we have a very similar background.

Now, how did I fund it first? You know, it’s a good question. I was working for a not I was playing drums, actually, in a band for a youth group that I used to work with, the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, and you know, keeping the kids out of trouble. And they kept calling me, hey, Elliot, you know, the sound is not working.

Can you come fix it? So, I kept saying, okay, hey, you know, I’m on my way. I’ll come fix it. But pretty soon, I was like, hey, listen, you’re paying. So they said, well, we like you. I said, okay, well, how about this?

Why don’t you give me a four-event contract for like two years because they did two national events every year. And two will be to make my money back from the new equipment that I don’t have to buy, because I don’t have a company at the time, buyer rent. And I said, listen, as long as I do a good job, keep me around. And then the other two will help me to make it worth my while and also to try to help

fund equipment. And I really actually thought it was going to be a twice-a-year thing, but that helped me to get started. How did you get the funding needed to start the company? Door-to-door cookie sales. I just worked hard, begged, borrowed, and stole.

Well, I didn’t really steal. They weren’t Girl Scout cookies, were they? Did you sell cookies? Yeah. You know, when I was like six or seven, I was always going door to door selling stuff in my neighborhood.

So it was magazines, it was chocolate cookies, you know, whatever I was selling. I was going door to door when I was young. So you literally started your company by going door to door? Well, if we started when I was six, then sure. How did you get the funding to start this? I think a lot of listeners out there, they want to start their own thing, and they’re

looking up your company right now, and they just want to know, how did you get the money needed to buy your first equipment? Yeah, so it was that initial contract with that youth group that I said, hey, give me a two-year contract. Let’s fund it. I need money to buy some equipment and that started

me off. And then slowly, because again, I was only thinking I was doing this twice a year, but then it, so I got enough cash to buy some speakers, buy a mixing board, and I had a bunch of mics and stuff like that because I actually ran a recording studio when I was in high school for a little bit, which was pretty cool. I always had a little bit of gear hanging around and I just needed a little bit more to complete it.

I was lucky that I didn’t have to go and take a big loan out. I was lucky that I didn’t have to go and look for investors to get capital because little did I know at the time, but I wouldn’t have wanted to give up equity in the company just to get started. I think if you don’t have to do that, that’s great. I was lucky enough that I was able to build it slowly and kind of pre-sell those first couple of contracts to fund it in the beginning.

How big was the first contract? Do you remember the dollar amount? Was it a few thousand bucks? Was it thousands and thousands of dollars? Yeah. To me, at the time, it was a big deal.

It was about, so it was four events and each, and it was about four events, each event was try about $2,500. Cool, man. So that was a pretty big deal for you, about a $10,000 deal. Oh, yeah. When did you say, I think this may work, I mean, when did you get some traction?

When did you feel like this was actually working. Oh, wow. When did I? You know, it’s I was in Vegas. We haven’t even had that thought yet. You were in Vegas.

OK. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So if we get, oh, you still got me? Yeah. I got you.

Oh, OK. Cool, cool. Yeah, so fast forward a couple of years. I was in Vegas and doing a week-long event, and there’s all these posters in Vegas for all the performers and all the DJs, and I didn’t really know who Steve Aoki was at the time, but I saw a whole bunch of posters with his face on it, and at that point, I actually got a call while we were in Vegas to say,

event for Steve Aoki and I said, oh you mean the guy on all the posters? Sure, why not? The man with the cakes? The man with the cake, yeah. It was the actually first and only event that I’ve done that they had a giraffe at that event and they said, well, you know Elliot, we’re not going to spend a ton on the lighting because we think people are going to remember the giraffe more and I said huh and I turned to the caterer next to me I said what did you hear he goes yeah I I heard giraffe too. Like a real live giraffe? That’s what I heard. Wow.

It was cool we showed up there was a giraffe on the red carpet first time I ever lit a giraffe and it worked out great. So now how did you originally hear about us? So being a drummer, I was on tour and the company was doing pretty well. I had a good team at the time doing events. I was able to put some systems in place kind of without knowing it. And I said, well, you know, I want to learn more about business and growing the business and I got turned on. My synagogue had a mentor’s program and that

guy said, well, you know, why are you spending money on new equipment? I said, well, because I like it and it’s really shiny and these speakers are really cool. He said, well, why don’t you put your money into marketing instead? And I said, well, what’s marketing? So I started to go online and look up podcasts and try to learn more about business and got a little bit hooked. And I have to say, I listened to you guys

for about the full three weeks when I was on tour. And I must have, I just, I was hooked. I went through, gosh, I don’t even know how many shows. And then got a call from, I think Marshall, actually. Yeah. And did an assessment and he said,

hey, are you interested? I said, well, I don’t know. And very, very glad I ended up playing out with you guys. What’s been your experience like attending the conferences and then the one-on-one coaching? So the conference is another world. It’s the best thing you can go to to really learn practical advice as a new business owner.

And I think there’s not only new business owners there. I mean, I was sitting in the room at the first conference with a gentleman who’s the founder or not sure if he’s the founder, but the president of Scribe Media. Oh, yes. Yeah. JT McCormick.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I got to sit next to him pretty much at that conference. And actually, funny enough, on the way back to L.A., I was in the airport next to him waiting at TSA, and we were having a great chat. That is so funny because he produces the book for two guys you like, Jason.

We’ve got Tiffany Haddish. He helped her publish her book. And who else was it? The Supermarine or the Navy Seals. Yeah. Yeah.

And so, but again, it’s so fun at the conferences because you’re sitting next to entrepreneurs who are super successful. And it’s just such a surreal thing when you’re building a baby business and you’re meeting with somebody who’s way down the path. Or maybe you’re just starting and they’re a little bit further down the path. Or maybe they’re at the end of the path.

We have one guy who comes to conferences a lot who sold his company for a ton of money and he was sitting next to one of my clients. This just happened yesterday, by the way. My client, this was the story yesterday, my client calls me and says, hey, I just got an offer to sell my company for $21 million. Would you do it?

Oh! And I said, oh yeah. Because, based on the economy, the availability of private equity, his industry, a lot of variables, I said absolutely. But what’s interesting is that this particular Thriver who has sold his business comes to the conferences just to look for opportunities and to meet other Thrivers and to look for

business niches to get involved in. I want to go back into your niche because your niche is sound and enlightening and you’re obviously having some success now. You’re building that momentum, but what was the lowest point for you? Because I think when you come to a conference, you can sit by people that are struggling or have struggled, and they kind of encourage each other.

What was the lowest low point for you in your career thus far? Oh, sure. I mean, gosh, you sit next to JT, and you hear his story, and I think, man, life’s good for me. I had no issues growing up. Growing up, I mean, he really had an amazing story.

But, gosh, for me, you know, I was building up the company. We were getting some momentum. I was storing my ever-growing gear in my grandfather’s garage at that point. And we just had floor-to-ceiling equipment in there. I’d say within that one week, my wife and I had separated, so my marriage kind of fell apart and my garage burned down.

There was an electrical fire in there, which was probably $40,000 to $60,000 in equipment. So yeah, that was a rough week. I think I even came down with pneumonia that week also. It was quite a week. How did you not quit?

And what advice would you have for anybody out there who’s going through a similar series of unfortunate circumstances? How did you not quit? Yeah, I’ll leave it up to you. I didn’t have a choice. I kind of thankfully didn’t have time to think about it. I had an event that night. So even as the fire department is there spraying a whole bunch of water on the gear to put it out because it was on fire, either of which is good for sound and lighting equipment, I had to figure out how to service my clients. I mean, really what I sell is not sound and lighting, I sell problem solving. And that night my client had a problem, he needed lighting and sound and a drummer.

And we made it happen. So we were digging through rubble basically, trying to figure out what we had that still worked, calling in a couple quick favors and renting gear. It was really just getting back and doing events. If I had enough time to really think about it and feel sorry for myself, I don’t know. We may have never met. I wouldn’t be talking to you now, today, like this. I would have gone and done something But I didn’t have the opportunity to do that.

We had to keep going. I want to make sure the listeners out there hear this over and over and over again. But Conrad Hilton, the founder of the Hilton Hotel chain, he once wrote, success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

And I’m not going to argue with a dead man, but I would say, the only edit I would make to his quote is, success is connected with action. Successful people do keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. I’ve never had a client I’ve met who hasn’t made mistakes. I think the value of a mentor is they can help you avoid mistakes, but you’re going

to have mistakes. What advice would you give to a younger version of yourself as it relates to business? Well, it definitely would be great if they read their fire insurance contract. It would be better than I did. Right. That would be a nice pro tip.

Yeah, pro tip. Read your insurance contract and then read it again. And then don’t trust them and have someone else read it. That I think was good. Get a mentor. Get a coach right away.

Gosh, I mean, I always looked at it as my hobby, and kind of funny enough, when I was sitting next to JT at that first conference, and really at that point, I had six guys working part-time for me, and we were doing hundreds of events,

and I still wasn’t able to trust myself that this was really a career for me, and I turned to J.P. and said, hey, how do I know if this is a career? How do I know if sound and lighting can be something that I can build a company on and build a life on? He just turned to me and said, well, that’s easy. It’s because other people have done it. That’s not the question you need to ask yourself.

And I went, huh, because that was really the question that was bugging me for years. I said, gosh, I don’t know, can this industry, is sound and lighting a thing? And he’s like, no, no, that’s not the right question.

I know sound and lighting’s a thing because we have companies out there that are successful that are doing it. He said, you just have to figure out how to go out there and do it better. And then take all those clients and don’t look back.

Were there people that challenged you on that? Were there like parents, grandparents, were there people that said, hey, when are you gonna get a real job? When are you gonna quit this hobby, music thing? That’s a great question, Dr. Brett.

I mean, because you said you crossed the country to go to college and then studied abroad and then they feel like, hey, we’ve got this investment in something. Was there a point where they said, hey, when are you going to do something real?

Yeah, Clay, do you mind calling my mom? That would be awesome. I’d appreciate it. So she’s still challenging it. Is that what you’re saying? No, they’ve been great.

I think they still look at it a little skeptically and think, well, wouldn’t it be better, safer if you just went back to your old job and worked at the school district, if you just had that tension that vested, if you just went that safe, comfortable route. I’ve got my Jewish grandparents, so if I’m not a doctor or a lawyer, who am I? I want to throw this out here for somebody out there because I vividly… We all experience entrepreneurship a little differently, but my wife and I, after I sold DJ Connection,

I kept getting hired to do speaking events. And it was very organic how it happened. There wasn’t any marketing. It was just people were reaching out to me, and I’m like, OK, I’ll do that event. So I spoke to Rose State College.

And that led to a lady seeing me speak at a small college, I think in Alva, Oklahoma, where they have big windmills. Is it Rose State? It’s not even in existence anymore, is it? Really? I don’t know.

So then the Alva College booked me once and then booked me twice. And then somebody who was there referred me to an event in San Diego that led to another one. And eventually I was speaking all the time. And one month we had 12 events in the same month with a tour that featured going to Toronto, Denver, San Diego, driving somewhere to Springfield, Missouri to speak for O’Reilly’s all in the

same month. I remember turning to my wife, because she went with me on all the events, and I said, we have got to do it differently. We’ve got to build a building where people can come to us. But I remember that every single person that heard that I was turning down speaking events to build my own thing so that people could travel to Tulsa to see it said I was crazy.

So I eventually just quit telling people. They would ask me, like, hey dude, how come you’re not speaking anymore? I said, well, I am, but I’m just coming to Tulsa. And the first conference that I rolled out in Tulsa, we had 30, it was almost 40, I think Carter was at that one, Carter Watts was at that one. We had like 40 people in attendance.

I think maybe, Dr. J was there, I think. And he flew in, and it’s like business meets comedy. And if you’re not ready for it, it’s like, is this a thing? And I think those people refer to people and it starts to happen. But if you ever have like a, if you build it, they’ll come moment. We just talked about that.

I never had that moment. I can just say that it comes down to marketing. Because I can feel like that’s going to be a thing all I want, but until I actually market the thing and get it in front of our ideal and likely buyers, it’s not going to be a thing. Final question here for you before we let you go here.

You’ve read a lot of books on your path to success. What are a couple of books you’d recommend for all the listeners out there to read? Gosh. Well, you guys started me, so I’m definitely blaming you completely for this. I haven’t just listed, I do a lot of Audible because I drive a whole bunch in LA.

In LA, it’s not a matter of how close things are, it’s a matter of what time you try to get there with our traffic. So yeah, I started with Think and Grow Rich, and that’s a must. From there, I think the last couple ones I read

or listened to, I like to say read because it makes me feel good. But the E-Myth by Michael Gerber, that one was awesome. I think I need to listen to that another 10 times. And then Cash Flow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki was pretty phenomenal. Cash Flow Quadrant, just so we know if you’re out there, it explains the journey of going

from an employee to being self-employed to being an owner of a company that doesn’t require your time, to being an investor. It’s a phenomenal book. Think and Grow Rich. I named my son after the author, Napoleon Hill. My son’s name is Aubrey Napoleon Hill.

An E-Myth by Michael Gerber will teach you how to work on the business and not in the business. I guess one final sneaky question for you. For anybody out there who has not come to a conference yet, why do you believe they should all come out to at least one in-person workshop? I think just like you said, you can read these books and learn how to work on your business

and not in it, and learn how to try to take your money and buy assets. The conference is such an immersive experience from just the energy to sitting next to people who have done it and done it multiple times and successfully getting all your questions answered. That’s amazing, Clay. I don’t know how you, you know, you get these whiteboards filled up with questions and then you think, man, there’s no way he’s going to answer all these questions and then you guys just blast through those. So it’s very personal and

it’s very practical. So I mean I think that’s something you can only get at a conference, the personal and the practical. And you might get to be next to the founder of the company. I’ve never been to another conference that has done it. I appreciate you so much for taking your time out of your schedule and for waking up at 5 in the morning, your time, on the day when we lost an hour. True.

So I appreciate you waking up at 4 o’clock California time to bless people that you’ve never met. Again, Mr. Sampson, thank you so much. And what’s your website one more time so the listeners out there can check it out? Yeah, absolutely. So the company is Samson Sound and Lighting, and the website is lalightingandsound.com,

and it’s a phenomenal site designed by Jason over there and the team at Thrive. And yeah, you guys just keep helping me grow it and scale it and repeat that. So I appreciate you guys. We appreciate you, my friend, and I hope you have a great rest of your Sunday. We’ll be talking to you soon. Thanks so much.

All right. Take care. Take care. Bye-bye. Clay Clark 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. 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, you’re going to 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 going to be joined with Eric Trump. He’ll be joined by Eric Trump. We’ve 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’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 kick-started it all for you, Rich Dad Pornhub, the best-selling author of Rich Dad Pornhub, Robert Kiyosaki, the guy that kick-started your career, he’s going to be here.

He’s going to 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 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. We’re 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 that. 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 gonna be amazing. Now, think about this for a second. Would you buy a ticket just to see Robert Kiyosaki, 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 the legendary comedian Jim Brewer came to Tulsa and we had 419 people that were here for 19 people. Yeah, and I thought to myself that 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. So I thought, you know what, we should probably add on. So we’re adding on what we call the upper deck, 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 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. That’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. 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 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. It can be a challenge. 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 know you can get those people all pulling in the same direction. So we’re gonna 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 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 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. 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 passing that thing around and petting

it. 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 U.S. 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 it’s 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. But yet the average client that you and I work with, we can typically double this. No hyperbole, no exaggeration. 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 it throughout 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 bestselling 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 to food and because I keep it simple, I literally bring them 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 rustic cuff dot 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, it’s the, it’s where you rent, it’s short term, 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 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, 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 thrive timeshow.com go there right now thrive timeshow.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 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 ten 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. We can’t wait to see you right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.