Real Estate Photography | How to Grow a Successful Real Estate Photography Business + Thomas Crosson & FullPackageMedia.com Success Story + Join Eric Trump At Clay Clark’s Dec. 4-5 ThrivetimeShow.com Business Conference

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(Speaker 2)
My name is Thomas Croston. I’m originally from Houston, Texas. I own a real estate photography, marketing, drone videography company. I’m also a coaching client of Clay’s. I think so far in the conference, we’ve learned some little things that we’ve been doing wrong maybe the whole time, and just little tweaks that we can make that’ll really help our business keep growing. I really like the energy of the conference, you know, having everyone here.

(Speaker 2)
It’s a really good environment and really gets you excited to be with like -minded people that are all, you know, kind of focused on the same goal for each of their businesses. Clay’s Glory is super excited, you know, very high energy, he’s got good stories. It’s nice to hear stories from someone that has practical experience and that’s done it and not just some guy that you don’t know anything about, that you can’t verify any of his stories, you can’t verify anything about his companies. Everything about Clay, you can look up, you can read about the companies and see that it’s all real stuff. It’s big, it’s exciting, a lot of motivational stuff. The pinion wood is great.

(Speaker 2)
I think if you don’t come to the conference, you’re missing out on kind of that full experience from starting business day one, how to set your branding, to how to grow, how to hire or fire people, how to do interviews. A lot of conferences focus on one aspect of business, whether it be marketing or SEO, or starting or growing or getting funding. The Thrive Conference really has a lot encompasses all that so it’s a lot more benefit for one conference.

(Speaker 3)
My name is Gretchen Mikulich and I’m from Dallas, Texas. I own a real estate media company. I’m a business coach client with Clay so I work with them every week. Our business is at a stage where we’re really trying to learn processes, so I think that’s one of the key things we took away is how to learn how to build processes that are sustainable and that our employees can follow and make it simple for anyone to follow. We learned about processes, we learned about finance, we learned about HR, you name it. They went over everything.

(Speaker 3)
There’s a lot of value that they taught, and I’m really glad we came. We really enjoyed Clay. I mean, he’s a great guy. He’s personable. Everything about the conference is just, you learn a lot. and also you have a good time.

(Speaker 3)
You meet a lot of people and it’s really fun. It’s high energy. People are pumped. Everyone’s been successful. You definitely got to check it out. Other conferences are all kind of showsy, salesmanshipy, try to upsell you.

(Speaker 3)
This conference is not like that at all. It’s very grassroots, you know, teach you exactly how to do stuff. It’s very raw, open. They don’t play any games, no gimmicks. If someone does not attend, they’re missing out on how to grow their business. I mean, successful people meet with successful people and they learn from successful people, so.

(Speaker 35)
Hey, how’s it going?

(Speaker 2)
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. No clients, no idea what we were doing, no clue really what was going on. we’ve grown to where we’ve got six photographers, we’ve got office space here, I have an admin sales person that works for us full time, developing an online system, and a lot of that growth we attribute to Clay helping us, and there’s so many things that, I mean, his stuff is not revolutionary, it’s not this crazy walk on hot coals and all this stuff, it’s just real stuff, and like group interviews, we were totally against group interviews, we were like, no, we’re different, and we’re special, and we need to you know, do one -on -one interviews so we can find good quality candidates and not just kind of do this group interview thing. And we tried that and failed miserably.

(Speaker 2)
We did group interviews. Now we do them every two weeks. And it’s awesome. It works good. We always have kind of influx of new people that we can train, get going. He’s helped us a lot with our website, graphic design, SEO.

(Speaker 2)
SEO is another thing that I thought before I started this business and before Clay that it was kind of a joke or You know, something that only your apples of the world can do. and Amazon could get to the top of Google. But Clay said, no, just do these things, follow these steps, and you’ll get there. And 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.

(Speaker 2)
That’s really cool. It’s really awesome to get leads that people call you and say, hey, I found you on Google. We want to hear about your services. So that’s really great. There’s nobody out there that’s not a good coaching client for Clay. I mean, regardless of the business, it’s not about what the business is, what the specialty is.

(Speaker 2)
It’s about following the steps, doing what he says. You know, it’s a good thing. An hour a week, it gets you on track and keeps you kind of in line of what you’re doing and what you shouldn’t be doing. And it’s good to kind of give you some flow and future goals of your business. And I remember our first meeting, we set our goals. And our goal was to do 16 shoots a week.

(Speaker 2)
And at the time, me and my business partner slash girlfriend Gretchen were like, oh, that’s we’re never going to do 16 a week. That’s like crazy. And today we’re doing nine and we did about 54 last week. So he’s helped us grow. You know, we put in a lot of hours, a lot of hard work as well. But if you follow his steps and do what he says, there’s a lot of principles that he’s kind of taught and still in us.

(Speaker 2)
that help us. So yeah, ClickClark is the way to go. I wouldn’t 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.

(Speaker 34)
Thanks.

(Speaker 11)
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(Speaker 10)
It’s already changing the face of small business right here in Tulsa.

(Speaker 1)
We have to determine that we’re going to live before we die.

(Speaker 10)
One quick glance at this wall, and it’s clear that CEO Clay Clark knows what he’s talking about. Right now, he is one of America’s most sought after business and entrepreneurship coaches. He’s working to teach entrepreneurs specifically what they need to start and grow business.

(Speaker 1)
Marketing, sales, PR.

(Speaker 5)
But Clay Clark, man, he is one character.

(Speaker 9)
That’s a good word for him, character. Yeah, that is it.

(Speaker 5)
Good, driven, smart. And I’ve never met a guy who was so hyper all the time. He’s doing so much good. And then I met his mother, and she just says, she just lets him be Clay Clark. I mean, so he’s endorsed by his mother, and he’s doing magnificent work. So it was great meeting you out there and all the people that he surrounds himself with.

(Speaker 5)
Clay Clark starts his days at five o ‘clock in the morning.

(Speaker 9)
Oh, it’s incredible. Yeah. He’s, he’s like, he’s, he’s a machine.

(Speaker 5)
He’s a machine. But his, you know, I could, I have problems with my company starting at nine o ‘clock. He has hundreds of people showing up at 5 .00 AM in Tulsa, Oklahoma, man. He’s a leader of a leader. He’s fantastic.

(Speaker 12)
Yeah, man.

(Speaker 22)
No, he is.

(Speaker 14)
Clay Clark is here somewhere.

(Speaker 6)
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.

(Speaker 33)
He’s like the greatest.

(Speaker 6)
I ran from his goats, his chickens, his dogs. So this guy’s like the greatest marketer you’ve ever seen, right?

(Speaker 4)
His entire life, Clay Clark, his entire life is marketing. Four thousand percent from February to February. Now, I can better that. OK, Clay, I don’t think you know this. I don’t think you know this. I’m pinching myself.

(Speaker 4)
And if I cry, forgive me. In the last two and a half days, we have bettered our entire month of February in the last two and a half days. So, and the phone’s blowing up. Everything’s just blowing up. You’re right. It is like a rocket ship.

(Speaker 5)
So we’re pinching ourselves, actually. I learned at the Academy at King’s Point in New York, acta non verba.

(Speaker 1)
Watch what a person does, not what they say.

(Speaker 18)
Okay, Aaron Antis, guess who’s joining us for the December 4th and 5th, 2025 Thrive Time Show Business Growth Workshop.

(Speaker 32)
Ooooooh.

(Speaker 1)
Santa Claus? No, we will not be joined by Santa Claus, but we will be joined by Eric Trump, the son of the 45th and now 47th president of these United States. And yes, Amanda Grace will be in the place. And yes, Dr. Stella Manuel will be there, so you know it will go well. Yes, we have Mel Kaye in the house. Pastor Phil and Tammy Hotzenpiller will be hosting this event at their beautiful church right there in sunny Anaheim, California.

(Speaker 1)
Yes, folks, make this a December to remember. Make this a December to remember and join us at the two day interactive business growth workshops. For over 20 years, folks, I’ve been hosting business growth workshops, where we’re going to teach you marketing, sales systems, human resources, accounting, social media, marketing, branding, sales training, search engine optimization, accounting, workflow development, financial management, all this and more. How do you get tickets? Go to thrivetimeshow .

(Speaker 1)
com. Again, how do you get tickets?

(Speaker 31)
Go to thrivetimeshow .

(Speaker 1)
com and request tickets today. I’m Ron Burgundy. he needs 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?

(Speaker 1)
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.

(Speaker 8)
That’s going to be amazing.

(Speaker 20)
Now think about this for a second.

(Speaker 30)
Nothing is over until we decided this.

(Speaker 29)
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

(Speaker 17)
German?

(Speaker 1)
Forget it. He’s rolling. And it ain’t over now.

(Speaker 28)
The lineup continues to grow.

(Speaker 1)
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 $5 ,000. 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.

(Speaker 1)
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.

(Speaker 27)
That’s how I do it.

(Speaker 1)
And it’s $500 for a VIP ticket.

(Speaker 26)
Now, we only have limited seating here.

(Speaker 1)
There’s a lot of togetherness and closeness, camaraderie. 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 .

(Speaker 1)
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 in mind. private between you, between you, me, everybody.

(Speaker 25)
We’ll keep that private.

(Speaker 1)
And anybody, don’t share that with anybody except for everybody. That’s my private cell phone number.

(Speaker 18)
It’s 918 -851 -0102. 918 -851 -0102.

(Speaker 1)
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.

(Speaker 1)
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 going to learn here. Okay.

(Speaker 1)
Okay. You’re going to learn marketing, marketing and branding. What are we going to learn about marketing and branding?

(Speaker 13)
Oh yeah.

(Speaker 1)
We’re going to dive into, you know, so many people say, Oh, you know, I got to get my brand known out there like the Trump brand, right? You want to get that brand out there. It’s like, how do I actually make people know what my business is? is and make it a household name. You’re going to learn some intricacies of how to do that. that.

(Speaker 1)
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.

(Speaker 1)
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. 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.

(Speaker 1)
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?

(Speaker 1)
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?

(Speaker 24)
Everything that you need to know to start and grow a business will be taught during this two -day interactive business workshop.

(Speaker 1)
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 .

(Speaker 1)
m. So from 7 a . m. to 5 p . m. , two days.

(Speaker 1)
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? 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.

(Speaker 1)
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.

(Speaker 1)
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.

(Speaker 23)
And this is also your opportunity to meet some of the great speakers like Pastor Dave Scarlett.

(Speaker 1)
You could meet Mel K. You could meet Amanda Grace. You could meet Dr. Stella Emanuel. You could just grab a coffee. You could find some alone time. You could get lost in the bathroom. You could try to go and get a photo with one of the speakers.

(Speaker 1)
You could try to photobomb a photo where someone else is getting a photo with the speakers. You could go attempt to find your phone, wallet, and your keys. Now that’s a good idea.

(Speaker 22)
That means you have less than 3 % of our population that’s even self -employed.

(Speaker 1)
So you only have 3 out of every 100 people in America that are self -employed to begin with. And when Inc.

(Speaker 21)
Magazine reports that 96 % of businesses fail by default, by default you have

(Speaker 1)
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. I’m just no, no, 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. Yeah.

(Speaker 1)
Double. And you say double. Yeah. There’s businesses that we have tripled. There’s businesses.

(Speaker 20)
We’ve grown eight X. There’s so many examples.

(Speaker 1)
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. Add to that Eric Trump, the man that runs the Trump organization. You say, Clay, I still, I’m not going to get a ticket unless you give me more.

(Speaker 1)
Okay, fine. We’re going to serve you the same meal both days. True story. We have, we cater in the food and because I keep it simple, I literally bring him the same food both days for lunch. Let’s go! It’s an incredible Mexican restaurant.

(Speaker 1)
That’s going to happen. 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.

(Speaker 1)
Go there right now. Thrivetimeshow . com.

(Speaker 14)
Request a ticket for the two -day interactive event.

(Speaker 1)
Again, the event’s going to be on December 4th and 5th in sunny Anaheim, California. Great weather makes this a December to remember.

(Speaker 19)
Eric Trump, the man who leads the Trump Organization.

(Speaker 1)
It’s going to be a blasty blast. There’s no upsells. Aaron, I could not be more excited. excited about this event.

(Speaker 18)
I think it is incredible and there’s somebody out there right now you’re watching.

(Speaker 1)
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 ten times better than that.

(Speaker 17)
It’s like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

(Speaker 1)
Don’t do the smoke your way to thin conference. That is, I’ve tried it.

(Speaker 7)
Don’t do it.

(Speaker 15)
Yeah.

(Speaker 16)
Chain smoking is not a viable.

(Speaker 15)
I mean, it is life -changing.

(Speaker 7)
It is life -changing. If you become a chain smoker, it is life -changing. Not the best weight loss program though. Right.

(Speaker 8)
Not really. So 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 .

(Speaker 5)
com. Again, that’s Aaron Antis.

(Speaker 9)
I’m Clay Clark reminding you and inviting you to come out to the two -day interactive Thrive Time Show workshop in beautiful Anaheim, California. I’m from Sarasota, Florida.

(Speaker 5)
I’m Vince Suzuki, also from Sarasota, Florida. He dragged me here. Yup. I was here in 2018, and it changed my business, and I built another business, and now I’m here to do it again with this business. Yeah, I’m a brand strategist, and it’s been really easy to go to a lot of events like this and just leave really in your head what to do next. And already there’s the strategic, step -by -step, real -life implementation that we can do to our business.

(Speaker 5)
And I’m super excited to be here, and very excited that Eric Hump is here.

(Speaker 9)
And that is going to be epic. My name is Erica, and it has been amazing being here at the conference.

(Speaker 5)
I’m learning so much.

(Speaker 14)
Everything is perfect for me.

(Speaker 5)
Clay Clark, man, he is one character. That’s a good word for him, character. Yeah, that is it.

(Speaker 13)
Good, driven, smart.

(Speaker 9)
and I’ve never met a guy who was so hyper all the time.

(Speaker 12)
He’s doing so much good.

(Speaker 9)
And then I met his mother, and she just says, she just lets him be Clay Clark. I mean, so, you know, he’s endorsed by his mother, and he’s doing magnificent work. So it was great meeting you out there and all the people that he surrounds himself with. Clay Clark starts his days at 5 o ‘clock in the morning. Oh, it’s incredible. Yeah.

He’s, he’s like, he’s, he’s a machine. He’s a machine, but his, you know, I could, I have problems with my company starting at nine o ‘clock. Yes. Hundreds of people showing up at 5 .00 AM in Tulsa, Oklahoma, man. He’s a leader of a leader. He’s fantastic.

Yeah, man. No, he is. He is. And it’s, so it’s, it’s, um, you know, for, for the folks that aren’t familiar with you and by a few and far between, I first came across you. Gosh, probably 15 years ago, or maybe even 20.

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