Thank you, thank you, thank you for a great presentation at the Elk Grove Chamber of Commerce general membership meeting in May! You did a great job presenting some important marketing information to the members. Based on the questions from the audience, they found it useful as well as interesting. I doubt that any of the 70-plus members in attendance left without a new tool for use in their business. Should you ever need a reference for other chambers or groups, please do not hesitate to refer them to us. Again, thank you.

I own one of the busiest Specialty Advertising companies in the entire Atlanta area. I've been learning (and teaching) the power of non-traditional and direct response marketing for about 7 years. I thought I "knew it all" when it came to marketing. I was wrong. Your no-nonsense approach to business and marketing had me totally captivated during our brief (60+ minute) conversation last week. You gave me many ideas, one after another, that could immediately be applied to my business. My only regret is that we couldn't chat longer. I would certainly recommend Steve Clauson and Assault Marketing to anyone who is serious about growing their business in a very short amount of time.

I would like to tell you "THANKS" in a big way. The marketing strategies that I have developed through your program have allowed me to optimize and leverage my patient base. You have helped me to define my marketing "niche" and use it to its greatest extent. My business has seen a 38% increase in patients over the past 1 1⁄2 years and I am looking forward to continued success. The marketing strategies that you have taught me are invaluable. I have never enjoyed working as much as I do now. No more banging my head against the wall, trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. I only hope that others who are struggling in their business have the opportunity to meet with you before it's to late for them.

I just wanted to send you a quick thank you letter for helping me improve my advertising copy. After spending hours writing and editing my copy I generally have you review them. And as much as I try to make my copy 'Steve' proof, you find ways to improve them. Ways to make them more compelling, and more interesting. I could feel lousy that I haven't written a perfect ad, but I'm not. I'm grateful for your insight and ability to improve my copy.

My name is Ron Debler and I own Pettinatos Auto Body repair shop in Sacramento, California. This has been a family owned and operated business for over 40 years. Since January of 1999 we have been associated with Steven Clauson/ Focus on Sales and his system of marketing. This association has allowed us to grow at a rate that has been greater than he said it would be and has far exceeded my expectations and hopes. Steven Clauson has assisted me in my direct marketing, community marketing, media advertising, employee development and training, equipment acquisition and general business management. The training and guidance that has been supplied had been easy to follow, very affordable and has accomplished more than was expected. I would wholeheartedly recommend Steven Clauson & Focus on Sales if you want to expand your business.

In all the years that I have been in business for myself, I have never been as busy as I am now, since I began using the tools that you have given me to market my business. My chiropractic office is buzzing with a constant flow of patients. Chiropractic practices are on every street corner in town, so I realize that my patients have many choices. Your ability to show me how to market my practice and develop a relationship with my existing patients has opened the doors to new patients as well. Not only have you helped me increase the amount of patients that I help, you have also helped me cut the cost of my advertising. I am learning to market smart. There is never a dull moment in the office and we are at the point that we welcome the breaks in-between patients so that we can take a breather. Thank you for all of your direction and professional assistance. I owe you a debt of gratitude. I look forward to our continued relationship.

Assault Marketing is an in your face, get results, no excuses marketing firm that will not allow you to settle for average. Steve uses proven techniques and processes that work and will take you and your company to the next level and beyond. If you have to be more successful, more focused, more productive, and more strategic with your time and marketing efforts, I strongly recommend that you call Steve at Assault Marketing. You will not be disappointed. I have been working with Steve for the last 4 months. He has enlightened me on many of the mistakes that I have made and he will not let me make the same sales and marketing mistakes again. I meet with him weekly, and I always leave with more focus, knowledge, and passion than I came to the meeting with. I cannot stress how important it is to have a professional looking at what you are trying to accomplish with your marketing dollars. Steve will challenge you to make changes, to stay informed, and to get out of your comfort zone. This edge will keep you ahead of your competition, lead your company to greater success and profits and help you with time management, which is critical to be in control of your time. He will coach you to be better prepared and to anticipate challenges and problems before they happen. You will suddenly be aware of numerous opportunities that you would never have thought of. Bottom line is, if it is time to grow your business, Assault Marketing is your only choice. I am extremely excited and feel more optimistic today now that I have been guided to the correct course. Steve has helped me point the ship in the proper direction and that direction is SUCCESS!

As in most things in life I have become a bit skeptical when it comes to new ideas or change. The fact that you guaranteed results allowed me the privilege to work with you. In working with you and your company FOCUS ON SALES, I am more than satisfied at the results my business is having based on the marketing tools that you have taught me. In the 9/2 months that we have been working together, I am happy to share the news that I have experienced a 48% profit increase in my business with an 11-1 return on my investment. This was all made possible by way of telephone consulting along with the use of the e-mail and fax machine. Realistically, I did not expect to experience the kind of results that we are enjoying. I am grateful to you for all of your sound advice and encouragement. You have always been available to answer any and all questions. Your marketing guidance and support has brought my business to a level that I never imagined possible. Thank you for all of your help. I looked forward to our continued relationship. I would gladly recommend your services to anyone. If any business or potential client has any questions or concerns regarding our satisfaction with your work and FOCUS ON SALES, they are free to contact me.

Because you have influenced not only me, but also my entire staff with your marketing and business coaching I have collected comments from everyone who have received benefits from working with you. Steve, I would like to take a minute to say thank you! Here is the problem I have had, and it hasn't changed in 10 years - Time, there is not enough of it. I have spent thousands of dollars going to seminars, listening, coming out with great ideas on how to market my company and make more money. Great ideas have never materialized because I couldn't stop working in my business long enough to work on it. You have helped me a lot with this as I had tried to implement a new plan and then don't have the time to follow it with my employees. Now we implement a new plan and you do my follow-up with my employees and nag them until they conform, which allows me to go do what I do best - make money for the company! Now my employees don't hate me for being on their butt all the time to get something done. We have a long way to go, but I don't see how we could do this without Steve & Anne. Thanks for holding us accountable for what we need to do to change our company and make more money, which will buy us more time! Because time is something we can't replace. Chris Dunbar, Owner Dunbar Air Conditioning & Heating I think that Steve Clauson has affected our company tremendously. Working with Steve has been a great experience. Not only is he a consultant to all of us, but he is a friend as well. I know that Steve has taught me to make sure I take responsibility for my actions. And let people know that when something goes wrong either with staff or out on the job. Ryan Steve has helped me by understanding people and learning to feel comfortable when talking with people. Steve has taught me the ability to help the customer understand what needs to need to be met and how to reach their goals. His group

My office has been associated with Steven Clauson since 1998. In particular my business has experienced a dramatic increase in growth as a result of the following: 1. Yellow Pages: Steven Clauson prepared the layout, text and look of my add. The consequence of this effort provided me with outstanding results. I had prepared ads with the "sales" guys in the past and had dismal results. Steven Clauson knew exactly what needed to be presented. 2. Client contact: My clients can reach me 24 hours a day as a result of Steven Clauson excellent idea. He suggested call forwarding to my cell telephone. My telephone rings at all times of the day and my clients talk to a live voice. Clients looking for an attorney do not look from 9 to 5 only. I have received many new clients because all of the other attorney's were closed or had no way of getting a live voice; 3. Easy to Do Networking: I have increased the number of providers who send me business following Steve Clauson simple to use ideas. Working with Steven Clauson has been profitable, easy and fun. I would recommend him as a business advisor. Thank you for your time and consideration regarding this matter.

You have been helping me with my marketing since September 1999. Since that time, my business has increased significantly. I have learned so much from you, and I have an awesome ad in the yellow pages. The time has come to for me to discontinue your services and turn things over to Mellanie. She has some really great ideas, and I am confident that she and I can continue to build on the foundation that you have laid down during the last four years. Thank you for everything that you have done for me. I will continue to recommend you to others that I meet that could benefit from your expert services, and I wish you success in everything that you do.

What an eye opener!! I've been working with you for less than two months and I've already learned more about effectively marketing my business than I have in my entire professional career. I was at the end of my rope trying to accelerate the growth of my quality oriented carpet cleaning business. I followed the advice from the so called "experts" I spoke with and did everything right, yet still didn't see the growth I was expecting. I started asking businesses that I've worked with and respect how they'd dealt with the types of difficulties I was experiencing. Two of my most trusted service providers; Hal's Auto Care and Brower Mechanical, suggested I talk to you. From our first meeting it was apparent that your service is different in a big way from the so called "experts" I've talked to in the past. You took the time to learn about my business and the subtleties surrounding it. No one's ever done that before. You also gave me the unvarnished truth in your assessment of what I was doing right and more importantly, what I was doing wrong. When our first meeting ended, I had several specific and effective things that I could do immediately to start building my new "Marketing Machine." We've been working together for 6 or 7 weeks now and all I can say is I'm amazed! I'm starting to see an increase in the frequency of my repeat clients, a better response from my website, more referrals, and I'm enjoying the sales process a lot more. In addition, I'm very excited about the plan you've helped me start building to get my business growing at a pace far more aggressive that I thought was possible. I'm definitely a "believe it when I see it" type of person. I've seen the results and am now a believer. I hear business owners say over and over that they hate the expense of advertising or that they hate the cost of acquiring new customers. I firmly believe that these aren't expenses but rather investments in a bigger stronger business. When I invest sales and marketing dollars, the return on the investment is the only number I watch. Steve, my investment in you and Assault Marketing has provided an exceptional return and gotten my business back on track. Feel free to use me as a reference any time. I'll be referring you to every business owner I meet!

Today I had the great pleasure of meeting a gentleman named Steve in my front office of the company where I work. He introduced himself, and I was very happy to find out he is here to help all of us with communication skills and problems. I really did not believe him. My company is a construction/roofing business, and is run by brothers who are delightful, considerate, mannerly, but so busy, I find myself chasing them around the office. When they are in it. I gave up recently on using the cell phones and two way pagers. They are great, but not giving me the answers I need while I am flowing through thousands of papers, and trying to fathom how to fit my customer service skills in to the day of only 8 hours, and 33 job sites. All of the jobs are in different phases, and if on the average, half are married, I need to talk to approximately 49 uniquely different people quite often. I am still learning the department, it's procedures, and functions. I have recently branched from my trainer Ms. Khae, to Mr. Tom Yancey, as my help and direct boss. He is so busy that I started singing for him to come to my office as he walked by yesterday. Trying to tease him in to talking with me. He did so, but then had to go. There are so many questions, and procedures to do, that take a priority, if we are to meet our goals every month. He has the knowledge, but not allot of time. He performs a job function as CEO, and often times, is on the job sites themselves. I met Steve, and was frustrated, and do not want to fail, nor cost the company any costly mistakes, as I go through my job. Steve figured this out, helped me with a stand up role play. He listened to me, then gave me the proper words to say, with the way to say them, reflecting even a proper tone in my voice. This took all of 5 minutes. I was impressed, then decided to go to Tom, and try it. My goal was to get at least 10 minutes each day with Tom. It worked. I received 4 days of appointment time, and Tom was very pleasant about it. He explained his time limitations, and gave me the ten minutes I need each day to get things accomplished. I want to learn, do a great job, and avoid the company possible costly mistakes. Thanks to Steve helping me, offering to give me more help in the future, I am going to succeed.