He Doubled His Agency Profit After Joining 7FA | Tim Chermak, Platform Marketing

0:00It's way more than [music] worth the membership fee to be in 7FA. My name is Tim Shermack. Uh I'm the co-founder [music] and CEO of Platform Marketing and we work with realtors. We joined I think in early 2023. [music] Um I'm recording this about 3 years uh 3 years later. [music] I do know that we've grown a ton. I don't know exactly what the numbers are, [music] but I can tell you our company's profit that I'm able to pay myself out of the business has approximately doubled since that time. I decided [music] to join 7igure Agency because the marketing worked on me. I kept seeing video clips and social

0:38media posts and mentions of the [music] Sevenigure Agency podcast with Josh kept popping up and I was reading these stories and listening to these podcast episodes of Josh sharing agencies [music] that seemed like they were similar to ours that were growing a ton and they were in the sevenigure agency program. To be honest, I didn't really know what it was all about. I didn't really know what Josh and Missa were teaching in the program. I didn't know anything about it [music] other than I looked at all of these successful stories of agencies [music] who had joined 7FA. Obviously, something is working. If all these agencies are just

1:12experiencing this [music] massive growth and if I join and I get one even minor good idea and it sort of [music] works, it's going to be worth it. And it has been. Hands down. The most valuable part of 7FA is talking with other successful agency [music] owners and finding out solutions uh that they have come up with for problems they [music] have had. So it's not even necessarily hearing all the speakers that'll come to a 7FA intensive. [music] It's sitting around a table and you you know you're at a table with six, seven, eight other agency owners. [music] their agency is similar to yours and we'll ask the question,

1:46hey, we're having this problem with Facebook targeting, getting the right people to see our ad, or hey, we're having this problem with landing page [music] conversion or getting our clients to rank for this or that. Or, hey, we're having this problem with onboarding. [music] This was a discussion I had today at the mastermind of what is the best way that you guys [music] are doing onboarding? Do you have a dedicated team? Are you having your account managers handle it? And everyone shared [music] what they're doing. And a couple of the things that people said I was just like light bulb moment. How have I never [music] thought

2:13of that? Someone else has already figured out this problem and I'm just going to do what what they [music] do. So I think it's getting access to like the hive mind and the collective genius in the [music] room. It's not anything specific that Josh says on stage or what any of the speakers say, but it's getting access to that collective wisdom [music] in the group because chances are when there's 300 plus agencies in 7FA, if you have some problem [music] that's just this constraint and it's killing your agency, it's almost impossible that there's not at least one agency in that room that's already had [music] that

2:47exact problem and has already figured it out. And so far, I'm getting several of these ideas [music] every I mean, already we've gotten an idea here that we think is going to uh add six figures [music] to our profitability uh this year. So, if you own a digital agency and you're not in 7FA, it's costing you [music] way more money to stay out of

3:117FA than it would cost to join.