Sam Sherman

Co-Founder, Socio Media · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sam Sherman is the co-founder of Socio Media, a digital marketing agency managing over $100 million annually in ad spend. He focuses on building people-first businesses through referral-based growth.

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Insight
Sherman: Broad targeting now outperforms granular audience targeting on Meta and Google
“Facebook posts iOS, 14.5 and for privacy concerns, kind of for broad is better in a simple, simple way. You set up campaigns where you're targeting the entire country and optimizing towards conversions. Similar with Google where you used to have pinpoint keywo…”
Sam Sherman Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 18:19 95% Referral Growth and He Almost Did It Alone
Opinion
Sherman: E-commerce performance marketing now relies more on storytelling and branding than ever
“And I think for e-comm. It's much more storytelling and branding now than it's ever been”
Sam Sherman Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 19:19 95% Referral Growth and He Almost Did It Alone
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Sherman: Probably 95% of Socium Media clients come from referrals
“Probably, 95% of our brands we work with Have been referred to us from an old colleague or that we used to work with them at a different brand and they've jumped ship to another spot.”
Sam Sherman Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 1:00 95% Referral Growth and He Almost Did It Alone
Opinion
Sherman: Thousands of marketing agencies churn account managers every 6–12 months
“There's thousands that are also just churn and burn and that you're getting a new account manager every six, realistically, maybe 12 months.”
Sam Sherman Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 11:31 95% Referral Growth and He Almost Did It Alone
Disclosure
Sherman: Socium Media spends around $1,200 monthly per employee on healthcare
“I think as a business, we're spending around 1200 bucks a month per employee just purely for health insurance”
Sam Sherman Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 6:21 95% Referral Growth and He Almost Did It Alone
Insight
Sherman: Agency switching costs are low for both brands and employees
“The switching costs for a brand working with an agency is very low. It's easy. The switching costs for an employee to an agency is it's very low as well.”
Sam Sherman Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 10:49 95% Referral Growth and He Almost Did It Alone
Disclosure
Sherman: Socium Media still operates using the Profit First framework
“We actually run our business still on that profit.”
Sam Sherman Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 29:51 95% Referral Growth and He Almost Did It Alone
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sherman: Made $20K–$30K Monthly Within First Year of Entrepreneurship
“When I was making like 20, 30 K a month and I I'd only been doing it for less than a year. I'm like, wow, this is pretty sick. I could continue doing it this way. Or there was even more higher figures that I was earning.”
Sam Sherman Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 32:20 95% Referral Growth and He Almost Did It Alone

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
95% Referral Growth and He Almost Did It Alone Apr 16, 2024 22m
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