welcome to the Epic Edge Podcast

I'm Angie Davis

I'm Hayden Edmondson and I am joined today

we have a very special guest on our podcast

here in our office it's our own Natasha Mcdaniel

agent here in the Memphis area

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why epic why agents are choosing

um just a little bit more about the company

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hey guys welcome to the Agent corner

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today I'm so

excited to introduce you to some of the leadership

within our company here in the Memphis

Tennessee area

and they are just gonna answer the question for us

why epic I'm Angie Davis

I am a real estate agent and a coach

and an area leader for epic

so I'm a mentor and I help run

the business here in the Memphis area

hey guys I'm Hayden Edmondson uh

I'm the manager broker here in West Tennessee

um I'm the guy that behind the scenes

that kind of push out the fires and helps everybody

stay in production and kind of stay organised

alright you guys so first thing I wanna ask is

how is epic changing our industry

well it change is such a it's an understated word

epic is disrupting our industry

um it is literally a disruptive brokerage

that's built by agents and it's built for agents

the whole preface of how epic was built

and why it was built is

they wanted the broker to work for the agent

and they have delivered on that

continue to deliver on that

and are just rolling things out to help make agents

lives better

and help our jobs easier make our jobs easier

so it's a different kind of brokerage

most brokerages are just taking money

I think that that's probably the biggest thing

uh most brokerages take your commission cuts

they you pay in your uh

monthly fees and you get almost nothing in return

uh this company has done a really good job

at every attribute

or every problem that you have throughout your career

they have benefits that can plug in at different times

it might be a car wash

it might be CRMs it might be lead generation

it might be social media you know boost

whatever it is like they have you on all fronts uh

and I think that that's the big

one of the biggest things that makes this company

different

like they're always adding more and more things

yesterday I think they come out with like

almost 10 different things

like it was ridiculous so

I would say that's probably what the biggest thing is

that makes epic different from all the other places

yeah and I have to say

part of why I decided to join epic was

at the end of the day

I actually saw that I was getting something back

from what I was paying in

and that's really the overarching thing for me

as to why I said okay

like this is a good move for me

and I'm not someone that jumps from company to company

to company within like

two years I'm pretty loyal to where I stay

so it was a big decision but that aside

and yes all the things that you get

there's some savings there

all the tools and resources are built to help

save you money and make you more productive

epic even since I joined a couple months ago

they're always

I can't even keep up with all the new things

that they're bringing out

so for instance yesterday was a big thing

which I don't even know what it is yet

so I waited to ask you in this video

what did they roll out cause I wasn't on the

on the zoom yesterday alright

so as of yesterday they actually released

a handful of different benefits

that I thought would be hugely

beneficial to the community

as long as your as

as well as your business uh

the first one being uh

they done a Realty Pro membership

so we're still finding out the details of that one

but it's another lead service of high

high level leads that you're getting for a

either a discounted price and or for free uh

they also wrote out Nemo which is a natural uh

disaster relief fund and basically

epic has set it up to where every agent that is

inside the company can donate to this fund

and epic will uh

match it dollar for dollar up to $1 million

along with that they done the Urban Sitter

I think is what it is um

basically if you're a single mom

or somebody that's needing daycare

or needing pet care or babysitting

or even elderly care I think that's what they said

they will help you

find somebody to come in and help cover you

while you're going out working

they announced global expansion

so in quarter one of uh next year

they're gonna expand globally and um

you know that's that's kind of cool

I mean who knows where we're going

their goal is to take it into five uh

10 countries in the first five years wow

so um

exciting things there we currently are in

I think as of the recording of this video 31

32 states and OK roughly 4,000 agents um

so our goal is to be in all 50 states

by the end of the year

first quarter of next year one of the things

and it can be a little confusing

is the stock opportunity simply put

most agents I'm not saying all agents

but most agents are not thinking order retirement plan

that's one thing that I mean we're just not very true

we don't focus on it we don't think about it

I guess we think that we're gonna sell houses

until the day we die

I am not trying to do that a lot of our plan is that

but no we're not trying to do that

I feel like the stock

the stock opportunity is an amazing opportunity

because it allows you to kind of plan for that future

for most agents the way our stock is

we are not publicly traded yet

but we are

our goal is to be publicly traded by um 2026 so um

our stock right now you can buy it ￠53 a share

that's what it's what it's valued at

it's also valued quarterly and then um

we get to buy it at a discount

so with 10% of our net commission

and you can do one closing that way

and then the next closing

you don't have to buy any stock um

you can take 10% of your net commission

and buy the company stock

at a 20% discount nice so um

there's also there's six different ways to earn

stock in the company obviously

it'd help grow the company um

your first closing many different ways to earn stock

you're gonna be selling real estate anyway

for the next two or three years

that why not have a

a plan in place and slowly be buying stock

to where when the company goes public

you have a seven figure retirement plan

so on top of the extra 10% um

when you

you're paying in your 15% to the company right

we have 85

15 splits throughout your entire career with a 15K cap

so for the declining and declining

that's right

and it goes down 1,000 every year up until $10,000

so after five years you're paying in 10K and that's it

you know

so you weigh out your benefits and stuff like that

and it's super high compared to that uh

but on top of that once you cap out

they also give you uh for safe it's at 15,000 still

they give you $12,500 back in stock in the company uh

which is massive

you're selling real estate at a company

and you've only paid in 20

five hundred dollars

now if for the real high producers

if you're selling 10 million or 20 deals plus a year

they give you all $15,000 back in stock in the company

so you don't think that adds up

like I know people that have been

here for less than one year

they've kept out and they've got 30

40,000 shares in their first calendar year

you get to go do your normal job and build a potential

seven figure 4 0

1 k yeah

and that at the end of the day again

is what

is what got me when we really looked at everything

is that

I'm getting something back from what I'm putting in

anyway to sell real estate

why do you think so many agents

are coming over and choosing epic

there's quite a few

even new companies that have popped up in the last

I don't know five or six years or so sure

yeah well

you've you've got choices right

I mean there's there's the brick and mortar uh

traditional real estate model

and you know that that's fine and good

and that served everybody for a lot of years

you and I were there as well

that's where we started and where we met

but um you when it comes to a cloud based brokerage

I think there's so much more that they can give you

but when you look at just value overall value

when you look at oh my gosh

they're gonna reward me for staying here

I'm gonna have very competitive splits

but for that 15% like that I'm paying in yeah

in company dollar what am I getting back

I've said it from the beginning

like this is the year of value

this is the season of value for the real estate agent

everybody thinks that our

what we do is like selling sunset

hmm and it's not y'all

it is there's tears

there's smacking the dashboard

there's days where it's tough

there's days where you're grouchy

haha he's not

and yeah of course

but everybody thinks that what we do is so

so glitz and glamorous and

there's so many things that we have to take care of

as 1099 employees that

all of these benefits and values that were offered

like I think it

when you look at us compared to the traditional models

even compared to the other cloud based models

it's just there's there's no question

my first question

and I'll be I'll be the first to admit this was

is this sustainable um

I think a lot of people are asking that yeah

I mean and it's a fair question honestly

it's probably the biggest question that the company

gets the analyst have run

run the numbers

and they've ran the model out as far as they can

agents using all the benefits

and they're still profitable

um I think even just from the

the normal producer to the does 1.8 million a year

all you do is have to weigh out the numbers of benefits

and compared to what you're paying in

those numbers don't even become close

like when you look at the benefits

and we were talk to people and like

Angie and I'll sit down and we

do a recruiting pair like a a presentation

I'm gonna call it a recruiting page

and show you the numbers of hey

you done six listings last year

I can show you where I can save you $750

I can show you where we have our free CRM

how much are you spending for your CRM 2:29 okay

here's this for free here's 14 different lead

services that we're still growing

every single day here's the you know

here's this here's that

here's the free sign installments

like this is all things that people have to use

on a day to day the local office is always important

right but I think epics done a really good job

especially with nationwide companies

the No. 1 fear always is

I'm gonna come on and I'm by myself

there's nobody there to help me yeah

right so what epic is doing instead of that

each state that has that is already open

they have a state broker

then they also have area leaders

that are in every area that have some

you know 0 to 50 agents that help you on board

and they help you do your processes

make sure you're not left behind

they also go above even above that

they check in with you weekly

they and they they schedule community events

they schedule realtor events

they do they help you do everything

they have events for you almost every single week

there's no reason for you to be left behind

yeah there's support

I mean you know

I may have that you don't pay for that

I don't yes

that's right that's right

which is different than another model

that's true that's very true

yes and so it's just nice to know that

even though at its core it is a cloud based brokerage

but there are people I know

I can pick up the phone and call

and I can find out what I need to fairly quickly

what's great about epic is that there's

we have things to help

whether you're wanting to just grow your business

whether you're wanting to start your business

or whether you're wanting to take your business

and grow to teams and expand

um that was one of the things they announced yesterday

was the the team expansion uh

plan for the early next year

so um

you know the

the supports there it's

it's built good

that's the thing that I keep going back to

this is built good yeah

what would you tell people who are on the fence

because I was there about joining epic

and let me just say like you guys

you sat down not just with me

but you sat down with me and my husband

kind of talk us through that

and I think that's a very real position

that a lot of people are in

I think real estate agents right now are really

I think they're going through a period between the

nare lawsuits between you know

just the economic period that we're in

they're kind of questioning things

there's doubt there there's

there's a lot of things going on in agents heads

when they're like what should I be doing

just jump

just jump but like make the switch

like you will land where you're supposed to land

here with us um

we fully believe in it we

we see that this company is

is building for us and continues to

to add and and just make it better day after day

it's

it's the place to be then just from a growth standpoint

from a collaboration standpoint

um it's

it's it's the choice

I would say just just jump

one of the things that they

that the founders rolled out yesterday

was the 30 day money back guarantee

so you come over and you pay your your transfer fee

your first month of of your epic fees

your first monthly tech fee

they'll refund that at the end of 30 days

if you if you choose that epic is not for you

and epic is not going to be for every single person

but if we don't deliver on value in the first 30 days

we'll make you whole financially so um

at that point there's no risk

yeah just just do it

the No. 1 thing that is always said is

people are always scared

that their business is gonna fall

when they make a change and I

I wanna throw this out there

and I feel like this has been said 1,000 times

but it is so true they're not using you as an agent

because the sign that you put in the yard yeah

they don't care what color that sign is

like half the names I can't even pronounce

like let's just be for real here alright

they they're not there for the sun okay

so that like that's the very first thing I wanna say

secondly I wanna say is

you can shoot holes through anything you want to

like

you can find the negatives of whatever you want to

but there's also as as perception

you can also see the positives of everything

we have to offer right

there's no other company that is doing anything

like we are period

I don't care I've not seen it

if you can find it please send it to me

I'd love to look at it uh

but I can tell you right now

that there's nothing that I've seen

that you can that can match this

only thing I can give from a suggestion standpoint is

please reach out like we

we have so many answers to your questions

I know you're curious you've got it

you you're trying to find some problems in it

we've thought about it I promise well

there you have it guys

thank you so much for just taking the time with me

just as as leaders in our area

if you're watching this video

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my first 60 days with epic

and then that's where I'm gonna

really get into some of the details

of the benefits specifically for agents

because I'm living that day in and day out

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