Jon Davids

Learning how to hijack attention is something I figured out pretty young, but really figuring out how to monetize it and turn it into money and sales and dollars and sustainably do that, that took a bit longer.

But you got to start with step one.

You got to get attention if you want to get anywhere.

Ryan, it's awesome to be here, bro.

I've been looking forward to this.

Excited to talk to you.

Learning how to hijack attention is something I figured out pretty young, but really figuring out how to monetize it and turn it into money and sales and dollars and sustainably do that.

That took a bit longer, but you got to start with step one.

You got to get attention if you want to get anywhere.

I'm a kid that couldn't do too much but figured out how to get attention on the internet in college and was able to turn that into a $300,000 business.

Short version is figured out BuzzFeed before BuzzFeed came along, figured out how to get people to read content on the internet.

This is pre-Facebook, pre-YouTube, pre-all that.

And I learned in the early 2000s, the big sites on the internet were MSN, AOL, and Yahoo.

And I essentially made some content, did some deals so that I could provide them with their content.

And in return, they gave me hyperlinks back to my site.

And just doing that, a whole lot of hustle and grind, I was able to build a business with a whole lot of advertising revenue, pulling in about $300,000 a year, paid for college and then some.

And that was kind of my start of my entrepreneurial journey.

What the hell does influicity mean?

What does it mean?

You know how hard it is to come up with names, man.