SEO entrepreneur Joe Davies is sharing nuggets of wisdom about how to develop into a millionaire — now that he’s lovin’ his profession path.
After years of working dead-end jobs, including at McDonald’s, Davies longed to make a name for himself — an aspiration he shared along with his childhood friend, Joe Taylor.
“I didn’t go to university like I had originally planned as I got fed up with learning and I only wanted to earn cash,” Davies, 36, explained to Jam Press.
“[After leaving school], I worked totally on constructing sites, delivering from factories to shops and flipping burgers in McDonald’s,” he continued. “I hated it, as I felt like I wasn’t doing anything vital.”
Noticing that e-commerce was booming on the time, the UK native took a $125-per-week job as an IT apprentice, swiftly learning the ropes — including how to use search engine marketing to earn cash.
“At the corporate I used to be working for, I used to be asked to construct a website and learned SEO on the job. This was the primary time I had heard that word,” Davies shared. “I couldn’t put my finger on it, however it had elements of engineering, coupled with creativity and marketing, which really fed into my creative personality.”
Davies said he quickly found out the business side at his next job, at an SEO agency.
When his employer sought a salesperson, Davies suggested Taylor.
“And the remaining is history,” Davies said.
The 2 Joes would eventually earn tens of millions.
Sitting across from one another at their desks, the pair decided to launch FATJOE.com in 2012, developing a system to rating top client SEO results — which they are saying had not been done by one other agency before.
They reportedly made their first million inside two years.
“As kids, we dreamed of being wealthy and famous, with our own rock band,” recalled Davies, who still enjoys playing the guitar. “One out of two isn’t too bad.”
After realizing they made a great business team, the Joes quit their jobs in 2013 to give the business their all.
“We rented an office from Day 1 to make it ‘real,’ and at the beginning, we did the whole lot ourselves. Me and Joe can be working up to 13 hours a day just to get the whole lot done,” said Davies, who noted they built a large team of specialists and writers over time.
“We by accident created this great solution, a service platform for agencies to outsource SEO services, that even our old agency uses today,” he added.
The $12.6 million company employs 100 people across the globe, and the client roster features 1,000 agencies, Jam Press reports.
Davies, who’s an only child, was inspired by his entrepreneur dad, Mick, 60, who owns a first aid training company.
Davies says aspiring entrepreneurs need these three key traits — personal drive, curiosity, and a burning desire to earn cash.
“It’s cliche, but just starting something — do and construct,” Davies advised. “A whole lot of the issue for me was procrastinating and serious about the appropriate time to start, wherein there never is one.”
Don’t think too far ahead because plans can change, Davies also recommends, and there’s no such thing as “destiny.”
“It’s all about working hard and seeing where this takes you,” he declared.