Slow and Steady Wins the Freelance Race

You’ve heard it before, but we’ll say it again:

There is no secret ingredient to instant, overnight success.

There just isn’t. Period.

There is a secret to success, but it has nothing to do with speed.

The Secret Ingredient for Freelance Success

What do those who make it as freelancers have in common?

Is it amazing skill?

Marketing saavy?

Crazy connections and a lot of luck?

There might be a combination of those things going on but there is a more important secret sauce that inevitably leads to success:

That secret is patience.

“Patience is the core ingredient to success”

Gary Vaynerchuk

Patience is everything; especially in the world of freelancing .

Freelancers have to play the long game.

Why?

Because the process of building any business is soooooo slow.

You can't be known overnight when it likely will take weeks or months just to acquire and finish your first project.

And even once that first project is finished, there's no guarantee that it will immediately help you bring in more clients.

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The Business of Patience

As freelancers, we’re in the business of relationships and reputations and those are two things that simply require time to nurture and grow.

The good news is this:

The rewards for consistently delivering good work are slow to accumulate, but they do accumulate!

Let’s run some numbers:

If you snag just one project this quarter, that's a great start.

If you knock that project out of the park and the team you worked with likes you, you’re almost guaranteed the project they have planned for the next quarter.

If you do a second project with them, someone will hear about or notice that your work is good and come to you with another project in the second quarter.

You just doubled your income.

Imagine your work is noticed by twice as many clients the quarter after that…

Do you see where we're going with this?

Takeaway

If you invest in doing quality work and stick with it, you WILL get a return on that investment.

It just requires a little patience.

There is no substitute for your relationships and your reputation and the hard truth is that those two things can't be bought nor will they magically appear after just a few weeks of spamming your business on social media every day.

However, one job can multiply into many if you constantly deliver for your customers and become known for doing good work.

Be patient, put in the work, and you WILL be rewarded!

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