Hey, what's going on everyone Paul Mendes here with Profitable Freelancer, and in this video,
we are going to be discussing how you can have a mindset like Jeff Bezos.
As you go into your freelancing career no matter whether you're just starting out or you're
already established in freelancing and you really just want to take it to the next level.
Now what we do is we go over all things freelancing entrepreneurship and lifestyle
freedom in these videos and like I said Jeff Bezos recently released a quote that I found that
I really thought could be applied to freelancing and can really help your mindset and that quote is
in reference to how much success Amazon has and where they are getting that success from. What
is it a result from and Jeff Bezos said that "at Amazon, our success is a function of how many test
slash experiments we do per year per month per week and per day." Now I think with freelancing
as a beginner you can really draw a lot of inspiration from anyone who's went out there
and started a successful business from scratch. And if you haven't seen it I mean some of the
biggest companies just like Amazon and Google and other companies like that were started just in a
small office or in a garage and when you saw that Jeff Bezos photo and he's sitting there
in his office and he has a sign behind him just with spray paint on it that says like Amazon.com.
That's when you saw that you know that's someone who's working towards a dream, a dream that no
one else saw yet but that he saw in his mind. So as a freelancer especially when you're just
starting out in your first year or a couple years focus on crafting that vision because no one,
in reality, knows how far you can go besides yourself and that's your goal. That should be your
goal to really live up to your full potential and the only way you can do that is by thinking big
and envisioning a very big future. Now as we go on to the next topic of let's say you're
already freelancing and you want to have some more success. What can you do to have even more and to
keep growing? Well just like Jeff Bezos said you know once again he's one of the most wealthiest
person on the planet and that's for a reason that's because of all the experiments he does
so every single day every single week every single month and year.
They're not just doing the same thing and they've evolved from just an online kind of bookstore,
all the way to they're competing with so many different industries, entertainment industry,
obviously disrupting the entire local business, retail model. And I'm not saying to try to just
dominate the competition that much but what I'm saying is think about how you can offer
new experiments to yourself where you can grow where you can find things out and this could be
what skill you're serving the marketplace with your freelancing services. So let's say you're
just kind of focusing on one skill you can start to experiment and offer a different skill
that's still in the same category. So let's say you really like designing websites
but you don't do much of the actual content on the website. What if you started to throw in
some copywriting and some graphic design courses where you could really learn how to bundle your
skills together and without experimenting you're not going to know what other services and what
other skills that would be a good addition to what you already know and that's something that I think
Amazon has figured out and just pretty much the entire online marketplace is that if you can make
the process easier for someone if you can take out a couple steps of the process for them that is how
you can really stand out from the competition and what I mean by that is let's say i'm a client and
i'm going on to let's say Upwork.com and I need to hire a marketing. A couple marketing freelancers
there's a lot more benefit I can get from hiring someone who is very good at a few different skills
as opposed to just hiring low-level freelancers that I need to hire multiple people for and a lot
of times hiring managers are actually realizing this that they can actually bring on someone
that's really part of their digital team and not just for a one-time project like a lot of
people think freelancing is and in order to be profitable. Just like Jeff Bezos knows just like
Amazon knows you need those repeat customers and that is all a result of customer loyalty.
You know Amazon they pride themselves in this especially If you're one of their prime members
if a package doesn't show up or if there's any issues they're very very notorious for
letting you either have another item sent to you for free returning it giving you credit. Their
goal has always been around the customer and that is what has built so much brand loyalty and that's
how you can take that Jeff Bezos approach even if you're already having success with freelancing.
Look at how you can start to get clients that are long-term and then once you have them look
at how you can get more referrals from them. The same way any online business really thrives today
is by being able to get into their target market and being able to actually raise themselves above
the competition so people go to them so when you're thinking about how you can approach
freelancing and how you can have more success in 2021 think about what would Jeff Bezos do right
we're looking at someone who for the most part is self-made built a business from scratch and
I'm really a big fan and believer of that follow people who already have a track record
and aren't just talking because there's so much talk out there but follow the actual proof. Follow
the evidence and that is the best advice I ever got was only take advice from people that are in
a position where you want to go so I really hope this was helpful this kind of mindset of adopting,
constantly experimenting, constantly expanding, focusing on the customer, focusing on really
building that brand loyalty. Just ingraining yourself as a very very needed part of an entire
operation that's really how you can adopt that mentality and have the most success possible.
I hope this was helpful leave a comment down below what you want to hear next
any questions you have and until the next one I look forward to your future success.