The Importance of Never Relying on Others

Today I wanted to write a post on never relying on others. The problem is that it’s extremely difficult to make your business function at a high rate of efficiency by yourself, but at the same time if you rely on others you’ll find that usually your trust or reliance is misplaced.

People in general are set up to let you down, financially and in business more so than any other situation in life. Your success relying on others will undoubtedly be causing you serious damage in the long run. I’ve had countless experiences where people beg me to sell their beats for them, and I do, and the first sale comes around for an exclusive and they can’t deliver track-outs or the files are corrupted or some other problem.

This is very important to understand because it will save you a lot of headache. For me I’ve had about twenty or thirty producers on my team over the course of the last five years and I can tell you that only two or three of them do I actually trust at this point to deliver the sales as well as be great assets to my team.

This is an extraordinary difference from nearly thirty producers. That’s like only being able to trust roughly 10% of the people I’ve had experiences with. People will end up losing files and not telling me, for instance, and when the sale happens they can’t deliver.

Others have gone as far as accepting payment and yet not sending files to the customers, and I’ve had to refund the customer both of our portions out of my own pocket. That same situation happened not but a few weeks ago. His beats were immediately removed from our store.

This is why I can’t stress it enough, if you’re looking to earn an income from your music you have to be willing to accept the fact that most people are not going to be reliable. This doesn’t mean you can’t work with these people, but it does mean that you should probably ask for the track-out files ahead of time so you actually have them. That way you can deliver the purchases yourself.

That’s just one way around this sticky situation, but in general even the best preparation can sometimes not be enough. There are certain situations that you will need to rely on the producer or person on your team and if they are unreliable you’re going to face immediate troubles.

Marketing yourself and doing things your own way is one very powerful method of taking out reliance of others.

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