PRIORITIZE your time in order to grow your business FAST. Call a hiring firm and introduce yourself. See if they have work for you NOW … TODAY! Then, start their job application process.
No jobs now … put the application on the back burner.
If they have no jobs TODAY … then put their job application on the back burner and complete the application on some future day … after you have already picked up some work from firms that need you right away.
Don’t be filling out applications if there is no immediate work. PRIORITIZE your time.