Some of us entrepreneurs have “deliberately planned” to start working on one of our ideas at a later period of time. If you are one of them, then this post might help you.
Plant the seed of that idea, today. Let it grow passively.
Example —
I wish to start writing my book on an engineering-related topic from next year. Based on my past experience, I know I would be needing a lot of email ids to launch the book successfully. A good audience ready to buy will be helpful.
Problem — I don’t have time now. I wish to start working on it next year.
Solution — I did the following things.
- Wrote few articles on broadly related topics and posted them on Quora and added a Mailchimp signup form. Now, I am doing nothing. I get 1 or 2 email signups daily. After a year, I am expecting to have 500 emails ready. 2 months gone, I have 75 emails already.
- A website and Instagram ready with FB Pixel activated. Pixel retains data for a certain period of time (I believe 6 months). So, that will be ready.
- Scheduled 30 IG posts on Instagram from Hootsuite at a gap of 3–4 days. So work of 3–4 months, is done.
Time spent nowadays on this idea = Zero hours.
Added benefits —
- The organic reach of social media platforms will keep declining. Getting 100 new followers on IG is easier today than will be after a year.
- After having all that build-up, you won’t procrastinate that idea for another year.
