What Is the Opportunity Cost of Waiting to Build the Thing?
This article, video and podcast explore what may be the most expensive business decision you’ll never make on paper.
We’ll uncover the hidden cost of postponing your life’s work and why waiting is often far more expensive than investing.
Because, as the old song goes... “Time keeps on ticking... into the future.”
When most people think about investing $2,000... $5,000... $10,000... or even $25,000 to build the brand, platform, media or systems their business needs, they usually focus on one thing:
The cost.
Today, I’d invite you to ask a different question.
What’s the opportunity cost of waiting to learn the tech or invest in your business and systems?
Because time keeps moving whether your business is ready or not.
Every month you delay building the systems your business needs is another month you delay:
Touring your Signature Workshop.
Reaching out to strategic partners and licensing opportunities
Growing your email list
Filling your coaching or membership program
Serving people who need your work today
Generating revenue that could be funding your family and your mission
Collecting testimonials
Learning what actually works
Building momentum
The opportunity cost isn’t $5,000 or $10,000 or $25,000 you hypothetically saved from not hiring or moving forward…
The opportunity cost is not the 20 hours you saved from not learning and setting up the tech required to move forward…
The opportunity cost is the next six months of not doing the thing.
Technology Isn’t Really your Problem
Take this from someone who’s about as “non-technical” as they come.
I still sweat every time I have to learn a new platform.
The difference is that I’ve learned something far more valuable than technology.
I’ve learned the cost of avoiding it. I’ve learned the cost of not “doing the thing” that needs to be done.
We’ve all been there before:
You have a brilliant idea. You’ve designed the perfect workshop. You’ve mapped out an online course. You’ve finally decided to launch your membership.
You sit down at your computer...and then it begins.
“How do I collect registrations?” “Why isn’t Stripe connecting?” “What’s a tag?” “Why isn’t this automation firing?” “What on earth is a Zap?” “Why won’t this landing page publish?” “How do I embed this video?”
Hours disappear. Momentum disappears. Confidence disappears.
Eventually...
SLAM.
The laptop closes. Maybe you go make a coffee or binge a tub of icecream…
Maybe you mow the lawn or clean the house instead.
Maybe you convince yourself you’ll come back tomorrow.
Three weeks later… Nothing has changed.
The biggest cost is NOT spending three frustrating hours trying to connect Zapier to your shopping cart and email list…
It’s the workshop you never launch.
The course you never finished.
The partnership you never reach out for.
The newsletter you stopped sending.
The families who never discover your work.
The money you never made from sharing your gifts.
That’s the moment technology stops being a tool… and starts becoming a barrier between your gifts and the people who need them.
And I have seen this story a bazillion times over the years…
It happens to so many brilliant, well-meaning, creative, ind, compassionate leaders whose gifts deserve to be received… but rarely are.
We don’t want tech deciding which ideas make it into the world.
Every Month You Wait Has a Price Tag On It
Let’s say every time you deliver your Signature Workshop, you generate:
2 new coaching clients.
5 new membership subscriptions.
100 new email subscribers.
1 podcast invitation.
1 strategic partnership introduction.
A referral.
Maybe even a lifelong friendship.
Now imagine waiting six months before getting everything built.
You didn’t saved $5,500 from not hiring someone to do the set-up for you…
You’ve postponed:
12 coaching clients.
30 new members.
600 email subscribers.
Six months of referrals.
Six months of partnership conversations.
Six months of testimonials.
Six months of revenue.
Six months of confidence.
Six months of serving people who needed your work.
Six months of your precious and sacred time on Earth not doing the thing you were born to do… and possibly (probably) beating yourself up for it…
Opportunities don’t politely wait while you’re figuring out automations.
Someone else gets invited onto the podcast.
Someone else gets introduced to the organization.
Someone else gets hired for the workshop.
Someone else signs the licensing deal.
Someone else serves the family you were meant to help.
That’s the opportunity cost connected to not doing the thing you should do.
That’s the opportunity cost connected to not doing the thing you should do.
Could You Learn All The Tech Yourself?
Absolutely.
In fact, we encourage you to understand your own business systems.
If you’re patient enough, you can figure out almost anything.
The better question is though...
Should you learn all this tech stuff yourself?
Would the next forty hours be better spent:
Creating your signature workshop?
Serving clients?
Recording your next podcast episodes?
Building strategic partnerships?
Writing your book ?
Recording your audio library?
Spending time with your family or friends?
Or would they be better spent trying to figure out why your email automation skipped Step 4?
Sometimes learning the technology makes sense…
Sometimes hiring someone who’s already solved those problems a hundred times is the highest-return investment you’ll make…
Because instead of it taking you weeks to figure out and set-up, you are literally up and running in less than a week.
And being in the position ready to receive clients is important.
That’s Exactly Why We Built Majik Media
I didn’t set out to build this creative business agency.
Most entrepreneurs don’t wake up dreaming about CRMs, landing pages, payment systems or automations.
They wake up wanting to change lives.
I found success through my own work, and then entrepreneurs and creators started asking me for support with their work.
That’s the Majik we do here for you…
Instead of spending months piecing everything together yourself, we help you build the business behind your brilliance.
Depending on what you’re creating, we can help you:
Design your entire customer journey.
Build your website and landing pages.
Create your brand messaging and positioning.
Set up your email platform, automations and nurture sequences.
Connect your payment systems and registrations.
Build your Signature Workshop Touring System.
Create partnership decks and outreach materials.
Design your CRM and relationship management systems.
Build thoughtful AI workflows that save you hours every week.
Develop licensing strategies and partnership opportunities.
Produce your podcast, meditation library or audio programs.
Document everything with checklists so you’re confident running it all
I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating:
At Majik Media, we’ve spent the past two decades building businesses, brands, workshops, communities, courses, podcasts, websites, apps, books, audio libraries, licensing partnerships, automations, comedy ads, email funnels, membership sites, partnership decks, customer journeys, and just about every other piece of the creative business puzzle.
We’ve made the mistakes. We’ve figured out what works.
Now we simply ask:
What are you trying to build?
Maybe you’re a DIY entrepreneur who loves learning and just needs a creative thought partner, strategic guidance, and someone to point you in the right direction. For you, the Majik Mind or 9-Month Accelerator Circle are for you.
Maybe you’d like to build it alongside us, learning the systems as we create them together.
Or maybe you’re thinking...
“Can someone just build this thing so I can get back to doing the work I actually love?”
All three are perfect options.
That’s exactly why we’ve created multiple ways to work together, from coaching and mastermind support to fully done-with-you creative services.
Our goal has never been to make you dependent on us.
Our goal is to help you stop spending your evenings and weekends wrestling with technology and start spending your time writing, teaching, creating, leading workshops, building partnerships, serving your clients, and raising your family.
Because every month your ideas stay trapped in notebooks, unfinished websites, half-built courses, and unpublished workshops is another month they aren’t changing lives and you’re not making money.
The opportunity cost of waiting rarely shows up as an expense on your bank statement.
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Turn Your Signature Workshop Into a Relationship-Building Business Engine
Signature Strategy • Full Tech Set-Up • All-Systems-Go
With this “Done-for-You” package, we’ll build your entire signature workshop touring system for you. From your landing page, media page, registration system, email automations, swipe copy for partners and outreach resources for the hosts you’ll intend to partner with. We’ll also research your first 50 potentially aligned partners for you. And we’ll get it all set-up in 30 days.
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