Today’s Tip: Bundle Projects Together
Why stop at one project when you can get more out of the work you’re already doing?
One of the easiest ways to complete more projects—and reach your contract goals sooner—is to bundle projects together. Look for opportunities where one activity can become content for multiple project types.
🎪 Attend an Event? Turn It Into More Than an Event Project.
If you’re attending an engineering event and handing out DigiKey merchandise, that can count as an Event Project. But you can also capture the experience and create a LinkedIn Social Post about the event.
One event → two projects.
Take a few photos, share what you learned, highlight your experience, or talk about the engineering community you connected with. Just make sure each submission meets the requirements for that project type.
🔧 Building a Project? Document the Process.
Working on a cool engineering project? Don’t let all that work live in just one place.
You could turn the same project into:
- 📝 A Blog explaining what you built and how it works
- 🎥 A Video showing the project in action or walking through the build
- 💻 A Social Post sharing the project and what you learned
One project → three potential projects.
The key is to think about how you can tell different parts of the story in different formats. Your blog might go deeper into the technical details, while your video demonstrates the project and your social post gives people a quick look at what you accomplished.
💡 Work Smarter, Not More
Bundling projects isn’t about doing the exact same thing three times. It’s about getting more value from the work you’re already doing.
Before starting a new project, ask yourself:
“Can I turn this into more than one project?”
You may find that you’re already doing the work—you just need to document it, share it, and repurpose it in different ways.
🚀 The Benefits
Bundling projects can help you:
- Complete more projects with less additional work
- Get more mileage out of the activities you’re already doing
- Build a stronger portfolio of content
- Reach your contract goals sooner
So the next time you’re heading to an event, building a project, or working on something worth sharing, think beyond the first project. There may be two or three projects hiding in the same experience!