Will this strategy work to prevent contacts from exiting an automation?

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I’m rolling out an email drip automation but I’m not done with it. So what’s happened is people have exited the last time delay because I had no other steps. So I’ve created a couple of solutions but I’m looking for more options so please share if you have any. But here’s my work around:

  1. first I create an additional list

  2. create a new automation with the trigger being « contact added to list »

  3. in that new automation I have a double time delay after the first email

    • 1st time delay = 10 days
    • 2nd time delay = 20 days
    • EXPLANATION: I want a 10 day delay in-between each email but I don’t always get to it right away and I might lose the first few contacts entering into the 2nd time delay.

  4. that new automation is now ready so I will now take those contacts who have exited the first automation and add them to the new list for the new automation

  5. when I get around to adding the 2nd email to the new automation, I simply change the 2nd time delay to 1 day.
    -ACCORDING TO MY TESTING THIS DOES THE FOLLOWING:
    -anybody still in the 10 day delay step will simply flow into the new 1 day delay for a total delay of 11 days which is just fine.

    • by having a double time delay, I won’t short the delay for anybody by changing the duration - in otherwords if I just had 1 time delay occurance for say 30 days - when I change it to 1 day then anybody who just entered it will get sent the new email sooner than I want.
      -anybody beyond the 10 day delay should still be in the 20 day delay step and they will simply get sent the next email the day after I change the 20 days to 1 day.

I’ve tested this plan using short durations of 30 minutes and it’s working in my test. The 20 day buffer allows me to be a little more flexible hitting that 10 day delay. I try to get ahead but don’t always hit it.

WILL THIS WORK? Or does anybody have any other solutions for having an active automation that you’re still actively building? The goal is to NOT let anybody exit the workflow. TIA.