Optemization
Had clients cancel engagement for the first time
Figured out the Optemization vision, mission and values.
Added two awesome Slack bots to promote team wellbeing and gratitude
Closed 2021 with $312k revenue and $72k in profit (and later learned about the pain of taxes).
Assembled a team of 10
Closed three more high-profile clients
Doubled prices and shattered a limiting belief
Landed Discord as a Client
Landed MetaLab as a client
Closed 2020 with $47k revenue but $20k in losses
Launched my first product
Turned an event fail into a good video
Hired our first employee
Published My First YouTube Video
Launched Digital Opsessions
Made a Presentation for Trends
Gave a Notion Presentation for Techstars
In mid-2020, I was working with a few clients and had a pipeline of another six potential deals, so I started looking for help. I had never hired anyone before, so I had no idea how to go about thi...
Joined Notion Office Hours with Marie Poulin I was invited to showcase my work at a Livestream hosted by Notion. At the time, the OG Notion expert, Marie Poulin, hosted a series of streams where sh...
Became the 9th Notion Certified Consultant in the world At the time the process involved completing an hour-long test and building a sample workspace. I breezed through the requirements but procras...
My website was featured by Notion The website that I mentioned in this highlight was featured by Notion on the website! They also made me a custom Notion-themed avatar that I use to this day :) I l...
I got my first big client from Twitter Sometime in 2019, I realized how cool Twitter is. I also noticed that whenever I’d post something insightful or exciting related to Notion, I’d get a sizeable...
Published my first blog post I wrote a long-form article about why Notion is a good tool for startups. I started it as part of an application to work at Notion that I didn’t follow through with bec...
Created the first website built on Notion After buying the optemization.com, I spent a week wrestling with Webflow. I wanted a cool elegant website but I just couldn’t figure out the platform someh...
Incorporated Optemization LLC and bought optemization.com
Unfortunately, Quinn and I didn't work well together, so I decided to split off and continue freelancing independently.
Signed our second client! This was my first ever Notion project. The client, whom I met at a Notion meetup that I hosted, wanted us to help migrate from Confluence.
Landed our first client! My friend Miguel started a new company and hired us to build an Airtable base and a Parabola automation for marketing.
Decided to start consulting! I got together with a friend, Quinn, and we decided to call our partnership Quintim Leap (cause at the time I went by Tim, not Tem)