This Marketer Found a Healthy Work-Life Rhythm With Clockify
“Clockify identifies where time gets wasted. This helps me refine our operational strategy.”
– Sam Charles
Digital marketing expert Sam Charles runs Float Digital — a lean, fast-growing SEO and Google Ads agency.
Besides founding her own digital marketing agency, Sam has also managed to start a family and juggle plenty of other responsibilities every day.
How does she find the time for everything? According to Sam, it’s all about focus:
“One of the strategies that has helped me maintain focus and avoid wasting time is setting a time limit for each project before beginning my work.”
To learn how Clockify helps Sam maintain a busy schedule and a healthy work-life balance, we sat down for an interesting chat.
How Clockify helps Sam manage her hectic schedule
Sam’s schedule seems impossible to fit into a regular workweek — but she manages to do it with Clockify.
In Sam’s words, her time-planning skills improved immensely once she started using a timer with her various tasks:
“I often set timers so I have a start and a finish time for a project, which really helps me stop procrastinating. I also see how much time I’m spending on individual projects.”
Benefit #1: Less wasted time and procrastination
To work more efficiently, Sam gives herself a limited time to complete each task. However, different tasks take varying amounts of time.
To avoid procrastination and see how long each task takes, Sam uses the timer in Clockify:
”By setting a timer, I have a clear guide of how much time I should spend on each task, allowing me to stay on track and avoid procrastination. I’m also able to prioritize my tasks and focus on the most important ones first.”
With Clockify’s simple 1-click timer, Sam tracks the time for every task related to a specific project. That way, she knows how long everything takes, allowing her to plan her schedule accordingly.
Benefit #2: Better work-life balance
After tracking and managing her time with Clockify, Sam notes she has a better work-life balance than before:
“With a clear timeline for my projects, I can complete my work within the set hours and not feel guilty about taking time off to spend with my family. This way, I can be completely present with them and not have work-related stress or worries on my mind.”
In larger teams, coordinating everyone’s time-off requests can be challenging — especially when it’s crunch time for a crucial client.
With Clockify, you can handle time-off requests, view everyone’s scheduled vacations, and create time-off policies — all from a single screen.
This helps your team coordinate PTO requests so that everyone gets enough time off, without any projects suffering delays.
Benefit #3: Better resource allocation
Sam also shared how Clockify helps her analyze her social media strategies and prepare for upcoming projects:
“By analyzing the time spent on our social media strategy, I can determine how many clients are reaching out to us and converting. This helps me understand the return on investment of each marketing channel and allocate resources more effectively.“
With Clockify, you can set hourly rates for each team member and the billables you charge for their work.
As you track time spent on projects, Clockify automatically calculates the profitability of your work. You can quickly see a real-time visual breakdown of profitability in the summary report.
Like Sam, you can always see which projects and clients are worth your time with Clockify.
Maintain a healthier work-life balance with Clockify
Sam shows us what patience and hard work can achieve — but also highlights the importance of maintaining a proper work-life balance.
With Clockify, you too can:
- Stop procrastinating at work,
- Find more time for the things that matter, and
- Allocate your work resources better.
Work hard, but don’t waste your time.
