2025 05 01

Garage flyers. Chicago, Illinois. April, 2025. © Clayton Hauck

Considering the incessant flow of paper flyers that get put up on our garage door, they must have an actual financial benefit to the contractors, right? I’m thinking I might take it as inspiration and start flyer-ing the city with posters for my portrait offerings. Surely, that will help me get more jobs flowing my way through the incoming recession, right?

On a serious note: writing on this here blog nearly every day for over a year has started to show some benefit. Last week, we had a potential commercial project come through, which required the writing of a treatment (job proposal, basically). Historically, I always hated this process, as it’s wildly time consuming for something that very often leads to a dead end (not getting awarded the job). Having been regularly flexing my writing muscle (brain), the process was far more fluid this time around.

We’ll see if we have better luck landing the gig, or if it’s time to hit the alleys with a stack of posters.

-Clayton