About Chel

The quick and dirty version

For 5 years, Chel Wolverton has been helping small businesses solve a variety of marketing, social, productivity and technological puzzles. Imagine a jigsaw puzzle with no picture included. That’s your business.

Chel can find the picture, solve the puzzle, and then highlight the missing pieces that will immediately make your business more efficient, effective, and profitable.

Among her efforts she’s worked with individual business owners to Fortune 500 companies, helping each find their way through the maze of technological solutions and implementing systems to grow their business.

As Director of Operations of Podcamp Boston, she demonstrating her expertise in operations and event management have come together in running Podcamp Boston, an event dedicated to teaching the masses about social media and podcasting. From securing venues, to sponsorships to marketing the event to operations, Chel has done it all to rave reviews.

Chel starts with your business needs and applies digital tools to make your business more efficient and cost-effective. She is adept with Google Analytics, Salesforce, WordPress design and development; e-commerce, email marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) , research and competitive intelligence, content marketing and social strategy.

Chel is lucky enough to practice martial arts at the Boston Martial Arts Center studying the teachings of Stephen K. Hayes. She is working on her upcoming book, Podcasting in a Social World, scheduled for release in the latter half of 2012.

What others have to say:

“Michelle, or Chel, is one of the bulletproof, rock-solid people you can depend upon to get things done.” - Christopher S. Penn

“Her productivity assistance is invaluable for someone like myself, running multiple businesses and projects, and she is excellent at making sure my foundation is rock solid before I embark on any new venture.” - Leslie Poston

“But perhaps more importantly, as I started to realize how incredibly competent she was, I found myself looking for things I could hand off to her. Now, I’m addicted. I absolutely can’t imagine not having Chel to magically make my tech and admin problems disappear.” - Helena Bouchez

“Michelle is a GEM! She was completely professional, went above and beyond the call of duty, and provided us with support that we needed on a very complex project. I was constantly impressed with her work and felt very reassured knowing that she was on the job.” - Scott Monty

Future past or the path to Chel (in first person)

Answering typically to “Chel”, I grew up in a very small town in the south that no one knows. As a child, I would read anything that had words on it and wasn’t moving. Or so my mom liked to insist. I played a lot of Atari and Nintendo in my spare time. Then I heard about this shiny new thing call the internet and begged to have it “turned on”. (GEEK!)

After getting connected, I went on to join communities like Memespace (created by Chris Abraham) and Brainstorms (created by Howard Rheingold). After some intense life lessons and a lot of changes, I discovered a crazy online world called Second Life. Choosing the name Chel Pixie, it stuck as a nickname and a brand. Chelpixie.com still hosts my blog and @chelpixie is where you can find me on Twitter.

Mid 2007, I realized I wasn’t content with the empty beauty of the pitch black sky in my small town and I moved to Boston. I quickly fell in love with the city and have since enjoyed the quirkiness of the T as well as the sparkly skyline at night.