Get Rich Organizing The Professional Organizer Survival Guide To Launch Manage And Grow A Profitable Business

Do you love to organize? Have you dreamed of running your own business? You can do both and earn a great salary too! Get Rich Organizing will:Provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to become a successful professional organizer business owner.Help you cut out months or even years of annoying mistakes and learning curves, because you need to make money immediately.Show you how to position yourself to attract your ideal client.Instruct you on how to clearly communicate your value and how to charge for your valuable services.Teach you new organizing skills and techniques to work with a variety of client types.Provide you with legal, insurance, and tax information to get you started in the right business entity for you and understand the protection your business needs.Provide you with proven processes and systems to organize others and transfer organizing skills.Move you to action with recommended exercises and actions found at the end of the chapters.

Anne M. Blumer, CPO], owner and founder of SolutionsForYou Inc. and the Institute for Professional Organizersa, has trained hundreds of professional organizers from 17 countries, and in this guide, she explores how to turn your love of organizing into a full-fledged career. Learn how to: get started in the professional organizing business; assess whether your skills are a good fit for the profession; determine how to charge for your services; name and register your business for maximum impact. Blumer also examines tax issues, legal and insurance needs, marketing and branding your business to attract your key client, selling your value, and how to work with clients throughout the entire organizing process. Mastering the Business of Organizing is an essential guide for professional organizers and productivity consultants, and it advances the message and vision of the National Association of Productivity & Organizing Professional

Anne M. Blumer, CPO?, founder of SolutionsForYou Inc. and the Institute for Professional Organizers?, has trained hundreds of professional organizers from 17 countries, and in this guide, she explores how to turn your love of organizing into a full-fledged career. Learn how to: get started in the professional organizing business; assess whether your skills are a good fit for the profession; determine how to charge for your services; name and register your business for maximum impact. Blumer also examines tax issues, legal and insurance needs, marketing and branding your business to attract your key client, selling your value, and how to work with clients throughout the entire organizing process. Mastering the Business of Organizing is an essential guide for professional organizers, and it advances the message and vision of the National Association of Productivity & Organizing Professionals. Note: Mastering the Business of Organizing (2nd ed., revised) is an updated and expanded edition of Get Rich Organizing.

From estimating start-up costs and finding clients to how to stay profitable even in slow economic climates, this book takes you through every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based professional organizing business. Whether you’re just starting to explore your options for a home-based business or are an organizing wizard looking to be your own boss, each chapter will guide you on how to build your own successful organizing business. Look for useful charts and worksheets throughout the book, including: Start-Up Costs Checklist Client Intake Form Assessment Visit/Working Agreement Sample Invoice Marketing Plan Worksheet

The Professional Organizer's Complete Business Guide contains everything you need to know to start and operate your own organizing business. This book is published in print form with a companion CD-ROM of templates that you can personalize using your computer to create forms, documents, advertising materials, proposals, invoices, etc. Becoming a professional organizer takes work and dedication, and you can get a great start with the right tools and information. There are other self-help books on the market for organizers, but the question is, do they give you the tools necessary to get your business off the ground, or just tell you how to do it? Are they current and up to date with industry standards, or written as many as 10 years ago, when the business wasn't nearly as popular or competitive? This guide walks you through all the details of becoming a professional organizer in today's more competitive market.

Disorganization in your small business costs money. Because time is money, every moment you spend looking for missing information, redoing lost work, and coping with interruptions takes you away from more lucrative activities. Armed with the 57 organizing secrets in this book, you can save time, grow your profits, reduce your stress, and increase your productivity. Discover how to save your sanity by joining the clean desk club. You'll learn to eliminate the tiny fragments of paper and mountains of sticky notes that threaten your productivity and create a streamlined information-capturing system and organize files so they work the way you do. Other secrets show you how you can prioritize key tasks and delegate efficiently, manage your time, set up boundaries, and prepare for the unexpected. Get practical advice and creative ideas that will help you organize your space, time, thoughts and business systems, so you can focus on what you do best.