Organize Your Business

Hopeful business owners are shown how to take an organized approach to financing and structuring, including creating the important business plan. Includes information on finding a location, including a Website, and furnishing the space.

This survival guide incorporates professional records management principles in teaching small business owners those with fewer than 20 employees, home-based businesses, and the self-employed who have no employees how to organize and manage their business records. Organize your Office answers these questions: 1) What records are vital to your business and how should they be handled to ensure privacy, business continuity, and regulatory compliance? 2) What legal issues apply to your small business and its records? 3) What business records do you need to keep and for how long? 4) What do you need to do to ensure you can access the information you need when you need it? Written in simple, non-technical terms, this book will - describe the benefits of effective records management - explain inventory procedures to identify operational records - introduce records retention practices - explain vital records procedures - explain filing fundamentals - introduce records management automation

Are you organized? Would you like to be more organized at work? Do you feel frustrated when you are not able to find what it is that you're looking for? You feel like you waste a great deal of time searching for things that you need to have at your fingertips? Do you spend more time looking for a contact phone number then the actual call will take? Or are you still looking for the project file for a meeting even after the meeting has started? If this is you, then this book is your lifeline to getting and staying organized at work. In this entertaining thoughtful and easy to read book, author and business expert Rachael Doyle will show you simple and easy tips and tools to help organize your work life. All of her life, people have noticed that Rachael is a highly organized person, and have always asked her what ''her secrets'' were to her organization skills. Rachael says ''there really is no secret, it is just setting up the right systems and processes in your daily work life to make organizing simple and easy. After that, once you have these systems in place, then it is easy to stay organized each day.'' As Ben Franklin once said ''a place for everything, everything in its place.'' In this book, she will share with you simple tips for organizing your desk and your files, for organizing your technology, and for increasing the efficiency of your meetings. You will also learn how to make business travel smoother and seemingly effortless. Rachael will also show you how to organize your time and your goals in order to be more effective and less frustrated, and able to live life to the fullest. This book is not about how to be perfect, or doing a wholesale personality change, it is just about giving you the right tools and systems in order to be more effective. As Andrew Mellon once said ''being organized isn't about getting rid of everything you own or trying to become a different person; it's about living the way you want to live but better.'' Once your life at work is more organized, you will feel more fulfilled, happier and more in control of your day to day activities.

Are you organized? Would you like to be more organized at work? Do you feel frustrated when you are not able to find what it is that you’re looking for? Do you feel like you waste a great deal of time searching for things that you need to have at your fingertips? Do you spend more time looking for a contact phone number then the actual call will take? Or are you still looking for the project file for a meeting even after the meeting has started? If this is you, then this book is your lifeline to getting and staying organized at work. In this entertaining, thoughtful, and easy-to-read book, author and business expert Rachael Doyle will show you simple and easy tips and tools to help organize your work life. All of her life, people have noticed that Rachael is a highly organized person, and have always asked her what “her secrets” were to her organization skills. Rachael says “there really is no secret, it is just setting up the right systems and processes in your daily work life to make organizing simple and easy. After that, once you have these systems in place, then it is easy to stay organized each day.” As Ben Franklin once said “a place for everything, everything in its place.” In this book, she will share with you simple tips for organizing your desk and your files, for organizing your technology, and for increasing the efficiency of your meetings. You will also learn how to make business travel smoother and seemingly effortless. Rachael will also show you how to organize your time and your goals in order to be more effective and less frustrated, and able to live life to the fullest. This book is not about how to be perfect, or doing a wholesale personality change, it is just about giving you the right tools and systems in order to be more effective. As Andrew Mellon once said “being organized isn’t about getting rid of everything you own or trying to become a different person; it’s about living the way you want to live but better.” Once your life at work is more organized, you will feel more fulfilled, happier and more in control of your day to day activities.

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

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.

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.