Managing your company’s money can take a lot of time and effort. As we’ve mentioned, there are invoices to send, bills to pay, budgets to set and stick to. It can take a lot of time just to keep track of things. You can save time, however, by streamlining some of your finances. What’s the best way to do that?
Online banking. Use your bank’s site to set up automatic bill payments. Even if your electric, phone, and internet provider doesn’t offer payments through their site, your bank probably does. Set up as many automatic payments as you can. All you …read more

(myorganizedbiz.com) – One thing I’m trying to keep up on is finance. Specifically: expenses. I bought software to help me keep track of my business expenses and accounts receivable. It is intended to save me time when it comes to tax preparation. If I already have my expenses categorized, I won’t have to spend a few hours adding things up for my tax return.
But three-quarters of the way through the year and I’ve fallen off the wagon a bit. I have a few monthly recurring expenses that are easily added to my expense list. And I really don’t have …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – I got a notice over the weekend of an unpaid bill. Now that’s not like me at all, so I wasn’t sure what had happened. It was a medical bill, which I hate dealing with. I could have sworn I’d already paid it, but I just had to find the evidence.
Easy, right? It should be if you have your paperwork organized.
It just so happens that the bill was in my “to be filed” pile and I was easily able to put my hands on it. And right on the bill was the notation of when and how I’d …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – If there’s something we all have to deal with, it’s receipts. We need them for our taxes, we request them from employees for reimbursement, we keep them in case we should have to return something to the store.
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel like I’m drowning in receipts. And I want a solution.
Right now, I have an accordion file where I drop my receipts by category. It helps when it is time for taxes. But I also have a pile of receipts waiting to go into said file.
All I really want to do is get …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – I’ve been saving up miles for what seems like years and discovered today that I’m eligible for a free trip. Yahoo!
The downside is that I’d like to use these miles a couple of weeks from now and United imposes a $75 penalty for scheduling so close to the departure date.
I know I’m not the only one ticked off about the “creative” ways airlines are making ends meet lately. Checked bag fees, penalty fees, and racheting up miles requirements are more the norm than the exception. I also know I’m not the only one who laments the lost halcyon …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – This month’s Friday Features are addressing the challenges of paper clutter.
Today’s feature comes from AJ West at Lifehack with an post about how to free yourself from paper clutter.
Want to know which papers to keep – and which ones to throw away? Do you know what the government expect you to have on file if you’re ever audited? Here’s the post you’ve been waiting for. And AJ serves it up.
This is also timely information considering tax season is just barely behind us. Maybe you set an intention for that proverbial new leaf.

(myorganizedbiz.com) – Jennifer is on her honeymoon and thrilled to be featuring guest bloggers in her absence. They’re answering a single question: What’s your most important organizing “rule” that helps you enjoy your work more? You’re encouraged to respond as they’ll be awaiting your comments.
Post written by Maggie McCauley, ACC, LICSW
Ah, the dreaded filing task! UGH! We tend to make this the very last item on our “to do” list, don’t we? That’s mainly because we haven’t created proper homes for it. Our battle with paper can end with the creation of a good system. It doesn’t matter which paper …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – This month I issued a challenge to readers (you) to create a spring cleaning goal for the month of April. Specifically:
1. Pick one thing you want to clean up this month.
2. Post what you’re going to do – here or on your own blog.
3. Then check in at the end of April and share how you did.
Here are some of the people who took the challenge:
Alyson at Art Biz Coach had a decluttering goal…
Kristen of BizChicksRule had an affectionately-named Box of Doom
Barbara had 3 closets to do (after completing her kitchen)
April was actually going to get rid …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – The b5 Business Channel is hosting an April Scramble where all the bloggers switch blogs and topics for a day. Today’s Makeover Wednesday is written by by guest blogger Yvonne Russell from www.homebiznotes.com.
Jennifer Hofmann is the queen of organization here at My Organized Biz, so the pressure was on when she asked me to help with one of her own organization issues.
Jennifer sent me a photo of her receipts piling up and said -
I can’t get myself motivated to enter my receipts. The picture features my system of sorting them, but it’s not working because they’re now piling …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – Kelly Phillips Erb has compiled a fantastic collection of viewpoints from the b5 business gurus entitled, “Recession? What recession?”.
In it, you’ll find my article about Mark Silver’s Kitchen Table Financial Summit, some practical ideas you can use, and some other fun stuff.
Take 10 minutes and give it a whirl – it could help your business weather this storm.