The challenge – organizing your work so you’re productive when the weather outside lures you away from the keyboard, sewing machine, easel, billing, bookkeeping…or other necessary tasks to keep your business on track.
How can you take advantage of everything?

Get up extra early so that you can get the absolutely necessary work done before breakfast.
Organize your “to do” list so that the priority items are on top.  When those are done, you can play, then get to the not so important items afterward.
Before being lured away from work, make a commitment to stay up later that evening to make sure everything …read more

Instead of promoting your business hit and miss, collect these tips and organize them for effectiveness. 
Then check them off as you use them.  Or rate them as you find they’re effective or not.  Remember though, that is often takes some time before you know whether promotional tactics work.  Even then, you may never know which ones were most effective.  However, you can’t sit by and refuse to take any action because you’re uncertain what would work best.
So collect, list and organize your tips as you find them, learn from friends what they found worked well, adapt it to your business.  …read more

Do you try to start your week off with goals set regarding what you plan to accomplish?  Do you write these down on a schedule or simply have vague ones in your head?
Some people say they take time Sunday afternoon or evening to plan their week.  You’ll know, if you have an outside the home job, when you’re working, unless it’s an “on call” type of position such as the substitute teaching I do.  However, I make my plans, leaving the flexibility for getting called.
What goals do you have for your job or your business?  Are there special events happening?  …read more

As more people are becoming “green” conscious, not necessarily “green” extreme, you’ll find more office supplies and gadgets developed that help preserve and conserve our environment, as well as make life easier for us.
I’ll check out some of these over the next few posts at My Organized Biz to help you see about organizing your office and business in a “green” manner.  I’ll also try to find some “green” web sites that assist with this.
If you’re using “green” and recycled supplies that you find especially handy, do let me know.  Also, if some of the green supplies don’t hold up …read more

Do you find some seasons are better for your business than others, that there are “down” times when the income isn’t so good? How do you organize and plan for this?

Become aware that some businesses are seasonal or are better at specific times during the year.
Arrange promotions for these times. Some businesses organize sales during “off” seasons.
Plan to adjust your home and business budgets accordingly.
Look for new lines to add that don’t greatly increase your expense but will increase interest in your business and sales.
Find an parttime job that will help bring in income to tide you over. This doesn’t …read more

Wall organizers, for letters, magazines, catalogs, flyers and more come in many sizes.  This depends on how much space you need and how much material you have to file.
I use files similar to these stacked one on another until they’re bookcase height.  My husband and I use them for flyers, catalogs, boxes of printer stock, customer records, and miscellaneous materials.  This has been a good way to have these items at our fingertips.
I need a better arrangement for outgoing mail, which includes the whole family.  I recently saw a wall organizer that we could place near the bulletin board and …read more

Throughout each month, I’ll have posts I particularly enjoy researching and writing.  Also there will be posts that draw responses from readers.  I’m attempting to select a round-up of 5 posts at the end of each month. 
 I also enjoy having my readers letting me know about any that were their favorites.
For July, we have:
Time Management in an Instant Book Tour
13 Ways to Be More Effective
20 Minutes to Organization
When Organizing Becomes an Excuse
Organizing Can Yield “Treasures”
(Image: sxc.hu)

So that I didn’t have a mad rush this morning trying to catch up on everything in my blog writing, column writing and other home business, I tried to write ahead so that today was covered…or nearly so.  I do have to prepare today for the coming week.  For one of my blogs, I must get a column posted, but the others are covered for today. 
Since I don’t have a “walk in” business, I didn’t need to have a shop open this morning.  I can sit at my computer and plan.  Or go over with my husband what needs to …read more

I’ve been keeping at the 20 Days of Organization project, even when I’m not sure I’m getting anywhere.  Sometimes it yields “treasures.”  Not necessarily money or valuable items, but those that mean a lot to me and have potential for income.
As I describe at my Blisstree Arts and Crafts post, Finding Artistic “Treasures,” I came across a box holding samples of cards and notepaper I designed and sold many years ago.  These in the box were my masters, ones I can utilize today.
So this has given me the incentive to see what I can do with them by scanning into the …read more