My Organized Biz

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – Do you ever find yourself muttering inane things while you search for a file on your computer? “Now… where did I… put that… blasted thing…?” Your brows are furrowed and if you could just… remember, maybe you could actually get some work done.
So often, when we’re working on something, we “save as” without giving a moment’s thought to how we’ll need to retreive it someday. We just give it any old name that makes sense – adding it to an old folder or creating new ones willy-nilly.
I have a client who’s goal is to set up his …read more

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(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – Two makeovers ago, blogger Thursday shared that she has a problem keeping all her files in one place, electronically speaking.
Here’s how she describes it: “While I officially have an office in our apartment, complete with a desktop computer, I regularly work on a laptop as well — I travel, go to the coffee shop or escape to the couch for a more comfortable working session.
“The problem is, though, that I wind up with spare copies of files all over the place: my desktop computer, my laptop, my back up hard drive.”
To the naked eye, it doesn’t look …read more

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Tip #21: Use Client Codes
In our office, we assign each client or customer a number. Sometimes, it’s just a regular number, like 156 – sometimes, there’s a trailing number as well like 156.01. There is a method to our madness.
But what are the perks exactly?
For one, I don’t always do my own filing. In the beginning of my practice, I spent a lot of time going through piles of papers where it was not clear to the person who was doing the filing where the papers actually belonged. This was especially confusing if there were …read more

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