At Home Biz Notes, I wrote about, Plan an Open House to Generate Interest in Your Business, possibly between the holidays or right after the new year.  What steps do you take to organize one of these?

Decide on a date and time.
What will you emphasize…new services, products, reintroduction of current ones (see list on Home Biz Notes post).
Put up notice in your place of business.
Tuck notices into purchases.
Send out cards/announcements which you can make on the computer.
Possibly plan a program.
Do you need someone to help?
Will you have special decorations?
Whatwill you give as door prizes or hand-outs (keeping them within a …read more

Do you keep track of trends when organizing your business goals?  Or are you on a set path and won’t allow deviation even when there are other inflouences, advances or changes?
Sometimes focus and persistence along a planned path are good.  However, you might want to allow enough deviation to take into consideration trends in markets, the economy, and customers’ preferences.
For instance, I’ve discussed deviations to take into account for current trends (Considering the Market Trend for Your Home Business Products) at Home Biz Notes.  You may have a particular business with product or service, but need to keep current with …read more

When you don’t have time (and most of us don’t) to get from mess to organized, why not go for 20 minutes per day?  It doesn’t seem like much, and many times we don’t think we’ve accomplished a great deal.  But every little bit puts on the way to organization, I’ve discovered.
I heard two different speakers mention this at business conferences.  I tried it, then became discouraged because I didn’t make much progress.  So I gradually quit.
This time I’ve started again and am determined not to quit until I organize my husband’s and my office, my writing files and folders (and …read more

I shall be blogging here at My Organized Biz and helping you with your business organization and planning. I’ll take you through some of my organization as I try to better utilize my time, thus becoming more productive and profitable.
I also blog at b5’s Home Biz Notes and write at Blisstree’s Parenting and Arts/Crafts sections. I’ve begun blogging at Small Business Boomers as well.  In addition, I do substitute teaching during the school year and work at a supermarket deli in the summer, while keeping up with my writing and helping my husband with an Internet based business. 
I live in a …read more