My Organized Biz

Many people with small or home businesses work at them around another job.  They may have a full or parttime job working for someone else.  How do they combine the two efficiently and productively?

Set down a business plan for your business.
Decide how you can get it started parttime, utilizing the hours when you’re not at another job.
If it’s an online business, it’s much easier to juggle your activities, fitting your business into the time slots you’re not at your “away” job.
If you’ve opened a business in your home, decide what hours you’ll be open…in other words, when you’re not away …read more

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Whether your business involves writing or not, if you’ve become online and social media saavy, you may be spending too much time involved in these activities, thus be less productive in your business.

Writers use the Internet to research, contact writers and editors, and to touch bases with customers/clients.  However, they often become involved in answering e-mails and spending time unrelated to their business on social media such as Facebook and Twitter.  (Just a quick look can evolve into an hour or more!)
Quilters and other artists may browse around related sites and groups looking for particular information and find themselves two hours later still …read more

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It appears I can’t resurrect my laptop, so I’m continuing to write on hubby’s desktop.  Only I don’t have the same capabilities as on my laptop.  (I’m still trying to figure out how to save photos to his computer and then transpose them to my posts.)  Also, I have to juggle computer time with him since he uses his desktop for a home based Internet business, too. 
So…how does one stay organized midst a computer crash, especially when a new computer isn’t in the budget right now?  Fortunately, I do have access to a computer.

I must get up early (6 AM …read more

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When your businesses consist of home businesses, reorganization in the home affects one’s time and work load. We live in a multi-generational home with six of us using space that originally was shared by three, then two when our daughter left home. Now, due to various circumstances and health situations, her family of four live with us.Now that our granddaughter has left for college, there’s some rearranging going on as far as bedrooms and business space is concerned. So while we stop, or take moments out, to rearrange and reorganize (and set the extras out for another yard sale tomorrow), …read more

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Many boomers are grandparents.  Some live near their grandchildren; others are at a distance.  Some take on babysitting duties; others only visit occasionally, due to distance and time logistics.
What happens when you have a small business that consumes your time, too?  You must organize your business and grandparenting time.
“What!  Organize your grandparenting time! Schedule your grandchildren into your life!” some people may gasp in horror.
Boomers are entitled to their life and business.  Perhaps the business is enabling them to be independent, so they aren’t dependent upon their children.
However, to be part of their grandchildren’s lives…to help parents, too, it may …read more

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It’s a particular challenge for work-at-home parents during the summer when the youngsters are around all day.  Perhaps they’re at camp part of the time.  Perhaps there are activities in your town to keep them occupied on occasion.
However, you may find yourself organizing crafts and activities to keep them occupied while you catch up on your business, make deadlines, meet with customers and attempt to stay on schedule.
Here are a few activities I’ve posted at b5media’s Blisstree, where I write for the Parenting and Arts/Crafts section.  This round-up of arts and crafts may help you organize your day so you can …read more

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Family and business often are interrelated, especially if you have a home business.  Even if your business is outside the home, you still must coordinate family appointments and activities with your business demands.
Since we live in a multi (three) generational household, there are many times when we have to coordinate personal, business and school schedules.  Sometimes it involves transportation of getting a family member to an appointment.  Other times it’s knowing who will be home for a meal and who won’t.
When I have business meetings and deadlines, then it’s helpful to know what the rest of the family are doing.
We …read more

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Many of us find our home businesses supplement what we make at a job or enable us to work at our outside job parttime.  However, we do need to balance the two and ration our time.  In other words, we must be organized, yet still allow for the unexpected.
For instance, I’m writing this blog post later in the day than I expected.  I was supposed to be home from my summer job at shortly after 1 PM.  It was after 3 PM when I actually made it home because an employee went home ill and some of us stayed later …read more

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(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – My honeymoon was a life-changing event for my business.
Before I left, my biz complained that I was going for 6 whole days. It worried that my email was on autorespond and my phone was off with an “I’ll call you back in 6 days” message on it. When I walked out the door with my bags, it was seriously fretting.
My business moped around the whole time I was gone, waiting for me to get back so I could again pour into it my undivided attention and 110% of my time, energy, sweat, and tears.
But when I …read more

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(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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