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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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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This is something we all should take time out to learn more about: taxes. As a small business owner, it is essential that you understand record keeping for tax purposes. You must keep this information on file in case of an audit. And of course, you want to be able to find those files, so you should keep your paperwork organized.
The IRS is offering a free phone forum on October 22nd called “Recordkeeping for Small Business Self-Employed Individuals. The site states that you will learn what books and records are, why they’re needed, who should have them, and how long …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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(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – I want to extend a big thank you to the awesome bloggers who filled in while I was on my honeymoon. They did an awesome job and if you haven’t checked out their posts, I hightly recommend you take some time to do so!
BIG thanks go to:
Ann Espo at One Bag Nation shared practical ideas to give everything a place.
Vicky White at Life Design Strategies wrote how to Position Your Desk for Power.
Karen Henderson of Get Organized & More shared Feng Shui Tips that Energize Your Office.
Coach Alison Marks of Inside Out Design Coaching asked Is Your Workspace …read more

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(myorganizedbiz.com) – Most people think that because this is a business organizing blog that it means we have to talk about file folders. There’s a time and place for that.
In reality, though, the office extends beyond the desk… to the living room, the kitchen table and, yes, the car.
I’ve been lugging around a frightful amount of crap in the trunk for at least 5 months. Last night, I lay in bed thinking those things that only come up in the wee hours. “What would I do,” I wondered to myself. “If I got a flat tire?” This led to me …read more

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(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – If you’ve got a pile in your office you’ve been avoiding, put on some tunes.
That’s right – put on your liveliest, most raucous music about as loudly as you can stand. Then start purging your pile. Whether it’s Brahms or Black Sabbath, there’s something soothingly distracting about the lyrics and tempo that helps take your focus off the tediousness of this task.
Got neighbors or family that don’t appreciate your taste? Get out the headphones and sing along softly – if you can. Before you know it the pile will dwindle down to a few items and your office …read more

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(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 by Brandie Kajino
Have you ever felt like you could never “be organized”? An audience member talked with me about this after a presentation recently. She said, “I just don’t think I can BE organized.” I was saddened by her comment, because she clearly felt a great deal of shame about it. Unfortunately, society has a …read more

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