Organize Your Business
Organize Your Business
Organize Your Business
YOUR SMALL
B USINESS
70 TIPS FROM A
COLLECTION OF EXPERTS
YOUR SMALL
70 TIPS FROM A
COLLECTION OF EXPERTS
INTRODUCTION
This booklet brings you practical and immediately
usable insights in bite-size pieces for organizing your
small business whether its a sole proprietorship,
home-based, with or without salaried employees,
primarily online or offline, or any combination. Whether
you are a seasoned business person or just beginning
your professional journey, you are sure to find one
more idea you had yet to consider.
Each author in this booklet offers tips from her expertise
as a Professional Organizer. The CPO designation
for some participants indicates Certified Professional
Organizer .
The well-tested tools and techniques included here will
get you thinking about what works best for you now
and later. Youll see suggestions about everything from
how to organize your paper, time, and space to your
money and your electronic devices. Find all of that and
more right here in this booklet. Test one thing at a time.
See how it suits you.
Contact these authors. They remain successful,
inspired, and inspiring by contributing to your life. Plus
they are really terrific and interesting people youll
want to know and have in your circle. Interview them
in your publication if you are a journalist. They are
professionals, ready to share with those who find it
useful.
Multiple sources and bulleted content are all in one
place right here for your article, radio or television
interview, blog, or website.
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Be flexible. Organization creates a calming environment when practiced with flexibility. You may be running a business from
a recreational vehicle (RV) as a full-time
mobile traveler. Thats often 200 400
square feet for living and working.
Stop, pause, and think about impacts if
daily organized routines must change.
This can be due to a new baby, an aging
and ill parent, or a job change. Any of
these can and will influence your small
business.
Drop any unnecessary practices. You
think, I just got into the habit of doing X.
Doing X does not fit now. Drop the routine
and re-create it later.
Roll with your life. You are unlikely to
handle challenges perfectly. That is not
the point. You probably learned new skills
or met someone and formed a friendship
for life. The circumstances could have
stretched your patience. You can now
mentor others based on what you learned.
Embrace lifes challenges. Change your
perspective to enrich your life and the life
of those around you.
eFFECTIVE EFFICIENCY
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effective results
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Patty Kreamer is a Certified Professional Organizer, author, speaker, and Certified Organizer Coach who works with people who want
to go home from work on time to spend more
time with their family than their computer. Patty
is the author of But I Might Need It Someday!
and The Power of Simplicity.
Patty Kreamer, CPO, COC
Kreamer Connect, Inc.
2429 Silver Oak Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15220
412-344-3252
[email protected]
www.ByeByeClutter.com
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Create file structures. These provide a solid foundation for supporting collaboration,
continuity, revenue generating workflows,
and regulatory requirements.
Work backwards. Develop repeatable storage processes by focusing on the desired
results. Imagine staff retrieving data and
backtrack through the steps to get there.
Systematize! Creating systems and automating simple routines creates consistent results and facilitates evaluation of
purpose and efficiency.
Record actions on a task list. Tasks have
actions as well as documentation. Record
actions and store the documentation in its
related folder. Now, anyone can find the
information and the next required action.
This ensures data that is uncluttered and
readily available.
Go electronic. Moving to a paperless
environment allows you to free up office
space, save time through search tools,
and easily access all of your information
remotely.
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ALL SYSTEMS GO
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Management 180 specializes in small business organization and efficiency. We can organize your business processes allowing you
to achieve greater profitability and less stress.
Our staff can help you understand where your
company is today, where it needs to be tomorrow and how to get there.
Nadine Levy, Principal
Management 180 Consulting
23632 Calabasas Road, Suite 105
Calabasas, CA 91302
818-585-4828
[email protected]
www.Management180.com
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PLANNING WORKS
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a hAPPY WORKPLACE
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SENSIBLE SPACE
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Keep em apart. Create physically separate files and locations for Clients vs.
Vendors. Creating unique color file folders
for each is also a great way to separate
these two types of records.
Make it easy to find. Clearly label outside
of filing cabinets, cabinets, and storage
units, removing any outdated info.
Post file name lists in a plastic sleeve for
easy reference. Consistency creates order.
Standardize alphabetizing system used
for file titles- for example, disregarding A
and The.
Standardize titles between systems. Use
same categories/ folder titles for both
paper and computer files.
Make purging fun. Schedule annual
Clean-up Day and enlist all your people.
It is a great time to put your Records Destruction Schedule to use. Donate excess
inventory and supplies to charity or toss if
of no use to anyone. Remember to recycle
and dispose of hazardous waste properly.
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GETTING E-ORGANIZED
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do It Now!
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