If you are not aware, I write an organizing blog to help people get and stay organized in their home. I created a version of this post on my organizing blog that is primarily for homeowners and individuals. This post also adds business files. When updating software or hardware, I like to go over the files individually and start deleting them. Below is a step by step review of how I do this for my personal as well as business life. Clear the desktop files … [Read more...] about Easy Ways to Clear Digital Clutter for Small Business Owners
Small Business Organizing Tips Archive Page
Welcome to our Small Business Organizing Tips archive page to help you and your business streamline processes. Read the archive posts for tips to use in your business.
How Long Should I Keep Business Records
How long do you keep your business files? Do you keep them forever or do you get rid of them after a certain length of time? Keeping files for a business is different from keeping your personal files. There are many different types of business files that need to be kept at different lengths of time. Over the years small business owners have asked me these questions. To be honest, the IRS doesn't have a clear, across the board answer to this question so here is what I suggest. If you wish to … [Read more...] about How Long Should I Keep Business Records
7 Best Containers For Your Home Office
Keeping your home office organized is very important. Even if you have another office and split your time with your home office, both workspaces need to be as organized as possible. This way, if you are working in one office and need to work at your home office, you will be able to transition to the other space easily and be more productive. To do that, you need to have the best containers for your home office to hold the necessary papers and supplies. Here are examples of the seven best … [Read more...] about 7 Best Containers For Your Home Office
5 Easy Steps to Create an Organized Home Office
Is this year's goal to get your business organized? Wouldn't you love an organized home office? A space that is just for your business. A space that you can do your work, your bills, and be able to research with minimal distractions. Ah, doesn’t that sound lovely? Well, I am here to tell you that it IS possible to do this. Here are five easy steps to create an organized home office that is also hidden when you are not working. First, find a place in the corner of your home … [Read more...] about 5 Easy Steps to Create an Organized Home Office
How to Show Income Breakdown on a Profit and Loss Report
While in QuickBooks reviewing my client's P&L report, I realized that it didn't show the breakdown of where the money came from. This particular client does not invoice through QuickBooks so the information wasn't being tracked. I wasn't going to add more work to the client's bill to duplicate the invoice process. So, instead, I created a different way to track this information. To save paper, money, and help the client, I created this quick trick on how to show income … [Read more...] about How to Show Income Breakdown on a Profit and Loss Report
30 Desk Items To Throw Away For A Tidy Space
Whether you have a home office or a traditional office, you probably have items lying around your desk that don't necessarily need to be there. As you get busier and busier, you may have issues keeping your desk clear from clutter. Why do you need to clear your desk space? Well, there are the obvious reasons, like it distracts you from the work at hand and it doesn't allow you space to work. There are also other reasons like helping you be more creative and being able to find things more … [Read more...] about 30 Desk Items To Throw Away For A Tidy Space
Declutter The Office In 15 Days
How does your office look right now? Take a second and look around. Is it the most inspiring environment to work? Lots of people find that they can't tolerate a disorganized office (or home office for that matter). It is distracting and will derail you from getting things done. It visually isn't applying to other clients or colleagues over and can appear that you are unprofessional. Doesn't sound efficient, right? Well, today I am going to share with you a challenge to declutter the office in … [Read more...] about Declutter The Office In 15 Days
How I Made My Organized Office Then and Now
This post was originally written in 2015, and it showed how I organized my home office in a 10 ft x 10 ft space in my family room. I partitioned my Family Room to make room for my office since the kids only used the space on the weekends. It was a perfect space for my office since it was a long and narrow room, I was able to take half of it easily. This post will also include the changes I made since then, so you can see that it is perfectly fine to adjust your home office as your business … [Read more...] about How I Made My Organized Office Then and Now
How to Improve Your Project Time Estimation
How often do you estimate a project will take 15 minutes? Then, it actually takes an hour? These days tasks take longer because there are so many distractions that could and will happen while doing the tasks. For example, if you are assigning posts in your Hootsuite account to post later on that week, and then, while doing research for those posts, you get preoccupied and go to another site, which then takes you to another site, and another. An hour or two later, you get back to posting to your … [Read more...] about How to Improve Your Project Time Estimation
