If you are visiting my site, you are either an inspiring small business owner or mompreneur. You most likely have a home office or, at the very least, a space that you call an office but doesn't have everything you need in it. Being creative is important when you establish your home office. It doesn't have to be too large or too expensive. The process has several steps, so take each one and think through the questions below to ensure the space you pick is the best possible fit for you … [Read more...] about How to Create an Ideal Home Office for your business
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Essential Business Home Office Filing Systems to Keep the Papers Organized
Do you work from home most of the time? If so, you probably have papers that need to be filed. Whether they are long term storage or short term task papers, you will need places to store these things to be able to retrieve them easily. This week we are talking about the essential business home office filing systems you need to make your office work more efficiently. Let's start with the temporary papers in your office. Temporary Home Office Filing System These temporary filing systems … [Read more...] about Essential Business Home Office Filing Systems to Keep the Papers Organized
10 Easy Ways to Make A Home Office More Secure
If you have a home office in a common area of your home or if you have a designated office in your home, keeping your clients' files protected should be paramount on your to-do list. It would help if you took extra precautions to help protect your clients' private information. They trust you to keep their information private and expect no less. To help you set up a safer office, here are my favorite ways to make your home office safer and improve security in your home. Easy Tips on Making A … [Read more...] about 10 Easy Ways to Make A Home Office More Secure
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
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. Below are examples of the seven best … [Read more...] about 7 Best Containers For Your Home Office
How to Organize Office Supplies with Minimum Expense
Working in offices for many years, I have become an expert at organizing an office supplies area. There are various ways to sort these items. Here are two ways to get your stationery organized: Two Easy Ways to Organize Office Supplies Option #1: Organizing office supplies by "like" items. Spend the time and organize your stationary by like will help you see right away if you need something or not. Below are some examples of items to use with this sorting … [Read more...] about How to Organize Office Supplies with Minimum Expense
DIY Open and Closed Door Hanging Wreath
When working from home, our home office tends to be where we go to every day, even when we aren't working. The office also tends to be the personal office, the place to do bills, read emails, do research, etc... on your downtime. It was hard to change gears and NOT think about work on the weekends for me. I would always veer back to work while in the office. So, to help me change my frame of mind, I decided to create an Open and Closed-door star hanging wreath. In my mind, the open side of … [Read more...] about DIY Open and Closed Door Hanging Wreath
7 Areas to Organize in Your Office Files
Many owners view filing systems as a necessary evil since by taking the time to set it up and maintain it doesn't help make money for their business. So, they quickly file papers in groups that may or may not be appropriate just to get it out of the way and give them more time to do things that help them make money. But, then they get frustrated when they can't find what they were looking for in the future. The reality is all businesses need to keep retrievable files and need to have systems in … [Read more...] about 7 Areas to Organize in Your Office Files
Working from Home Downfalls and How to Correct Them
With so many people working from home these days, there are bound to be problems with whatever system you set up for yourself. This post talks about several downfalls of working from home and how to resolve them. I hope this helps you get more productive during your business day. 6 Major Downfalls of Working from Home and How to Solve Them Working From Home Downfall #1: Not knowing what you need to do during the day. Doing task after task on the fly but not getting the important stuff … [Read more...] about Working from Home Downfalls and How to Correct Them
