Your office files can get very disorganized if you don't have a good management system established. By not having it organized, it will result in undue stress for you and your employees. Taking the time to organize these systems will make your business run more smoothly and will reduce stress for you and your employees/clients. Here are three powerful ways to organize your home and office files. 1. Sorting by color coding: Use different colors to represent different types of data. Try green … [Read more...]
Tips on Clearing Digital Clutter for Small Business Owners
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 and wanted to share it here as well since we, as small business owners, also need to organize our business files on our computers. I revised this post to include tips on clearing digital clutter for small business owners. If you wish to revisit the post for home organizing, please click here. When updating software or hardware, I like … [Read more...]
8 Tips on Preparing your Office for a Hurricane
With the hurricane season beginning, this is a good time to take care of your office. How ready is your office? Here are 8 tips on Preparing your Office for a Hurricane. Hurricane Preparedness Tips Do a full back-up of your all your computer files when you first hear of the hurricane. This will minimize the amount of missing information. Having at least two places where your files are stored will more like help you. Create an emergency "Take Away" Package: Take with you any … [Read more...]
4 things you need to do before going on Vacation
Going on vacation is so relaxing and fun! However, when you are a small business owner, you have to not only pack and go, you also have to do tasks that will keep your business going before you leave. Here are some tips on what to do before going on vacation. THIS TO DO BEFORE GOING ON A BREAK FROM YOUR SMALL BUSINESS Make a list of tasks that need to be done before you go on vacation. Be sure to make sure you write those blog posts ahead of time if you blog. The week before, write up … [Read more...]
Easy Ways to Track Mileage for Your Small Business
Whether you are tracking your small business mileage for tax purposes or tracking mileage to bill clients, it is important to keep good records. It's really frustrating and stressful at the end of the year, you are missing information because you didn't track it properly or consistently. Then, you have to run around tracking down all the information that should have been tracked all along. I know we have all been there. But, this year, let's vow to keep our mileage tracking more accurate by … [Read more...]
Spring Cleaning Digital Files Like a Rockstar
Are you planning on doing spring cleaning soon? Spring cleaning digital files for your small business, that is. It's easy for us to neglect this area in our personal life, who cares if my password hasn't been changed in years and my contact list is so outdated it has my previous career's coworkers in it. But, in your business, it does matter. It helps with productivity, finding things easier, referencing things easier. The bottom line is that it saves you money and time. Here are spring … [Read more...]
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...]
Interesting Small Business Facts
Small businesses can range in size from the single owner with no employees to an owner with several employees and different departments. While I was researching small business facts, I thought these were interesting and so I decided to make a small business facts infographic. Enjoy and please share. … [Read more...]
TOP 3 Tasks THIS YEAR For a relaxing Tax Season NEXT YEAR
Tax season is finally past, and now we can relax, right? Wait a minute, let's be proactive about this. Let's make tax season for next year less stressful. Here are three easy tips to get tax returns in order. TOP 3 Tasks THIS YEAR For a relaxing Tax Season NEXT YEAR 1. Review and change any estimated taxes that you may need to do for the current year. Check with your employees and see if they need to have anything changed on their withholding. How about your situation? Do you require more … [Read more...]
