Boost Your Revenue Earning Potential – Get Organized With Custom Living Solutions Imagine staring each week with an empty email inbox and a clear desk. How productive could you be if clutter wasn’t in your way? Let Custom Living Solutions demonstrate how custom-tailored and functional working systems can help you achieve greater bottom line results…. Read More
On Thursday, March 12, at 10:30 a.m. PST (1:30 p.m. EST), I will be interviewing Randy Dean, known as the “E-mail Sanity Expert” and author of the soon-to-be-released national paperback, “Taming the E-mail Beast” (http://www.emailsanityexpert.com). In this special call-in program, I will discuss with Randy several of his very best strategies for effective e-mail management… Read More
I’m happy to announce that will we be holding a full weekend of Essentials classes – first, Becoming a Professional Organizer: The Essentials on Friday, March 27th, and then Paper Management: The Essentials on Saturday, March 28th, in downtown San Francisco. We’d love to have you join us at one or both of these fantastic… Read More
It’s always a good idea in any business – home-based or otherwise – to look at ways to improve your bottom line. One way is by analyzing and reducing expenses. Here’s a great article on how to do just that: http://www.tlmarketing.net/2008/04/03/cut-your-expenses-to-improve-your-home-business-bottom-line/
This past month, I was in Los Angeles as a presenter at the L.A. Organizing Awards. Along with the Sacramento and San Diego NAPO Chapter Presidents, I presented two awards, one for Best Organizing Website or Blog, which went to OnlineOrganizing.com (you can check out some of my articles and tips there), and Best Organizing… Read More
If you’ve got lots of books on your shelf that you’re not likely to read again, I’ve found a great resource for getting rid of these books, and swapping them for ones you actually would like to read. It’s called PaperBackSwap.com, and they will let you list the books you want to get rid of… Read More
LA Weekly, a popular alternative weekly newspaper in Los Angeles, has posted a very entertaining and illuminating article about the lives of Professional Organizers, including a peek into the home of my friend Chris McKenry and interviews with some of my L.A. organizing colleagues. Check it out – it’s a fun read. http://www.laweekly.com/2008-12-25/la-vida/true-life-tales-of-professional-organizers-in-the-land-of-the-happy-labelmakers — Joshua… Read More
If you have any electronic waste that you’d like to get rid of (old computers, VCRs, stereo components, and more), it’s a good idea to dispose of that type of clutter responsibly. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, a local non-profit, the Montalvo Service Group (MSG), is sponsoring a free e-waste recycling… Read More
Virtually every home office I enter has a printer, and every printer uses either ink or toner, which ounce for ounce is more expensive than gasoline! Of course, printer manufacturers make a ton of money off of ink sales, and most printers are automatically set to use the maximum amount of ink to expedite your… Read More
I’m a HUGE fan of Evernote, the note-taking tool that lets you collect and organize all sorts of information. I love it so much that I regularly recommend it to clients for a variety of purposes, from simple note-taking, to organizing medical records, storing collections of information, and more. Evernote has a very handy add-on… Read More
