Get Rich Organizing: the Professional Organizer Survival Guide to Launch, Manage, and Grow a Profitable Business


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Do you love to organize? Have you dreamed of running your own business? You can do both and earn a great salary too! Get Rich Organizing will:Provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to become a successful professional organizer business owner.Help you cut out months or even years of annoying mistakes and learning curves, because you need to make money immediately.Show you how to position yourself to attract your ideal client.Instruct you on how to clearly communicate your value and how to charge for your valuable services.Teach you new organizing skills and techniques to work with a variety of client types.Provide you with legal, insurance, and tax information to get you started in the right business entity for you and understand the protection your business needs.Provide you with proven processes and systems to organize others and transfer organizing skills.Move you to action with recommended exercises and actions found at the end of the chapters.




Mastering the Business of Organizing


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Anne M. Blumer, CPO?, founder of SolutionsForYou Inc. and the Institute for Professional Organizers?, has trained hundreds of professional organizers from 17 countries, and in this guide, she explores how to turn your love of organizing into a full-fledged career. Learn how to: get started in the professional organizing business; assess whether your skills are a good fit for the profession; determine how to charge for your services; name and register your business for maximum impact. Blumer also examines tax issues, legal and insurance needs, marketing and branding your business to attract your key client, selling your value, and how to work with clients throughout the entire organizing process. Mastering the Business of Organizing is an essential guide for professional organizers, and it advances the message and vision of the National Association of Productivity & Organizing Professionals. Note: Mastering the Business of Organizing (2nd ed., revised) is an updated and expanded edition of Get Rich Organizing.




Mastering the Business of Organizing


Book Description

Anne M. Blumer, CPO(R), owner and founder of SolutionsForYou Inc. and the Institute for Professional Organizers(TM), has trained hundreds of professional organizers from 17 countries, and in this guide, she explores how to turn your love of organizing into a full-fledged career. Learn how to: - get started in the professional organizing business; - assess whether your skills are a good fit for the profession; - determine how to charge for your services; - name and register your business for maximum impact. Blumer also examines tax issues, legal and insurance needs, marketing and branding your business to attract your key client, selling your value, and how to work with clients throughout the entire organizing process. Mastering the Business of Organizing is an essential guide for professional organizers and productivity consultants, and it advances the message and vision of the National Association of Productivity & Organizing Professionals.




How to Start a Home-based Professional Organizing Business


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From estimating start-up costs and finding clients to how to stay profitable even in slow economic climates, this book takes you through every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based professional organizing business. Whether you’re just starting to explore your options for a home-based business or are an organizing wizard looking to be your own boss, each chapter will guide you on how to build your own successful organizing business. Look for useful charts and worksheets throughout the book, including: Start-Up Costs Checklist Client Intake Form Assessment Visit/Working Agreement Sample Invoice Marketing Plan Worksheet







How to Become a Clutterologist(TM)


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This manual is for the beginning organizer who wants to build a strong foundation of skills and knowledge in order to launch a successful organizing business. It explains, in detail, the three parts of the organizing business which are: 1.The Organizing Business (what it's all about) 2.Creating the Business (business basics) and 3.Getting the Business (marketing). This manual will not discuss how to organize your clients, because you'll bring that to your business. Another way of saying that is that there is no right or wrong way to organize a client because what works for one client doesn't always work for another client. If you want to enter the lucrative filed of professional organizing, and want to learn from one of the best, this is the book for you!




Organize & Create Discipline


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A professional organizer’s complete guide to getting—and staying—organized. As a child, Justin Klosky loved to count, analyze, and categorize everything in sight. Eventually diagnosed with OCD, he found ways to tap the benefits of his condition. Today, he’s founded a successful firm, O.C.D. Experience, building on the principals of Organize, Create, Discipline to help high-end clients take control of their lives through time management skills, getting rid of clutter, simplifying their habits, and rethinking storage solutions. Carefully arranged into more than 300 A-to-Z categories, Organize & Create Discipline explains organization methods for everything from laundry to legal documents, shoes, toys, kitchen drawers, medicine cabinets, utility closets, overflowing email inboxes, and dozens of other sources of daily detritus. Klosky’s unique advice yields peace of mind and radically improves productivity. With a clientele that includes Bryce Dallas Howard, Julie Chen, and Saks Fifth Avenue, Klosky now makes his unrivaled techniques to staying organized available to all.




2 Minute Organizing Miracles


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Have you tried many times to get organized but feel like you have failed? Do you crave organization? Do you want simple secrets to leading an organized life? Begin with 2 Minute Organizing Miracles. Now is the time to start. You CAN take back control over your life, work and home. In 2 Minute Organizing Miracles, you will learn some very specific tips and strategies to implement and put in place immediately. 2 Minute Organizing Miracles does not contain fluff. It is all meat and potatoes. Face it, you don't have time to waste wading through fluff, you need hard and specific direction for getting and staying organized. 2 Minute Organizing Miracles provides just that!




Organizing Options


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For everyone who has encountered chaos & did not know where to start, ORGANIZING OPTIONS provides a useful blend of principles & practical tips to help you tackle any organizational challenge. From creating order in the home to managing a business office, ORGANIZING OPTIONS contains the best advice on getting, & STAYING, organized by the people who know - the 100+ members of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. And if you'd rather not wrestle your chaos alone, there's a handy directory of Bay Area Members, complete with a description of each member's expertise & specialty. On your own, or with the help of a Professional Organizer, ORGANIZING OPTIONS will become a cherished reference tool for creating order in your life. Testimonial:... "A must read for anyone attempting to bring sanity to their lives. I have utilized the services of a professional organizer for several years. She has been a life-saver in my demanding line of work. I read the book with intense interest & was pleasantly surprised at the depth of new ideas for organizing one's daily life."--John A. Kerner, Jr., M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University Medical Center.




Organizing for A Living


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