I hope you’ve been enjoying the coverage of this year’s NAPO Conference! The series continues today as Pam Bowers, a long-time fan of Elizabeth Hagen, shares the highlights of Elizabeth’s session about business success strategies. It sure sounds like a good one, so if you missed it, or would like a refresher, be sure to read on.
I’ve been in love with Mabel’s Labels since I met one of the owners at a local networking event, back when I was still an active organizer and they were a fairly new company. They started out with a really good product line and, like any successful business, they’ve continued to grow by making those products even better as well as developing new ones to meet the needs of their customers.
For the third post highlighting this year’s NAPO Conference, I’m pleased to introduce Diana Duran Wettling of Practical Arrangements in Austin, Texas. As someone who is committed to an eco-friendly lifestyle, Diana attended a session on Environmentally Conscious Organizing, and is here to share some of the valuable tips she picked up.
The National Association of Senior Move Managers (NASMM) has declared this to be National Senior Move Managers Week. Since many professional organizers provide assistance of this nature, I’ve asked my readers to share their expertise in this issue of the 2013 Professional Organizers Blog Carnival.
As my guest blogger this week, I’m happy to welcome Samantha Pointer, a regular contributor to the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival and a member of Organized Bloggers. Samantha attended the recent NAPO Conference, and is here today to share the highlights of the opening keynote address by Dr. David Tolin.
Do you regularly blog as a way of marketing your organizing business? Good for you! If not, what’s holding you back? Is it lack of time? Lack of ideas? Lack of confidence in your writing abilities? Maybe you’re just a little intimidated by the technology of blogging. But none of these issues needs to prevent you from having a great organizing blog!
A few weeks ago, I posted an invitation for people who were attending the NAPO Conference in New Orleans to share some details about their experience in a guest post, and I’m really excited about the responses I received. My first guest in this series is Lisa Montanaro, with some highlights from her pre-conference workshop.
Monica Ricci and Lisa Montanaro presenting at NAPO 2013 Conference
Social media is a great tool, because it allows you to place your name in front of your target market on an ongoing basis. But for those who don’t use social media (and they’re definitely out there), you need a different approach.
Are you thinking about launching a new website, or moving your existing site to a new hosting service? With so many choices out there, it can get pretty overwhelming, can’t it? This article from Kelsey at WP Engine outlines your options, and will help you make an informed decision.
Although I read a lot of blogs and attend training sessions from time to time, I’ve picked up most of my social media strategies by observing what others are doing on various sites and emulating those I admire. At the same time, I see many approaches I’m careful not to imitate, and in the coming weeks, I’m going to share a few of them with you, beginning today with LinkedIn.
When I attended the POC Conference in Montreal in 2010, I had an interesting conversation with Vince Santaguida, the developer of a unique document management system for the paperless office. Since more and more people are working to reduce the use of paper in their offices, I asked him to share some best practices with us.
Do you remember a time before Twitter? How about wishing someone across the country a happy birthday somewhere other than a Facebook wall? How did we communicate before email and instant messages?
I’ve met a lot of professional organizers and other entrepreneurs over the years and, sadly, many of them are no longer in business. In most cases, it wasn’t that they weren’t good at what they did, but because they just weren’t passionate about it. Debbie Pendell is someone who clearly has that passion, and I hope her words will help you to keep yours as well.
Where is the year going? I can’t believe it’s already April and time for another edition of the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival! This month it’s all about apps, specifically those designed to help the user to be more productive. Here you’ll find not only app recommendations, but tips for choosing the right apps for you and your clients, and for using them effectively.
As a residential organizer, there’s a very good chance that you may be called upon to organize a garage, particularly at this time of year. These tips from Home Depot’s Jay Harris will help you to develop a strategy and create a garage organizing system that’s right for your client and environmentally friendly.
If you’ve already registered, you don’t need me to tell you what a fabulous opportunity it is for both networking and professional development. I’d love to join you there, but since I can’t, would you be willing to share your conference experience with readers of Your Organizing Business in an upcoming blog post?
If you’ve decided to become a professional organizer, you probably enjoy organizing and are pretty good at it. You may even know a few things about running a business. But do you know how to speak to potential clients in a way that they’ll want to buy your services? Linda Clevenger does, and she’s here to share a few techniques that she’s developed since starting her business, Organization Direct.
Sales letters and newspaper articles need great headlines in order to capture the attention of readers, and this is equally if not more true of blog posts, where people are always just a click away from reading something else. In order to attract new readers and keep your current readers interested, you need to write titles that draw people in. Here’s how to do it.
