BECOME AND STAY PROFESSIONALLY ORGANIZED

Below are suggestions of tips to keep you organized while operating your business.

FILES: 

• KEEP GOOD PAPER RECORDS AND FILES for your

• HOME-BUSINESS

• Sales & Income
• Loss & Debt
• Customer Contacts
• Past 
• Present
• Product-Supplies, Services-Supplies 
• Costs 
• Inventory, Stock
•  Marketing Techniques
• Working vs. Not working
• Home-Business Related Expenses

• PERSONAL BUSINESS

• Home informaton
• Car Information
• Income-Related Information
• Credit, Debt information

• MAINTAIN A READING FILE and plan time to read, regularly TO STAY ABREAST OF YOUR HOME-BUSINESS.  

• If you are not going to read regularly, do not start a file.  Do not get "caught up" (as I did) with holding onto information "just in case" it is needed; when it’s needed, simply obtain the information, and it will be current. One day, after months had passed, I simply discarded the whole file! 

• Keep COMPUTER FILES organized.  Use File FOLDERS & FAVORITES -- and REMEMBER TO regularly BACKUP your data.

SUPPLIES:

• PUT ITEMS BACK TO THEIR "HOME" when done with the items.
• Keep a DICTIONAY AND WRITING MANUAL in the office.
• KEEP MAILING SUPPLIES ON HAND (stamps and pre-printed or pre-stamped envelopes with your business return address).
• KEEP NECESSARY OFFICE AND BUSINESS SUPPLIES on hand, but do not overstock.

Read about STARTING and OPERATING your HOME-BUSINESS.