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  • July 9, 2005

    How Did I Learn to be Such a Good Professional Organizer?

    Experience is always the best teacher and through my association with the National Association of Professional Organizers, I have been able to share, as well as learn, the techniques necessary to provide excellent organization services.

    Additionally, working with other small business entrepreneurs and actually with each Client I spend time with, I take away more positive techniques and skills. In general, listening to what clients need delivers the best results. This is true in any business. What is also true of any successful professional is that services rendered for clients are confidential and non-judgmental.

    John1sig_33

    July 9, 2005
    Business Tips, Demystifying the Professional Organizer Experience, Superlative Services
  • July 9, 2005

    How Does Someone Become a Professional Organizer?

    Well, my business is about service – helping people maximize space and time.

    I’ve always had in interest in working in “production environments” and working on projects (companies that produced an item, send it through R & D, and put it out to the public for consumption.) Balancing the artistic and managerial process has always fascinated me.

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    July 9, 2005
    Demystifying the Professional Organizer Experience, Superlative Services
  • July 9, 2005

    Why are People So Prone to Clutter?

    There are plenty of people who are great at folding bath towels, but are not so good at eliminating old, unused linens. By this I mean, organizing is more than just a neatly folded towel, or a stack of papers, or shopping for containers. Understanding why you accumulate will help you wipe out the problem of clutter.

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    July 9, 2005
    Business Tips, Demystifying the Professional Organizer Experience, Techniques to Tackle
  • July 7, 2005

    10 Tips to a Better Business Conference

    I recently returned from the NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers) National Conference in San Diego, California. I had an amazing time, and learned new tools and techniques for getting and keeping America organized. Your experience at your next business conference can be successful and productive like mine. Here are some helpful Tips from a Pro:

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    July 7, 2005
    Business Tips, Demystifying the Professional Organizer Experience, Home & Home Office Tips, Popular Products, Techniques to Tackle
  • July 5, 2005

    OrganizingLA Tip: Vroom Vroom– Make Some Room

    Bookshelves overrun by CDs and DVDs?  Make your room vroom with binders designed to hold your disks and movie title notes as featured on Tuesday evening’s Queer Eye.  But where did Thom Felicia find the binders?  Case Logic has a terrific leather 80-capacity binder in black leather.  Personally, I’d suggest a splurge, try:  Aspinal of London, they have delicious and funky soft suede leather binders that look beautiful and feel amazing with padded covers and lined in luxurious silber-grey Moiré silk.  My personal fave:  Cobalt Blue.  Just add CD inserts from Office Depot and you’ve made your bookshelves breath again.

    Want to know a secret from a Professional Organizer & OrganizingLA?  Use a label maker to label each slot with the movie title or album name.  You’ll always know where the disk is, or isn’t.  And get rid of those pesky jewel cases.

    John1sig_29

    July 5, 2005
    Home & Home Office Tips, Popular Products, Techniques to Tackle
  • July 5, 2005

    OrganizingLA Tip: Charitable Donations

    ItsDeductible
    As a Los Angeles-area Professional Organizer, I've been using the amazing ItsDeductible software from TurboTax and just recently introduced the system to my Clients as an added bonus.

    I use it to account for each and every item donated to thrift stores as we clear the clutter.  It automatically values your donations using a simple method:  the established guidelines from the IRS.  Press print, and a simple report pops out with the item name, value (good, fair, etc.) and the price.  How simple is that?

    Who would have thought that Uncle Sam values your unbeloved Stock Pot at $26 bucks and that unheard Russian Rapsody two-setter you bought in 1989 at $16?

    Save time.  Save on taxes.  Stop guessing.

    John1sig_28

    July 5, 2005
    Business Tips, Home & Home Office Tips, Popular Products, Techniques to Tackle
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