Organizing Crash Course or Sentimental Journey?
I hope you’ve taken our very short organizing test and determined whether you should engage your organizing projects in a title fight or a friendly display of your BJJ skills.
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Take our Organizing Quiz: Right Path/Wrong Path?
The next two minutes taking our organizing quiz are going to be the most important minutes in your organizing journey. In two minutes, the time it takes you to read the next few paragraphs, you’ll find out how to achieve organizing serenity or be swallowed by despair. Are you striving for an aesthetic ideal or would you just like to kick the junk out of the way? It is one thing to treat organization as a work of art, it is quite another thing to simply tidy up the place. Weirdly enough, one is not really harder than another. It is more a matter of setting a goal and working incrementally toward that objective. See a
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Beautifully Organized versus Simply Tidy is My Obsession
Beautifully organized versus simply tidy was the phrase that started my journey as a professional organizer. I was watching videos about home décor. I know, I know, you don’t have to remind me that professional organizers are a touch obsessive about their art. Maybe I’ll do a future article about the relationship between obsession and art. The video asked one key question: Are you tidy or are you organized? Up to that point I had always thought of myself as very organized. My closets scream fashion statement and my cupboards look like a photo shoot for Architectural Digest. I reassured myself that I was very organized and watched more of the video, ready to dismiss this
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5 Terrible Organizing Mistakes
Have I made these 5 terrible organizing mistakes? Let’s just say that starting a business is a learning experience and I’ve earned an MBA in Organizing 101. Forewarned is forearmed. Take a quick look at these five profit eating mistakes and keep them out of your curriculum. Bidding a job too low. Proceeding on Good Faith. Never Saying No. Ignoring the Law of Large Numbers Making It All about Business I’ll describe each one of these mistakes in a little more detail below. If you’ve already made a particular mistake and have the lesson well in hand, just skip ahead. Bidding a job too low The client will be very happy, then very concerned, then very mad when you reach the third day
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Help Clients Demand Fair and Accurate Estimates
Prospective clients ask me what information I need to develop fair and accurate estimates for a professional organizing project. I explain the process to them and then I send the following explanation. Writing down exactly what I need to give them a fair and accurate estimate saves everyone so much time and avoids many misunderstandings. Dear Future Client, Thank you for the opportunity to help you fulfill your vision for your home. As a professional organizer I pride myself on working efficiently. You can have a very important impact on the results. Here are the things I need from you to develop a fair and accurate estimate: Photograph all of the spaces you would like organized. Please include everything.
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