Professional Organizer's Think Tank

This week's podcast is all about how to Start, Market and Grow and Your Professional Organization Business in partnership with Organize 365. Lisa goes in depth to talk about all three programs Organize 365 offers Professional Organizers to help them get their business started, how to generate leads and what we are planning for your marketing strategies during our Grow Your Focus Day in 2019!  You can learn more about these programs by clicking the links below.  Start Your Professional Organization Business (on demand) Market Yourself through the Sunday Basket Workshop Organizer Program where you will use the Sunday Basket Workshop as a lead generator.  Grow Your Professional Organization Business at our Grow Focus Day 2019 where you will plan your Marketing Strategy for the first quarter of 2019.  We would love to have you join us in any of these endeavors. 

In this week's podcast episode, Lisa talks with her former partner, Carol Lahke of Carol Lahke Interior Design, Home Organization and Home Staging. Carol worked with Lisa over several years when Lisa's Professional Organizing Business grew too big for just her! Carol and Lisa talk about what it's like to tag team projects, how to effectively use a team to organize homes and large spaces and just in general, what it was like to work with Lisa. Are you looking to grow a team? Are you wanting to work for a Professional Organizer on their team? If so, this podcast is for you! You can listen to the podcast here. [http://traffic.libsyn.com/pottank/26_POTT_026_-_Interview_with_Organize_365_Lead_Organizer_Carol.mp3]

In this week's episode, Lisa talks about helping someone put their financial info in a binder and making scrapbooks as a great way to add income to your Professional Organizing business. She talks about networking and advertising through Google, websites and other advertising methods. Listen in to hear how Lisa made five figures in just ONE month!

This week on the podcast, Lisa dives deep into the Professional Organizer Friday Workbox like:  What's in it? How does it work? What online communities do you receive with your purchase to keep you on track, accountable and to answer any questions you might have? She talks about when and how to follow up with your clients and leads and gives you a look into the mindset of your potential client and how to approach them.  The Professional Organizer Friday Workbox contains  A 22 page "playbook"  Two (2) sets of rainbow slash pockets - one set that matches your Sunday Basket slash pockets and one set for each day of the work week  One (1) set of 2.0 slash pockets - Five (5) each of pink, purple, green and blue to organize your leads, clients/sales, money/finances and team/growth/professional development A Workbox in the color of your choosing On demand videos in your dashboard on Organize365.com Membership in the Organize 365 Workboxes Facebook group where Lisa answers your questions live on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month at 9:30 am EST.    You can learn more and/or purchase the Professional Organizer Friday Workbox here.  She also mentions a new program called "Grow Focus Day" - which is a GREAT opportunity to grow your professional organizing business alongside others just like you. You can learn more about that and/or sign up here. We hope you will join us! 

This week on the podcast, Lisa Woodruff interviews Kelly Sammon of The Organizing Advantage. Kelly resides in Lakeville, MN with her husband, Scott and her two sets of identical twins!  Kelly participated in Organize 365's mentorship program and in addition to being a Sunday Basket Workshop Organizer, she also represents the Direct Sales Workbox and the Entrepreneur Workbox.  She was a stay-at-home mom thinking about what she wanted to do when I went back to work when she found Lisa's podcasts.She has always loved organizing, it comes easily to her and gets her excited. When she lived at home, she completely organized her parent's home and offices, top to bottom just for fun and would jump at the chance to help family and friends. Once she realized this was an actual industry, she knew she wanted to be an organizer instead of going back to a corporate job. She loves helping people and creating systems that make their life easier.    Her advice for anyone considering becoming a Professional Organizer is two fold.  1) Just start and don't worry about having everything ready. You learn as you go and you improve and tweak along the way.   2) Say yes and do it afraid.  If someone asks you to speak or organize something you haven't done before, just say yes and go figure it out. Allow yourself to stretch beyond your comfort zone. It's how you learn and grow.  Just act "as if" you've done it many times before and nobody will be the wiser.     Listen in to learn more about Kelly and the Organizing Advantage!