How to Be Organized With Your Internet Business
A good foundation is essential to your online success.
Organization is the key to that foundation. By focusing early on
in creating an organized business, you will be able to spend
more time on the parts of your business that will actually bring
you money - sales & marketing. The few minutes it will take you
to set up your email, and create an accounting of your expenses
will make a world of difference in your business.
Lots of people "ignore" such little things but the little things
are ACTUALLY very important! I promise, if you organize first,
your business will go much smoother and grow much faster.
ORGANIZE YOUR EMAIL
This is normally the first and primary tool that you will use to
communicate with your Company, teammates, and prospects. This is
what you will use to make your first impression. If you can't
make your very first tool organized, then how can you make any
of your other things organized?
Basically, all mail programs have the same folders, such as
INBOX, SENT ITEMS, DELETED ITEMS, and JUNK MAIL. Now, when you
go into business, those folders are NOT enough.
How many times have you read an email and thought "Ok, I know
it's there.. I'll just reply to it later"
Now imagine you're in business and have twice as many emails.
You go in, read a few, reply to a few, and then leave to do
something else. You go back in later and now you have even more
emails coming in and you can't remember who you replied to and
who you haven't.
Make a new folder and give it a name such as "MAIL COMPLETE".
That way you know, the emails that are in your INBOX, are still
waiting for a response. This is an easy way to separate the two,
especially the ones that have already been read and cause the
most confusion.
Also, make a folder in your mail titled: IMPORTANT MAIL/FILE
At times you will have mail that you will always want to keep,
like billing info from your company, and you can put them in
this folder. I would also print a copy and keep it in a binder
or file cabinet.
Make a special folder for your business: MY ONLINE BUSINESS
You can put this folder in "My Documents" or in "Desktop" You
will then need to make other folders to keep inside 'My Online
Business' folder. They are:
1. PROMOTIONAL BRIEFCASE 2. SAMPLE EMAILS 3. INFO REQUESTER or
PROSPECT 4. IMPORTANT URLs 5. IMPORTANT ARTICLES 6. DOWNLINE
INFO 7. MISCELLANEOUS
There might be some other folders you want to add, it all
depends on what you need.
I personally add 'Training' folder, and 'EZINE folder' to mine
as it's appropriate for my situation, since I give online
training for members, and need to prepare articles for my Ezine.
You may want to create some for your website such as, Promoting
Website or Marketing Advice.
ORGANIZE YOUR RECORDS
Set up an accounting file in Excel or buy an accounting book to
record your business expenses and profit.
Create Files or get a shoebox and place all your business
receipts inside. This will help you immensely at tax time.
Please don't ignore this step! Organization is essential in
creating a well-run, successful business!
About the author:
By: Anne Ahira Editor The BEST Affiliate Newsletter
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