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78 | Spring Clean your Organizing Business with Jen and Melissa Part 1 May 03, 2021

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Spring cleaning isn't just for your house--it's for your organizing business too. Jen and Melissa start a five part mini-sode extravaganza this week talking about how to take a look at your organizing business and make it sparkle and shine as you move into the busy spring and summer months. Stay tuned this week for all our tips and tricks! Today we start with GOALS...

77 | Building a Team of Organizers + Streamlining your Business Life with Kate Waldo Jones Apr 27, 2021

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Kate Waldo Jones didn't know when she first started Orchid Organizing that one day she would be running a 6 figure organizing business in three different cities, plus running a successful online business teaching people how to streamline the business of running a business (think emails, invoicing, contracts--all the stuff that takes a ton of time)--but on today's podcast, she tells us exactly how she did this. Kate talks to us about how she built her organizing teams, and how she learned about automations that help make the customer experience exceptional--and how you can learn all of these things from her.

Learn more about Kate's team and Dubsado CRM courses here.

76 | Meet Jen Howard, author of Clutter: An Untidy History Apr 16, 2021

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Jen Howard found herself in an unfortunately very common situation--she was solely responsible for cleaning out her mother's home, which had become fully and completely stuffed from basement to top floor with hundreds of thousands of things. During this intense, years-long cleanout process, Jen learned about the history of clutter, as well as about professional organizers, junk haulers, and donation locations. She shares her personal story about how clutter and hoarding impacted her mother's life, and how it's impacted her own life, and what she learned during her 2 year long journey with her mother's home.

Jen's book Clutter: An Untidy History can be found at your favorite bookseller.

Jen's website: jenniferhoward.com

75 | Pro Organizer Turned Published Author! Meet Inspired Organizer® Hillary Zama Mar 29, 2021

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Have you ever thought about taking your professional organizing talents to the page? Our Inspired Organizer® Hillary Zama decided to take a dream and an idea and make it a reality--she is now a published author, with her book "Spruce Up: A Professional Organizer's Guide for Your Home, Your Body, and Your Life" being out in the world. Hillary walks us through the publishing process and the goal-setting process that got her through taking her lifelong love of writing from an idea to a finished book.

74 | Building a Team of Organizers for your Business Mar 26, 2021

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Have you dreamed of bringing a team of organizers with you to a client's home--but are intimidated by the idea of "how would I do that?" Kate Jones of Orchid Organizing, who is one of our Inspired Organizers®, has teams of organizers in three cities--and is ready to demystify the process of building teams for the Pro Organizer Studio listeners.

Click this link to find out more about the new course for building a team for professional organizers.

73 | Organizing Your Financial Life Mar 19, 2021

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As pro organizers, we know that organizing can transform a house. But have you ever applied organizing principles to your financial house? There are some really smart things we do with our clients that can be adapted to work in thinking about finances, and Melissa and Jen talk about this plus how Melissa used these principles to do presentations with financial services companies for her organizing business and networking!

72 | Turning Organizing Clients Into Superfans Mar 08, 2021

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Jennifer Mary of Everyday Style, our guest on our last podcast, is super passionate about customer service!

When we hear the words "customer service" we tend to think about retail stores--the service that you get from a store associate or how someone helps you in a retail environment. But customer service is really what we do with our clients every single day. It's how we interact with them from the time that they first contact us to the time that we show up in their home. It's how we communicate with them, it's how we get them on as a client, it's everything we do to make them feel valued.

I thought it was so important that I wanted to bring it to you as a bonus episode, because it's something that we can think about with our organizing clients as we move through 2021.

She can be found at her podcast, Everyday Style School, on all podcast platforms.

71 | Moving A Personal Service Business Online Feb 24, 2021

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Jennifer Mary is a personal stylist for everyday women. After growing her in-person client services for years, a family move and changing priorities led her to look to taking that service business to the online space. As professional organizers expand their services to virtual services and online courses, Jennifer has a lot of great advice on how she added these services, and what professional organizers can consider if they are looking at expanding online.

Jennifer can be found online at youreverydaystyle.com, on Facebook, and at her podcast, The Everyday Style School.

Minisode: Advice from an Inspired Organizer®, Carly Adams Feb 10, 2021

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Carly Adams is one of the mentors of the Inspired Organizer® program, and after four years leading a successful professional organizing business in California, she has plenty of wisdom to share with other organizers. Carly talks to us about how she works with clients, the shift to online and virtual organizing, what she brings to a client relationship, how she learned what her true north was for organizing--and we talk about how we will never go back to working for someone else!

Carly can be found at tidyrevival.com and on Instagram @tidyrevival.

If you'd like to get our roadmap for success as a pro organizer, head straight to www.poroadmap.com.

(01:00) Intro (02:00) Online/Virtual Organizing (04:00) Being "everything to everyone" (05:00) Finding the right fit with clients (08:00) Setting expectations (09:30) The power of organizing (10:00) Trusting your gut (15:00) Finding your niche (17:30) Additional advice (21:00) Finding your forever job as an organizer

70 | The Psychology of Fashion: Learning from a Client's Closet Feb 03, 2021

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When professional organizers work with clients, emotions and psychology often come into play. Our guest today is Dr. Ania Schwartzman, who combines her clinical psychology degree with a lifetime love of fashion into her personal styling business The Fashionologist. Ania joins us to talk about what professional organizers can learn from a client's closet, and how we can better help our clients through the organizing process by listening and asking key questions. She also tells us a little about how fashion is changing and gives us ideas about pro organizer work wardrobes as a bonus.

Ania can be found at thefashionologist.com or on Instagram at @thefashionologistnyc.

(01:00) Introduction; working with clients (04:00) Why people work with a personal stylist (05:30) What questions to use with clients when organizing to help them make decisions (09:00) What deep things closets can tell you about your clients (15:30) Fashion changes/current trends (18:45) Fashion for professional organizers (24:00) "Enclothed Cognition"-dressing influences actions (29:00) The power of clothing and how we help clients (31:00) Showing up for our clients (34:30) Pivoting for businesses like ours

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