The L.I.S.T. – coupon code

Just received a newsletter from “The L.I.S.T.” and at the bottom was a coupon code for their membership – thought I would share this with others…

$5
Off

Purchase any membership to ListPlanIt.com and get $5 off
when you use the Back to School coupon code:  B2S5OFF

Offer Expires: August 31, 2010

Need help to stay organized within your home office?

Check out these resources:


Setster – Appointment Scheduling

Try it free for 15 days, then choose a plan!

Check it out for yourself at Setster.com

Currently I am using Tungle and Lovin’ It! But have to give you more options when I come upon them.

Service Directory Database Record

Need a spreadsheet to keep track of which directories you have submitted to?

Use this spreadsheet: Service Directory Database Record

Happy Organizing!

Stay Organized: Daycare Day Sheet

Here is another resource that I created to help my husband and I communicate with our daycare provider. We would record what needed to be taken care of that day on the left side and the provider would fill out the right side for us. It helped a lot – especially when one parent would pick up and the other would drop off and of course, your schedules are hectic.

DAYCARE DAY SHEET DOWNLOAD HERE

How do I stay organized?

That is the question asked today, here is my response…

How Does Staci Stay Organized?

Emails

I was using Outlook and recently switched to Gmail. I have been using the Labs feature to categorize my emails into folders (aka Labels per Gmail). This has helped me to find what I need. I put a folder for each client. I have then been using the Starred emails for my action items. Those are the emails that I have to touch now and work now.

Bookkeeping

Outright.com. Keeps track of all my income and expenses. Each month I go in and organize it and make sure everything is valid. I have PayPal importing automatically and Freshbooks importing automatically. I don’t use Freshbooks for invoicing. I have taken their invoice and created my own which is very similar.

Family

Try to keep everything in order (minus the toys – are they ever in order!). Find a place for everything – and if after a year you are not using it – then donate it, sell it — something. eBay has been a great place to sell anything and everything. Before starting my work at home business, StaciJansma.com, I wanted to be a medical transcription – I knew that was a J-O-B!, I KNEW I could make money doing that but what I was afraid of was the learning curve plus getting the experience and I needed it – WANTED it fast. So I decided to start my own work from home business to give me the money to do the transcription – let’s just say I SOLD all my medical transcription supplies, resources and headset on eBay. I kept the foot pedal to do general audio/video transcription :)

Time Clock Software

ClockingIt.com. LOVE it and It’s FREE!!! I go to the reports tab and find the client that I need to pull hours for and copy and paste the hours into Open Office and PDF it. Easy peasy. So now I have a record of what I worked and my client has that too. If a client ever wants it before end of the month – they just ask and I just do! Like I said – easy peasy!

SocialOomph

Helps me schedule my tweets!

Blog

End of the month I focus on what I want for next month. I try to schedule a blog post M-F and then during the month if something comes up I just add that too – so sometimes you may see 2 or maybe even 3 post – I just had something so good to share that I could not hold it back. When I find out new, interesting tips and tools I love to share what I know. Why not, right!?!

Enough about me rattling on what I use… What do you use to stay organized?


Tungle.me

Do you need a scheduling service to speak with your clients/customers?

I have found Tungle.me. I was setting up my new desktop with firefox and adding the add-on of WiseStamp. Through WiseStamp I found out about Tungle.me. Very impressed with it. About a month ago I was introduced to TimeDriver.com. Do like timedriver but wanted to avoid paying $29.95 for the monthly service.

Check out Tungle.me/stacijansma so you can see how I am using it.

Spring Cleaning Your Email Account…

My Spring Cleaning tip for you…

I was gathering email messages for several months – at least 6-8 and put them into a folder. I never had time to read them and as time goes by I am just getting busier and busier and want to spend more time with family and less time on my laptop unless it is worthwhile time. You know what I mean – time on computer should be earning money or at least working on an info-product that will earn you money. Anyway-

So if you are like me – I took the 700+ messages that were sitting in that folder and briefly looked at them. If I did not see anything that that beneficial I just deleted the messages. And going forward I am UNSUBSCRIBING from all newsletters that I just do not see anything that I can take away from it.

**SPRING CLEANING TIP:**

UNSUBSCRIBE from any UNNECESSARY items such as:

BLOGS

EMAIL LISTINGS

NEWSLETTERS

SO if you are not reading them as they come into your inbox and not even reading them in a week – then just unsubscribe. Less clucker will keep you MORE FOCUSED and more organized.

Happy Organizing!

Clockingit.com for keeping track of my TIME!

In October I switched from a simple clocking system to Clockingit.com. A friend referred me to this system. It has issues with stability – sometimes I have to write down my time and log it into the system when it is back up and running but what I have found is the reports for tracking my time is just perfect.

I am able to enter each client and create a project for every client. I actually call each project by Month. Then I break the projects down into each tasks – which is the work that I actually need to do. Each milestone is my client’s name so when I look at my browse view I see each client’s name and each task listed under them. For me it works perfect. If you are still trying to find something that you like to work with everyday – check out ClockingIt.com – it is also a FREE service. Yes it has its issues but for the most part works how I want it and gives me the status that I want.

Best of luck,