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How to Be Organized With Your Internet Business

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.

ORGANIZE YOUR RECORDS...

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!

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By: Anne Ahira Editor The BEST Affiliate Newsletter

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