The Pro Organizer Studio Podcast (Melissa Klug + Jen Kilbourne)
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| 16 Jul 2024 | 199 | Self-Care that isn't a cliche--Talking burnout, home life and more with Tami Hackbarth (P1) | 00:47:58 | |
When you hear the phrase "Self-Care" what comes to mind? To me, it's hearing people say "go take a bath and read a book" when the reality is the world can feel like it's spinning out of control. My guest today is trying to change our view of what self-care REALLY is. Today I am talking about balancing the domestic load, in a conversation with life and work coach Tami Hackbarth. We are discussing the Fair Play method, focusing on the redistribution of domestic labor and mental loads to create a more equitable household dynamic. This episode is one where I want to bring together help for you as an entrepreneur, along with ways you can help our organizing clients as well--it's a double win and a double header epsiode! We are talking about it ALL--family roles, parenting, and the division of labor, emphasizing the importance of communication and implementing changes in a team-oriented manner. Tami shares her expertise in helping clients manage their mental load and prevent burnout, bringing valuable advice for both professional organizers and their clients. The episode stresses the necessity of ongoing conversations and systems to maintain household balance and offers perspectives that are applicable to various family structures. TIME STAMPS: 00:00 Introduction and Podcast Overview 02:13 Meet Tami Hackbarth: Life and Work Coach 11:49 The Fair Play Method: Redistributing Domestic Labor 17:24 Addressing Burnout and Mental Load 25:34 Client Stories: Teaching Kids Responsibility 26:31 The Laundry Debate: Independence vs. Pampering 30:00 Setting Household Standards: Minimum Standard of Care 32:22 Invisible Labor: Recognizing Unseen Efforts 34:00 Food Decisions: Balancing Family Preferences and Allergies 38:02 Collaborative Parenting: Sharing the Load 45:39 Communication Strategies: Regular Check-ins 47:30 Conclusion: Reflecting on the Conversation LINKS FOR LISTENERS: CONNECT WITH TAMI HACKBARTH: www.tamihackbarth.com Tami's new course on Reducing Mental Load: https:/ CONNECT WITH MELISSA: hello@proorganizerstudio.com | |||
| 02 Oct 2019 | 31 | Building a Partnership with Ashley Grubbs and Julie McCoy | 00:42:27 | |
Today, I am joined by Ashley and Julie, who are business partners behind Mind Your Mess in Houston, TX. I hope you’ll listen to their entire story. If you’re a solo organizer who has ever been interested in bringing on a business partner, you will definitely want to hear how these two met, how their partnership was formed, and where Mind Your Mess is headed today. Their friendship and sky’s-the-limit mindset are truly inspiring.
(00:00) – Intro to the Episode
The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/blog/partnership | |||
| 02 Sep 2022 | 120 | It's September! Let's talk "New New Year's Day." | 00:12:31 | |
Remember the feel of a new notebook and school supplies? That's what I always think of when September rolls around. I call the day after Labor Day "new New Year's Day" because I feel like it's a great time for a reset. Today we are talking about some important September thoughts for our organizing businesses and how we can use this fall time for renewal and goal setting. LINKS FOR LISTENERS Information on Inspired Organizer®, our mentorship program and community. | |||
| 05 Dec 2022 | 131 | How $61.02 Made a Dream Come True on a Tuesday Night | 00:15:56 | |
Just wait until you hear the heartwarming and inspirational story we have for you today from our guest, Megan Sears of Megan Sears Organization in the Pacific Northwest. The magic number for Megan is $61.02 and I'll let her tell you the rest! We are CLOSING ENROLLMENT in our signature program and community, Inspired Organizer®, on Wednesday, December 7. We would be honored to be a part of your business journey! For details on signing up (including TWO special photo bonuses, including 30 done for you Instagram posts and captions!), please CLICK HERE and for more information on the program, CLICK HERE. | |||
| 05 Jun 2019 | 14 | How to Start Organizing Virtually with Nikki Boyd | 00:49:33 | |
In this week's episode, I am interviewing YouTuber Nikki Boyd. Nikki is the creator of the popular lifestyle brand At Home With Nikki on YouTube. She also offers professional organizing services in the Charleston, SC area and all over the world via “virtual organizing.” My interview with her covered all kinds of topics, including how she got started on YouTube, things she’s learned from her audience, and how she found out that being a professional organizer was a real business.
(00:00) – Introduction to this episode
The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/podcast/nikki-boyd | |||
| 17 Mar 2020 | BONUS Q&A: How To Continue Marketing During A Crisis | 00:04:35 | |
We are sharing some bonus content on the podcast about the Coronavirus and how it is affecting professional organizers.
Here is the second episode about how to continue marketing your business during a national (or worldwide) crisis.
To join the conversation, head over to our free Facebook group for TPOP Insiders here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/proorganizerstudiopodcast | |||
| 18 Mar 2020 | 48 | Creating A Scalable Offer with Haley Burkhead | 00:45:25 | |
It never fails that my private coaching clients will say to me that one of their bucket list items is something like writing their own book someday, creating an online program to help people get organized, or even put out their very own organizing method into the world to become the next Marie Kondo. This episode is for you if you are really excited by the idea of building an online business to make an impact far beyond what you can do with hands-on organizing clients one at a time.
What We Talk About (01:27) - Introducing Haley Burkhead (03:58) - Figuring out whether or not an online offer is the right next step for you (05:09) - Molly the Coach (07:22) - Mia the Leader (09:16) - How a scalable offer could ensure a longterm career (11:33) - How to help people without doing the work for them (21:20) - Reaching a broader audience with an online course or program (23:57) - Running the revenue numbers (27:18) - Haley explains the 4 parts to her proven sales machine (34:12) - How to bring in leads to your sales machine (39:44) - How Haley can help you get started (41:37) - Episode Wrap-up
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The rest of the show notes can be found at https://proorganizerstudio.com/blog/haley-burkhead | |||
| 01 May 2019 | 5 | Make Your First $1k On a Budget | 00:49:28 | |
This episode is my audio guide on getting your professional organizing business started. It is all about getting your first REAL paying clients... so are you ready to start making money doing something that you're basically already obsessed with?
(00:00) - Introduction to this episode
The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/blog/podcast-episode-5 | |||
| 08 Apr 2020 | 50 | All About Email List Marketing | 00:55:13 | |
Today, I am sharing an episode that was pulled from a new Facebook Live Series I am doing all about online business topics. Rigth now feels like the right time to share everything I know about this topic freely.
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The rest of the show notes can be found at https://proorganizerstudio.com/blog/email-marketing | |||
| 06 Nov 2019 | 36 | A Coaching Session with McKayla Thompson | 00:40:58 | |
My guest today is McKayla Thompson. McKayla is 18 years old, and she a professional organizer who launched her business before she even graduated high school. As you can imagine, she is extremely ambitious and motivated to be an entrepreneur and get her business going in Ohio.
Today’s episode is actually a coaching call, where I will be talking with her about where she is with her business now, what obstacles she is facing, and what actions she can take to overcome those obstacles. So, if you are listening today, you are likely to be inspired by her level of self-awareness and her dreams for her business. And regardless of your age or stage of business, I think you will also relate to some of the common fears that organizers have everywhere. I hope you get a lot out of listening in on this coaching session!
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| 23 May 2023 | 152 | You're Overcomplicating Your Organizing Business. | 00:27:09 | |
Cabri Carpenter (Minimize Then Organize in Lubbock, TX) and Melissa are breaking it down today with a little tough love...about how you are overcomplicating your professional organizing business. Sometimes being efficient means we actually end up with TOO many processes, procedures, and rules--which might be costing you time and money. | |||
| 07 Jan 2021 | 68 | Website + Instagram Strategies for Professional Organizers | 00:24:35 | |
Your website and Instagram are often the first ways a potential client has to connect with you--and showing your best self there is important. We offer you specifics on how to look at your website and Instagram feeds a little differently, all to provide a simpler and better experience for your dream clients. For pro organizers, your online content is key--make it fantastic! Join our free Facebook group for podcast insiders to get notified about new episodes (plus get behind-the-scenes access and other goodies)!
Learn more about our Inspired Organizer® course + community Check out our brand new workshop, The 4-Part Plan for Landing your Dream Clients in 2021. The rest of the show notes can be found here: | |||
| 30 Dec 2020 | 67 | Heading into 2021 with Lessons Learned from 2020 | 00:39:31 | |
Jen and Melissa break down the serious (and not so serious) things we learned this year, and what we can take with us into 2021 for our professional organizing businesses. | |||
| 12 Sep 2023 | 163 | From Pro Organizer to Closet Designer-Meet Bethany from The Container Store | 00:43:00 | |
I'm thrilled to introduce you to our Inspired Organizer® member Bethany, who is living out her "Disney job" dream of being a closet designer at The Container Store! | |||
| 08 Jul 2024 | 198 | July Reset Checklist + Filling an entire summer with ONE email | 00:21:43 | |
There are six months left in 2024 which means it's time for a mid-year check in on your organizing business! Melissa is taking a July reset and she'll talk about what that means and how you can get some of that magic too. Connect with Melissa at proorganizerstudio.com or hello@proorganizerstudio.com! | |||
| 20 May 2020 | 53 | Professional Photo Organizing with Sherra Humphreys | 00:46:33 | |
My guest on today’s episode is Sherra Humphreys, a professional organizer exclusively focused on photo organization. Her business, Simple Photo Stories, is based in Atlanta and provides photo organizing services both in-person and remotely. I am so excited for her to share the story of her unique niche and the resources she provides to organizers who want to add photo organizing to their offerings. Sherra is super fun to hear from, so I hope you enjoy!
Sherra Humphreys has built a career based on helping women succeed in small business. Her philosophy is to learn the business, do the work, and then help others do the same. Her comprehensive background in business coaching and training means you get real life experience from this business owner. She has been helping women for over 25 years find their passion and turn it into a business that gives them freedom and flexibility. Her life’s work revolves around storytelling through photographs so she is passionate about the photo organization industry. Sherra is the owner of Simple Photo Stories located in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia and works with VIP clients. She and Rita Norton are co-founders of PPO Studio filled with training & resources to help people start offering photo organizing services.
Photo Organizer Starter System
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The rest of the show notes can be found at https://proorganizerstudio.com/blog/photo-organizing | |||
| 19 Jun 2019 | 16 | Building a Community on Instagram with Samantha Pregenzer | 00:54:13 | |
In today's episode, I'm chatting with Samantha Pregenzer, a blogger and professional organizer in San Francisco, CA. She is a NAPO member, DIYer, and the writer behind the Simply Organized blog. Helping people get organized is her passion - but the blog and thriving Instagram community are the heart of her business. Today, we are digging a little deeper into how her business got started, and how she grew her Instagram following to where it is today!
(00:00) – Introduction to this episode
The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/blog/instagram | |||
| 29 Feb 2024 | 184 | Getting "ADHD Curious" with Missi McKown | 00:20:46 | |
This is going to be the first, and not last!, conversation we have about organizing clients with ADHD, and being an organizer with ADHD. Neurodivergence is the hot word right now--but we are diving into a discussion on how you can help clients even if you yourself aren't fully up to speed on all things in this realm. | |||
| 01 Feb 2023 | 140 | Get Inspired Series: Beth Nordby of Custom Order Organizing | 00:39:01 | |
Beth Nordby was doing digital marketing for a big Fortune 500 company and she realized she wanted something more for her career. Organizing was it! She took a leap a year ago, became a professional organizer, started Custom Order Organizing, and hasn't looked back. We love our Get Inspired series talking to the awesome organizers of our Inspired Organizer® community! LINKS FOR LISTENERS Custom Order Organizing in the Quad Cities: https://www.customorderorganizing.com Connect with Beth on social media: https://www.instagram.com/customorderorganizing/ Learn more about our Inspired Organizer® signature coaching program for professional organizers: A LITTLE BIT OF THE EPISODE: Melissa Klug: I am so, so happy to have you with us because I could talk, I say this all the time, I could talk to organizers all day, every day about like, Hey, tell me about your business and tell me about how you started and all that good stuff. But why don't you give us kind of the lay of the land of how you started, how you're in this business, all that good stuff. Beth Nordby: I officially started my business on paper anyway, at the end of last year. I've been in the corporate world for 20 plus years. Most recently in marketing, digital marketing, website strategy, things like that. And I just, you know, the last few years had started to realize that I needed to change. I flirted with the idea of a different company, but I thought, you know, I. Yeah, why not change things up if I'm gonna do it, let's do it now. Knowing that I wanted to leave the job I was in. And so I actually started researching professional organizing as a business probably a year and a half, two years ago, maybe a little more than that, and signed up for the Pro Organizer, studio inspired organizer program. At least a year and a half ago, and started looking into it before I left my job. And my initial thought was I was gonna do it as a side hustle while I figured out do I actually wanna do this or not. And then I got to a point in my corporate world job that I just knew it was time I needed to go. And so I pulled the plug and jumped into it. And decided not to really focus on a niche at all yet cuz I really wanted to see what was out there and try a bunch of different types of organizing jobs and see what kind of the ones that. I enjoyed the most, the ones where I felt like I was making a biggest impact. And so, I'm still kind of in that vein of trying all the things and mostly enjoying myself. , right. Melissa Klug: Mostly. Okay. So I wanna poke on that a little bit. Tell me a little bit about the things that you have said yes to and what have you discovered in that journey of what do I like, what do I not like? Beth Nordby: The only thing I've said no to thus far was a hoarding job. And it was also right after I started, but I'm fairly certain that's one where I, I know I'm like beyond my depth. Yeah. For a true hoarding situation. So that's the only No, I've. Had thus far. The, I've had kind of a, a range of, I've done a few packs and moves. I've done like a massive decluttering slash pack for a move. . And then I've also done kind of the, the pretty pantries. Mm-hmm. and some newly renovated homes like gorgeous, beautiful homes, which I love real estate, so being able to go into some of those fun homes is really cool for me. And I think the decluttering, I find a lot of value. I feel like I'm making the biggest impact. For the individual, but I also am recognizing I can't, that can't be my only because it emotionally, physically you know, a lot of times there's emotional challenges for the client. And again, that's where the, I feel like I'm making a big impact cuz I'm really helping them on that journey. But it also takes a lot out of me. And so I'm finding that if I can balance those with those sort of like pretty pantry, you know, let's, let's crank this closet out type of thing. That's kind of my sweet spot is finding a. Between those, Melissa Klug: I think that's really important because if you did the same, first of all, if you did the same thing every day in any kind of a job, it would get really boring really fast. Right? Definitely. But especially for those things, and especially if you are one of those people who really take on that emotion of the client or even if you don't take on the emotion, You know, you're really affected by, this was an emotionally heavy day. It is really nice to break that up with just to like, can you please just decant all my Cheerios, ? Yes Beth Nordby: Exactly. Melissa Klug: So I, I do wanna, I wanna go back, I wanna talk about organizing a second, but I really wanna go back to something too. So leaving your corporate job, this is something, this is a question that we get a lot. How will I know that I'm ready to make the leap? And so there are a lot of paths. You might do it as a side hustle, you might do it part-time. You might go back to, you know, your day job is three days a week and organizing is two, whatever. Can you give people kind of like what your thought process was on the, I'm just doing it. Beth Nordby: Yeah. I, I wrote a lot of waves. I will say you know, so I could be really zen one day about it and the next day, like, what, what did I do? Oh my God, this is insanity. But for the most part, my kind of steady thought through that was I can always change my mind. Yeah. I changed my mind about the job I was. And I can change my mind about this job. I can decide I don't like it. I can decide I don't like certain aspects of it and farm part of that out. I can decide that I only wanna do it part-time and I can get another part-time job. I can do. I don't have to. Do it the same way consistently. I can learn what I like, I can learn what works. And so that's, I really rode some pretty heavy waves and I still do they're just maybe not as dramatic as they were at first, but, , you know, first of all, organizing is a pretty low barrier to entry. You know, it very low. Yes, you can take it different ways. Obviously you can get certifications and things like that. But the upfront cost is pretty minimal at that point. File your L l C if that, I mean, you can get started without that. I, I guess officially. But really doesn't have to cost a lot. And so if I was two months in and I decided I wanted to walk away. There's no major harm there, you know? And so I just kept having to coach myself and I still do. I can change it, I can get a part-time job just to supplement and make that financial leap a little bit more comfortable for me. And so I've been trying to coach myself in that and actually in all aspects of the business. I can do this for now. My website can look like this for now. Yes, my social media can look like this for now. And then I, and I can change. . And so, and I think that's one thing that the inspired organizer community has done for me is solidify that feeling for me because you hear it a lot in that group. Some people who just went away from organizing altogether and went into some niche, running courses. Or, a photography offering or things like that. And so I think that really opened up my eyes to the fact that I can go a lot of different directions.
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| 01 Nov 2023 | 168 | How To Summit LIVE (Part 2) | 00:21:13 | |
Welcome to part 2 of our recent live pod taping at the How To Summit! Thank you again to Brandie and Ryan of Home+Sort for hosting such an awesome event! I can't wait to be there next year! LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Information on Inspired Organizer: click HERE email Melissa: hello@proorganizerstudio.com PANELISTS: Ria Safford | Riorganize | @riorganize Follow How To Summit HERE Sign up for info on next year's summit: howtosummit.org
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| 20 Apr 2023 | 150 | "How Will I Know The Perfect Time?" | 00:15:32 | |
We got an email the other day from someone who was asking, essentially, what's the perfect time to start my business? She gave me a couple of details about what she has going on in her life driving the question...trying to figure out when she should begin. But I thought about that email and I was like, you know what? We have something. Jen and I had a conversation about this one time, and I found it and knew it was the perfect thing to share. But--it's not JUST about starting a business. The thing about this conversation is Jen has so many things that she says that I realize it's not just about whether it's time to start a business. It's really about what's the right time to start doing anything different. Whether it is starting your organizing business, whether it is starting a team and your organizing business, whether it is time to pivot into something, no matter what it is, whatever you're trying to decide about, if you're reaching some sort of a crossroads in your organizing business. LINKS FOR LISTENERS Check out our free workshop, The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan: poroadmap.com Information on Inspired Organizer®, our signature program: inspiredorganizer.com
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| 12 Jun 2019 | 15 | Covering Your Legal Bases with Annette Stepanian | 00:39:57 | |
In this week's episode, I’m chatting with attorney Annette Stepanian all about exactly what it takes to start your business legally. Annette Stepanian is a traditionally educated lawyer and business strategist who equips other creative professionals and small business owners with the legal and business knowledge needed to confidently start and grow their businesses. Combining her passion for law and small business, Annette seeks to make the law practical, approachable, and dare we say it - even a little fun!
(00:00) – Introduction to this episode
The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/blog/legal-advice | |||
| 14 Aug 2019 | 24 | The 2080 Principle: Organizing Your Life For Your Future Self | 00:16:33 | |
In this week's episode, I'm sharing a new concept that I've coined "the 2080 principle," which is my take on the mindset shift that is needed in order to break the cycle of discontent, boredom, and struggle that may be related to your daily habits. If you're ready to take the steps towards creating your ideal future, I hope you'll tune in for this one.
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| 04 Mar 2024 | 185 | "I Quit!!!" --the How and Why of Exiting a Bad Client Situation | 00:43:21 | |
One thing we encounter in our Inspired Organizer group a lot is, "How do I tell someone I don't want to work with them?" Today's guest is Melissa Gugni, and we are talking about this challenging situation and how you can approach it, and the hows and the whys and all of that. We know it's hard, and we want to take away some of the difficulty for professional organizers! LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Connect with Pro Organizer Studio: hello@proorganizerstudio.com
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| 29 May 2019 | 13 | How to Streamline Your Workflow with Kate Jones | 00:33:13 | |
In today’s episode, I am really excited to have on another professional organizer and mentor, Kate Jones of Kate Waldo + Co. She specializes in providing tools for bloggers and influencers to streamline and organize the behind-the-scenes of their businesses. This allows them to focus on doing what they love. Plus, she’ll be sharing all about how her business got to where it is today. It’s an incredible story so you’ll definitely want to be taking notes on this one.
(00:00) – Introduction to this episode
The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/blog/workflow | |||
| 10 Apr 2022 | 108 | Photography in an Organizing Business with Melissa Keyser (part 1) | 00:37:06 | |
Taking photographs for your business, whether your website or your social media, can feel overwhelming sometimes. Today on the podcast, our Inspired Organizer Melissa Keyser is back with us talking about her personal passion--photography. This is part 1 of our 2 part conversation with Melissa, and today we are talking about why the right photographs can connect you with your ideal client, and how we can all feel more confident in photographs (even if you struggle with this!) LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Melissa's organizing Instagram Melissa's photography Instagram Information on Inspired Organizer® | |||
| 01 Jul 2020 | 56 | Automation Basics for Your Online Business | 00:42:41 | |
The episode I’m sharing today was pulled from a new Facebook Live series I did all about online business topics. I’m simply teaching for free, sharing resources, and pulling back the curtain and breaking things down step-by-step so that you can 1. KNOW what options you have and what they look like, and 2. Avoid getting burned by someone trying to sell you information that is freely available.
The content today isn’t specific to professional organizers, but it may relate to projects you’re thinking of working on for your business while we are temporarily slowed down from in-home client work. Enjoy.
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| 15 Jul 2021 | 86 | Inspired Organizer® Melissa Keyser: Organizing as an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) | 00:40:55 | |
Melissa Keyser's journey to professional organizing stretched from the Bay Area to the woods of Maine--including selling almost everything she owned to move cross country. Today she joins us to talk about her business, including why it's the ideal career for people who identify as being HSP--highly sensitive people--and who might struggle in a traditional workplace. Melissa can be found on Instagram at @melissakeyser and her website, melissakeyser.com. | |||
| 04 Aug 2022 | 119 | "A 'yes' from my client in one second" - A New Service for Moms with Carly Adams of Tidy Revival | 00:13:51 | |
A service that gets a "yes" from a client in less than a second? Sign us up! Organizer Carly Adams is telling us about the new service she's set up for mom clients using the Class Keeper app that we are in loooove with. She gives us concrete ideas on how to structure it and how to sell it. LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Carly Adams - owner, Tidy Revival in Sacramento, CA Information on our Inspired Organizer® membership and community
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| 21 Jan 2022 | 98| "Someone Should Do This!" - A New Organizing Passion Project with Sarah Brent | 00:42:28 | |
Sarah Brent did something awesome with her organizing business, which is she saw that there was a need for something in the market, and she kept saying "someone should work on this!" and then realized someone was actually her. We love when someone takes a challenge and is like, wait, I'll tackle that! So we wanted to have Sarah on to talk about what she's doing...and how it can help all our pro organizing friends. Links for Listeners: Tidy Stock Photography site Coupon code: PODCAST20 for 20% off their purchase! Organizing Essentials (enrollment closes 1/31) Information about Inspired Organizer | |||
| 05 Oct 2022 | 125 | Boss October: One month to set yourself (and clients!) up for success | 00:24:28 | |
October is MY FAVORITE MONTH! So much goodness in this month. One great thing I learned from a client was a concept called Boss October--and in this encore episode we are revisiting this concept and giving you some additional tools to use in your business. LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Canva template list of Boss October activities for your business or your clients to use and modify with your logo: CLICK HERE Learn more about coaching programs to start or grow your organizing business: CLICK HERE | |||
| 16 Aug 2023 | 160 | Brandie & Ryan of Home+Sort and the hosts of the How To: Summit | 00:35:27 | |
This is a can't miss episode of the pod with Brandie & Ryan, who are the reason we are all so excited to go to the How:To Summit 9/21-9/22 in Ohio. LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Info + tickets for How:To Summit CLICK HERE Follow for summit information: CLICK HERE Register to join Pro Organizer Studio: Organizing Essentials closing soon: CLICK HERE | |||
| 16 Mar 2020 | BONUS Q&A: Working With Clients During Quarantine | 00:06:38 | |
We are going to share some bonus content on the podcast about the Coronavirus and how it is affecting professional organizers.
Here is the first short episode about deciding how to work with clients during a voluntary quarantine.
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| 12 Aug 2020 | 59 | Can You Profitably Run Facebook Ads? | 00:20:17 | |
I’m sharing a clip directly from a coaching call with one of my Inspired Organizer students for the podcast today, because well, sometimes the best aha moments come completely unscripted! What I loved about this conversation is that you can REALLY hear the huge change in her mindset from the beginning of this segment to the end, and if you can relate to having any hangups about spending money on growing your business, I hope you’ll get a major lightbulb moment out of this, too. Resources mentioned:
The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/blog/facebook-ads | |||
| 30 Oct 2023 | 167 | How To Summit LIVE! (Part 1) | 00:26:41 | |
Welcome to our first ever live podcast recording! The How To Summit was an amazing two days of learning and community and fun, and the last day we hit record on a fab panel of organizers answering a grab bag of my questions. The panelists: Ria Safford | Riorganize | @riorganize LINKS FOR LISTENERS Follow How To Summit HERE Sign up for info on next year's summit: howtosummit.org
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| 10 Jun 2021 | 85 | Working From Home is Here To Stay Part 2: Productivity + Solopreneur Tips | 00:23:21 | |
We are back with more conversation with Shari Medini, work from home and parenting expert. Today we talk about great productivity tips for working from home--whether you're helping a client navigate a home office or if you're trying to figure out how to prioritize solopreneur time in your own pro organizing business. Links for listeners: Parenting While Working From Home book If you want our free workshop, "Your 4-Part Plan for Landing your Dream Clients in 2021"--click here! | |||
| 09 Oct 2019 | 32 | Running a Business Around Your Priorities as a Young Mom | 00:21:50 | |
Today, I am chatting with Di Ter Avest, owner of Di Is Organized in Baltimore, MD. While I have heard many aspiring organizers say that they want to wait to start their business until their young children are in school, Di Ter Avest shares how she manages her organizing business with two little ones. With the right support system, healthy boundaries and some pre-planning, balancing your priorities may not be as hard as you think.
(00:00) – Intro to the Episode
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| 01 Aug 2023 | 158 | Your August To Do List | 00:18:57 | |
It's August and I'm giving you a to-do list for your organizing business! This is a great time of the year to focus on one of the most central clients to a lot of organizers--moms--and I'm giving you a few things you can tackle in your business to try to get that calendar FULL of organizing sessions. Here is a recap of the items discussed in the podcast with timestamps for you to listen: 4:00 Two functional tasks to automate and plan for the entire month 8:30 Strategic moves for your organizing business for August: 12:00 Reminding clients about refresh/maintenance packages 13:00 Back to School newsletter 14:00 Lead Magnet --change theme 15:45 Blog post 17:00 Moms group strategy Related podcasts to check out: Episode 145, Five Mile Famous; Episode 147, Using AI, Epsiodes 117 + 118 Class Keeper app with Denise Albright If you have any questions, please email me at hello@proorganizerstudio.com
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| 01 May 2019 | 7 | Incorporating Faith Into Your Business Mission with Jennifer Ford Berry | 00:34:26 | |
In today's episode, I'm joined by Jennifer Ford Berry who is a professional organizer and author, and now the leader of a brand new conference called Created Order. I'm chatting with her about the direction her organizing business has gone, how she has incorporated her faith into her message, and what's coming next.
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| 27 Jan 2021 | Minisode | When Is It Time to Invest In Your Pro Organizing Business? | 00:20:50 | |
Jen and Melissa are talking about one of our favorite topics--when is it time to make some investments in your pro organizing business? "Investment" doesn't have to mean multi thousands of dollars--it can mean "when is it time to hire a web designer" or "when is it time to stop using a free spreadsheet and start using an accounting system." Knowing when to invest--and what to invest in--is important, and Jen and Melissa talk about their (sometimes very different!) philosophies on spending for your business. (01:00) Topic intro | |||
| 29 Jul 2020 | 58 | Career Transitions and Fulfillment with Lupe Prado | 00:37:06 | |
Lupe Prado is a career coach who helps people figure out how to move toward more fulfillment in their jobs. If you are currently in a job situation that leaves you frustrated or feeling the Sunday scaries, my friend Lupe has tips for recognizing what may really be going on so that you can make tangible, positive changes from where you are. I think you’ll enjoy hearing our interview so that you can be reminded that career fulfillment doesn’t have to mean quitting your job overnight and risking it all - it’s more of a sensitive, long-term process so that you can be sure you’re working toward the dream that feels right for you and your family.
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| 03 Apr 2022 | 107 | Netflix + Organizing = Clients for You! How to take advantage of the second season of Home Edit | 00:29:23 | |
It is always a great time in organizing when there are things in pop culture and the public consciousness of what we do is high! The second season of the Home Edit show premiered on Netflix on April 1st, so today on the podcast, we are going to be talking about how you can take advantage of these things, how you can make sure that your business is ready for people to remind themselves that they need someone to come in to their home. Here is the checklist for what we recommend you do to make sure you're ready for an increase in attention for organizing! 1. Make sure all of your contact information is easy to find and correct on all of your digital properties. 2. Go through your own contact process to make sure all of your links work and that a potential client can easily get to you! 3. Make it EXTREMELY easy to contact you--give potential clients as many ways as possible to get in touch with you--not just a contact form on your website. Make sure you hyperlink phone and emails on your site too for mobile users! 4. Do a webite health check, including: do you have easy to find call to action buttons? Are you featured on your site-because clients connect with a person! Make sure your service location-your geography--is easy to find on your site. 5. Consider a Google ad. 6. Make sure your free workhorse, Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business) is active and updated. 7. Social media 8. Blog 9. Use your personal network 10. Offer to do presentations to local groups. LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Our new, free workshop: www.poroadmap.com Information on Inspired Organizer® | |||
| 21 Oct 2022 | 126 | Get Inspired Series: Nicole Mannino of Own Your Space | 00:40:48 | |
We are starting a new series here at the podcast where we introduce you to active, busy professional organizers with inspirational stories of how they started their business, what their secrets are, and how you can do the same. We are starting with Nicole Mannino of Own Your Space Professional Organizing in New Jersey. Nicole started her organizing business in 2020--and persevered through the pandemic and a pregnancy--and has created a strong business that is growing every month. She has so much inspiration for our listeners! Nicole was also one of the founding members of our Organizing Essentials Course, which is now OPEN for enrollment until November 1. This $249 course is a great kickoff to a pro organizing business, or also as inspiration for people on how to really get into working with clients. We'd love to have you join us by CLICKING HERE. | |||
| 22 May 2019 | 12 | How to Know If Professional Organizing is Right For You | 00:21:39 | |
In today’s episode, I am going to share with you a question from an anonymous student who is wondering if becoming a professional organizer is right for her. She agreed to let you listen in on our call where I address what worries her when it comes to starting her business. If you’re still wondering if this profession is really for you, don’t miss this episode! Nothing is off-limits in this private conversation.
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| 11 Oct 2023 | 165 | Ask More Questions: Avoiding Scams + Pay to Play + Other Cruddy Things | 00:19:49 | |
As professional organizing entrepreneurs, unfortunately one thing we have to watch out for are straight up scams at the worst, and things that are sketchy and unhelpful opportunities at the least. I want you to have a healthy level of skepticism for opportunities that come your way--and today I am talking about some specifics on things to be on the lookout for! Timestamps: LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Learn more about our Inspired Organizer program: www.inspiredorganizer.com Our 24/7 on demand workshop, The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan: www.poroadmap.com PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT: Hey, pro organizers, it's your podcast host, Melissa. And of course, just right as I press record, the neighbor's dog started going absolutely bananas. So hopefully you guys can hear this. This is just shows you this is real life here when I'm recording the podcast. But. I am on here today because sometimes I have podcasts planned out for a long time and there's something that I've thought about for a while and I want to get out and sometimes there will be things that happen in a given day or week or month and I go, this is like, I was going to say an emergency podcast. There's no such thing as an emergency podcast, but like a breaking news, organizing breaking news podcast type of thing. I don't know. And that's kind of what today is. There is something that's been on my mind based on some conversations that I've seen in the past few days. And then combined with a podcast that I am listening to, and I think it's important for organizers to talk about and think about, and it was on my mind so much that I'm like, this is, I have to make this into a podcast. This is going to be a pretty stream of consciousness, like free flowing it's, it's what's in Melissa's head. So hopefully you guys are all good with that. I just wanted to give you kind of my off the cuff thoughts because I think that this is really important and when I originally started thinking about this, I will be honest, the only word that kept coming to my mind or the only phrase that I could think of to describe this was the phrase like Be cynical. And I don't think that being cynical in general is a good trade for professional organizers. I think it's the exact opposite of what we need to be, especially with clients. But what I do want to do is turn that word cynical into I guess what I would phrase it as I want you to be a careful and thoughtful consumer, and I want you to ask a lot of questions when you're presented with something. So let me just tell you a little bit about how I got here and what's going on. So first of all, there is a podcast called The Dream, which I've listened to for a long time. I can't remember when it first came out, but it's had a few seasons. And the first couple of seasons, they did a really well researched dive on MLMs, which is a subject that fascinates me. But then the current season that they're on, they've like kind of shifted a little bit and they're talking about the life coaching industry, particularly, and it's just, it's been really fascinating to listen to, and it's really hit on something that is kind of the combination of something that I've seen in our Inspired Organizer group, and then this podcast just got me going, I've got to talk about this. So I was listening to an episode of The Dream while I got ready to go to an organizing client last week, and they were talking about how people, even very famous people sometimes can just like literally just make things up and say, you should do X, Y, Z. And then they get people to pay for X, Y, Z when they don't have any actual training. They don't have any actual expertise. You can say anything you want to on the internet and no one will ever fact check you, right? So, they were talking about this guy who wrote a book that has sold 100 million copies worldwide. People really bought into it. And essentially, he is a complete 100 percent con man, okay? But was thinking about that book and then in the past few days There have been a couple things that have come up in our inspired organizer coaching group Which by the way you guys I would absolutely love for you to get into our community It is so lovely and people bring up so many things in that group that one of my main goals as a coach is to prevent People from making decisions that they will regret later sometimes very expensive Mistakes. And there were people that come to this group and just say, Hey, I had this opportunity to come up and give me a gut check or tell me about your experience with this. A couple of things that have come up in the group that things that were brought to us. And basically it was presented of like, I have like a fishy feeling about this basically. And they were doing a gut check because in our business we are sometimes presented with opportunities or presented with things and we're like, oh my gosh, it sounds so exciting. Like this person wants to interview me or they want to do this or they want to do that. And then you start to get a little voice in the back of your head and said, but. Is it, is it really real? Is it too good to be true? We start to doubt ourselves. We doubt our voices sometimes. And, and one of the things that I am going to always tell you all the time, if you listen to this podcast ever, or if I coach you, I always say go with your gut and trust your gut because if your gut is telling you that something feels fishy, it probably is fishy, right? And there were a couple of things that came up and they were both in the category of what I term unsolicited media opportunities, okay? One of them was an organizing company that was featuring other organizers in a blog post and they were chosen for this out of the blue. And then the other one was a podcast that had called and said, we want to feature you on our business podcast. And both of these organizers were very excited by this because they were opportunities that just came out of the blue, right? But then they also wanted to ask the question, is there anything that I need to be watching out for? First of all, I know what it's like to be in business and you sometimes get opportunities that come your way and you're excited about it because you're like, Oh my gosh, this is a great opportunity for me. I want you to be excited about opportunities that come your way. But I also want you to ask the appropriate questions because extremely unfortunately, and this is what bothers me about business probably more than anything else, unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there, not in the organizing industry, but just the bigger industry who are out there honestly just preying on entrepreneurs and they're trying to build their own businesses. Right. But sometimes they're doing it in a way that. is not really on the up and up. And when we as organizers get an opportunity presented I want you to be appropriately excited, but I want you to ask the questions and make sure that it's not an opportunity that you're being preyed upon. And I want to be clear, this has nothing to do with your level of experience. It doesn't matter if you are a newer organizer or an experienced organizer, all of us can have things that we fall for. I know an experienced organizer who unfortunately lost a ton of money in an organizing scam and that was not someone who was brand new. And so we can all be susceptible to these. In these two circumstances that I'm talking about, these were not traditional scams. There are scams in organizing. Okay. And I'll talk about those in a couple minutes. But I want you to ask questions about some of these opportunities that come your way, because sometimes, even if they're not a scam, they are something that is really not going to help your business, or they are something that is trying to lead you into something that could be bigger or something that you are going to be trying to force to make a very expensive decision about. A couple examples. One of them that has come up lately, And I'm guessing that a lot of you on listening to this podcast have gotten this call. There is a podcast that they say it's a business podcast. They really want to feature you. It's a five minute interview. They want to feature you in this promotion and they want to give you an article and all this stuff. It's not a scam. They really do interview you. for five minutes and they put that up, but there's always a catch. So it might not be a scam, but there's a catch. Then they're going to call you back and try to sell you a huge advertising package which one of our organizers said they were asking for about 5, 000 for an advertising package, which I can promise you is not going to lead you to ideal organizing clients. Okay. There are so many other things out there that you are going to be presented with as opportunities and all of us are trying to build our businesses. And so we do the natural thing, which is we get excited and we go, maybe this will be the thing that will lead me to, you know, this, this treasure trove of clients. A few examples are golf courses that will call you and want you to be in a book that they give to all golfers. They present it as this amazing opportunity. It's going to be transformative for your business. As a great entrepreneur and all of these opportunities, you guys are pay to play. And so what's going to happen is they, they bait you with like, Oh, we have chosen you for the super special opportunity. And then they're going to say, Oh, but we need you to pay X, Y, Z. And it's usually a decent amount of money. We're not talking about a couple of hundred dollars. We're talking about, in most cases, thousands of dollars so that you can really promote this opportunity. And. While again, these are not necessarily traditional scams, they are not something in general that is going to help your business. So this includes print ads for local magazines. This includes a lot of those different things. And in a lot of cases too, you're going to get pressured, like really pressured with a sales pitch. And that should be your spidey sense number one going off of, wait a minute, why are they pitching me so hard on this? If they are pitching you that hard, it's something that's a little bit fishy. Okay. It's, it's not really, really legit. The second one was I think it was just someone being very creative about seo and their backlinks it was an organizing company that was featuring other organizing companies And I think the goal is they just want to get a backlink on someone else's site, which is an SEO tactic for their own websites, right? So this is not a nefarious scam. Neither of these are nefarious scams, but it's like, as I say, it's a little bit sketch. In this SEO one, they randomly pick 10 organizing companies, several of which are people in our inspired organizer group. And they said they want to focus on them. And the idea is the person gets really excited to be featured and then they post the story everywhere. And then that backlink helps that other company. So it helps their SEO. It's very enterprising, honestly, but here's what I want to do. I want you to get backlinks for your website, which is a whole thing that I am happy to teach you, but I want you to do it by connecting with other organizers that you actually know, other organizers that you actually want to be connected with, who you guys can mutually help each other. Okay. And I will tell you as pro organizer studio, I get pitched. Please do not think I'm exaggerating seven or eight times a day. Sometimes more pitched on things people want us to buy things that people want me to write an article about for our blog, things that people want to feature on the podcast. It's nonstop. And I really, I'm going to tell you, I hope for you, for your business life, it doesn't include that because it is extremely annoying to manage, but partner with people on things that you know about and trust that are in our industry or in analogous industries. You can give and get backlinks from other organizers in ways that aren't like scammy and blah. Another thing that's going to happen to you a lot is you are going to be pitched that you are an amazing entrepreneur and you have been chosen to be featured in XYZ magazine. And we're going to do an article about you and blah, blah, blah. So, in 99. 9 percent of these cases, these are pay to play opportunities, you're going to get excited that someone wants to feature you and they have chosen you, and then you're going to find out that, unfortunately, it's really not what you thought it was. And then, you're going to get a high pressure sales tactic? The example I gave was Brains Magazine, Brains with a Z has been on a tear. They're not just contacting organizers. They contacted a friend of mine who's a stylist. They're all over the place. So then when you find out they're contacting all these people, you realize it's not special. They're just contacting a lot of people. There are tons of these magazines out there, entrepreneurial magazines, and it's all pay to play. And they prey on people who don't ask the questions or people who just go, Oh my gosh, this is so exciting. I'm going to be featured in a magazine. And If you want to be featured in the media, that is a whole other topic and there are ways to do it where you pitch for that media and there is going to be a whole podcast that I'm going to do on that pretty soon. But those opportunities that reach out for you and they really, really hard sell you, you're going to get multiple emails about it. You're going to get a lot of stuff those are. They're just almost never things that are going to be worthwhile for you. And they really are just sales pitches. This is so random but I'm going to just save you a little bit of time. If you start to get these opportunities presented to you, right. Via email, via phone call, whatever you are not obligated in any way, shape or form to respond to a person to decline the opportunity to reply to them in any way, if you're getting pitched something and you're not interested in it. You can just delete it. You do not have to spend a single minute of your time. I know that we all want to be very polite, but what I don't want you to do is, and this is a trap that someone that I know fell into recently, where you respond to some of these things that you should be healthfully skeptical about, and then they know you're a real person, and the sales pitch comes harder and harder. Just simply delete. and ignore. You can send it to spam. That's what I do. You don't have to respond. The people I want to respond to, you respond to, are potential clients. Other things that are really, really good opportunities, so, please just Delete and move on. The other thing that I want to talk about too, well, there are a lot of things I want to talk about, but in the time that I have been a coach for professional organizers, I have had a lot of times where people come and they say, I have signed up for XYZ service an SEO service that costs over a thousand dollars a month and you are obligated for a 12 month contract that you didn't really realize was a 12 month contract. I have seen people sign up for things that they thought were a couple of months and it turns out it was for a year or the services that they were promised are not delivered. Websites that people have paid thousands of dollars for that the person just disappeared with their money. There are so many examples of this and that makes me more sad than anything, because I know how hard we have to work for the money we get in our business. And so when you are thinking about making an investment, I want it to be a thoughtful investment that has an ROI attached to it. You know that the person that's providing the service is legit. There are unfortunately so many services out there that you're going to get a hard sales pitch for, and then you're going to feel obligated into it. And it's not going to be the service that you really, really need. Okay. If you need a website builder, we have one. Her name is Bree Kistler. She is amazing. BK Branding Co. She does websites for so many organizers and so many other people. She is going to actually take your money and actually build you a website, right? Again, does it pass the smell test? If it feels fishy, it is fishy. And I want you to read your contracts. What are you signing up for? What is the outlay of money? How is the person going to get paid? How are you going to get your services delivered to you? Ask all those questions. A real service provider is going to be able to answer those. The other thing that I want you to do is if you're signing up for coaching with anyone, I want you to ask a lot of questions. If you want to sign up for coaching with me, ask me questions. Ask me about my organizing business. Ask me about my credentials. Ask me about all of these things. Ask other people about working with me and what it's like to work with me. Ask the questions because I have seen so many people, who are promoting coaching, sometimes very expensive coaching services. And I want you to be able to say, is this someone that I really want to learn from? Is this someone that has the credentials that I want to learn from? And a good person, and a person who's legit in general is going to be able to answer those questions, right? There is a level to which you have to trust and you have to listen to your gut. But asking those questions and making sure that you know exactly what you're signing up for, exactly what you're paying for, exactly what you're doing is really important. We've gone through a couple of things that are just things that you need to be on the watch out for. There are things in organizing that are straight up scams. Okay. And I want to talk to you about a couple of those because these are things where you actually lose a ton of money. And I know people who have lost money. And that is that like hurts me more than anything else. So actual scams that you need to be careful of. I don't care if you're a new organizer or an experienced organizer, I've been an organizer for a long time. And I still get excited when I get an inquiry in my inbox of someone who wants organizing services, right? It never is not exciting, but this is a very classic scam. So if someone comes into your inbox and they say, I'm getting ready to move from out of town, I would like you to organize my move. I would like you to hire the movers. I'm going to give you and they cite a very large amount of money and they usually say I'm also going to give you a 20 percent tip. You know, it's a large amount of money so you get excited about it and we're going to send you this by certified check and I want you to coordinate all of this. Extremely long story short. This is a full on scam. I had a friend of mine who played this out because she knew it was a scam, but she wanted to see what the whole thing was. She had them send her the quote certified check and she took it to her bank and it was fraudulent. So they send you a certified check, you cash it. It takes a while for your bank to say this isn't legit. And then they ask you to transfer money, usually via Venmo or some other thing to the movers. who aren't really movers and so you are out the money because your bank takes back the certified check and then you have sent the actual money via Venmo and it is gone. So, the check bounces and I know someone who has lost many thousands of dollars to this and that's just. someone who is willing to admit it. I'm sure there are other people who have lost it that are understandably not willing to share that information because they feel badly that it happened. But the other part of that scam that I want you to be on the lookout for is they will say that they're unable to talk on the phone because they have a hearing disability and that is designed to make you feel like a bad person if you question anything in the email. That is also a part of the scam. Please be aware of that. Just in general. If your spidey senses are going off, and I have had a lot of instances like this another one that's going to come to you is you're probably going to get some texts occasionally. I got a text the other day that was just, it felt weird, it just felt off, like the language was kind of stilted, and I just started asking questions and then the person disappeared, okay? If your spidey senses are going off, please, I urge you, don't ignore that feeling. If there's a book that you want to read on this, one of the best books I've ever read in my entire life is called The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecker. It's a great book about, it was, it's published many years ago, but still relevant to this day. It's about personal safety and just like using your intuition for protection. It's such a great book. I totally urge you to read it, but I am a person who, I, I am not generally scared of things. I don't walk through life scared of my own shadow, but it's a great, it's a great reminder that we need to listen to our gut not just on personal safety, but on organizing scams and all sorts of other things. Okay. So. In general, I want you, I don't want you to be cynical because I want us to go through life and think that most people are out there doing good things, right? I know so many people in the world that are doing amazingly good things, but I want you in your organizing business to ask the questions. There are unfortunately so many things out there. that are people trying to take advantage of us. Oh, another one really quickly before I forget is if you have your business registered like properly like as an LLC or any other legal entity, you will get a few times a year solicitations in the mail that look very official. They look like they're from the government and they will say, Hey, you're about to lose your trademark or your LLC or your whatever. They, they scare you into thinking you're about to lose your business entity, if you do not send them 300 so that they can file it for you. And if you read the, the fine print teeny tiny at the bottom, it will say, we are not a government entity. We're not associated with a government entity, like basically in the email or in the mail that you will get, they will say, we are lying to you. And those are another example though, of we get scared because we don't know any better. But please just. Ask questions, trust your gut, use your intuition, and I think you're going to be better off. All right, I feel like I have gone all over the place. I hope that someone is still listening. Totally understand if you don't though, but one of my main goals... Is I want you to run your business and have it be a great experience. I don't want you to have these regrets and I don't want you to have bad experiences where you go like, man, this really took a lot of wind out of my sails. This was a really upsetting situation for me. So please be a good consumer. a thoughtful consumer and I want you to go through and not have those regrets. Okay. So anyway, that is it for today. That's my mini podcast. And if you are interested in being a part of our community, I would love for you to be a part of it. You can email me hello at pro organizer studio. com and ask me any questions you want to. All right. Have a great day organizers. | |||
| 11 May 2024 | 194 | When Careers Collide: Jenny Albertini, Organizing Journeys and Becoming a Published Author! | 00:38:15 | |
I am so thrilled to welcome Jenny Albertini, who is one of the very first professional organizers I ever met, and who was a great part of my organizing life, to the pod! She is the author of Decluttered: Mindful Organizing for Health, Home and Beyond--and it's a book that will help organizers with clients by connecting health (mental and physical) with the organizing process. WIN A COPY OF JENNY'S BOOK! www.proorganizerstudio.com/links
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| 11 Mar 2022 | 104 | Amy Mayorga of Minimalista Organizing (part 1) | 00:25:44 | |
When Amy Mayorga became a mom, she realized that the STUFF of being a mother was overwhelming her. She discovered organizing and minimalism, changed her own home life--and now changes the home life of her 26,000 Instagram followers and her in-home organizing clients in the Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas metropolitan area. LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Amy's Instagram @minimalistamom Amy's website minimalistaorganizing.com Inspired Organizer® program information
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| 18 Apr 2022 | 109 | 4 Tips for Better Phone Photographs with Melissa Keyser of Quarter Moon Studio (part 2) | 00:28:23 | |
Part 2 of our conversation on photography in your organizing business is here, with our guest Melissa Keyser. Melissa is a professional organizer who has studied as a photographer, and she is combining those two loves into a brand new business where she teaches us how to take better photos of ourselves and for ourselves and our business. LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Melissa's course on photography Melissa's organizing Instagram Melissa's photography Instagram Information on Inspired Organizer® | |||
| 01 May 2023 | 151 | What Does It Take To Be An Organizing Business Owner? | 00:17:03 | |
What does it mean to be an organizing entrepreneur, and what does it mean to have an organizing business and what makes you successful? Jen and Melissa are dishing about what it takes to be an entrepreneur in our industry. What is entrepreneurial spirit for an organizer? What you will hear I hope will reassure you about what it takes because I've said on many occasions, I never envisioned myself being an entrepreneur, ever. And now I am happier than I have ever imagined being in a career. And that's why I spend all day, every day making sure other women can get into this industry and be happy! LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Find out more about Pro Organizer Studio HERE: www.proorganizerstudio.com Check out our free workshop, The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan: www.poroadmap.com
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| 01 May 2019 | 4 | Getting Published as a Professional Organizer with Jennifer Ford Berry | 00:39:16 | |
In this episode, I am joined by author and professional organizer, Jennifer Ford Berry. She's going to share her story and all kinds of tips on getting published as a professional organizer and what authoring books has done for her business. This is a super interesting interview, so I hope you enjoy!
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| 29 Oct 2020 | 60 | From Corporate to Closets & Cabinets with Melissa Klug of Home By Eleven | 00:28:35 | |
Professional organizer Melissa Klug of Home By Eleven joins the Pro Organizer Studio podcast as a new co-host - AND the guest of the hour on today's episode. You'll hear how she turned an unexpected layoff into a fulfilling career as an organizer that needed to quickly replace a full-time income as a brand new entrepreneur. | |||
| 12 Feb 2020 | 45 | Life Coaching As A Professional Organizer | 00:41:30 | |
Today, I am interviewing a professional organizer and life coach, Carly Tizzano. Carly launched her organizing business fresh out of college, and within her first year of working with clients, she realized she had taken on a coaching role in their lives to work through the mental clutter along with the physical stuff. Carly took an interest in life coaching and decided to become certified through Brook Castillo’s Life Coaching School.
Today, she is sharing her journey into life coaching, and she’ll explain just how relevant and beneficial this avenue of life coaching is to the professional organizing industry. I hope you enjoy and come away from this conversation feeling inspired!
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| 15 Dec 2023 | 173 | End of Year Expenses Checklist for your Organizing Business | 00:13:07 | |
We got a great question this week about what qualified business expenses organizers should think about, so here's a mini-sode for you! | |||
| 13 Nov 2019 | 37 | Las Vegas Retreat Recap with Megan Rogers | 00:30:16 | |
In October 2019, I held the second-ever live retreat experience for Pro Organizer Studio. It was a group of 12 women, hosted in Las Vegas, NV. So before you start thinking we were just partying for 5 days, believe me - we got a lot of work done! But we also had a lot of fun. To recap our experience, I invited Megan Rogers, who is a professional organizer from Oklahoma, today to talk about her retreat experience, and what all went down.
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| 03 Jun 2020 | 54 | The Enneagram and Your Pro Organizing Business | 00:47:11 | |
Laurie Palau is returning as a guest on the podcast today. She hosts the popular SimplyBOrganized podcast and is now working on a new project involving Enneagram and organizing styles.
And, for a fun twist, I also have a guest host today, Konmari platinum-certified organizer, Melissa Klug, sitting in to help me interview Laurie. So fun!
So no matter what your organizing personality or style is, this discussion is definitely going to help you think in a new way about yourself as an organizer and the clients that you’re serving.
What we talk about: (00:00) - Intro to the Episode
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| 31 Jan 2022 | 99|Finding Your Platform + Intentional Mindset Shifts with Jen Kilbourne Obermeier | 00:58:38 | |
In the last two years, organizers have discovered that there are lots of ways to help clients--and sometimes, even for a business that primarily helps people inside their house, organizers have been able to move to find an audience online successfully. Today we are bringing you an interview that Jen Kilbourne Obermeier did with Carly Tizzano of The Resolve Podcast, and it is FILLED with insight for organizers about finding your audience, and important mindset shifts. Carly is a member of our Inspired Organizer® community and was an organizer for years when she discovered that she had a passion for helping people set and achieve their goals. Now she is a coach specifically for goals and hosts her own podcast, The Resolve Podcast, where she interviewed Jen. We are excited to offer you a replay of their conversation. LINKS FOR LISTENERS Carly's website (https://www.carlytizzano.com) The Resolve Podcast (https://www.carlytizzano.com/podcast) Information on Inspired Organizer (https://www.inspiredorganizer.com/join) Pro Organizer Studio resources (https://www.proorganizerstudio.com)
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| 22 Mar 2023 | 147 | New Secret Weapons for Your Organizing Business...Demystifying ChatGPT and AI | 00:26:50 | |
If you've been hearing the words ChatGPT, Magic Write, or AI and wondered "what the heck are these things everyone is talking about?"--we are here to help! AI is artificial intelligence, and we are taking the mystery out of these new tech tools and how they can help organizers with some of the hard work we need to do with SEO, blogs, websites, and other STUFF! LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Join our newest round of our Organizing Essentials course closing soon ($249 for lifetime access): https://www.inspiredorganizer.com/offers/uYMgvH4F Click here to see the AI prompts and outputs Melissa mentions on this call: Information on our signature Inspired Organizer® program: www.inspiredorganizer.com A LITTLE TASTE OF THE EPISODE: So today's version of what the heck is this thing is going to be something that is the hottest new thing around everyone is talking about it, it is all over the news, and it's something that can really. I think super overwhelming. Super techy. And I know that some people really don't love tech or they think they're not techy and, and tech things might overwhelm them or start to feel very scary. But this thing that we're gonna be talking about today has huge opportunities for organizers, and I want to talk about it. If you have heard people talking about ChatGPT there are reels, there are tos, there are news stories. It's like a really, really huge thing. If you've heard about ChatGPT, but you're like, I have no idea what it is, that's what we're gonna talk about today. We're actually gonna talk about a bigger subject, but ChatGPT, is this new technology and it has experienced insane growth. So I'm a business data nerd. Okay, so just go with me for a second. , it took Instagram two and a half years after it started to get to a hundred million users on their platform, it took ChatGPT two months to get to that same level. So this is something that came out and just absolutely exploded. And you may have heard about it, but you might be sitting here going like, I've definitely heard of it, but I have no idea what it is. By the way, total side note that you didn't ask for it. This is how I feel. Anytime you read an article about Bitcoin, I have tried really hard to understand Bitcoin. I don't understand it. I'm never going to understand it. I refuse to understand it. So it might just be that ChatGPT, is your version of Bitcoin, right? Where you just go like, yep, I've heard of it, but I have no idea what it is. ChatGPT is just one of many different options that you have for starting into the world of AI. And the other day, someone posted in our coaching group for Inspired Organizer members and they were like, oh my gosh, have you guys tried the Canva tool using AI? And someone responded, what is AI? That is a very common response. It's actually why I'm doing this podcast today. AI stands for artificial intelligence, and in its very simplest form, what AI is, is using computer learning to generate something that would've normally been generated by you and your brain. And because computers can work infinitely faster than we can, our brains are amazing, but they can only process at a certain speed. And because computers. A ton of information and put it together and synthesize it in milliseconds. It can basically generate a lot of data and content and information in a very short period of time. While ChatGPT is getting the most attention recently for how it brought AI kind of into the public consciousness. There are other things beyond ChatGPT G P T that are using AI that we have access to. Okay. So for a while AI's been [00:08:00] around for a while, but it's really only been able to be used by computer scientists and other people. Now it's coming to actual consumers like you. So there is something called Jasper that has been around for a while. And then there's a new tool in Canva that is called Magic Write that uses AI. This is a total side rant. I will argue to anyone on the earth that the best $12.95 I spend in my business every month is being a Canva Pro member. I cannot possibly. All organizers to get on Canva Pro, it is the best thing for your business. But inside Canva, they have this new tool called Magic Write? Okay. So I'm gonna start by talking about what they do and how to do it, and then I'm going to move on to how I recommend you start using it in your business. So just stick with me. ChatGPT, Jasper, Magic Write, use artificial intelligence to take something that you give it as a prompt and all that a prompt is, is just a set of instructions of what you want it to do. It's basically the direction that you're giving it, and then magically, and, and I'm just gonna say magical. I know it's not magic, it's very smart computer scientists who are writing code and like something, I don't even, I will never understand how it gets put together, but it takes that prompt that you give it those instructions and then it uses all of the knowledge of the internet to give you a result of the instructions that you gave it. An example, I just wrote a prompt in canva's magic write tool that says, write a blog post on the top 10 tips for decluttering in less than five seconds. And yes, I timed it, it spit out a list of decluttering tips with details. So an example that I particularly liked was “be ruthless: be honest with yourself about what you really need and use. If you haven't used an item in over a year, it's probably time to say goodbye.” That was one of the tips that it spit out. I did another simple prompt, then write a 500 word blog post about the benefits of decluttering with children and toys. In six seconds, it spit out some really good content, 10 tips, including one that I actually use all the time with parents in my organizing work. It was decluttering promotes creativity with fewer toys to choose from. Children are forced to be more creative with what they have. This can lead to imaginative play and foster creativity. Those are just a couple examples of using really simple prompts. I think that the magic of AI gets more magical when you give it very specific and detAIled information in the prompt. And by the way, these prompts can be very long. Like you could write a whole paragraph as a prompt. So the more detail you are able to add to your prompt, and the more specific you can get, typically the better the information that comes back from the prompt.
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| 21 Aug 2019 | 25 | Living Your Brand and Company Values with Nikki Boyd | 00:27:18 | |
I'm excited to welcome back Nikki Boyd of At Home With Nikki. Nikki is a professional organizer in the Charleston, SC area who started her business 6 years ago with a YouTube channel. Her brand has now expanded to a local organizing business, a new book called Beautifully Organized, virtual coaching services for clients worldwide, and much more. Today, we are catching up on what is new in Nikki's world. I am sure you will enjoy this one!
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The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/blog/nikki-boyd-brand | |||
| 21 Jun 2022 | 115 | The "Why + How" For Building an Organizing Team with Kate Waldo Jones | 00:30:53 | |
Today we bring back our team-building expert Kate Waldo Jones, who has five locations of her business Orchid Organizing. Each and every day we have more people in our Inspired Organizer membership looking to build teams--it's a super popular topic for our organizers! In today's episode, we talk about both the "why" to build a team, as well as the "how"--and a resource we have called The Pro Organizer Success Kit. LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Info on The Pro Organizer's Success Kit HERE More team building podcast info HERE Our free workshop, The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan | |||
| 01 May 2019 | 9 | Achieving Your Goals Regardless of Obstacles | 00:11:23 | |
Today, we're going to chat about what it takes to achieve your business goals regardless of obstacles. You can be sure that life will, at times, be a twisting path of potholes around which you must navigate. Let's talk about how to stay invested in the long game.
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The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/blog/achieve-goals | |||
| 24 Feb 2021 | 71 | Moving A Personal Service Business Online | 00:39:17 | |
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. | |||
| 11 Sep 2019 | 28 | All About Business Collaborations with Matlin Pessarra | 00:33:47 | |
Today I am super excited to be chatting with Matlin Pessarra of Minimized Professional Organizers in Charlotte, NC. In the two short years that Matlin has been in business, she has grown a massive Instagram following and she has worked with a number of local influencers and celebrities in Charlotte. I have invited her onto the podcast today to talk all about her experiences with business collaborations.
The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/blog/collaborations | |||
| 07 Apr 2020 | BONUS | Adapting Quickly To Market Changes | 00:18:19 | |
Hi everyone, it’s Jen with a time-sensitive update recorded Monday, April 6th, 2020. As you’re well aware, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every industry in the world in different ways. Today I’m sharing a conversation with Samantha Smith, the founder of an app called Vishion which is a color search engine created for the interior design world. Interior designers and professional organizers are closely related enough to be siblings, so it’s really worth a listen to understand what is happening in their businesses right now, too.
In case you didn’t know, the High Point Market is the largest furnishings industry trade show in the world, bringing more than 75,000 people to High Point, North Carolina, every six months. Serious retail home furnishings buyers, interior designers, architects, and others in the home furnishings industry can be found in High Point twice a year because if you can’t find it in High Point…it probably doesn’t exist.
Originally scheduled this spring for April 25-29, a hopeful postponement was announced for June. This condensed Market will run for 3 days instead of the typical 5 and will likely include minimal programming, keeping the focus on appointments and sales meetings within the showrooms.
What this means is that a huge gap is left right now where designers typically cherish the opportunity to travel to High Point to shop, be inspired, learn from industry experts, and spend time socializing with their dear friends and community. You’re about to meet my friend Sam who stepped up to fill this need by creating a virtual market week for April 13th-15th. I’m also excited to be contributing a session on adapting to virtual project management as part of the event her company is hosting.
I hope that you’ll be intrigued by this opportunity to connect and learn from experts in the home services industry and share it with your network of both designers and pro organizer friends who could benefit. If nothing else, Sam’s hustle and heart will hopefully inspire you to not wait to step up and be creative in adapting to the changing needs of this unique time in history.
See the schedule and register for sessions: https://vishion.co/virtualsessions/ Download the Vishion app (iPhone and iPad): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vishion/id1444176806
https://www.instagram.com/vishionco/ https://www.facebook.com/vishionco https://www.linkedin.com/company/vishion/ https://www.pinterest.com/VishionCo/
The rest of the show notes are at https://proorganizerstudio.com/blog/virtual-market | |||
| 16 Sep 2022 | 122 | Jen and Melissa talk clutter + relationships with Laurie Palau of This Organized Life Podcast | 00:36:04 | |
Welcome to part 2 of Jen and Melissa's conversation with Laurie Palau of the This Organized Life Podcast. Today we are talking about clutter and relationships--both our own, and our clients'--and lots of other things. We want you to know the real people behind this podcast so hopefully you'll enjoy some of our revelations about REAL LIFE! LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Our free workshop: poroadmap.com Information on Inspired Organizer® Laurie has a course on Enneagram and clutter, which is a great companion for organizers to learn more about how to better help their clients. Pro Organizer Studio podcast listeners get a discount if you enter code POS20 at the checkout. Click here for the course!
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| 01 Aug 2021 | 87 | New month, new goals! | 00:09:56 | |
Melissa drops in with a minisode about something she read recently in Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss that she is implementing--and wants some buddies along for the ride! | |||
| 18 Dec 2019 | 41 | Getting The Husband On Board with Heather Freeman | 00:39:34 | |
I am so excited to welcome Heather Freeman of the Decor Fix onto the podcast today! Heather is an interior decorator turned course creator who brings tons of experience and insight that meshes so well into our world as organizers. Today, we are discussing conflict resolution between our clients and their spouses, as well as some tips Heather has learned along the way about bringing all of your experiences in your toolbelt to the table to give the most value to your client. I know she will be a fan favorite, and I can't wait for you to hear her story.
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| 12 Jun 2023 | 154 | Jen Weintraub of Splendid Spaces Organizing | 00:33:20 | |
We are back with one of our favorite things--interviewing organizers in our Inspired Organizer® program on their businesses and what they've learned as organizers. Today I'm excited for you to meet Jen Weintraub of Splendid Spaces Organizing! | |||
| 12 Feb 2024 | 181 | Reflections & Transformations with Jen Kilbourne, Founder of Pro Organizer Studio | 01:47:33 | |
While I am calling her a guest today, it is her podcast! Jen Kilbourne is on the pod today. She is the founder of Pro Organizer Studio, and she is the visionary behind everything that we do here. If you are a longtime podcast listener, you have heard Jen's voice on the podcast so many times--she began all of this magic. She started the Inspired Organizer® program, which has helped 900 women across the globe on five different continents start or grow their organizing businesses. Everything you see at Pro Organizer Studio was her vision. As I was trying to think about how I could introduce this episode, and how I could explain what you're going to be hearing. I was having a really hard time encapsulating it because we go a lot of different directions. I was just about to upload something and I was thinking about, oh, how can I explain this? And one of the pieces of software that I used has AI capabilities and it encapsulates an episode and it went ahead and titled it: Reflections and Transformations. And honestly, I can't think of a better name to name this podcast. Reflections and transformations is everything that we were talking about. We are talking about buying and selling businesses. We are talking about personal, deep journeys. We are talking about challenges of running a business. How important the impact of major life changes are on you as a business person? We are talking about marriages, divorces, kids, relationships. So many different things here, and I want to just give you one great big giant mega podcast. I hope it is helpful to you, organizers! LINKS FOR LISTENERS:
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| 14 Mar 2023 | 146 | Leaving A Full-Time Job for My Organizing Business: Get Inspired Series with Kris Hargrove | 00:44:29 | |
Kris Hargrove is one of our Inspired Organizers, and she recently took the leap from her full-time job to devote all her time and energy to organizing. She is giving us all the scoop today on this transition, what led her to organizing in the first place, and lots of other gems. LINKS FOR LISTENERS Learn more about Kris: https://organizedbykris.com/ Join our new cohort in Organizing Essentials: https://www.inspiredorganizer.com/offers/uYMgvH4F Learn more about Inspired Organizer®: www.inspiredorganizer.com
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| 22 Dec 2020 | 66 | Conversation with The Organized Soprano, Kay Patterson | 00:55:25 | |
Kay Patterson is also known as The Organized Soprano on YouTube, where she makes fun videos about home organizing, cleaning and life as a professional classical singer in Boston. She is a professional home organization and clutter coach, helping clients both virtually and in-person. Her co-star Clover is the most organized dog in America! Kay invited Jen on a YouTube Live recently and we are happy to have it here today for you to hear their conversation. She can be found here on YouTube and here on the great internet! | |||
| 15 May 2019 | 11 | Building Community with Your Best Friend with Autumn Nyby and Bethany Lockhart | 00:34:23 | |
Today we’re going to chat with two incredible women from the A to B Podcast about how they built an awesome professional organizer community through podcasting. (Fun fact: Autumn was actually the first student in my program, Inspired Organizer®). They were inspired to start the podcast by taking their weekly phone chats to the public by sharing their life and experiences.
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The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/blog/community-building | |||
| 13 Nov 2023 | 169 | The Best Free Tool For Organizers (I bet you're not using it fully!!) | 00:14:56 | |
There are 99,000 Google searches EVERY SECOND. Are you taking advantage of those? LINK TO JOIN OUR GOOGLE BUSINESS COURSE: https://www.inspiredorganizer.com/offers/3Z8pbxvc | |||
| 17 Oct 2021 | 92 | Presenting "Unfolding"--A Special Event for Organizers--with Pia Thompson | 00:39:00 | |
Our guest Pia Thompson of Sweet Digs, an organizer in the NYC area, talks to us about an incredibly important special event for the home organizing and productivity industry happening this week on Tuesday, October 19 (replays available.) This event is sponsored by The Home Edit, The Container Store, The Neat Method, and YouCopia. | |||
| 19 Feb 2024 | 182 | "We are not all the same!" - Attracting Organizing Clients by Being The REAL You | 00:58:32 | |
Sarah Brent of Practical Harmony in Illinois is talking to us about something she (and I!) are equally passionate about. Here's a little sneak peek: "Clients need to hear about you and your uniqueness. They need to hear your story, why you do what you do, why you're different from other organizers. Not everybody wants to hire the type A minimalist organizer who's been organizing since they were in diapers. A lot of clients are looking for organizers who have had firsthand experience with hoarding, chronic disorganization, downsizing, relocating, therapy, recovery, blending families, aging parents, losing loved ones, being diagnosed late in life with ADHD or autism, even something like rebuilding after a fire or designing your own kitchen or closets. This is what makes you unique and knowledgeable. Share with others what you have gone through, what you've learned along the way and find ways to set yourself apart from the rest of the pack." LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Connect with Sarah's Tidy Stock Photography business for pro organizers: CLICK HERE Connect with Melissa at Pro Organizer Studio: CLICK HERE | |||
| 08 May 2019 | 10 | Network With Your Competition and Be Booked Out with Boss Project Abagail and Emylee | 00:42:29 | |
Today we're going to chat about something super specific and special for getting your organizing business services off the ground. Make sure you take notes on this one because it's a brand new take on what organizers can do to network with their competition and get more clients!
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The rest of the show notes can be found at proorganizerstudio.com/blog/network-competition | |||
| 26 Oct 2022 | 127 | Get Inspired Series: Julie Aderhold of Healthy Home Organizing | 00:38:04 | |
**ORGANIZING ESSENTIALS PROGRAM IS OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!** Closes November 4. Click here for more details! Julie Aderhold is a great example of an organizer who found a niche that was super close to her heart and uses that to help people who are dealing with an unexpected health diagnosis--but even if you don't have a similar niche for your business, Julie still has lots of great advice for you for your business. I met Julie through our Organizing Essentials program, and I have loved getting to know her on our monthly Zooms where we talk about client situations and how to handle them. I know you'll love getting to know her too! LINKS FOR LISTENERS Join our Organizing Essentials program Contact Julie: Website: www. Facebook: https:/ Instagram: https:/ Learn more about Pro Organizer Studio | |||
| 09 Jun 2021 | 84 | Working From Home is Here To Stay Part 1: Helping Moms Organize | 00:35:05 | |
Shari Medini is a mom and work-from-home expert. Even if you are not a mom yourself, or if your kids are older or grown and out of the house, Shari has awesome advice for us on how we can be the best professional organizer and coach to moms of kids--whether younger or older. This is the first of a two part episode with Shari. Today we will talk about what we've learned about working from home with kids during the last (very challenging!) year-and how many workplaces are migrating permanently to work from home. We can be special advocates to our clients navigating this change and Shari tells us how! Links for listeners: Adore Them Parenting Website: adorethemparenting.com Parenting While Working at Home book: www.adorethemparenting.com/book/ If you are considering starting or growing a professional organizing business, we have a brand new for 2021, totally free workshop you can take that goes beyond this podcast--you can register here if you want to check it out! | |||
| 14 Jun 2022 | 114 | Growing Your Email List | 00:12:56 | |
In our final minisode of our series on the most missed marketing tool--email marketing--we talk about two methods to grow your email list. We can't wait to hear about your success with email marketing! LINKS FOR LISTENERS Kate the Socialite podcast on lead magnets Our free workshop The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan | |||
| 17 Jun 2024 | 196 | Inside Out 2 + lessons in running a business! | 00:13:29 | |
What lessons can Inside Out 2 teach us about entrepreneurship? Melissa is going to tell you! In this episode, Melissa is discussing harnessing emotions for personal and entrepreneurial growth, inspired by her recent life-changing trip to Japan and insights gained from watching the movie 'Inside Out 2'. Melissa shares her experiences with the KonMari organization, emphasizes the importance of enjoying what you love without guilt, and uses the movie's concept to provide valuable lessons on managing emotions within the entrepreneurial journey. She encourages listeners to evaluate which emotions are controlling their 'control panel' and to use this awareness to drive positive changes in their lives and businesses. 00:00 Welcome Back! Melissa's Return and Life Updates | |||
| 17 Nov 2022 | 129 | 18 Months from Brand New Business to 12+ Team Members in 4 States: Meet Cori McDougald of Meat & Potatoes Organizing | 00:34:13 | |
Cori McDougald dared to dream big (really big) when she started her business. In 18 months she went from a solo organizer with a brand new business to a leader of over a dozen organizers on teams in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and New Mexico. She talks to us about her passion for entrepreneurship and empowering women, and how she built her business in such a short time. She's a success story and a great inspiration of when passion meets productivity with a side of creativity and lots of fun. LINKS FOR LISTENERS Cori's business, Meat & Potatoes Organizing in Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minnesota Inspired Organizer, our program and community for professional organizers | |||
| 16 Jan 2023 | 137 | One Year Later: Lessons Learned After A Year In Business with Kim Snodgrass of Rustic Home Organizing | 00:38:45 | |
One year ago, we introduced you to brand new business owner Kim, who had just opened Rustic Home Organizing in Portland, Oregon. Melissa caught up with her almost exactly one year later to hear about what she learned (the good and the bad!) about starting an organizing business. Kim is an open book about what she thought she knew, and what she realized she didn't know at all...and everything in between. If you want to catch up and remember what she said last year--hit up episode 97 of the podcast, "Taking A Leap: Lessons from a Business Launch." LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Get our free workshop, The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan, by heading to poroadmap.com A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Melissa Klug: It was one year ago, almost exactly a year ago that we had you on the podcast, and you were at that time a baby organizer. You had just started your business and the other day I was like, oh, I know, because I talked to you a lot how far you have come in that year. But I want everybody to hear how far you have come in this year, and I want you to talk about all the things you've learned. And so I'm just, I'm thrilled that you agreed to be here with us today and do your year wrap up. Kim Snodgrass: Absolutely. I'm excited to, this is very cool to be able to share everything that has gone on in the last year. Yeah. Melissa Klug: All right, let's just start out, let's give everyone a recap. When did you start your business? Where are you all that good stuff? Kim Snodgrass: Technically started in November of 21 but I launched in January of 22. So my business is technically established in 22. I went full board, jumped with both feet in and just started plugging away, listening to lots of podcasts coaching doing all the things to get myself a foundation to be able to start my very own organizing business. Been organizing, obviously my entire life as most organizers have, with the exception of you. . That's right. I started late. You started a little late, but so it just became more of my journey to becoming a business owner. Not as much the organizing piece of it. Melissa Klug: So what would you give yourself on a scale of one to 10 when you first started out? So a year ago at this time what would you rate yourself in terms of like, confidence, business, knowledge, all of that kind of stuff? Kim Snodgrass: Oh boy. Confidence. I would say on a scale of one to 10, my confidence was about a two. Okay. On a good day, . And then I think today I'm, I'm, I'm on the upper end and depending on how much sleep I get the night before, I'm anywhere between an eight and a 10. Okay. by the way. Sleep is very important. But what people don't understand is unfortunately projects live in your brain, in your sleep, and so the Tetris game goes on while you're sleeping and that can sometimes interfere with the REM sleep. It does. But definitely confidence has played a huge part in my success. Melissa Klug: So let's last year, let's talk about that because yes, you and I have been working together for a while. Yeah. And it was it at the beginning because we all, by the way, this is not just you, it's all of us. All of us struggle with confidence on sometimes a daily basis, , sometimes an hourly basis, if I'm being honest. Like what were some of the things that got you from a two to an eight slash 10? Kim Snodgrass: I started to write down some notes today about things that would be important for me to share. And the very first thing I wrote down was being okay with mistakes. Yeah. And those mistakes can range from the back end of your business to being in the home and realizing when you left, oh, that was a really bad idea of what I just implemented. I really need to fix that. But being okay with those mistakes so you don't beat yourself up over it. And the biggest thing you take away from those mistakes is learning. You have learned what you're going to move forward in in your next job. I think that is gonna be what I have learned. The most this year is being okay with my mistakes and being excited when I make 'em, because they're getting me to a much better place. Melissa Klug: I I would love for this needs to be like, I don't know, a t-shirt, a billboard, alike. What I, I don't know, because I think that a lot of organizers struggle with perfectionism and by the way, that's a great trait for an organizer, right? We want people to, you know, give people beautiful homes, but that can also sometimes manifest as like, oh, I made a mistake. I'm gonna beat myself up about it for the next 16 weeks. And being able to say, you know what? I did that I learned from it, and I'm gonna not do it in the future. Yes. Kim Snodgrass: Yeah, definitely.So yeah, be okay with your mistakes. I made some mistakes right off the bat. I invested a lot of money, which you don't have to, to start an organizing business. Correct. We've all talked about that. But it was important to me to do that and I, I went a little overboard. And that's okay. I'm okay with going overboard because it's helping me in this next year. But I do wanna rewind just a little bit. So, at the beginning of 2022, I came up with a couple words. They were gonna be my words for the year. And one of them was outsourcing. And I did that and I'm so happy I did that. But it also made me realize it's important to outsource when you're ready for that outsourcing. And as a. An organizer new in the business. I outsource so many things right away, but what I didn't realize is for myself, I wasn't ready for all of that. I didn't have the bandwidth, you know, technology is not my strong suit. So I thought, okay, I have to outsource all of it. Everybody will do it for me. But you still need to understand when you outsource, you still have to understand it. You might be able to pay somebody to do it and get it all set up for you, but unless you're paying somebody to work for you on a daily basis, which some organizers have you have to still learn how to maneuver within those programs or apps or whatever you invest your money in on. | |||
| 04 Apr 2023 | 148 | I Quit All Social Media: Get Inspired with Amber Ehrlich of The Tidy Bungalow | 00:37:07 | |
Can an organizer survive and even thrive without any social media? Amber Ehrlich of The Tidy Bungalow in Phoenix, Arizona is here to talk about her experiment in saying goodbye to Facebook and Instagram. LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Amber's organizing business, The Tidy Bungalow: thetidybungalow.com Organizing Essentials course CLOSING APRIL 17-for details and registration, click HERE For information on our signature business building course, Inspired Organizer®, click HERE A little taste of the show: Melissa Klug: absolutely. Well, so one of the things that's really important, and something that you said is you have been doing this business full-time since you started, that's over five years ago. And so you're pretty experienced, but you and I also were very fortunate that we were able to build our have them be true full-time businesses pretty quickly. And so the way we did that was by using social media, right? That's how we solely built our businesses. Amber Ehrlich: No, I, I've had a client, I know a client has verified who I am on Instagram like four years ago, but I've never, no, I did. I got one client, I got one client that did one session from Instagram. Okay. Once Melissa Klug: congratulations. Well, all joking aside, what we want to talk about today is Amber undertook are we gonna call it an, I don't know if we call it an experiment or just a lifestyle change? It was an experiment. Yeah. Okay. So what I wanna talk to Amber about is, she and I have been aligned from the very beginning that social media is just a tool that you use in your business, and it is way down the list, like at the bottom of the list of what we did to grow our businesses or to get clients. Right. But what I want to talk to you about today is you just very boldly over a year ago, undertook an experiment and I wanna hear all about it. Amber Ehrlich: Okay. So, social media causes me like a lot of performance anxiety and comparative anxiety. And as a recovery perfectionist, that's really the last thing that I need. Doom scrolling. Definitely. A thing and, well, I'm definitely, you know, was the person that was the top of my game and had confidence. I just, whenever I'd scroll through, I would just get angry. And I think one of the reasons I would get angry, You see what you see online, but then you know the real story behind things and that kind of drives me nuts. And I just, I was over it. I was also over computers in general. Actually, today I had to reinstall Zoom because apparently I haven't been on a Zoom since I bought a new computer. Fascinating. I love that. So, yeah, it was the end of November, 2021 and I was just like, I hadn't posted on Instagram for six months, not like I did much before. Hadn't shared anything on Facebook for quite a long time, and I just made a post. I was like, so we're coming down to the end of 2021 and I'm just gonna not do any social media whatsoever in 2022. So I was like, you can find me in real life. Here's my phone number, here's my email address, here's my website. And I said, I'm gonna go all of 2022 with no social media and. Maybe I'll return and maybe I won't. And of course it was weird at first but oh my goodness, by the end of 2022, like no need, no Melissa Klug: need whatsoever to return. So you, you not only didn't post, you didn't go on at all, is that correct? Amber Ehrlich: I didn't go on, no. I, before I quit everything, I did go into all the Facebook settings and I downloaded every single picture that I had ever had. And then I did try to go on mid 2021 to completely deactivate and delete everything. Okay. But since after you are inactive for so long, you can't even get back on. I don't even know how to verify. I am who I am. So it exists out there. People can find me with my last message ever, but, yeah. I don't even know how to get on at Melissa Klug: this point. Now you were never a huge Instagram person. , you weren't on it all the time anyway. But when you first started, did you have any sort of like, fomo, what have I done? I miss it. What was the first month like? | |||
| 01 Feb 2024 | 179 | From getting paid in eggs to $10,000+ months: 2 years in business with Kim of Rustic Home Organizing | 00:50:54 | |
I first interviewed Kim two years ago when her business was BRRAAANNNDD new. In her first year, once she got paid by a client with a dozen eggs. Fast forward two years later--and she had her first (and second, and third) $10,000 month in her business, Rustic Home Organizing. Kim is giving us all the details on her second year in business--and no matter where you are in your organizing business, there is so much to learn here! LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Get connected with Kim: www.rhorganizing.com Join our Organizing Essentials course, open until Valentine's Day: https://www.inspiredorganizer.com/offers/uYMgvH4F
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| 08 Mar 2024 | 186 | When it's time to quit a client--p 2 of the hard part of organizing entrepreneurship | 00:30:32 | |
It's one of the hardest parts of professional organizing entrepreneurship--telling a client "sorry, I can't help." This is part 2 of my conversation with Melissa Gugni of her eponymous Bay Area organizing business. | |||
| 27 Jan 2023 | 139 | I Am On A Work Vacation (it might not be what it sounds like!) MINISODE | 00:09:05 | |
Melissa is recording this episode from an AirBNB--because she's on a work vacation. This is different than being ON vacation FROM work, and she'll explain it all in this Friday minisode for our awesome organizers. | |||
| 10 Feb 2021 | Minisode: Advice from an Inspired Organizer®, Carly Adams | 00:22:04 | |
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 | |||
| 08 Feb 2022 | 100| Soundtracks: Fixing our Mind's Messages | 00:40:52 | |
It is our 100th episode celebration here at Pro Organizer Studio--and we are bringing you an extra special message today. Working with organizers each day--we know that sometimes what we tell ourselves, the story about our capabilities and what we are and who we are--sometimes can stop our progress in our businesses. Today we are bringing you a conversation about the book "Soundtracks" by Jon Acuff, which is all about what those messages in our head are, and more importantly--what are some concrete ways we can fix those messages. If you are struggling with mindset, or negative self-talk--and PS, WE ALL DO THIS!--today is for you. LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Soundtracks by Jon Acuff Sisters of Industry podcast Information on the Inspired Organizer® program and community Jon Acuff's podcast (which is awesome!)
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| 30 Jun 2022 | 116 | You Don't Need Before + After Photos! Hot takes with Jen + Melissa | 00:24:54 | |
If you've listened to the podcast at all, you know Jen + Melissa are never shy with giving you an opinion--and today we are talking about a hot button for a lot of organizers--before & after photos. Everyone thinks they are imperative and you won't get business without them--but we are here to tell you that's not the case. (and why!) LINKS FOR LISTENERS Information on our Inspired Organizer® coaching program Our FREE 24/7 on demand workshop "The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan"
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| 28 Aug 2019 | 26 | A Retirement Career Worth Having with Kandy Negus | 00:28:08 | |
In this week's episode, I am featuring one of my Inspired Organizer® students, Kandy Negus of Order Your Spaces. One of my goals with this podcast is to feature professional organizers who are living their dream in a wide variety of life circumstances, backgrounds, and business goals. I hope you enjoy listening to Kandy's inspiring story today.
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| 16 Sep 2021 | 89 | From Analog to Digital--Finding Leads for your Organizing Business | 00:28:26 | |
Jen and Melissa got together recently and decided to record all of our conversations so you can feel like you were here with us. Today we are covering both analog and digital--we chat the value of referrals as well as SEO for your organizing business--and we promise, SEO isn't scary! The name of the game is finding clients for your business, and these are two great ways to accomplish this. Links for listeners: Pod on SEO: Music by Atch: First Light - Atch https://soundcloud.com/atch-music
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| 11 Apr 2023 | 149 | Working With Clients: A grab bag of organizer questions | 00:41:07 | |
In honor of enrollment for our course about everything under the sun about working with clients, Organizing Essentials, we are bringing you a podcast today where Jen and Melissa talk about all sorts of things relating to working with clients. From organizing closets to whether we feel pressure to keep our houses perfect, we're ready to talk about it all! LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Our Organizing Essentials course is open for enrollment until April 17. Click here to join: | |||
| 03 May 2021 | 78 | Spring Clean your Organizing Business with Jen and Melissa Part 1 | 00:13:10 | |
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... | |||
| 29 Aug 2024 | 201 | The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan Workshop | 00:48:07 | |
Growing Your Professional Organizing Business I am about to launch a brand new free workshop, which means I am retiring a workshop called the "Pro Organizers Profit Plan." Jen and I created this workshop to help both new and experienced organizers streamline and grow their businesses. Key topics include overcoming common mistakes, effective marketing, personal branding, and leveraging systems and data to achieve goals. TIME STAMPS: 00:00 Introduction and Upcoming Changes 00:23 Retiring the Pro Organizers Profit Plan Workshop 01:41 Workshop Introduction by Jen 05:12 Melissa's Journey and Workshop Goals 05:35 Friendly Competition: Polite Pro Carrie vs. Savvy Organizer Lauren 07:39 Melissa's Personal Journey to Organizing 11:05 Common Mistakes When Starting an Organizing Business 17:18 Understanding Client Needs and Expectations 22:36 The Pro Organizers Profit Plan: See, Say, Do 23:12 Pro Organizer's Profit Plan Overview 23:49 Defining Your Success 27:02 Creating a Minimal Business Launch 29:29 The Power of Branding 35:09 Marketing, Systems, and Data 40:09 Building Confidence and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome 42:38 Introducing the 'Do' System 47:28 Join the Inspired Organizer Community | |||
| 08 Dec 2020 | 64 | 2021 Goal Setting (Yes, It's Possible!) with Carly Tizzano | 00:28:16 | |
Carly Tizzano is a professional organizer and life coach who specializes in New Year's Resolution coaching. She joins Melissa Klug of Pro Organizer Studio to talk about how we can do realistic goal setting for 2021--even when things might still be in flux. You can find more information on Carly here: FREE RESOLUTION WORKSHOP WEBSITE | |||
| 01 Apr 2024 | 191 | Helping Clients Through Grief with Missi McKown of Clear Spaces Organizing | 00:35:31 | |
Helping clients who need organizing while they're struggling with grief can be very challenging--and today we want to help you with some concrete ideas to help your clients. My guest is Missi McKown of Clear Spaces Organizing in Maple Grove, Minnesota, and she is graciously sharing some of her personal stories of loss to help organizers work with clients.
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| 21 May 2024 | 195 | 8 signs it's time for a business REFRESH with Brie Morrissey of BK Branding Co | 01:05:11 | |
Your online presence is your employee that works 24/7/365--and today I'm hosting Brie Morrissey of BK Branding Co to talk about 8 signs your business needs a REFRESH! In this episode, Melissa Klug checks in from Kyoto, Japan, to discuss the crucial role of branding in the organizing industry with expert Brie Morrissey. Brie, a former Pro Organizer Studio employee, now specializes in helping professional organizers enhance their online presence to attract more clients. They explore the significant impact of visual branding, effective website design, and proper use of fonts. Listeners will learn about the importance of maintaining up-to-date branding, aligning business models with current services, and making strategic brand refreshes. Tune in to gain actionable insights on how to build a cohesive and attractive brand that will elevate your organizing business. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction from Japan 00:30 Meet Brie Morrissey: Expert in Online Presence 01:11 Brie's Journey and Expertise 02:23 The Importance of Branding and Websites 05:58 User Experience and Branding Strategies 11:26 Signs It's Time for a Rebrand 14:46 Practical Tips for Rebranding 23:55 Adapting to Business Changes 30:50 Staying Competitive in the Market 34:05 Expanding Your Business to a New Location 35:24 Rebranding After Acquiring a Business 37:36 Raising Prices and Enhancing Brand Perception 40:11 Attracting High-Quality Employees Through Rebranding 42:03 The Importance of Investing in Professional Branding 45:09 Efficient Design and Branding Processes 48:30 Affordable and Effective Branding Solutions 01:02:21 Conclusion and Final Thoughts | |||
| 07 Aug 2019 | 23 | Rewriting Your Money Mindset with Cabri & Sarah | 00:43:11 | |
In this week's episode, I am chatting with professional organizers Cabri Carpenter and Sarah Brent. Cabri and Sarah found each other through the Accountability Partner program we offer as a perk of our Inspired Organizer® membership. Due to the intentional changes they have made in their mindsets around money and self-worth, they have both taken huge steps forward in their businesses this year. I am so thrilled to have them share their stories with you today.
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| 04 May 2021 | 79 | Spring Cleaning Your Business Part 2: Priorities | 00:10:30 | |
In part 2 of our 5 part "Spring Clean Your Organizing Business" series, Jen coaches us on priorities and what Warren Buffett has to teach pro organizers. If you have 100 different things on your priority list--this is the pod for you! | |||
| 20 Feb 2023 | 142 | Social Media Isn't The Answer: Marketing Your Organizing Business in 2023 | 00:28:39 | |
Since I became a business coach for organizers a few years ago, if I had a way to add up the amount of time that I talk about social media in relation to a lot of other topics in business--I think it's an outsized part of the conversation that exists for how to grow our businesses. I wanted to have a really candid talk with my guest about what social media is and what it isn't for organizers. My guest is Kate from Kate The Socialite, and she is a marketer for the home services industry, including many great professional organizers. We are talking about why soical media isn't the answer many people think it is--and why. LINKS FOR LISTENERS: Information on our signature program Inspired Organizer®: CLICK HERE Kate's marketing business for organizers, Kate The Socialite: CLICK HERE Our free workshop, The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan: CLICK HERE A QUICK TASTE OF THIS EPSIODE: Melissa Klug: And it may not be what you think it's going to be. I want to give a little preface about some of the things that we are talking about today. Since I became a business coach for organizers a few years ago, if I had a way to add up the amount of time that I talk about social media in relation to a lot of other topics in business. I think it's an outsized part of the conversation that exists for how to grow our businesses. And today I wanted to have a really candid talk with my guest about what social media is and what it isn't for organizers. Over the last few months, I've been listening to her podcast it's called The Kate Show. I've been listening intently to her podcast and her candid takes on social media for organizers. And I wanted to have a chat with her about these topics and many, many more. So we're going to break this up into two episodes. This episode will cover social media specifically, and then a second episode is going to be on what is working in 2023 to build an organizing business? I really hope that it will give you some clarity or some freedom in your business or really just give you some things to think about. So with all of that, I am happy to introduce Kate from Kate the Socialite. Melissa Klug: We are back with a prior guest and I am so excited to talk to her. Kate was on our podcast in episode 61, so it was a while ago, it was a couple of years ago. But I am a regular listener to her podcast and I have just connected so deeply with a lot of the things that she has been saying that I really wanted to bring her on and have a conversation about one of my favorite slash not favorite topics. So Kate, the socialite, welcome back to the podcast. Kate: Thank you so much for having me. I, it's an honor to be here yet again. I love it when your listeners contact me and I actually got a wave of that recently, so thank you, what you did on that end, but I did nothing. . Okay. Well clearly they're listening to the show, your show, and then they come over to me and they're like, I heard you on Pro Organizer, and I wanna, you know, do this and that. And I'm like, okay, awesome. Because the people that find me through you guys are so nice. And they're so professional, they really care about their businesses. So it's just a joy to be back. Melissa Klug: Well, that's awesome. We do, honestly, and I'm, I am absolutely not just saying this. We have the loveliest community of people. It's just, it's so refreshing. I mean, I used to be in a corporate job where everything was very cutthroat, and it was so lovely to get in an organizing and be like, oh my gosh, people are so nice. And are people in particular just the listeners of the podcast and the people we have are great. So I'm happy to share that with you. Well, can you give people a recap of if they haven't listened to the past podcast, tell us a little bit about what you do for the organizing industry. Kate: Yes. And before I do that, I better give a disclaimer because he has already snorted in the microphone here, But I have my seven month old son with me, he is my second. And no, I have not figured out how to do Zoom calls with a baby yet. It is just what it is. So thank you for your patience, . Melissa Klug: Oh my gosh, we love it. Kate: He's gonna giggle now cause he thinks this is just great. But, to answer your question, . I run a marketing agency that specializes in helping professional organizers market their businesses simply because I really feel that marketing has gotten overcomplicated and way too expensive. It's gotten to the point where, and I have my clients tell me this all the time. I feel like I have to have two separate full-time jobs in my business. One is marketing and the other is doing the actual thing that I wanted to do, and that just, that doesn't make any sense. And I understand why they feel that way because we are bombarded with messages that say you need to be boosting posts on social media. You need to be posting constantly on social media. You should be showing up in video, and then you also need to blog and you do email marketing and do all these things. Yeah. Who has time for all of that? Because a lot of the organizers I work with, they are also mothers. So it's not like they can just drop everything whenever it feels right and then go work on their business. It just doesn't make any sense. So we have developed simple ways that people can save money, get better, return on their investment and here's the crazy thing I'm gonna throw out there cause I'm sure we'll dive into it later. The return on investment for email marketing versus social is 40 times higher. Melissa Klug: Okay. So I want everyone to stop and absorb that because I do, I talk a lot about like it's and we're gonna talk about this, but email marketing is the most slept on thing in our business. I think it's something that people maybe know that they should be doing, but 40 times the return even, I assume you're gonna agree with this. With a small Kate: list. Even with a small list. And we have a lot of people who come to us and say, well, I only have like 20 people on my list, or 60 people. Totally fine. Yeah. Because those people will either refer you to someone else by forwarding your newsletter and then that third party ends up hiring you. We see that happen a lot more than I thought we would. Kind of surprising. But that's just because the word of mouth referral method is not dead. No, and that's why email marketing is not dead. That's why it's worked for decades and will continue to work. | |||
| 01 Mar 2022 | 103 | Answering Organizer Qs part 2 | 00:30:37 | |
Jen and Melissa are back with part 2 of answering organizer Instagram questions. Today we talk about our own closets and what that teaches us about working with clients, and the pressure we feel to have perfect homes because we are organizers. LINKS FOR LISTENERS Our new FREE workshop: The Pro Organizer's Profit Plan Pro Organizer Studio has resources for professional organizers to start and grow thriving organizing businesses. We have resources for you to check out at all of these places: www.youtube.com/proorganizerstudio www.instagram.com/proorganizerstudio
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