I was invited to speak at the Orem Small Business Developement Center on the topic ‘Marketing Strategies for a Home Based Business’. I shared with the class attendees my top at home business ideas for marketing their businesses. I feel honored to have been given the opportunity to address them. I believe I was chosen to address this issue because my business has done so well. Even in this tough economy. I tripled my client base and doubled my income this past year. I am a business strategist and my marketing campaigns have something to do with this, but the main reason my at home business has done so well is because I am very good at doing something that services a growing need, returning order and simplicity to someone’s life…plain and simple! As a Utah based professional organizer and a national online show organizing expert, I help people set up office systems that work and continue working as time goes on…plain and simple!

Class attendees below are the links and additional information I promised you. Remember, before you go any further, you promised to leave a tip for other blog visitors at the top of this post by clicking on comments THEN sharing a marketing tip that has worked well for you or someone you know. If you just happened upon this post titled ‘At Home Business Ideas’and did not attend my class, please share a tip with us before you read on. I am a believer in sharing our successes with others. Now that you have completed that, here is the information I promised you:

• A list of the best blog directories to which you should join: Technorati, Blog Catalog, and Google Blogs
• A great book on writing your own Press Release by my mentor Janet Meiners Thalaer. Click here to find it on Amazon
• The place where you can submit your own Press Release announcing your blog, business, or important business happenings.
• An easy way to send email newsletters, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance with MailChimp. FREE if you have less than 500 subscribers
• Affiliate Marketing Partnership options found at: Commission Junction or Linkshare.

In my opinion, when dealing with at home business ideas and marketing strategies, there are a few things you should avoid:

• Spending your scarce marketing budget on PR firms or major advertising campaigns
• Spending too much money in the beginning
• Investing in expensive marketing materials that soon become obsolete or outdated

If you have not yet designed your own business plan click here for a business plan template.

If you are interested in hiring me to help you simplify your life and better organize your office spaces, papers or computer data, OR you would like to know more about marketing strategies for your home based business please contact me at www.OrganizingMindOverMatter.com

Home Organizing Workshops

Join Vicki for any or all of the 3 classes she will be teaching during the month of January 2010 in conjunction with National Get Organized Month. The class information is listed below. If you have any questions about the Utah professional orgainzer, Vicki Winterton, and her organizing classes please contact us.

“I just wanted to say thank you for your time in teaching me about time management. As you promised, the “Action File” has changed my life. I’m able to stay on top of the paper mess that comes into my home. I knew the importance of daily maintenance prior to your class (I only learned this in the last year!), but you’ve taught me how to perform daily maintenance on the paper mess, not just tidying the house. Wow! What a great thing!” –Diane, 2009 UVUcommunity education class

Are you tired of making New Year’s Resolutions that, by the end of January, have become another failed attempt at improved self image or moral? Each resolution you set represents a longing of the heart, a personal stretch toward better health, more happiness, or increased wisdom. THIS YEAR  try a new approach. By working on one resolution or goal at a time and following my few simple steps below you will find success in making and keeping your New Years Resolutions.

To begin, make a list or a photo board of your successes this past year. Don’t be modest; make sure you note the learning and the progression that happened.

Next, begin the process of defining your new goals by setting up major goals broken into smaller goal steps:

1. Personalize your goals. Make them specific to you. Use the words “I” and “me” often. Realize you need to focus in on YOU in this step.
2. Write as if you had already accomplished the goal.  Use such terms as “I have”, “I see”, “I feel”, etc.
3. Adjectivize (my own word) the benefits of the Resolution. Use lots of descriptive words to explain the benefits of achieving your goals and resolutions. Words such as: calming, peaceful, energized, terrific, etc.
4. Calendar and schedule with (a) beginning, (b) progression, and (c) completion dates.

Reward yourself with prizes or recognitions of achievement not only when you complete your set goal, but also each day you actively work toward your desired resolution.

Complete THEN Repeat. When you have completed your first New Years Resolution, begin on goal #2. However grand the change we hope for, the vehicle for change is small, simple, daily steps that move us forward. It is the step by step changes each day and week that transport a new goal or resolution to completion. Change is ALWAYS hard for us to make. Be sure you  don’t overwhelm yourself by working on too many goals at once.

If you would like to receive my New Years Resolutions/New Goals Template, please leave a comment on this post and share with us what YOUR top three New Years Resolutions are this year. We love to hear from you!

Just think of it, for ½ the cost of a new desk or ½ the cost of a new TV set, YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE can receive the gift of peace! In fact, I guarantee greater peace of mind!

Imagine the opportunity to organize your home spaces or business office spaces so they are easily maintained for $500 or less at my special Christmas rates?

Suggest this gift option to those buying gifts for you OR give this gift to someone you love who has tried and just doesn’t have the know how to make it happen on their own.

Organizing Gift Certificates Available

Contact me now for organizing help once and for all at 801-623-8411

I help frazzled women and men remember how peace looks and feels. As a Utah Valley organizer (professional), productivity coach and small business owner, I have learned much about business development through the Utah Valley Small Business Development Center located in Orem. One of my favorite parts of being a business owner is recognizing ways to better my business services and offerings. Five days ago I attended a class on Social Networking offered through the center.  I thought social networking might be a new way to inform others of the benefits of organizing and managing 1st their time, then their office spaces, papers, data, and computer’s email inbox.

The instructor, Sean Roylance, began talking about Facebook and Twitter; pointing out the benefits of each option. As he discussed the benefits of twitter, he brought up a sample of his twitter page after saying that he was very careful to ONLY follow those individuals that he felt gave him consistently good information. In fact he, as a computer website programmer and SEO specialist, limits the people he follows to a mere 20 individuals.

I was delighted to see my friend and mentor (a tech savvy wonder woman) Janet Meiners Thaeler aka NewspaperGirl up on his screen. Janet made a big difference in my business a year ago. I heard her speak at an event and we became friends. She helped me get my newly redesigned website up and taught me some basic tips about marketing my business online. She is known more recently for her insights involving Press Releases (see her new book, I Need a Killer Press Release, Now What??? )

Along with Sean, I too value her insights and knowledge. She helped me set up this blog and convinced me that taking my business online was a good idea. Her work has allowed many clients to find me and benefit from the organizing services and productivity coaching I offer them. Her insights have allowed me to help others live their best life.

If YOU are a small business owner and would like to better manage your business, I would suggest looking into the classes offered through your local Small Business Development Center. And be sure to read Janet’s posts (here’s a recent one she wrote for Small Business Trends about getting publicity).

Each day I acknowledge something I am grateful for. Today I found three: Janet, Sean, and the Utah Valley Small Business Development Center.

I was interviewed on the WIN Show (The Womens Information Network) this month because I am a show host with The Organized Woman Show. In the interview, we talked about how my FREE WIN online radio show, The Organized Woman Show, can benefit listeners in their lives. We touched on systems for organizing your shoes, systems for organizing your papers, systems for organizing your time, and how to organize any portion of your life.  To watch the interview, click the title here: The Organized Woman Show with Vicki Winterton.

My show co-host, Laura, and I record and upload 8 new shows a month. Our shows talk you through the steps to plan and organize your spaces, your papers, your office, your family, your personal time, etc.  If you would like to be notified by email each time a new organizing show is available to our listeners, subscribe to The Organized Woman Show through RSS or Itunes feeds by clicking on this link and then click on  the or logos on the right side of the web page to subscribe yourself through your email account. You can then pick and choose which shows interest you.

I’d love to have you join me to win online at The Organized Woman Show for ANY of the many 12 minute shows that meet your needs or may be the answer to an organizing question you need answered. If you have an organizing concern that a new show could answer for you, just email me at vicki.theorganizedwomanshow@gmail.com and recommend a show topic. Be sure to include your specific question or concern.

My goal and the goal of The Organized Woman Show is to allow you to live a better life by learning a new way to accomplish your life goals. I want to help you live your best life!

Are you tired of feeling overworked and unable to maintain control of your life?  I offer you options to organize your life and bring relief to life’s obvious pitfalls! After participating in any of these three options you will feel you are better able to take control of your time, spaces, family, etc. Click on the photos or green links below to gain further information.

1. Please join me as I conduct a Utah Valley University community education workshop, Organize your Office (I teach this 2 hour class each January and October) which will focus on helping you better organize your life by implementing the following:

• Balance – Time management for busy people in 3 easy steps
• Five steps to organize your home and/or business office
• How to organize your inbox with my 6 D’s and
• Three systems for managing your incoming papers AND file cabinets

Now, if that is not enough, here is help #2 for organizing your life a little better.

2. The Organized Woman Show has added 4 NEW shows including:

• Fun Fall Family Traditions
• Perfectionism – Is it worth it?
• Setting up a Family Management Center
• Setting up Family Rules

We are now recording eight new shows each month to help you better organize your life. Click on the or feeds in the middle right of the show page to be automatically notified through email of new shows as they are loaded. If you subscribe, you get to pick and choose the shows that interest you most.

3.  I was invited for the 5th time to be the organizing expert on a KSL TV’s Studio 5 segment “How to Prepare for Murphy’s Law”. I shared the trick to preparing for Murphy’s “drop in” visits. Click here to learn which time management options help most.

I am an emerging and ever changing person. Ten years ago I attended a few life strategist sessions with life coach Brad Chappell and learned to change and emerge better by dealing with my anger and my need to control. I learned to move forward by analyzing and embracing this phrase, “As we progress, we rid ourselves of our shortcomings because they no longer serve us.” I am now a different person than I had been 10 years previous. I did not know how to make these necessary changes on my own, but I was willing to ask for help. Life evolves; we can accept it, direct it and change for the better or allow it to overwhelm us.

I find as I look at my clients before and after photos that each client was able to quite easily rethink their current living spaces or work spaces, and realize the benefit in change rather than holding on to their old way of thinking. Is this YOUR time to rethink and rid yourself of your shortcomings because they no longer serve you? Is YOUR life cluttered with things that you rarely use? As Utah Valley’s professional organizer, I am here to help if you’ve tried MANY times and just can’t restore or maintain order. Contact Vicki Winterton for your FREE 20 minute phone analysis.

I learned again yesterday the I am blessed with the gift of space design, better known as organizing stuff. Yesterday I worked with a client who received me as a “Christmas Gift” from her husband. She is a busy wife, mother of 4, care giver to 2 cats, and talented musician.

   I have met with her 3 times and each time I see the concern in her face lessen and hope for order return. (I see this often in my clients as we progress forward.)

In our initial analysis I toured the home to see and hear her needs. (2 hours together) In our second session we tackled the kitchen beginning to end and I talked her through the pantry which she completed alone. (7 hours together) Yesterday we took on the family control center, her action file, the family reference paper file and archived papers file. (3 hours together – this took so  little time because she had learned the session before how to delete and categorize & had become very good at it)

She was very proud of herself in that after two weeks time, her kitchen and pantry had remained organized. She had been very concerned at our first meeting that she would be able to begin, complete AND maintain the spaces we organized together.

Are you moving forward or slipping backward in life? This past week my car’s odometer moved to 100,000 miles. Watching this movement made me realize again that we are either moving forward or backward continuously. 

   My husband and I  were going to dinner and the theater with his mother and sister and we each made sure we had clear view as the odometer ever so slowly moved from 99,999 to one-hundred thousand miles. In fact we kept watching as it moved forward to 100,001… another milestone. 

How is your movement coming in better organizing your paper, space, time or self? Are you progressing forward or slipping further into chaos and discouragement? Don’t become disheartened. Putting your things or life in order is freeing and calming!

If, after really trying on your own, you find you need an organizing expert’s experience, contact me.