I want you to avoid being scammed in your professional organizing business and to make sure you’re being smart and asking a lot of questions. 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!  Some examples of scams or sketchy things that professional organizers have to deal with i ..read more

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, it’s not just about whether it’s time to start a business. It’s really a ..read more

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.  In 2022, Amber embarked on an experiment to see whether she could delete her social media, take the pressure off of herself and still have a great professional organizing business, and still be able to get organizing clients. Did she get FOMO, or did she go back to social media after her year was over? We find out today in The Pro Organizer Studio Podcast! LINKS FOR LISTENERS Amber’s or ..read more

If you’ve been hearing the words ChatGPT, Magic Write (from Canva), Jasper, 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!  AI is able to take some of the difficult tasks we have as professional organizers and make them easy to do. From getting ideas for blog posts for your website, to captions for social media, to copy for your webs ..read more

Kris Hargrove, owner of Organized By Kris in Austin, Texas, is one of our members in our Inspired Organizer® program. She recently took the leap and said goodbye full time job, hello organizing business–moving from her 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 Hargrove, a professional organizer in Austin, Texas: https://organizedbykris.com/ Join our new cohort in Organizing Essentials: https://www.inspire ..read more

I started the year doing a digital detox, and one of the things that I decided to do was I needed to give myself permission to let things go if they aren’t working for me in terms of my digital life. For example–I have a bunch of podcasts that have built up on my phone of things that I think I’m supposed to be listening to, or business books that I think I’m supposed to be reading because it’s really, really important for me to read them, and I’m starting to do a better job in this particular digital detox of saying, does this thing serve me anymore? I’m giving you permission to delete those t ..read more

Instead of New Year’s Resolutions (which statistically fail at a shockingly high rate), Melissa is implementing an idea in her own organizing business, Home By Eleven, to guide her work this year and she’s sharing it with us! Come join us as we pick a word of the year to help with your strategy for your professional organizing business–AND your life!  WANT TO REVIEW OUR SHOW? Are you subscribed to my podcast? If not, I want to encourage you to do that if you don’t want to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to the podcast! Now if you’re really feeling like spreading the love, we wo ..read more

Last episode, we talked about “what not to do” and today we are telling you what you should be doing to implement the “proof of life” strategy on social media. If you haven’t heard part 1 of my convo with Jen Mary, head back and take a listen before today’s epsiode (or click here!) Jen is the founder of Everyday Style, and she is a super savvy businesswoman who has run an in-person business similar to professional organizing, and a digital business, so she’s seen it all. She is giving us awesome tips on what TO do with your social media, including becoming “Five Mile Famous.”  LINKS FOR ..read more

Kim started Rustic Home Organizing in Oregon a year ago, and we talked to her about what it was like to start a professional organizing business from the ground up. We wanted to catch up with her to talk about what she learned in her first year as an organizer, how she built her business, how she gets clients for the organizing business, and everything in between. She’s here to inspire everyone who is starting out in the organizing industry. LINKS FOR LISTENERS Connect with Kim: CLICK HERE Learn more about Inspired Organizer®: CLICK HERE WANT TO REVIEW OUR SHOW? Are you subscribed t ..read more

Jen and Melissa are doing what they love–answering professional organizers’ questions about starting your business, managing the CEO mindset, and how to handle peaks and valleys in your journey of entrepreneurship! Nothing is off limits in this chat with members of our Inspired Organizer® group. We also answer the questions how do we “manage it all” (spoiler alert: we don’t!) and about taking a break from your organizing business. We love love love talking to organizers, so if you have questions don’t hesitate to send them our way! We’re at hello@proorganizerstudio.com and we would l ..read more