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How to Start a Home-based Professional Organizing Business (Home-based Business Series) Paperback – January 1, 2007

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4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
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How to Start a Home-Based Professional Organizing Business simply and comprehensively educates the reader on how to turn a passion for clean closets and labeled bins into a profitable business. Professional Organizer Dawn Noble shows budding entrepreneurs how to establish their business and begin taking clients immediately. The book’s focus is on achieving profitability, and covers business plans, record keeping, and legal issues as well as the creative side of the business.
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    Home-Based Business
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    170 pages
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    Globe Pequot Pr
  5. Publication date
    January 1, 2007
  6. Dimensions
    7.75 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0762742453
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    978-0762742455
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Are you passionate about organizing? Have you ever wanted to be your own boss and set your own schedule while pursuing something you enjoy? Now you can make your dreams a reality.
Using plain language and easy-to-follow worksheets, Dawn Noble takes you through every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based professional organizing business. She shares her professional experience and expert advice on everything from estimating start-up costs and finding clients to what to wear for different types of assignments and how to stay profitable. Whether you re just starting to explore your options for a home-based business or are an organizing wizard looking to be your own boss, this guide can help you establish and build your own successful organizing business.
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Self-evaluation Quiz + Organizing Tip Sheets + Marketing Plan Worksheet + Client Worksheets + Sample Proposal + Appendix of Product Catalogs and Web Sites

About the Author

Dawn Noble, president and founder of Balance & Beyond, is a registered nurse and professional organizer who has coached many small-business owners about growing their businesses. She lives in Red Bank, New Jersey.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Globe Pequot Pr; First Edition (January 1, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 170 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0762742453
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0762742455
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
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    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 89 ratings

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cleo
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource!
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2010
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This book is awesome! It has just about everything you need to get started as a professional organizer. It walks you though everything, step by step, from deciding if this is the right business for you, to choosing a business name, setting up your office, to your first client. It has lost of different forms and stuff that you can copy and modify to suit your needs. I love the fact that she doesn't just say, do this, don't do that. Instead, she gives options and explanations of each, making it easy for you to decide what is best for you. I do recommend reading other books like this, if you decide to go ahead and start a business, just to get more ideas and another point of view, but this is the one I keep referring back to most. Clear, concise, and easy to read...not all dry and boring. Everything is covered, and she adds little anecdotes from her own and other organizers experiences to give a sense of what its really like. Highly recommended!!!
P.S. I started a business using this book as a guide...2 weeks later I have my First client!!! Thanks, Dawn!!!
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cowgirlimposter
4.0 out of 5 stars Detailed and thorough - after reading this, I'm ready to start my business
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2009
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This is a very helpful book. It includes lots of details and great explanations of what it's like to start a career as a professional organizer. Noble gives you both sides of the story so you can determine for yourself whether this would be a good move for you. She also includes lots of lists, examples, quotes and insights from other professional organizers, and step-by-step suggestions for getting started. I feel ready to start my business after reading her book.

This book will be a good reference for years to come, I believe. It includes key information for day 1 of a career as well as day 300. I have highlighted lots of great advice and I know I will be keeping it close by in case any challenging situations arise in this journey.

I also bought Sara Pederson's book "Born to Organize," and found it to be too general to really help me feel prepared. It was way too simplified for my taste. Perhaps they would work well together (since they are so different) but if you only want to buy one book, I would suggest Dawn Noble's. It was much more detailed and helpful.

(I am someone who likes lots of details and lots of information before I make a leap into something new and I feel like Noble's book satisfied that need. Pederson's book left me wanting much, much more. If you want a basic introduction to the career, and would feel overwhelmed by lots of details and specifics, I guess Pederson's book could be helpful in that kind of situation.)

PS. After using this book for a few days, I wish Amazon would let me change my rating from 4 stars to 5. This is a very, very helpful book and it absolutely deserves 5 stars.
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Susan
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the book I was looking for!
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2016
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This is the book I was looking for! I ordered three different books to help me start my organizing business. I could have ordered this one and not the others at all. The author writes clearly and in great detail about every aspect of the business in a casual and friendly tone. She is calm, matter-of-fact and nonjudgmental, even when addressing how to handle some awkward and difficult situations that can come up in the business. Included in the book are forms for every need you will run into. I am so glad I found this book and highly recommend it to anyone with a penchant for organizing who wants to start their business. I plan to reread it a few times between now and actually opening my doors to lodge everything in my mind. I am counting on using it as a reference after opening my doors for business, too.
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Melanie
3.0 out of 5 stars Outdated but informative
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2019
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It is extremely outdated when it comes to marketing and the technologies we now have available to us. Other than that I think this was one of the needed investments towards starting my own business!
It would be perfect if a few things were updated to be more along with the times.
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Tall in TN
5.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat dated, but still very relevant!
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2015
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I'm excited to start my organization business, but I had a lot of questions about just how to make it work. After reading Dawn Noble's book, I now feel confident in getting started!
The only thing that I had a problem with is that it has become a bit dated now. I didn't pay attention to the fact that it's almost 10 years old, so some of the things she talks about are irrelevant (like having a fax machine), and some things are very common that weren't really around then (like smart phones and GPS), but besides that, it's a great book to read if you're diving into an organizing career.
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Maryann Murphy
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource for beginning organizers
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2009
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This book provides a thorough introduction to the professional organizing field. It gives a lot of very specific suggestions for learning how to become an organizer, how to structure and promote your business, and how to grow the business once you've gotten started. Noble provides specific forms to use and resources for more information. Although definitely written for the new or potential professional organizer, it can also serve as a good back-to-basics review for the experienced organizer. I have read a lot of books about organizing, and this is one of the best for getting started in the business.
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Girl On The Go
4.0 out of 5 stars Easy Read, Good Information
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2010
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I am in the process of launching my own organizing business, so I wanted to get as much info as possible about what to keep in mind as I got my business off the ground. This book gives you a basic understanding of the business along with some good suggestions about things you need to be aware of as you get started. It doesn't have in-depth tools and resources for you to use, but it does provide a basic overview about what to expect, short examples and some simple forms. For the price, it isn't a bad investment. I have ordered several other books, which I hope will provide me with more information (forms, tools, checklists, etc.) that I can immediately incorporate into my business. This is a very basic read, so if you are looking for extensive information on the subject, this isn't really it. When I finished reading the book, I was still very hungry for more knowledge about the organizing business. However, the author did do a good job of clearly explaining the industry and how to start a home-based business in general.
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seralou
5.0 out of 5 stars set out in easy to follow and put into practice steps
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2016
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Fabulous advice in laymans terms, set out in easy to follow and put into practice steps. American version, but just as easy to put into practice in UK.
Great ideas and even better, as Author is able to allow you into her own mistakes and how not to make them yourself. Highly recommended.
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claurdet
4.0 out of 5 stars Good buy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2019
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