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Blog: If Your Money Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy
 Need A Little Extra Cash In Your Pocket? How YOU can do it yourself!
It may be hard times out there but there are so many things that you can do to beat the odds. I, for instance, am a military wife living in a civilian area, not on a base. There are many of us that need help while our husbands are going to be deployed or while they are getting ready to deploy. There are so many others out there that are needing some help too that if you put your name out there to help people with yard work, sewing, house cleaning, child care, meal preparation, etc. you might just find yourself with more work than you can handle. Here are some guidelines to go by if you need some extra cash in your pocket:
1. Be RELIABLE! No one wants someone's help who cannot be on time or dependable. The more reliable you are the more you will be asked for your assistance, never underestimate how far this goes!
2. Be thorough. Do a job beyond your customer's expectations. I call this the wow factor. I make sure my clients get this every time, I'm still in business after twelve and a half years, which is hard to do when you own your own business. Work quickly, happily and thoroughly…don't be a slow poke. Remember they have to stay at their home while you perform the tasks and that is time that they may need to be elsewhere.
3. Ask a reasonable price. If you price your service too high in this economy you might not get any work. If it is yard work, don't go by the hour, charge by the job, so you will work faster and not milk an hourly rate (people catch on to that fast).
4. Be honest and treat customers well. Give them a little bonus once in a while or bring something of value to them. What may cost you a little will cause you to reap more work and money in your pocket.
Remember, you may not think your skills are useful to anyone else but they very well could be. Make fliers and distribute around your neighborhood or among friends. Christmas is coming and lots can be done for others around that time too…decorating, baking, gift wrapping…the possibilities are endless, you might just earn some extra cash!
posted on: 8/5/2009 11:30:00 AM by Triste Horrell
category: Finances
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If Your Money Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy
by Triste Horrell
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About Triste:
Being an organizing expert makes one want to be a "showroom" in all areas of life. However reality can hit hard when you're a mother of small children and a military wife and own an organzing business. Of course Triste would like to have a picture perfect Better Home and an even Better Garden. Throw a Pottery Barn in the backyard for exceptional creative time to become the wiz-woman for all the ideas and inventions that the world could not live without. But Triste has settled on the fact of telling herself "I can be perfect in my mind and no one can mess up my space there!" In reality Triste is very self-motivated and has true business accomplishments like having SYSTEMIZE since 1997, the first home and business organizing firm in the state of South Carolina. She has been repeatedly recognized in her Greenville, SC area for her organizing expertise and makeovers on local NBC and FOX news, Greenville News, local magazines such as Greenville Magazine and Upstate Parent and NPR radio. She has turned people's lives around by focusing on what she calls the "four building blocks of being organized" consisting of space, time, financial and personal. This is even represented in her business logo. "That's what I'm in business for, turning people's lives around!" Also applying her popular 3 Steps to Systemize have not only organized her clients but KEPT them organized for years.
Triste's Website:
www.systemize4u.com
Downtime Activities
- Reading Magazines
- Spending time at our cottage
- Keeping our Westie pretty
- Putting tealights around after the kids are in bed
- Adventures with my awesome hubby
- Making microwave smores...just for me
1 graham cracker, broken in half 1 small piece of chocolate 1 big marshmellow On one side of cracker put piece of chocolate and marshmellow on top. Place in microwave and heat for approx. 17 seconds (while cooking replace marshmellow on top of chocolate if needed). Put other half of cracker on top, eat and enjoy and watch out for oozing chocolate!
My Organizing Tool-Box
- Time - Outlook
This is a great way to keep papers off the desk and track where you need to go, task list, jot down quick notes on the virtual "post-its, keep up with contacts in the virtual Rolodex
- Personal Finances - Quicken
This simple yet practical program keeps your bank accounts in tact...did I mention simple?!
- Business Finances - QuickBooks
I have used this program for years and have set many clients up on it. It is a must for keeping track of business transactions and keeping tax time easy...push a few buttons and out come the reports, your done and your tax preparer loves you.
- Space - turntables
I love these things! You can put them in cabinets, the fridge, garage, and closets. They are inexpensive, easy to find and available at any discount store and you can even find fancier ones. If you are not sure what they are, they are the white (or other fancier kinds) and spin around like a lazy susan, you can have a single or double-tier one for spices.
- Personal - Magazines and Internet
I love to look at magazines and the internet for good articles on personal development, pictures for decorating inspiration and fun projects to do with my family. I keep my magazine subscriptions to a minimum (3) so I can read them and enjoy each one. I look for things on some of my favorite websites for whatever fancies me at that time.
- Online Recipe Boxes
Use these on some of your favorite websites, bring the laptop into the kitchen while the recipe is up and you never have to have the paper clutter. One of my and my husbands favorites is Williams-Sonoma.
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