How To Keep Your Online Home Business Organized

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the wealth of information that you find on the Internet? Do you feel that all the information that you need to keep your online home business running effectively is getting out of hand? Well you are definitely in good company. Each and every person that tries to make a living online will experience some kind of information overload.

The good news is that I am about to reveal to you a powerful way to keep things organized. Basically you need to things: (1) you need a powerful organizing and filing system and (2) you need the discipline to keep the system going. I would like to address both issues in this article. I am going to give you a very practical and simple way of organizing your information and a way to keep the system going.

Let us start with the organizing system. My answer to an organizing system for your online home business is a very simple one. You need to create a mini-website for your business. This site need not be fancy. It only needs to be functional. I used Microsoft FrontPage to setup my own organizing website. If you cannot use a program like FrontPage use Microsoft Word or a similar program and save your pages as web pages. I cannot give you a blueprint of how you should organize your information. You will need to find a way to categorize and sort the information you have about your business yourself. It is not difficult though. Take a piece of paper and make a list of all the categories that you can think of that will help you organize your information. Just brainstorm that for a moment. After you have brainstormed the main categories take a new piece of paper and write homepage at the top. Now write the main categories of your organizing website below the word