Get yourself organized!

Posted by kevin focht on Apr 29, 2011 in Business | 0 comments

I know that a lot of you are working all by yourself, and think that you don’t need to be organized.

I was there, and let me tell you that getting organized will help you down the road. I used to name my folders things like ” Bob’s shoot” “Bob’s new shoot” ” Bob’s new shoot 2″. Does any of this sound familiar? Now I knew what all that meant, but when I had my first employee come in, she was ready to scream!

You need to get some sort of system in place, and do it now. Your system should be so simple, that a person coming in off the street should be able to figure out what is going on in your studio with a 10 minute explanation.

Can you do that now?

We use a simple system of the date, followed by the name, then what type of client it is. i.e. wedding, senior and such.

As an example a wedding shot on the 29th of April this year would look like this-

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Easy to follow and searchable by name, type, or date. How simple is that?

You can use a spreadsheet if you want, or you can use some sort of studio management software like successware, studio cloud or the one I had designed for us Mobile Fotographer

I think you need to have a system on your computer and also a hard copy system too. Sometimes it’s easier to go to your order folders instead of your computer.

So get busy, and get organized. It’s never too early to start.

Kevin