---Getting more organized at the beginner level: Advertising, bulk loads, and books!

Hello,

I consider myself to be at the top part of the beginner level in scrapping and have been doing it for about 8 months now. Ive been doing the following changes to my business to move ahead.



1. Advertising: Ive been making advertising, getting clients and more product my main priority. I realize its ok to be over loaded with stuff ( I live on an acre lot, so this works out for me). Before I used to break down what I got before I renew my ad and really go out for more clients. This way I have more stuff to make better deals and better contacts. This may seem like a basic idea but, there have been many times where I have had like 10 computers, 8 appliances, and some other stuff that I break down instead of renewing my ad , going to local businesses, making phone calls, etc. I now plan on doing the break down of stuff after I have advertised for several hours and only when I have down time or when it is late at night when I usually dont get phone call. After all getting stuff is the driving force of the business anyway.

2. Bulk: the focusing on advertising and getting more stuff allows me to deal more in bulk. Instead of selling 2-3 working computer to the computer shop I will sell in bulk like 20, which they will prefer. This will save me gas and time. I plan on doing bulk in the following areas with the following minimums: Steel (5-10 tons in a roll-off bin), e-waste (600 lbs. sent to ewasted), and TV's (40 tv to get .13/lb, I live in Ca. where we get paid for tvs). The only hard thing about this is it will take awhile to get paid but, I feel the sacrifice will be worth it.

3. Books/Accounting: Ive been writing down and keeping track of everything I do everyday. I write down every address, name, phone number, and a description of what I did/picked-up for every client in a notebook. I write down the tasks I do at home, my mileage I drive for taxes, how much I make every day/week/month. This helps me for the following reasons: to contact previous customers, tax purposes, seeing progress, I can see how much I am earning, and remembering what I did during the week.


Well that is most of the changes that I have done recently. Just thought that I would write it all down to help me see it in writing and maybe these approaches will apply to other members and may help them.

On a sad note my timing belt went out on my truck, just a little set back and I will be back on track.

thanks for reading the post