If you have a talent for organizing and want to find out how to set up your own Professional Organizing business and begin training for a new career, this course is where you need to begin!
Not only will answers be provided on what a professional organizer is, potential earnings and possible clientele, plus various organizing tips; this course will also provide information about available resources and how to begin the nuts and bolts of writing up your business goals. Marketing strategies and tips will wrap up this informative course and get you ready to begin!
This self-paced course is the ultimate busy person's guide to learning about the organizing business. No special software or hardware is required and there's no need to rearrange your work schedule, arrange for childcare or hunt for a parking place. Best of all, the class will give an excellent foundation for those who are interested in changing careers and setting up their own organizing company.
Course Requirements
This course will not require you to have previous experience in any particular area though it is a good idea to have a personal organization system that works for you already. An interest in starting up a Professional Organization business would be recommended.
No books will be required to complete this course, but this course may increase your awareness of resources that you will want to invest in order to begin your own business. Any purchases you make for beginning your own business are optional and not a part of this course. See Recommended books below.
The only material that this course will require is a notebook in order to record your business ideas and plans.
Course Goals
- Participants will obtain information about being a Professional Organizer - Participants will obtain information about different organization techniques and how to apply these to organize individuals, homes, and/or a business - Participants will then obtain information about setting up shop - Participants will obtain Marketing tips and other resources that will be helpful to begin a Professional Organizing Business
Grading Policy
Each lesson will include a written and practice assignment that will directly apply what you have learned. These written assignments are designed to help you to begin to formulate and solidify your own future business plans. Many of the lessons will also follow up with a review quiz that will highlight aspects of each lesson for you to note. Students will successfully complete this course with 70% or better.
Learning Outcomes
By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
Define what a professional organizer does.
Describe essential characteristics of a successful professional organizer.
Define popular organizing techniques.
Describe how to organize the individual.
Describe how to organize a home.
Describe how to organize a business.
Describe the requirements for starting an organizing business.
Describe marketing a professional organizing business, and
Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
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