1. Categorize Information and Create a Master Outline
Look at your business and decide how you want to categorize your information. For example I have: Administration, Marketing, Finances, etc. as my Master Outline and than under those larger categories, I create subcategories: My sample
Administration
Policies & Procedures
Forms / Templates
Business Structure
Clients
Marketing
Brochures
Business Cards
E-zine Content
Networking Groups
Create tabs for the Master Outline and use on hanging folders, use manila folders with labels for your subcategories. Make sure that you give all files a name, do not use Miscellaneous as a file name, because the file will began to accumulate papers and you will not be able to find items easily and quickly. You can use this same format to keep electronic files as well.
2. Create a Tickler File System
Get twelve manila folders and label them January December, then you will need 31 more vanilla folders labeled 1 31 for the days in the month and two additional folders labeled for the upcoming years. As I am writing this it is 2006, so you would create...