The Seven Secrets to Becoming a Professional Organizer

Aspiring to be a Professional Organizer?
Know first these seven very important secrets before jumping into process of getting certified. To be a professional organizer is more than being someone who loves order and wants to help people in organizing.
Here are the seven secrets:
1. Learning a skill is not the same as learning how to sell. Even though you may be certified as a professional organizer, you have yet to learn how to sell the process. How do you present it to others? How do you know what to charge? What is the right price?How do you develop personal skills necessary to become someone who can sell it? I've taught a number of professional organizers learn how to sell without selling--how to new clients without feeling like their talking to a sales person.
You need help from someone who's been there, who can mentor you and making sure that your taking care of all the different aspects of your business.
3. Many people need your service but few people want it. Many professional organizers and coaches have a valuable service that many people truly need. But only few want it.. 4. Give a man a fish... I'm sure you're familiar with the proverb that if you teach a man to fish, he can eat for a lifetime. 5. Target market is everything. If you splurge a great deal of marketing effort after being a professional organizer in looking for customers who come from the wrong target market, you'll never be able to build a sustainable business model. 6. It's hard to justify ROI with professional organizers. Because many professional organizers do not have the background of business understanding, they don't know how to justify the return-on-investment for their services. What will they get in in terms of their income and their productivity by getting your services? If you're not able to show those numbers to them, it will decrease the value of your service.
7. Productivity coaches can make more per hour than professional organizers. As president of the National Association of Productivity Coaches, I sometimes share this joke with professional organizers, what is the difference between a professional organizer and a productivity coach, about one hundred dollars per hour. The truth is that when you are helping the clients increase their productivity (which includes improving their organization), you are providing much more value to the market place and so can make demand top dollar.
In short, if you're aspiring becoming a professional organizer, I encourage you first to have a look to all the different options including enhancing your ability to help others by

His book, The Myth of Multitasking: How 'Doing It All' Gets Nothing Done, has been published in six languages and is a time management best seller. Dave is the foremost expert in helping you increase the value of your time in an ever-changing market and has helped thousands of clients worldwide. For more information about becoming a professional organizer or a productivity coach, visit http://www.davecrenshaw.com/becoming-a-professional-organizer.