Organize Your Friends

If you are a beginning Professional Organizer and don't know how to get experience in organizing, consider this idea. Ask your friends and family if you can do some organizing for them.

You can explain to them that you are trying to start a business as a Professional Organizer and that you need their help. In this way it will not come off as a comment on their messiness or disorganization.

As you are organizing their stuff, try to think of how you would do it for a client. Try to come up with some procedures to follow, and practice them on your friends. For example, do an initial interview to see what their needs are, write up a proposal or game plan for the organizing that you are going to do, and so on. Do a professional job.

In this way, you will also start to see some of the problems you could run into as a Professional Organizer, and get ideas about how to solve them. Dealing with clients as a Professional Organizer is a lot different than just organizing your own home. Clients have their own personalities and are often resistant to change. You will develop your selling skills as you try to sell them on the benefits of being organized, why they should have an organizing system, and how to keep things organized after you leave.

In addition, the people you organize for free can later be references for you when you start your Professional Organizer business and start to look for paying clients.