Organizing Your Digital Staging Business Life with Professional Organizer
About Today’s Guest: CAROLINE
Caroline Guntur is a Certified Photo Organizer and Digital Strategist at Organizing Photos who loves helping people sort out their digital messes, whether that’s for their family collections or their businesses.
Caroline and I met in a mastermind group last year and I feel like her expertise in digital photo organizing is so relevant and applicable to us as home stagers. We have a lot of files, whether it’s for clients, past projects we’ve worked on, you name it. It’s time to get organized, and Caroline has many tips and tricks she shares throughout this conversation. We explore how to create effective standard operating procedures, the most winning ways to name and share files with team members, and how to combat digital file organization when you’re feeling overwhelmed.
The best part is that you don’t have to be born a type A, organized person. Caroline is a self-proclaimed free spirit who wasn’t at all naturally inclined to want to organize everything. But with a little practice and time, you’ll have smooth and flowing systems in no time that will benefit your life, work, and home staging business.
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This Week on The Home Staging Show Podcast
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Caroline shares how her career in photography inspired her passion for organizing (00:02:24)
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The importance of leveraging systems when it comes to digital file organization (00:03:55)
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The perks and downfalls of experimenting with different systems (00:06:11)
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Caroline’s six-piece formula that’s a gamechanger for making decisions (00:07:14)
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Why you absolutely need to have a backup system in place for your most important files (00:10:02)
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How you can use the art of filtering to get rid of what you don’t need (00:11:30)
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The time-saving file naming convention Caroline uses with her team (00:13:07)
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An easy tip for homeowners who need to downsize (00:15:02)
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The common issues Caroline sees in small businesses when it comes to their digital file organization (and the workflow she teaches her students!) (00:16:11)
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Caroline’s go-to advice for organizing through overwhelm (00:19:11)
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How to create a tagging system for your digital files (00:21:43)
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How to create guidelines for file sharing to avoid any details slipping through the cracks (00:24:35)
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Caroline’s recommendations for setting up standard operating procedures in your business (00:25:36)
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The most common mistakes people make when it comes to organizing their digital assets (00:28:00)
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Why labeling and file back-ups go hand in hand (00:29:16)
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The tools Caroline recommends for cloud backups (and how often she uses them) (00:32:03)
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What you should actually be focusing on first if you’re preparing your home to sell (00:33:44)
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How Caroline deals with clients who have mental resistance around organization (00:36:32)
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Caroline’s #1 tip for home stagers who want to organize their digital assets (00:38:44)
Connect with Caroline
Caroline’s website: https://www.organizingphotos.net
Caroline’s Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/photoorganizingfun
Caroline’s Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/CarolineGuntur
Caroline’s Instagram profile: https://www.instagram.com/theswedishorganizer/
Caroline’s Pinterest profile: https://www.pinterest.com/tsorganizer/_created/
Caroline’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theswedishorganizer/
Resources Mentioned On Today’s Show
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