Organizing With an In & Out Box

"Hello. My name's Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village, today we're going to talk about how to organize your business documents. In this clip let's talk about organizing your business documents on your desk using an IN and OUT box. Sounds very simple right? You may or may not have heard of this term so we're going to talk about the in and the out box. Just like it sounds. It goes in, it goes out. So, what can happen, especially if you're working out of your home office. If there are things that you have to get done but you want to keep your desk relatively neat, you know that you have to deal with it at some point in the day; you'll put it in your in box to do. Your in box is basically your to do box. Or if someone else, perhaps your spouse, works with you as well, they can put it in there. You can have different boxes as well for different people. Perhaps you and your spouse. You can have your own in boxes. It will keep you organized and that's what we're talking about today is organizing yourself and your business documents so you can keep everything close at hand. If things are going in the in box and it's a ton of different papers, you might want to think about something as simple as using paperclips so to keep each of those documents separate or using file folders and putting each of the different documents in there separately so that you're not mixing up different pieces of paper, different clients, etc. The out box: If things have to go out it could mean different things to you. A, they have to be filed. They'll go into the filing cabinet because you're done with that. You will be doing something with it. So the outbox eventually should be blank. In this case we have bills in our outbox that just have to be filed. We've gone through, we've inputted them. They just have to go in their respective files and we're good to go. So a quick little review on the in and the out box."