If you want to increase revenue in your organizing business, you could run more ads, post more on Instagram, launch a new service, rework your website, start networking more, or… you could text one past client today. That’s it. Inside our 60 Day Business Reset, one of the daily challenges is incredibly simple: reach out to one past client through text or email to check in. It sounds almost too easy, but it works! And most organizers don’t do it consistently.

If you’ve ever thought, “Maybe I’m done with this,” then welcome to the club. Truly. Multiple times a week, we talk to professional organizers who are discouraged, burned out, frustrated with difficult clients, navigating team turnover, or simply exhausted from carrying the weight of running a business. And almost every single one of them has wondered at some point if it’s worth continuing.

Are you wondering how to become a professional organizer or what it really takes to run a successful organizing business? We’ve put together this list of the top 5 things we wish we have known when we started our organizing businesses so you can avoid common pitfalls.

This year’s Organizers Collective was packed with game-changing insights, inspiring leadership lessons, and real-world strategies that I can’t wait to bring back to my team.

For those who weren’t able to attend, here are some of the things that I learned from my favorite professional organizers in the industry.

Get advice from Jen Martin and Stephanie Sikora on how to grow your organizing business.