Spring Cleaning, wootness Style! Christine Walsh-Newton, M. Photog., Cr., CPP For a long time, I only did spring-cleaning in my house. I considered it a way of taking care of what was mine, keeping things in good repair and not cluttering the place up with things I no longer needed or wanted. This annual purge left me energized and re-focused. Then, I started spring-cleaning my business. It only made sense. Again, I'm taking care of what is mine and making things run smoother overall. Here are a few simple ways to purge your business of things that are dragging it down and sucking up your time. Let's get
that spring-time rev-up going: 1. Purge vendors. If you haven't used them in the last year, you're probably not going to. Unsubscribe from their email lists and ditch their brochures and catalogs taking up room in your filing cabinet. While you're at it, go through all of your vendor files and ditch any catalogs and communications that are more than a year old. 2. Purge paper files. While you're digging around in your filing cabinets, remove all your 2013 business files and place them in a file storage box from the office supply store. They don't need to