Organization Tips
This set of pages has been re-formatted and new contributions added. From door prize slips to planners to timesaving tips, spend a little time deciding which system will work best for you, then implement it, and move on to your business! It's all too easy to spend more time than necessary pushing paper and organizing yourself, but a good organized system can be a big benefit to your long-term business.

But here's a hint...if the local office supply store provides valet parking for you, it's a sure sign you're spending too much time organizing, and not enough time on your business!

Are you as tired of SPAM as I am? SPAM is unwanted, unsolicited junk mail that clogs up your email system and annoys the heck out of you to have to delete. Although you may wonder what this has to do with Best of the Boards, it has an impact on anyone who is an online presence and sends & receives email. I frequently remove advertising and SPAM from the BoB message board, as well as receiving/deleting 20-30 spam-mails from my personal email every time I log on. I have begun taking an active role in putting a stop to it, and here are some links for you to do the same if you choose to. 

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3921.html 
http://www.chooseyourmail.com/spamindex.cfm 
http://spamcop.net/ 

Credit where credit is due
I try extremely hard to give author or contributor credit to everything that is posted on Best of the Boards (BoB). I would appreciate the same in return! More than once I have visited sites created by other consultants and been surprised and annoyed to see verbatim copying of subjects and articles that are here on BoB with no reference to where they came from. Honestly, it hurts inside more than it annoys me. Sometimes it's an oversight, and I do appreciate those of you who have followed through after I contacted you and added a tag line to the particular quote.

Just out of common courtesy, please, if you borrow or share something from the site, just do the right thing and acknowledge the source in the same manner that I do for all of you! Something simple like "for more great ideas, visit Best of the Boards", with the appropriate hyperlink to connect your visitor back to BoB. Your fellow consultants across America and Canada and I, will thank you and you will be a more reputable source in the long run.

Belinda

October 4

Well - a major oversight on my part goofed up Faith Letterman's Custom Embroidery webpage...those of you looking for great T-shirts, hats, totes, etc, might take a look at her re-vamped webpage! It has always been listed on the Suppliers page as a button, but the description got deleted. Also - if you looked at the page this past week and noticed the Hawaiian Shirt picture in place of the I Love Candles picture...OOPS! Take another look and see the REAL "I LOVE CANDLES" shirt design! Sorry Faith!

I've also added a bunch of new example pics to Renee's (FlameNGlos) Candlelighter & Button page. These are WAY overdue as she sent them to me in AUGUST. Take a new look at Renee's webpage for some many other great buttons to promote your business. 

Did any of you catch the most recent Directly From The Heart sticker update flyer that was direct mailed to Valerie's Candle Customers? Renee's Buttons & Candlelighters Business is featured right there with Valerie's new stickers! AWESOME!

Speaking of Directly From The Heart, some of the new stickers that were mailed out as samples with the update flyer are a great Teal colored 3-wick, and a neat Holiday  sticker. **

Call Directly From the Heart or visit their webpage to order a current catalog and samples today!
**These are copyrighted images -- please do not save and reproduce them from the webpage. You'll be much happier with the quality of legally purchased stickers from Directly From the Heart anyway!