Musings from Cyndi Seidler

The Home Show Expo

The Home Remodeling & Decorating Show

We're having fun over at the Home Remodeling & Decorating Show at LA Convention Center this weekend. The DVD Get Organized with Cyndi Seidler plays all day and passer-bys stop to watch the techniques to clear the clutter and get better organized.

We're at booth 354 if you're in the area and have a chance to stop by!

Cyndi releases new DVD

New DVD Release

The DVD "Get Organized with Cyndi Seidler" just launched! It has been distributed to select retail stores for a test run and will be available in stores nationwide soon!

DVD is an entertaining and informative show that presents techniques to organize clutter and establish various organizing solutions to maintain organization.

"Organizer to the stars" Cyndi Seidler shows a simple method to deal with clutter, as well as highlighting various solutions and products that help in organizing a room, a home office, closets, drawers, and cabinets.

This DVD is also available online for $12.95 (43 minutes). Click here to purchase.

Get Organized DVD

Coming soon! New DVD to get organized!

This DVD "Get Organized with Cyndi Seidler" is the first in a series; this topic featuring "Organize Clutter."

A production of Soorya Arts and Organized Living Productions, this DVD is scheduled to be released this summer in retail stores like Walmart, Target, and others. It will also be available at www.getorganizedwithcyndi.com (site in development) -- the new site about this DVD series.

New Get Organized Column

New Syndicated Column

It's been awhile since I've posted anything here, and that is mostly because I've been writing a lot in An Organized Lifestyle blog. Please forgive.

A new development has come up with writing a new column and I want to share this with you now. One of the publications is American Chronicle and it syndicates my column to twenty-one other publications.

You'll find a list of my articles here:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewByAuthor.asp?authorID=865

Please note, I just got started, so there are only two articles posted.

Internet Marketing

Launch of Power Marketers Group

Ok, so most of you know me as an organizing expert, and I am, although what a lot of you may not know is that I'm a fairly good Internet marketer. I did, after all, manage to develop traffic to Organized-Living.com averaging 40,000 unique visitors a day. Not bad, ay?

This month I joined a partnership in an Internet marketing business -- as Power Marketers Group. The thing that prompted this was an Internet program that launched this month called the 1 Step System and, upon joining it, we got to work on marketing strategies and the web site for this. We achieved the 17th position on Google with our brand new web site within 5 days after initiating our first marketing campaign (out of 84,000 search results). Now, that's power marketing, if I do say so myself!

We are also marketing SFI Marketing Group and 4-Ecorp earth-friendly products. SFI has personal and household earth-friendly products, and 4-Ecorp has an incredible gas additive: Ethos. I won't explain them here ... but you can check them out and watch the videos on the site links I just gave for full info.

Oh, did I mention that I set up several blogs for Power Marketers Group?

Anyway, I've been busy (needless to say!). You'll be finding new products on my other sites, too.... all part of my marketing strategy! Do I think I'll become a wealthy Internet marketer? Darn right!

KFWB Radio Interview

A Talk on Getting Organized

In a taped interview the other day with Sharon Katchen of KFWB Radio in L.A., we discussed how to get started and tackle an organizing project. Scheduled to air Monday morning, March 20th, this marks the first day of Spring and time when people start their Spring cleaning endeavors.

If you happen to listen to the interview on this all-talk radio station, please come back to comment!

Keeping Up

Trying to stay ahead of the game

I believe with any business, it requires continual research to succeed to new levels. I find myself spending a great deal of time researching and, although time-consuming, it does pay off.

Lately, I've put my attention on generating more traffic to my sites. Focusing mostly on the Organized-Living.com site, I'm finding greater rewards from Google AdSense, and am now researching more about this.

I won't bore you about this subject, as it gets into a lot of this-and-that ... which puts me into information overload with the vast content available on the Internet on this subject! I will say however, that organizing a strategy to increase anything we have that is proving successful is a good way to succeed to higher levels.

Wish me luck (or sanity, at least!)

Cyndi
Living an Organized Life
(see my other blog)

A New Community

Launch of The Organized Home Club

I recently had the idea of forming community groups from all over relating to individuals who want and enjoy organized living. I put my thoughts down and everything just started pouring out. Before I knew it, I was purchasing a domain and developing the web site.

Well, a week later The Organized Home Club was officially launched ... today. There's a lot of work ahead of me to develop this into growing communities, and I hope you'll take a look and join in!

It's my new year gift to you.

2005 Highlights

Reflecting on 2005

There were a lot of events in the news for 2005; some good, some bad. The natural disasters that hit this year alone really took its toll on everyone, but I like to reflect on the good. And, that's how I get to me.

I had a good year. To recap some of the major events in my life ...

March - On ABC-7 News with Spencer Davis
March - Launched decorating business and its blog, Splendid Space Makeovers
April - Launched this blog and the Organized-Living.com blog
April - New partnership with producers Prime Cut Productions for TV show
April - Became a Muttshacker and involved with Muttshack Animal Rescue Fdn.
May - Launched my Eco-organizer campaign and service mark
May - Launched new message board for Organized-Living.com
July - Launced new affiliate products on Organized-Living.com
July - Interviewed on the radio program On The House with The Carey Brothers
July - Interviewed for Expert Village
August - Speaker at the San Fransisco Mart
Sept. - My home office makeover
Sept. - My one-year anniversary at my new house; installed hardwood floors
Oct. - Web site makeovers
Nov. - On CBS Morning News with client Roxanne Brown
Nov. - In Woman's Day magazine
Nov. - Interviewed for In Style magazine
Nov. - New HandyGirl Organizers logo
Dec. - The 11-year anniversary of my company HandyGirl Organizers (founded 12/94)
Dec. - Highest-ever sales on students enrolling in HG Training Academy and for book A Manual for Professional Organizers, 4th edition

So, there we have it; an eventful year filled with progress. Now, to make my goals for 2006!

Happy new year!

Stay-at-home Shoppers

Getting Malled at the Malls

Those who truly value their sanity are staying away from the holiday Mall shopping. My bank teller told me that she heard about this woman who drove around this mall parking lot looking for a parking spot, and just kept driving up and down the isles, watching other cars pull into newly vacated spots she just missed because the line of cars she got behind in the next isle got there first. Her stress level was rising and this was before she even entered the mall!

Approximately 30 minutes later, she got into the building and the crowd of people were such that she felt driven to yell into a store at a clerk there and plead, "Just throw something out -- anything!"

While the malls and large department stores might be a good one-stop shopping endeavor, it may not be worth it. I suggest, if you must go out and shop, to try retail stores in small shopping strips, or along boulevards with a variety of specialty shops.

As for myself, I'm going to let my fingers do the shopping ... thank you Internet!