Play it again, Sam: 12 ways to organise your music collection.

You’re writing about how to organise you music? On a business blog? Yep - you heard it right. As put so eloquently in the movie ‘The Castle’, it’s just, well, ‘the vibe’ of it, really…

It doesn’t matter whether you’re in small business, big business, working from home, or not working at all: music can help set your mood, sometimes for clarity of thought, sometimes to cause a welcome distraction, and sometimes for anything in between.

The following 12 points show you how to organise your music a little smarter - and so that you can at least claim that the time you spend reorganising your music is somewhat ‘business related’, we’ll call it ‘new media training’.

The Fine Art of Handing Over

As of June 2006, there were almost 2 million businesses in Australia, and almost 2 out of 3 of those are single-person businesses - the solopreneurs, if you like. A proportion of these businesses must be contractors working for a company as a contracted employee, but the vast majority are people like, well, you and me - soloists who have a niche, and are actively making a go of their business…

…but what happens when soloist turns into… soloist, plus one?

Obviously, you’re doing something right, so my hearty congratulations - but suddenly, some major selling points of being a solo businessperson turn into a real surprise: whereas before, you didn’t have to have meetings with yourself, or write down internal memos from your marketing department to your accounting department - now, suddenly, you have to hand stuff over to your new employee. Very scary stuff.

But how do you get your knowledge out of *your* brain, and into the hands of your new staff? For that matter, this is just as important if you’re in a client/service relationship or even if you’re in a parent/child relationship - so take heed all ye bosses/clients/parents!