Our new friends over at www.scatteredmusings.com have given our coupon binders collection and the Sidekick a big thumbs up this week .

Check it out:

http://www.scatteredmusings.net/2013/03/household-planner-menu-planner-coupon-binder/

We’re happy to be friends with so many people who feel the same as us about an organized life being a better and more successful life.

Hi all,

Last year we launched our new web site and we’re thrilled with how the community has responded. We are thankful for all our new customers, how well you have taken to the new site and store and for your support through the years. As a thank you, we are planning to launch a special program open to anyyone who visits www.caseit.com in 2013.

It’s called “The Case•it Ambassador Program” and when it launches next month you and your friends will be invited to sign up to earn points toward scholarships and contributions to organizations or causes.

The rules are pretty simple: You spread the buzz about Case•it and all our products, getting friends, family, colleagues and acquaintances, or anyone you wish, to purchase items from the online store — those who reach 100 sales or more will be instantly designated as a “Case•it Ambassador” and will begin to earn money in the form of scholarships and special contributions. The more your efforts result in sales, the more you will be rewarded by Case•it.

You can sell individual binders and accessories to people you know, through Facebook and Twitter and email or in person — however it works best for you. You can sign up your school to purchase bulk orders of binders by the hundreds. You can even have your bulk order branded with a logo and colors of a school or organization. The more you sell Case•it products, the more you earn.

The official program and rules will be available by February. Stay tuned and let your friends know.

We’re committed to rewarding our biggest fans and friends.

Sincerely,

The Case•it Crew

Nothing better than a new year to make us stop and consider ways we would love to improve our lives. Since we’re all about organization as a means to finding excellence and creating opportunity, we thought we’d share some ideas for how you can make 2013 a great year for getting things back in order.

Here is a great article on ways to get started and maintain that promise to yourself:

http://www.newbernsj.com/news/local-columns/peggy-barnes-advice-on-getting-organized-in-2013-1.77798

Every year, without fail, one of the top 10 resolutions people make is to become more organized. As we can all attest, keeping resolutions can be hard but with a little thought and planning, getting organized can be a resolution that you can actually keep. So, how do you go about getting organized?

1. Be realistic about what being organized means. Don’t try to organize like someone else does. Organize in a way that makes sense to you, while at the same time giving you an uncluttered look in your home or office.

2. Be realistic about how much time it will take you to become organized. You did not become unorganized overnight and you will not become organized overnight.

3. Schedule time to get organized. If you don’t schedule the time, you won’t make the time. Work in small increments of time.

4. When you are ready to begin organizing, decide to tackle one box, one shelf, one drawer, or one cabinet. Deal with everything in that space and don’t get distracted by other things in the room.

5. Try to put like things together. When you have all the like things together in one space, it is easy to pare down.

6. Do you have a lot of collections? Decide on “one to represent the many” and give away or donate the rest of the collection.

7. Use clear containers for storage so you can see what you have but don’t buy containers until you know what you need to store.

8. Stop bringing things into your home unless those things have an intended purpose. In other words, don’t buy it unless you know you absolutely need it.

9. Get rid of newspapers and magazines that are more than 3 months old. If you haven’t had the time to read them, more than likely you won’t end up having the time to read them.

10. Get in the habit of de-cluttering at least 15 minutes a day. Take the time to go through the mail and put things back where they belong. You will be surprised how much you can do in 15 focused minutes.

Make 2013 be the year that you finally got organized!

(Written by Peggy Barnes, De-Clutter Bug, a professional home organizer, certified life coach and speaker. She lives in New Bern. Learn more at her website, declutterbugnc.com.)

Dear Friends,

In keeping with the spirit of what we believe at Case•it — that our customers and fans know more about our business of organizing lives than anyone we know — we are inviting all interested in participating in the Case•it online experience to contact us by FOLLOWING and/or LIKING us via Twitter or Facebook

You may be a student interested in creating customized bulk binders for your school, or a teacher who wants to build a binder her classroom via the “Brand My Binder” program. Maybe you’re a coupon collector and you want to do a giveaway for your followers or a musician or accountant who wants to design and order Case•it binders for your colleagues and customers.

Anyway you like it, for 2013 and beyond Case•it is interested in making your lives more fulfilling and better organized by bringing together its legions of fans and friends to share their ideas, be creative, be entrepreneurial, earn discounts and scholarships, have fun and be better organized while your at it.

If you want to know more about how you can work with Case•it in this way, again, contact us on Twitter and/or Facebook.

Our rewards program already celebrates the successes of our fans by giving them discount points for just registering online, and more for sharing, inviting, selling, etc. Now we want to go on step further and invite you to be a bigger part of our amazing world.

If you contact us, we’ll get back with you and help you to get involved.

Happy Holidays,

The Case•it Crew

As everyone spends their days leading up the holidays getting things in order, we thought this would be a good time to share with you some of the ways we know for how to organize your shopping lists:

1. A video on four steps to getting organized for the holidays: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kW3BPY8Bs8
2. Using wish lists and gift lists: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412239,00.asp
3. A little bit of everything organized: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/columnist/odonnell/2012/10/02/get-organized-holiday-shopping-apps/1606029/

Check this links out, take notes, choose what works for you. It’s your call on “Ways to Organize.”

Speaking of getting organized, Case•it is giving away FREE standard shipping during the holidays to anyone who buys 2 or more binders in a single purchase. Get it now at www.caseit.com.

Hi all,

Case•it is dedicated to letting our biggest fans help us make the best choices for our binders. In that spirit, we are setting up a Voting Booth that will launch this week so that anyone coming to our site will be able to vote for or against a series of new designs for our binders.

And just for voting we will send you a discount coupon for your next Caseit.com purchase and enter you into a special giveaway. Two lucky people will be randomly selected to receive FREE binders from Case•it just for voting on the many colorful new design styles with which we are experimenting.

So please join us in our effort to continue to create the best designs in binders by telling Case•it what you think.

Just click “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” on the binders in the voting booth landing page on Caseit.com and you can even tell us why you like or don’t like the design by Commenting there. We will tally the votes at the end of two months and make some decisions on which designs we want to stick with for the upcoming seasons.

The winners of the random sweepstakes will be selected once polls close on Jan. 31, 2013.

Thanks for participating.

Hi all,

We’re excited about the holidays and so we wanted to give a gift to all our friends who purchase binders during the season of giving. Buy a binder from Nov. 26 through Nov. 30 and we’ll give you an accessory for that binder for free.

Our accessories, the 5-Tab (ACC-20) and the P Pod (Pen-06) are designed for additional organizing of pencils, erasers, papers and much more. As we know our customers are looking for new and creative ways to keep their stuff in order, we thought this would be the perfect gift for the holiday.

So, go to the Store, pick out your favorite binder and then we’ll give you a chance to choose an accessory to add to that order at no cost. Tell your friends! And enjoy it all on us!

best,

The Case•it Crew

One of our favorite couponers got a really nice mention in “The Huffington Post.” Check it out: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/joni-meyer-crothers-extre_n_2118819.html

Once again, the couponers of the world show how they are making a positive difference and we’re happy to be associated with any person or group who can do that!

Go Joni!

Dear Friends,

Hurricane Sandy devastated the Northeast, wreaking havoc on our coast and impacting the lives of millions of people. We at Case-it wish to help our New York and New Jersey area neighbors by contributing to the Red Cross’s Disaster Relief efforts assisting those in need. For the month of November, we will donate 20 % of the cost of every binder purchased on our website. We thank you for your loyalty and support.

From our hearts,

The Case•it Crew

Some of our biggest fans are musicians. They know the value of keeping their music orderly and in place. They understand the value of being efficient and making sure all their work is in the right place and easy to find. They are part of our family.

In their honor and as November kicks off, here are some tips to organizing your sheet music:

Instructions

1. Gather together your entire collection of sheet music. Decide on an organizational strategy, depending on what’s contained in your collection. If you exclusively deal with jazz music, for example, you might consider sorting by subgenre, and within each subgenre, sorting artists alphabetically.

2. Separate the sheet music into piles based on type. If you deal with a variety of music, each type could represent a genre. If you’re a music instructor, you might sort the sheet music based on difficulty.

3. Alphabetize the individual sheet music piles based on either the artist’s last name or the title of the piece, whichever is more convenient and will make locating a piece simpler for you. Place each of these piles into an individual folder. If your collection is large, you may even need a separate folder for each letter of the alphabet.

4. Purchase a filing cabinet crates in which you’ll store your folders. Keeping the folders in a pile on your desk won’t be much of an improvement over scattering the pieces of music around your office. The goal is to create a system that you can navigate easily. Sheet music can be expensive, so try to find a locking filing cabinet.

5. Consider backing up your sheet music collection electronically. Depending on the size of your collection, this may require a sizable initial time commitment, but will be worthwhile considering the level of protection it offers. Whenever you acquire a new piece of music, use a scanner to copy it to your hard drive. Organize your files into folders just as you would with a filing cabinet. Alphabetization by title will be automatic with this system.

Read more: How to Organize Sheet Music | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_2300612_organize-sheet-music.html#ixzz2B0Zteipe