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In addition to all the physical staff you’re going to accumulate, you’re going to pile up information even faster.

Although you can start by keeping track of information such as what you paid for office supplies in a notebook, pretty soon you’re going to find it hard to quickly find and retrieve critical information. The answer: Put it in electronic form so it can be easily searched for and found when you need it.

Since it’s likely that you’ll do a lot of online research—regarding competition, pricing, sources, and so on—you’ll discover it’s much easier to keep track of this data if you’ve got a system set up right on your computer.

One way to do this is to utilize the “folder” organizational structure used by most office automation software products. Start right away by setting up computer folders and files as you gather information. For example, you can create a folder called “Suppliers” and inside that folder put all documents— whether word processing, spreadsheets, PDFs, or other types of files—containing the data about suppliers that you unearth during your research.