Setting up your workflow

Let’s take a step back from talking about multiboxing for a minute to discuss workflow.  I have alluded to workflow in earlier posts when discussing my stable of alts and mentioned it in my post on crafting.   
It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work [1]
In playing the auction house, it is the path that a craftable material takes from raw form to being sold on the auction house or in trade.  One of the best ways to illustrate a workflow tied to a specific raw material is the shuffle.  This is where you take elementium, prospect it for gems, make the gems in into jewelry, disenchant that same jewelry into shards and dust, and lastly make enchanting scrolls with the materials.  To really maximize the ore shuffle, each step of the way you can sell off materials to cover a wide variety of markets.  While it possible to have enchanting and jewelcrafting on the same character, it would be more convenient to break the steps into different characters.  
Another tradeskill that can benefit from setting up a workflow is inscription.  To be a competitive player in the inscription market one should the majority if not all of profitable glyphs for their server.  This can lead to a character having thousands of glyphs, even with large tradeskill specific bags this leads to lots of inventory management.  
For the inscription market I I have set up one auctioneer specifically to sell glyphs.  This auctioneer is kitted out with tradeskill bags allowing her to stack up a vast amount of glyphs.  My scribe is another character on the same account.  I have set my workflow as follows.  The auctioneer dedicated to glyphs searches the auction house for cheap herbs and inks below a specific threshold.  She then checks her mail, downloading 16 stacks of herbs and as many stacks of inks as she could find.  16 being the size of the standard backpack.  When the bag is filled, I step away from the mailbox reseting it and hit my button to automail the herbs and inks to my scribe.  I then equip my scribe with two herbalism tradeskill bags and two inscription tradeskill bags.  Next I start opening mail and begin milling everything in my bags. Once I have stacked up great deal of ink, I check my crafting queue in Tradeskill Master and see what inks I need to visit the ink trader for.  While there i pick up two stacks of each paper for glyphs.  (I find I cannot use the auto trade function for the paper vendor as I will fill my all of my bag slots with paper.)  Then I craft glyphs until I run out of space or materials.  Each time this happens I visit the mailbox sending the glyphs off to my auctioneer using the auto mail function in Tradeskill master.  The reason this workflow works very well is I use the mailbox as a staging area, having absurd quantities of herbs glyphs moving back and forth between the two characters.  

But why two accounts?

I have two main reasons for having two accounts to use when playing the auction house.  
The first is to have access to more tradeskill slots on more characters.  I have access to three max level alchemists all specialized for transmute.  
The second reason is I can be posting on two accounts at the same time.  Typically I stagger it so one is opening mail and the other is posting auctions on the Auction House.  I just use my multiboxing setup which lets me switch from PC to PC and account to account by just sliding the mouse from screen to screen.  
This helps me keep my daily gold making routine to 15 minutes or less a day.  Often done in the morning before I leave for work.