Proud of my Youngest (19 Yrs Old) Client Corey Fitze — Sherlock Records Management

Posted on May 28, 2010 in Records Management News

Eco­nomic Fuel grand prize win­ners announced

The Times-Standard Eureka Ca;lifornia
Posted: 05/28/2010 02:35:46 AM PDT

The win­ners of the fifth annual Eco­nomic Fuel Stu­dent Busi­ness Plan Chal­lenge were announced recently, with eight win­ning teams tak­ing home a chunk of the $117,000 in seed cap­i­tal donated each year by local busi­ness own­ers and phil­an­thropists Rob and Cherie Arkley.
The Arkleys started the stu­dent busi­ness com­pe­ti­tion in 2006 as a way to pro­mote entre­pre­neur­ship in Hum­boldt County, and help recent col­lege grad­u­ates apply their edu­ca­tion and tal­ents toward new busi­ness ven­tures. Since then, $585,000 has been awarded and many new busi­nesses have become suc­cess­ful local fix­tures as a result, accord­ing to a press release.
This year, 32 teams vied for a place among the eight final­ist posi­tions.
Judges Jen­nifer Bud­wig of Red­wood Cap­i­tal Bank, Bob and Sue Crane of C Crane Co., Bruce Hamil­ton of Wild­wood Man­u­fac­tur­ing, Judy Har­ri­son of Grow­ing Your Busi­ness, Gabrielle Parkin­son of Career Life Tran­si­tions Insti­tute and Cedar Reuben of Hum­boldt Invest­ment Cap­i­tal, LLC decided on the win­ning teams, and the $117,000 seed cap­i­tal was dis­trib­uted as fol­lows:
The $25,000 awards went to: Eden Home, a care facil­ity offer­ing a dig­ni­fied and respect­ful res­i­dence for six full-time res­i­dents; Hum­boldt Home Health Ser­vices, cre­ated to serve the med­ical needs of Hum­boldt County by pro­vid­ing in-home occu­pa­tional, speech and phys­i­cal ther­apy, nurs­ing care and psycho/social ser­vices to patients who are home-bound; Lus­cious Gar­dens, an edi­ble land­scap­ing com­pany and nurs­ery ded­i­cated
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to greater food sus­tain­abil­ity, that offers edi­ble land­scap­ing from the more than 80 vari­eties of edi­ble peren­ni­als prop­a­gated at its nurs­ery; and Sher­lock Records Man­age­ment, a full-service records man­age­ment facil­ity offer­ing phys­i­cal and elec­tronic doc­u­ment man­age­ment solu­tions designed to increase busi­nesses office effi­cien­cies and decrease costs.
The $10,000 award went to Entrance Art, which pro­vides custom-made entry­ways man­u­fac­tured with the finest hard­woods and spe­cial­ized glass art­work for both res­i­den­tial and com­mer­cial estab­lish­ments through­out Cal­i­for­nia and south­ern Ore­gon.
The $5,000 prize went to Rad Power Bikes which man­u­fac­tures and dis­trib­utes cus­tom elec­tric bicy­cles as well as retail­ing elec­tric bike con­ver­sion kits and com­po­nents aimed at pro­vid­ing a viable per­sonal trans­porta­tion solu­tion that is clean, quiet and eco­nom­i­cal.
The $1,000 awards went to Shred Tec, a secure doc­u­ment destruc­tion com­pany that will pick up, shred beyond leg­i­bil­ity and recy­cle doc­u­ments on a will call and sched­uled basis. This com­pany also pri­or­i­tizes pro­vid­ing employ­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties to indi­vid­u­als with dis­abil­i­ties and Vance Ban­jos, which offers cus­tom high-end ban­jos along with repair and restora­tion work for acoustic instru­ments. Prod­uct forms include a wide vari­ety of ban­jos; five-string open­back, banjo ukulele and tenor banjo mod­els.
Grand prize win­ner and owner of Sher­lock Records Man­age­ment, Corey Fitze, 19, was a pre­vi­ous win­ner of the Young Entre­pre­neurs Busi­ness Chal­lenge — the high school ver­sion of the com­pe­ti­tion spon­sored by the Hum­boldt County Office of Edu­ca­tion.
”Eco­nomic Fuel meant more to me than just cap­i­tal for my busi­ness. To me it was an oppor­tu­nity to share my busi­ness plan with local busi­ness lead­ers,” Fitze said in a release. “I am very pas­sion­ate about my busi­ness and obvi­ously I am con­fi­dent in its suc­cess. The real test, though, is if these local busi­ness lead­ers feel my busi­ness will be a suc­cess in the county. It was extremely reward­ing to me to hear their con­fi­dence in my busi­ness, and the $25,000 cap­i­tal was icing on the cake.”

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Richards & Richards Sponsor Free Shred Day in Nashville

Posted on May 26, 2010 in Records Management News

Free Shred Day – How a Bank and Records Man­age­ment Com­pany Team Up to Help the Community

Posted by admin on Tues­day, May 25, 2010 · 1 Com­ment
Email Mar­ket­ing Takes a Twist in Nashville Ten­nessee
One sur­prise email fought 64 oth­ers that day for my atten­tion – and won, hands down. The sub­ject line; “Free Shred Day”.
Now tell me, who doesn’t have boxes and boxes of old, con­fi­den­tial “stuff” occu­py­ing valu­able real estate in the stor­age bin? Tax returns, med­ical records, love let­ters (just kid­ding).
I thought, “Hmmmm, “FREE” – really?” and clicked on it. Sure enough, it looked like they meant it:
CIVIC BANK & TRUST
IN COOPERATION WITH
RICHARDS & RICHARDS
Office Records Man­age­ment
The old­est and largest, sin­gle mar­ket, inde­pen­dently owned and oper­ated
records man­age­ment com­pany in the state of Ten­nessee
are spon­sor­ing a
FREE NEIGHBORHOOD SHRED DAY
SATURDAY, MAY 15TH
9 AM – 1 PM

Civic Bank & Trust
3325 West End Avenue
Nashville TN 37203

BRING AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE – NO LIMIT
AVAILABLE TO ALL OUR NEIGHBORS, INCLUDING SMALL BUSINESSES
There is no need to remove sta­ples, paper clips or binder clips

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LinkedIn Members #1 Most Frequently Asked Question

Posted on May 25, 2010 in Records Management News

One of the most fre­quently asked ques­tions we get about LinkedIn from over 10,000 sub­mit­ted ques­tions through our webi­nars, in posts, or directly by email is:

How do I max­i­mize my use of LinkedIn?

In many ways this ques­tion res­onates through­out the social plat­forms, but for today, let’s focus on LinkedIn.

To answer the ques­tion “How do I make the most of LinkedIn?” I would like to share with you a new way to look at LinkedIn. I pro­pose that you should look at this plat­form as a small ver­sion of the inter­net. Mean­ing LinkedIn is its own world. Your web­page is your pro­file, the lead­ing com­pa­nies are the groups, the peo­ple are in the answers and ques­tions sec­tions as well as in the groups and so on.

To mas­ter this new world, you have to under­stand it’s 60 mil­lion mem­bers behav­iors, atti­tudes, rules, lan­guage and eti­quette. You also have to mas­ter your own voice, mes­sage, abil­ity to com­mu­ni­cate, processes, and rules. The fol­low­ing list will give you the out­line needed to truly start build­ing your LinkedIn pres­ence the right way.

The 7 Stages of LinkedIn/Social Media Mas­tery
1. Assess your Assets and Capa­bil­i­ties – Oppor­tu­nity
2. Iden­tify your Social Media Strat­egy – Clar­ity
3. Lay your Social Web – The Foun­da­tion
4. Opti­mize your Pres­ence – Get Found
5. Build Your Com­mu­ni­ties – Become a Leader
6. Develop a Mar­ket­ing Fun­nel – Lead Peo­ple
7. Inte­grate Busi­ness Process Out­sourc­ing – Don’t do it Alone

Apply­ing these Stages will cer­tainly ensure you are mov­ing in the right direc­tion on LinkedIn and that you are cre­at­ing proof along the way.

http://www.linkedstrategies.com/blog/linkedin-members-1-most-frequently-asked-question.htm

Archive Systems Enhances Records Management Services with Virtual Records Center, Release 5.0

Posted on May 18, 2010 in Records Management News

[May 18, 2010]

May 18, 2010 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) — Archive Sys­tems, Inc., a lead­ing provider of doc­u­ment man­age­ment ser­vices, today announced ASPEN Vir­tual Records Cen­ter (http://www.archivesystems.com/recordsmanagement/virtualrecordscenter.asp) (VRC) Release 5.0, a com­pre­hen­sive, Web-based exten­sion to paper-based records man­age­ment. The new release enhances Archive Sys­tems’ records man­age­ment ser­vices (http://www.archivesystems.com/recordsmanagement/) by enabling users to per­form Advanced Searches on inven­tory, spec­ify deliv­ery dates, receive noti­fi­ca­tions of Vir­tual File Deliv­ery, and more.
Story con­tin­ues below ↓

With the VRC, users can imme­di­ately locate their con­tain­ers, indexed file fold­ers, or media uti­liz­ing a vari­ety of search meth­ods. The new Advanced Search fea­ture allows users to per­form queries for unre­lated items in a sin­gle search, stream­lin­ing the user expe­ri­ence. This enhance­ment greatly improves the effi­ciency for iden­ti­fy­ing and order­ing required indi­vid­ual files, entire boxes or com­puter media.

“We are very excited about the lat­est VRC release because it con­tin­ues to improve our clients’ abil­ity to effec­tively man­age their busi­ness records. We ensure that they have the business-critical infor­ma­tion they need, mak­ing it avail­able on their desk­top 24/7. In addi­tion, we speed the abil­ity to view their doc­u­ments in stor­age through Vir­tual File Deliv­ery,” said BJ John­son, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent & Gen­eral Man­ager of Oper­a­tions of Archive Systems.

Addi­tional enhance­ments inte­grated into the VRC offer greater flex­i­bil­ity for the user. For exam­ple, users can now spec­ify time­frames for both Vir­tual File Deliv­ery and files deliv­ered by Archive Sys­tems’ dri­vers. Cus­tomized drop down menus and email noti­fi­ca­tions also pro­vide for a richer, more user-friendly experience.

“Archive Sys­tems helps com­pa­nies make the tran­si­tion to the paper­less envi­ron­ment at their own pace. The VRC begins that process by giv­ing clients the abil­ity to view their paper doc­u­ments on the desk­top through Vir­tual File Deliv­ery. When they’re ready, we then move them to ASPEN Vir­tual File Room (http://www.archivesystems.com/aspen360/VFRedition.asp) to remove the paper from whole depart­ments,” John­son added.

About Archive Sys­tems, Inc.

Archive Sys­tems deliv­ers prod­ucts and ser­vices that enable orga­ni­za­tions to man­age paper and dig­i­tal doc­u­ments. The com­pany pro­vides a bridge to a paper­less future by unit­ing tra­di­tional records man­age­ment ser­vices with cloud-based Vir­tual File Room technology.

Records man­age­ment ser­vices range from busi­ness records stor­age (http://www.archivesystems.com/recordsmanagement/businessrecordsstorage.asp) and secure doc­u­ment shred­ding to dig­i­tal doc­u­ment con­ver­sion ser­vices and on-demand vir­tual file deliv­ery. Archive Sys­tems’ flag­ship doc­u­ment man­age­ment plat­form, ASPEN, auto­mates and opti­mizes com­plex document-based processes, and man­ages the flow of work through­out an organization.

ASPEN Accounts Payable com­bines AP best prac­tices with Zero­Touch AP imag­ing and work­flow. Addi­tional ASPEN Vir­tual File Room appli­ca­tions sup­port doc­u­ment cen­tric areas such as human resources, ven­dor man­age­ment, and con­tract and lease man­age­ment. These tech­nolo­gies, com­bined with Archive Sys­tems’ doc­u­ment ser­vices, cap­ture, store, route, and archive doc­u­ments online — improv­ing effi­ciency and accu­racy while low­er­ing costs.

Archive Sys­tems is chang­ing the way the world man­ages doc­u­ments. For more infor­ma­tion, please visit www.archivesystems.com.

### Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/business_records_storage/records_management/prweb4000464.htm.

PRWeb.com

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B2B Marketing Webinar (Free)

Posted on May 18, 2010 in Records Management News

Lead Mar­ket­ing Automa­tion:
Forrester’s Take on B2B Mar­keters’ Most Press­ing Chal­lenges
Free Live Webi­nar:
Wednes­day, May 19, 2010
10 AM PST / 1 PM EST

Online Brochure:         http://communications.focus.com/emails/2403.html

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