OfficeDrop was recently featured in Small Business Computing on the subject of Crowdsourcing.
If you remember, we changed our name from Pixily to OfficeDrop in February of this year, and used our customers as key participants in picking the new name. Once again, thanks to everyone who helped us pick OfficeDrop as our new name!
Yep, it’s OfficeDrop. Check out our recent feature on Fox 43’s Hampton Roads Show on the episode outlining how to “Tackle paper clutter…with a computer!”
In the video featured below, organizer Amy Volk talks OfficeDrop and even flaunts one of our Scanvelopes. In first few minutes she reviews Neat Receipts scanners and then does a great job describing the benefits of OfficeDrop and comparing the Neat Receipts service to OfficeDrop. (OfficeDrop comes in at minute 3:00)
Thanks, Amy for talking us up and letting us know about the segment!
To see more organization tips from Amy Volk, see her website, Simplified Living.
Our link to Google Docs feature has been getting a lot of hype lately so we just wanted to remind you the two easy ways OfficeDrop lets you scan directly to Google Docs. Whether you want us to do it, or you want to do it yourself, OfficeDrop gets your paper out of those filing cabinets and into Google Docs.
Hopefully you’ve heard that OfficeDrop provides mail-based scanning either in bulk, or with monthly scanvelope submission. When you have us scan, you have the option of automatic upload to our online digital filing system. Now that you can link your OfficeDrop account to Google Docs, you can configure your OfficeDrop account to automatically send every page we scan to your Google Docs account. Keep in mind that because you scanned with OfficeDrop, every document is converted to text-searchable PDF, ready to search on Google Docs.
With our increasingly popular ScanDrop scanning software (free for download), you can turn your own personal scanner into a direct portal to Google Docs (*see below for compatible scanners). Configuring your scanner with ScanDrop allows you to view, edit, delete, reorder, and upload any scans right to Google Docs - all from the same intuitive application. You can even choose which Google Docs folder to upload to, and name your scans. However, keep in mind that documents sent directly to Google Docs through ScanDrop are not made text-searchable. See ScanDrop’s recent article on Life Hacker.
If you use Google Docs, then don’t miss out on these two simple and affordable ways to get all of your paper documents directly to Google Docs. Send to us or scan yourself and start putting your paper to work in Google Docs.
*Scanners ScanDrop is compatible with: (more…)
We’ve just issued a press release to let everyone know that OfficeDrop now acts as a cheap, easy way to get all of your paper into Evernote.
With OfficeDrop’s new, automatic scan to Evernote it’s simple to get text-searchable paper into Evernote. Users signed up for OfficeDrop document scanning can now set their account to automatically upload all scans, not just manually push selected scans, to Evernote. Evernote customers can drop their paper into OfficeDrop’s prepaid envelopes, put the envelopes in the mail and OfficeDrop will automatically scan all paper directly into the customer’s Evernote account. Learn more about using OfficeDrop’s mail-in scanning service to Evernote here: http://www.officedrop.com/officedrop-evernote
If you want to scan documents yourself, you can also self-scan paper documents to Evernote with OfficeDrop’s free scanning software, ScanDrop. The ScanDrop scanning software that you use to scan to Google Docs is now completely compatible with Evernote. ScanDrop connects TWAIN enabled scanners on Windows machines directly with Evernote. From the convenient ScanDrop application, users can view, edit and upload their scans to Evernote, all without having to open a web browser or Evernote. Get the free ScanDrop software here: http://www.officedrop.com/scandrop-scanning-software/
We hope you enjoy the new ways to get paper into Evernote. This way you can remember paper document as well as digital documents and never forget a thing.
OfficeDrop CEO, Prasad Thammineni has once again been featured on Small Business Trends. Today he offers 5 helpful tips for getting the most out of your company’s email newsletter in the article, 5 Ways to Turn Email Newsletters into Valuable Customer Insights.
Focused on using newsletters to extract customer input, Prasad’s 5 tips include ways to conduct newsletter tests, track views, and maximize read-rates. If you send a company email newsletter, you should definitely check out this post. We’ve used all of the techniques outlined and have been rewarded with lost of interesting data that we can use to shape out service to the customer’s needs.
Thanks to Small Business Trends for hosting our insights, and be sure to keep an eye out for more of Prasad’s tips.
OfficeDrop CEO, Prasad Thammineni, knows his stuff when it comes to small business tips. He’s spearheaded several business ventures, and has been sharing his knowledge and experience on Small Business Trends.
In his latest article, he gives 20 tips for adding credibility to your business’ web presence. You can have a website, but that doesn’t mean anyone is going to buy anything from it. For that to happen you need to exude safety, professionalism, and sincerity with your website and related online representations.
Prasad’s list gives a lot (20, actually) of ways to accomplish this, including the following techniques:
and our favorite:
And those aren’t even half of the tips provided by Prasad in his informed and extensive article. If you haven’t already, check out his full list of tips, complete with explanations, on Small Business Trends.
You may think you already have a strong web credibility, but these are a lot of tips. Does your business take advantage of all 20 of Prasad’s suggestions?
With Microsoft’s new Office 2010 featuring all new cloud functionality, including hosted document creation and sharing options (sound familiar?), Microsoft fights back against Google and their poplar Google Docs.
That was a header featured on CMSWire that reported on hot new Google Docs functionality, the Microsoft Office 2010 general release, and OfficeDrop’s new Google Docs integration.
Author, David Roe, discusses new features of Google Docs such as added formatting options, a dictionary, as well as helpful tweaks to spreadsheet creation, the timing of which improvements doubtlessly intended to bolster competition with the general release of Microsoft Office 2010.
It seems OfficeDrop has been caught in this clash of tech titans due to our new Google Docs integration. Roe notes how “users can send paper documents to OfficeDrop,” and “automatically get their paper scanned and into Google Docs.” Google Docs does not currently provide OCR for non text-rich documents but OfficeDrop does. We aren’t choosing sides, but with the convenient document scanning and management features of OfficeDrop and our Google Docs integration, we effectively add features to Google Docs, and give more incentive for customers to choose Google Docs over Microsoft Office.
Thank you to David Roe for including us in this interesting discussion and for spreading the word about our new Google Docs integration. We aren’t sure how much pressure Microsoft is feeling from us specifically, but we agree with David that “competition for Microsoft and Office 2010 is going to be stiff as other companies start getting in on the Google Docs act.”
To check out our Google Docs integration for yourself, see our featured page at http://www.officedrop.com/google-docs-paper-management/ or our listing in the Google Apps Marketplace.
While browsing the web yesterday, we were pleasantly surprised to stumble upon our mention in an article featured on Lifehacker.
Famous for providing tips and guides for becoming a more productive person, Lifehacker’s recent article, The Step-by-Step Guide to Digitizing Your Life outlines effective methods of digitizing music, videos, photos, and, of course, paper.
You know we’re all about going digital, so you can imagine we were psyched to see OfficeDrop mentioned under the category of “Storage and Organization: Cloud Storage“ as one of the “free and low-cost sites that handle [document storage] for you.”
Thanks for the shout out, Lifehacker. We encourage our readers and customers to check out the article featured here as well as other helpful Lifehacker guides.
OfficeDrop CEO, Prasad Thammineni has been writing some pieces for Small Business Trends, sharing his experiences as a small business owner and providing advice for making your small business more productive.
Last time he wrote about the iPad for small business, and now he’s back with a brand new post on free desktop applications that are perfect for small biz.
In the post he lists some great desktop apps that can help with the following small business concerns:
Be sure to check out the full post to see all of the great applications that can supercharge your small business after a quick free download.
In addition to offering advice on Small Business Trends, Prasad has also contributed a small business tech tip to the No Limits Blog, a site making technology more accessible to small businesses. His tip outlines a cheap service for a live chat feature.
We hope you find Prasad’s insights helpful, and congrats Prasad on helping support the small business community.
In a recent article featured on OPEN Forum.com, OfficeDrop CEO, Prasad Thammineni, shared four intuitive ways that he promotes innovation around the office.
Among the four suggestions, a focus fell on utilizing minds other than the executives of the company. As with our name change technique, Prasad makes sure to employ all of the bright minds around the office, not just a select few. The four general practices can be paraphrased as:
· Encourage all employees to solve company problems
· Allow individual employees time to work on a project of their choosing
· Provide employees experiences in every aspect of the company
· Consult customers for improvements and new ideas
*See the full article for details
OfficeDrop is a company that is constantly improving, and always looking for new things we can change to make a better product. To make this possible, we have to be a highly innovative office and it is no doubt that these four techniques Prasad mentioned have been a great help achieving that goal.
If your small business is looking for new ways to improve, we urge you to consider Prasad’s advice, and try these four practices to boost innovation in your office.
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