I’m sure you remember how we changed our name a few months ago, and how we shared the way we came up with the new one. Now, all of that handy name-changing info is hosted on the entrepreneur section of About.com
How to Change Your Company Name on About.com
About.com is an awesome resource to learn about almost anything. The article is part of a set that share the theme of crowdsourcing. Mainly how to effectively use crowdsourcing to the benefit of your company. Since we did a lot of crowdsourcing of employees and customers to change our name, we offered our story to About.com writer, Mitchell York, who was happy to include our input. We were happy to contribute by sharing our knowledge and experience to create a guide for changing your company name, and are honored to be featured on About.com Crowdsourcing was a big help for us in getting this done, and we encourage any business owners to look into crowdsourcing for various business tasks.
Thanks go out to Mitchell York for getting us on there, and for providing great content for entrepreneurs on About.com!
OfficeDrop is teaming up with organizational mastermind, Josh Zerkel, to bring you two free webinars to teach you how to go paperless and keep all of your documents organized. For seven years Josh’s company, Custom Living Solutions, has been helping people optimize their workspaces so that they can lower stress, be more effective, and minimize costs.
With this single registration, you’re signed up to benefit from these two informative webinars:
Saving Time and Money with Your Paperless Office 7/15/2010
In this webinar we outline the many benefits of the paperless office and tell you how to get started.
Online and Offline Tools to Master Your Paperless Office 7/29/2010
In the second webinar, we let you know how to get the most out of your paperless office, how to maintain low paper volume, and offer helpful tools to make everything easier.
If you manage a small business or home office, don’t pass up on this opportunity to learn everything you need to know about reducing paper and staying organized. Registration only takes a moment, so we hope you take that moment and that you join us July 15th and 29th.
Going paperless can certainly make things easier for you and your employees, but you aren’t the only one who benefits from a paperless office. Just as your life becomes easier by reducing paper, so will the lives of your clients. Here are a few ways reducing paper and going digital will generate benefits that your clients will thank you for.
Faster Responses
When it comes to resolving client issues, there’s a negative correlation between customer mood and time taken for resolution. Oftentimes, the answers to client questions depend on the location of a paper document, and it used to be that clients had to wait while you rifled through filing cabinets for their answer. In the paperless office digital documents can be searched and retrieved instantly. Going paperless lets you locate documents quickly, and a faster reaction to client needs will always be appreciated.
They Get Anywhere Access
Clients like to stay informed; sharing a collection of digital documents with clients will build trust and make them feel valued. Digital documents can be hosted online, so they’re accessible anywhere your client can find a connection.
Less Clutter
It sounds obvious, but going paperless lets you maintain client relations without sending them stacks of physical documents. Doing business online will save your clients’ desks from excess clutter and make them grateful that they work with your paperless business.
They Feel Safe
Once you can boast the enhanced security features of online document storage, your clients will be reassured knowing that their information is backed up, firewalled, and securely guarded in state-of-the-art data facilities. Not only does this make you look good, but you and your client can sleep easy without nightmares of lost or destroyed paper documents.
They Become Environmentalists
The paperless office certainly has “green” values, and more and more people are becoming environmentally conscious. Knowing that they work with a paperless company will make clients feel good about working with you and good about themselves.
So do yourself and your clients a favor and send documents to us. We do all the scanning, leaving you and your associates to enjoy the security and convenience of reducing paper and managing documents online.
We’re proud to announce today that OfficeDrop CEO, Prasad Thammineni, will be a guest on radio show, Greenwich Entrepreneur, on AM1490WGCH, The Voice of Fairfield and Westchester Counties.
The show airs at 9:30am tomorrow morning and Prasad will be discussing entrepreneurship & starting companies with host and OfficeDrop customer, Greg Skidmore, President of Belray Asset Management.
For those of you interested in startups companies and getting a new business going, we hope you tune in to hear Prasad’s entrepreneurial insight. To tune in from your computer, just follow this link, or you can visit http://wgch.com/showarchive/ge.shtml and hit the “Listen Live” button.
We’ll be tuned in rooting for Prasad here in the office and we hope you enjoy the show too. Special thanks to Greg Skidmore for having Prasad on the show and for scanning your documents with OfficeDrop!
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:
Communication
Organization
Security
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.
Don’t Forget the Tech Tip
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
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.
As you know, we recently changed our name from Pixily to OfficeDrop, as announced in our name change blog post. Coming up with a new name was a challenge for the company, but we came up with a few techniques that made it effective, painless, and even fun.
We shared the details of our name change process with HubSpot CTO and co-founder, Dharmesh Shah, who was kind enough to feature it on his popular blog, OnStartups.com as the post How to Pick A Company Name: Tips From The Trenches.
If you’re curious about the details of how we chose our name, or are thinking about changing your own company’s name, we recommend that you check out our story on Dharmesh’s blog. We learned a lot about changing a company name, and would love to help others thinking of doing the same.
Our goal here at OfficeDrop is to make lives easier by providing a simple solution for document scanning and document management. We’re always happy to hear that we’re meeting that goal, so you can imagine how excited we were when we stumbled across an article by nationally recognized financial advisor, Alan Haft, who listed us #1 on his list of “20 ideas to a better life.”
His article, featured on cpa2biz.com, and alanhaft.com, emphasized the benefits of using technology to increase productivity and general business efficiency. In particular, Alan noted the benefits of the “paperless office,” which is the very business environment we promote.
Alan Haft is a frequently published financial advisor, has been featured on Fox Business News, and is the author of You Can Never Be Too Rich and The 10 Most Common Mistakes People Make With Their Money.
We would like to thank Alan for his support and positive feedback about our secure, effective document management service at a “reasonable price.” We couldn’t have asked for a better recommendation than his concluding line, “Go paperless and I can assure you that you’ll never go back again.”
In a recent study done by Microsoft found that small and mid-sized businesses have shown greater financial success when using hosted IT services (hey, that’s us). The study surveyed 3,193 small to medium sized businesses in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. A.
Essentially, the survey asked small business owners how important IT was to their business. Once the businesses were broken into 4 sections of varying use of IT services, this data was cross-referenced with the financial earnings of those companies. The result of this comparison revealed that businesses with higher IT focus were more likely to have had increases in average revenue over 12 months! Conversely, businesses that utilized IT services less were more likely to have static or declining revenue averages in the same 12 month period.
Within the IT focused businesses, more than 40 percent of the businesses that use hosted or cloud technology saw an increase of 30 percent or more in revenue. Compare this to participants not using hosted IT, 90 percent of whom saw a profit decrease.
This is a very interesting find, though it is consistent with small business trends in SaaS and cloud computing. Using hosted services are more cost effective and practical in a digital world, so it is no wonder that businesses using these services do well since employees have more time and money to focus on increasing revenue.
That’s our goal at OfficeDrop - to save you time and money, specifically, by eliminating unnecessary costs stemming from the storage, management, and loss of paper. Manage your documents online with OfficeDrop and you too can benefit from hosted IT services. Learn about how cloud content management can help your small business take advantage of enterprise content management, at a fraction of the price by using cloud computing.
We are excited to announce that Pixily has changed its name to OfficeDrop! We hope that this new name will be easier to remember and help customers more quickly understand our services.
What won’t change
For our customers the name change means little more than easier spelling and some snazzy new logos. We are in no way changing management – and our employees, procedures and security protocols will remain completely unaltered. This includes our hand-picked scanning team and friendly customer service reps.
You should not experience any change in service. If you visit Pixily.com you will be redirected to officedrop.com. All of our features should continue to work as they have in the past. The best way to email documents into your Pixily account is now [username]@myofficedrop.com, but your [username]@pixilymail.com will continue to accept emailed documents as well.
You may wish to authorize “officedrop.com” in your email system’s spam filter. Please contact customer service if you encounter any issues with our service. You can reach us by phone at 888-674-6493, over email at support@officedrop.com of via the “chat with us” feature on our website.
Why the change?
We decided to change the company name both to increase recall (OfficeDrop is a lot easier to spell), and to create a label that more explicitly reflects the service we provide. We love name Pixily and everything it stands for, but we found that customers – even active users – had real issues spelling and remembering the word “Pixily.” We’ll continue to wear our Pixily t-shirts with pride, but are excited about our new name!
Why OfficeDrop?
We picked the name OfficeDrop after a long search for a new name. We feel that it succinctly describes what we do: making it easy to organize the paper and digital files of small businesses and home offices. Actually, a better way to say it is that we believe OfficeDrop describes what OUR CUSTOMERS have told us that we do for them.
In a blog post tomorrow we’ll go over the process we used to find a new name – it involved the entire company brainstorming, lots of customer and advisor feedback and a healthy dose of soul searching.
Thank You
We owe a really big thank you to all of our customers who helped us during this process. So many of you spoke with us and took our naming survey. We really appreciated your responses and were impressed with the thought that many of your put into the survey! We also heard those of you who said that you really liked the name Pixily. We do too, but we hope that we’ll be able to convince you that OfficeDrop is just as great of an organization!
We hope you approve of the new name, and we look forward to serving you as OfficeDrop.
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OfficeDrop’s Document Management and Document Scanning Service Blog
OfficeDrop, formerly Pixily, helps small businesses and home offices go paperless and manage their paper and digital documents online. OfficeDrop provides document scanning services and an award-winning online digital filing system. In this blog, we’ll discuss cool ways customers are using our service to tame their paper problem and get organized. We hope to share tips and tricks we are learning as we scan, image and digitize documents for our clients. We’ll also highlight new features in our digital filing system, let you know what the press is saying about us and keep you up to speed with the goings-on at OfficeDrop!
