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OfficeDrop Android App Launched!

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

OfficeDrop’s Paper-to-Go Android App Now Available for Download

We are very pleased to announce the launch of OfficeDrop’s newest mobile app, the OfficeDrop Paper-to-Go Android App! OfficeDrop’s Android App allows Android users to simply snap a photo of a paper document and scan it directly to the cloud. Within the app, users can organize, search, share and access documents from anywhere with OfficeDrop’s cloud filing cabinet. Also available for iPad, OfficeDrop Paper-to-Go can now be downloaded through the Android Market (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.officedrop.applicationactivity&feature=search_result) and will soon be offered through the Amazon App Store.

OfficeDrop Android App

OfficeDrop Android App

This newest app is something that our customers have been asking for, and over the past six months it has become obvious that mobile access to our digital filing cabinet is a must-have feature. We know that the busy professionals who are our customers love having access to their paper and digital files from the road via our web browser and our desktop digital cloud connector. Being able to search, organize and share from the road will make it even easier to carry your filing cabinet with you where ever your business takes you.

Scan From Android

The OfficeDrop Android App also lets you scan right from your phone, using the phone’s camera to snap multiple page documents and convert them into text searchable PDFs. Some of our customers are already using their phones to snap photos of things like receipts while on the road – this makes it even easier to grab PDFs on the go. You can use it to organize your business receipts while travelling, share just signed contracts, get invoices back to the home office and more! Because you can pick a destination folder and add labels at the time of scanning, organizing is simple and fast. And since everything becomes text searchable, finding the piece of paper has never been easier.

Other Great Paper to Go Features

Compatible with version 2.2 of Android, the app allows OfficeDrop users to send documents straight to the cloud – either by taking a picture or by uploading files already stored on the device. Other key features include:

  • Search: Documents become text-searchable once they’re uploaded using OCR technology.
  • Tagging: Files can be tagged with keywords for easy sorting and retrieval.
  • Compatibility: Works on your Windows PC, your browser or your iPad.
  • Security: As with other OfficeDrop apps and services, all files sent through the system are fully encrypted.

Let us know what you think about our newest app!

Post on Press Releases

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

OfficeDrop has had a lot of luck recently with some of our press releases getting picked up by reporters. A few of these, like OfficeDrop Raises $1 Million for Digital Filing and Scanning Software and OfficeDrop Releases New Version of ScanDrop for Mac that Scans to Dropbox, have gotten some really great articles written on them.

I have just written a post on DIYMarketers about one of the tools that was very helpful in getting the team up to speed on writing effective press releases. If you are considering writing press releases for your business check it out!

OfficeDrop Featured in The New York Times

Friday, April 8th, 2011

“When the Bottom Line Is Buried in Paper”

OfficeDrop’s customer, Unique Cleaning Services, was interviewed by the New York Times Small Business Section about how they use OfficeDrop to decrease the their company’s dependence on paper.

Willie "Toney" Sellers, Jr., President

Willie "Toney" Sellers, Jr., President, Unique Cleaning Services

Willie “Toney” Sellers, Jr., President of Unique Cleaning (and Wayne Goodman, his CFO) spoke with David Freedman of the Times. With an operation distributed around 13 states and Puerto Rico, Unique Cleaning needed help managing all the paper generated from employee travel, customer invoices and vendor paperwork. Here is part of the article; click the link below to see the full piece:

Mr. Sellers operates Unique Cleaning Service, a janitorial and maintenance firm based in Marietta, Ga. With about 50 employees servicing nearly 200 commercial and government client sites spread across 13 southern states and Puerto Rico, one of the company’s largest non-salary costs is travel, especially for the firm’s four constantly on-the-road quality-control inspectors. “We were having a lot of trouble tracking and finding receipts,” said Mr. Sellers. “If the I.R.S. challenged us, we’d be spending a lot of time digging through papers.”

The company first looked into buying scanners and special software designed to make it easy to organize scanned receipts, like the NeatReceipts offerings you may have seen at airports. But while that sort of solution seems appealing for a modest flow of paper receipts, Mr. Sellers feared it would be insufficient for the torrent his employees were generating. He pictured employees sitting around for hours feeding receipts into scanners and leaving the company with a mess of online documents.

Turns out, though, you can outsource your paper problems. A company called OfficeDrop lets you ship your boxes of paper receipts and other documents to them, and they’ll scan the mess and make it all available online as organized, searchable documents. Unique Cleaners now uses OfficeDrop for all of its receipts, as well as for all of its customer and vendor paperwork. “We try to get everyone to deal with us by e-mail, but not everyone is set up that way,” Mr. Sellers said. In fact, even when orders, invoices and other transactions do come via e-mail, the company forwards them to OfficeDrop, so it can add them to the scanned documents to provide a single, integrated, organized view of all documents. Mr. Sellers doesn’t even want the papers back for archival storage — he just has OfficeDrop shred them.

Unique Cleaning pays OfficeDrop about $100 a month, and Mr. Sellers figures he’s freed up his office’s administrative assistant from having to spend a chunk of her day dealing with paper, making it a good deal in his eyes for that reason alone. The bigger payoff might actually come from avoiding potential audit, order and invoice problems related to misplaced paper, but it can be hard to judge what cost to assign to that risk. Perhaps it’s enough to say that if you’re concerned about it, you probably should do something about it.

OfficeDrop and Unique Clean in the New York Times

OfficeDrop on Customers

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

OfficeDrop has recently been mentioned in a couple of well read blogs about keeping customers happy and on tips for blogging.

Ways to Keep Your Long-Term Customers Happy by Zendesk – Everybody knows that a current customer is as good as gold, and OfficeDrop tries hard to keep our existing customers happy with our service. The blog post talks about how we ask “best customers for advice and involves them in big decisions.” And also “OfficeDrop also involves existing customers in new product development, in the form of beta testing. “They are excited to see the new stuff that we are cooking up, and it is fun and exciting for them to be the very first people to try new things.””

Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Company’s Blog on Mashable – This is a great post on Mashable about simple mistakes company’s make when they start blogging. We are quoted about how we originally did not effectively link back to the OfficeDrop main site when we first started blogging, but there are some other great tips on here about how to be a better blogger.

Thanks to Everyone

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Thanks to everyone who attended the Small Business Web event we helped host at South by Southwest this past weekend! The event was a huge success and we had a lot of fun meeting everyone.

Inc wrote up a quick piece on the Small Business Web organization, which helps small businesses manage their businesses by offering integrated SaaS applications – like OfficeDrop!

Getting Ready for South by Southwest

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Anand Rajaram and I, Healy Jones, will be attending the South by Southwest Interactive event in Austin this weekend and early next week. Let us know if you’ll be there too!

And we’ll be at the Small Business Web party as well!

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Small Business Marketing Tip

Friday, February 25th, 2011

Healy Jones, head of marketing at OfficeDrop, has just published an online marketing tip at DIYMarketers.com.

The Tip is on a very common online ad copy that marketers forget to optimize.

marketing mistake

marketing mistake

Cool Slides from the 70′s from IBM on Online Storage

Thursday, January 13th, 2011
IBM storage device

IBM storage device

I came across these really cool retro slides that are supposedly from a presentation IBM did in 1975 on online databases and online storage. I didn’t even know that there was online storage in 1975! Look at this great old school equipment – at least now with OfficeDrop you don’t need a room full of computer boxes to store, backup, search and organize your documents and files.

Source: http://bumbumbum.me/2010/12/16/1975-ibm-slide-presentation/

IBM Virtual Storage

IBM Virtual Storage

IBM Online Database

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Prasad on Small Business Money Saving Tips

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

OfficeDrop CEO, Prasad Thammineni, recently wrote a piece with simple tips on how your small business can save money in the new year on Small Business Trends. Check it out and leave a comment!

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Small Business Marketing Tip

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

I recently posted a small business marketing tip on DIY Marketers on how to use your LinkedIn profile as an SEO tool. Check it out:

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