Local business owner goes crazy and is giving away up to $60,000
of his own stimulus money

By Tom Adams, Special Business Correspondent

State College – In this age of “going paperless”, the reality is that 90% of documents are still produced in paper form. Add to this the fact that 50-70% of office space is still dedicated to the filing and storage of documents, and that 80% of documents stored in file cabinets will never be retrieved, and you can see that we have a long way to go before we are truly paperless.

Ignoring his accountant’s advice and in the face of his wife’s anger, Mike Sullivan is offering “stimulus money” out of his own pocket for businesses throughout Central Pennsylvania to use towards any of the services his business offers. “They all think I am crazy” Mr. Sullivan explains, as he tries to help me figure out why he’s so intent on giving money away. “If they only knew there is an easier, more efficient and cost effective way to secure and deal with all their business files and documents, I wouldn’t have to do all of this.”

The company Mike Sullivan owns is Automated Records Centre. Mike’s focus is helping businesses lower their overall cost of doing business by reducing their cost of records retention while at the same time, improving employee productivity. By storing their paper records at his offsite facility, scanning records to digital images, shredding unnecessary files, providing offsite media tape storage as well as providing a remote data backup service, Automated Records Centre has proven that it can reduce the cost of records retention by tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Serving Central PA since 1997, Mike is intent on helping to stimulate the local economy. One study suggests that the handling of files costs businesses 6 – 15% of their total revenues. This is one area where Mike has proven he can help area businesses improve their bottom line.

One company who benefitted from the services of Automated Records Center is a local accounting and business consulting firm. Their office administrator says “To give some perspective, we went from spending nearly $235.50, annually to maintain a five-drawer lateral filing cabinet, to spending just $48 annually for storing the very same documents with Automated Records. Multiply those savings by the dozens of filing cabinets we had, and the savings are staggering. Today we execute a hybrid approach to records management including offsite records retention, electronic records and third party records destruction. Automated Records Centre plays a valuable role in our business strategy.”

“Most businesses simply accept the notion that file cabinets, scanners, on site storage and office shredders, amongst others, are an inherent cost of doing business. Many don’t realize that they can save money each year by knowing their options. So I want to help. The Gartner Group states that it costs a company $20 to create and file a document and $120 to find a lost document. So as long as research continues to show that the average knowledge worker is spending eight hours per week or more looking for lost information, then I have a job to do”, says Mike.

According to Mike, the basic requirements to qualify for the stimulus money are quite simple. If you have inactive records in file cabinets or on shelves, and are serious about increasing your profits, then give them a call. They’ll explain more about how outsourcing the storage of your inactive records can help to lower the cost of managing your business.

If you want to receive some of this stimulus money, call Mike at 866.576.5799 or apply online at www.automatedrecords.com/money. But act quickly because the money will not last long!

Automated Records Center offers comprehensive solutions to meet the records management needs of companies, all the while keeping their eye on profitability so its clients can maintain focus on their core business. They are offering an executive briefing called The 5 Biggest Mistakes Companies Make Regarding Records Retention.

Call 866-576-5799 to request a copy or download from www.automatedrecords.com/5Biggies.