You’ve heard it, maybe you’ve even said it. “This office will never go paperless! We like our paper!” Of course, you’re thinking of those white sheets of paper that clutter up so much of your office. Now ask yourself this question, “How do you feel about that other paper? The rectangular pieces of paper, the ones with the pictures of dead presidents on them?” (Okay, Ben Franklin wasn’t a president, but you know what I mean.)

The fact is you are cutting up, or burning up, or tearing up, or throwing away those rectangular pieces of paper every time you handle or print one of those white sheets of paper. How often do you make a photocopy? Ask the copier company what that costs. How many times have you had to put a customer on hold while you went to find a white sheet of paper? How many of those rectangular pieces of paper does that cost you?

Price Waterhouse Cooper says that it costs an average organization (is your company an average organization?) $20 in labor costs to file a document. How many documents do you have in your company? One hundred? A thousand? Whatever it is, multiply that number by twenty then start a fire with all of the rectangular pieces of paper you’re burning up. And it gets worse. If one of those documents gets misfiled (and don’t tell us that hasn’t happened) that’s going to cost you $120. If it’s lost altogether it’s going to cost you $220 to replace it. I know what you’re saying. I’m real careful with my stuff and things don’t get lost in my office. What happens if the toilet backs up in the office upstairs and floods your office? Or maybe the hairdresser next door left her curling iron going all night and the fire took out all of your paper records. (That really happened!) You had better get those dead presidents ready because you’re going to need a lot of them.

There’s a better way. Electronic document management can save you a lot of grief and a lot of rectangular pieces of paper. Contact us and we’ll help you get over your love affair with your paper.