Helping businesses save money can be a profitable business itself, especially in tough times. Just ask Offsite Data Depot.
The
Carson City-based records storage and information management solutions
provider is on track to double its revenue this year and plans to expand
into a second facility in Reno and add several more employees to its
four-person staff.
The company offers document shredding,
document scanning, online backup and email filtering. But the bulk of
its work is in storing records for business, government agencies, even
individuals, using barcode technology to track stored records and give
customers quick access to them.
“Typically, every business has to
keep records for compliance and regulation, but they don’t have space
internally,” says Gerd Poppinga, director of operations at Offsite.
“We’re cheaper than other options of storage. We can store for merely
pennies as opposed to dollars. Back when things were hunky-dory,
businesses used to do everything themselves and now they’re realizing it
can be more efficient and cut costs to have us do it.”
Most of
Offsite’s customers, such as the Nevada Supreme Court and CPA firm
Casey, Neilon & Associates, are located near Offsite’s
30,000-square-foot warehouse in the state capital.
But Offsite is
signing up more customers in Reno, including the Atlantis Casino Resort
Spa, which says Offsite is saving the company $6,000 a month in storage
costs.
So Offsite has its eye on adding about 100,000 square
feet of warehouse space in Reno in a newer, concrete or steel fire-safe
facility with docks and climate-control vaults designed for document and
media storage. At the same time, says Poppinga, the company will need
to add general office staff, warehouse personnel and document scanning
workers since the scanning side of the business is picking up.
Offsite
also hopes to broaden its customer base to include individuals and
organizations with sophisticated storage needs. The company, for
example, is now talking to the Washoe Tribe in Reno about storing some
of its artifacts.
“Lots of people think of safety deposit box in a bank,” says Poppinga.
“But that limits them to bank hours. With us, they have access 24 by 7.”
By ,
11/12/2012 NNBW
Offsite Data Depot offers complete records storage and information management services for businesses located in northern Nevada and surrounding communities. By providing a full range of records storage and management services to businesses, government entities, nonprofit organizations, and other organizations of all types and sizes, Offsite enables its customers to save money and secure their most vital information.
