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Big Plans for Your Small Business in 2024

The Top 5 Ways to Improve Your Business in 2024 Welcome to 2024… Time for a faster start to a new year allowing our businesses to soar! This is written with our valued customers in mind – however, these ideas are applicable to all small businesses. As we step into the new year, it’s crucial…
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Avoid These Three Common Information Disposal Mistakes

In the 1987 movie “Wall Street,” the character Gordon Gekko famously stated, “The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” While the movie may be fictional, this statement resonates with truth. Information holds immense value, not only for organizations, but also for identity thieves who relentlessly try to steal it. Given its significance as…
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To Shred On-Site or Take Away? That is the Question!

Welcome to 2024! It is the most technologically-advanced time in the history of the world. Communication is lightning fast – thoughts are shared in milliseconds and communication is captured and stored in perpetuity. Unfortunately, it is also the most dangerous, challenging time we have ever faced in terms of data breaches, hacks, ransomware, cybersecurity threats,…
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What to Know about Digital Device Disposal

Selling Damaged Hard Drives In 2023, a team at SolutionsReview.com spent $100 to acquire 14 hard drives from individuals that said the drives were dead or only good for parts. Here’s what their technicians discovered: Only one drive was completely cleared of all data. The team recovered all the stored data from seven out of…
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A Lifetime of Shredding — Time to Give Thanks

Who thinks about their life’s work in a deep way? As a leader in the shredding industry and, more specifically, UltraShred Technologies Inc since 2000, I wanted to take a few minutes to reach out with thanks and best wishes to my clients, vendors, industry colleagues, and most especially, my work family, my beloved home…
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Common Shredding Myths Debunked

Did You Know? If swallowed, chewing gum stays in your stomach for up to seven years Sitting too close to the TV ruins your vision Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis You’ll catch a cold if you go outside on a cold day with wet hair The previous four statements are myths What You Should Know…
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