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Steve Innerfield founder and CTO

Innerfield to Teach “How to Compete with Disreputable Competitors” at Shred School 2021

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Steven Innerfield, CSDS, ShredMetrics Founder and Chief Technology Officer, has been asked to return as a trainer to the data destruction industry workshop, Shred School, for 2021. Innerfield will be pulling from his own experience as a service provider and sharing “How to Compete with Disreputable Competitors.”  It’s critical to stand in a positive light […]

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When Trade Association Needs Routing Expert for Event, They Ask ShredMetrics

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ShredMetrics will be presenting at Shred School once again. Shred School, hosted by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), is recognized as the data destruction industry’s go-to sales training program. The annual fall workshop teaches shredding professionals how to best market and sell under current regulations and beat the competition. With COVID-19 creating travel complexities, NAID […]

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A Tale of Two New Shredders

A Tale of 2 New (or new-ish) Shredders

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At the NAID Conference in 2019 we met an experienced businesswoman from central California.  She knew that she needed dedicated software to run her mobile shredding business properly, but she was being very cautious. It seems that she had tried going down this road once before and had actually invested a chunk of money into shredding […]

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Responding to COVID-19

Responding to Covid-19

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It was the second week of March and here in New York we didn’t like what we were seeing.  It was still a week and a half away from the “New York on PAUSE” order, but the writing was clear on the wall, so on Friday the 13th of March we pushed out our first Covid-19 […]

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ShredMetrics Client Success Stories

Family-Owned Shredding Business in the Southeast

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Our very first client was an established family-owned shredding business in the southeastern US.  As shredding companies go, they had been around a long time and were experienced in the industry.  They were regularly running between 4 and 5 shred trucks – always for long days. Though they experienced some success, improvements were sorely needed. They […]

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Time to Sharpen the Axe

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“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln Maybe Honest Abe said that and maybe he didn’t – but the point is equally valid either way.  If a process is inefficient (or your axe is too dull), you are going to work harder […]

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