It was pointed out to me that I’ve been remiss in posting. In the past two months, I’ve taken an ownership position at Hensley, Elam and Associates (HEA), reduced consulting contracts, and have another start-up mentally incubating. Plus, you know, the whole be a dad, husband, and have some solo time.
I’m really excited about the HEA opportunity. It’s a small IT services company focused on software, imaging, and managed services. There are no outside sales people and we need to build a sales team. All of the current clients are clients because of referral. Very nice!
Bill
Are you a disk space abuser? Every law firm and accounting firm I’ve ever seen is. The e-mail signature and disclaimers are such a waste.
After receiving a message from one today, I thought I’d take about 5 minutes to figure out how much disk waste is produced by a small firm over a three year period. In a very un-scientific way…(see the Google Spreadsheet)
Let’s say the average attorney or accountant sends 25 messages per hour, works 9 hour days, 5 days per week. The e-mail signature is 5KB.
In one year, that person generates over 275 megs of trash.
If the average firm has 25 staff and we consider a storage time of seven years for all messages (wouldn’t want to be sued!), then we’re up to 49 Gigs of extra storage.
Nice.
Don’t forget that the law/accounting firm is storing 49 Gigs of sent mail AND they are adding 49 Gigs to the various recipients of the messages, too.
I’m not claiming my estimation of the e-mails sent per day, staff size, and other constants are good data, but it does serve a purpose to show how much wasted space they could have.
