HITS

Today, I showed Mike Steinmann at HITS. HITS is a company that scans paper documents and makes them digital. With the paper that is left, they can do three things. The first is to shred the paper. The second is to send the papers back. The third is to keep the papers and a storage section at HITS. Most people do the first option, and most people don’t choose the third because it is so expensive. HITS mostly works with medical papers but is trying to expand to government papers.

Mike gave me a tour of the place, and then we had a meeting with another person at the company who showed us the new software that the company was going to use to keep track of all of the papers in the warehouse. We both talked for a little about owning your own business, and they told me that the most important thing is to surround yourself with people that you trust.

Mike had to leave early so I shadowed Jo, his number two at the company. She talked to me about different companies that she has owned in the past and a little about what she does from day to day.