Your Expert in Professional Records Organization

Has the paperwork monster overwhelmed your business? Has he eaten important records and spit his leftovers into too many overstuffed filing cabinets? You’re not alone and you shouldn’t be afraid. Kathy Mann at MRM Services, LLC can help.

            No, she’s not a superhero. But she’s almost as rare and hard to find. She’s an expert in filing systems and records management.  “Most people don’t even know a service like this exists. They’re just saying to themselves ‘wouldn’t it be nice if someone could just come in here and fix this,’” she says. Kathy Mann can fix “this” which usually consists of making existing records management systems more effective and efficient.

            She started her business in 2004, helping commercial enterprises gain control over disorganized records with new filing systems and the knowledge of when to pitch junk that is just cluttering up an office. Although she still does some general office organization, she focuses on records management because, in her opinion, that’s usually what gets people into a disorganized mess in the first place.

            “I can help them get rid of what they don’t need and find a place for the records they have. There are a lot of different solutions. Anything that someone needs, I can get for them,” she says.

            Kathy has the resources to be your expert on call for organization. She serves as the treasurer for the Birmingham chapter of the International Records Management Association of which there are about two dozen Alabama members. And she has almost completed the RMA’s certification, a five year process which only three other Alabama records management specialists have completed.

            Part of training through the RMA is learning what to keep and how long to keep it. And if she doesn’t know something, she can always find out by contacting other records managers in the association. Certification also puts her in a position to earn the trust of her clients, which is paramount when you’re responsible for going through sometimes sensitive, confidential records and putting them in order.

            A knack for organizing and a long history of working with file systems culminated in founding MRM Services, LLC. “I’ve done a lot of different things. I’ve worked in magazine distribution and advertising and commercial art and I was always reorganizing file systems,” she says. “People always needed that done and it came very naturally to me.

            It came so naturally, that it was the first place she turned for comfort when she found herself feeling down while at home recovering from surgery. “I thought, I have to do something to cheer myself up. I came upon my file cabinets and I thought I would reorganize them and it just cheered me right up. I’ve always remembered that day as the time when I knew I should be doing this for a living.”

            “I thought (organizing) was something everyone did. I didn’t realize it was a special skill and didn’t come naturally to everyone,” she says. “It was a long time before I discovered it was something that some people really have a problem doing.”

            Nearly everything Kathy does involves systems and organization. For instance, she plays the violin. “Music is systematic. There’s a pattern to everything in music. I also learned from music to stick with something and eventually you’ll get it. The same thing applies to my business. Be persistent and stick with it and it will all eventually come together,” she says.

            Kathy not only works hard at the violin and for her business clients, she also shares her wealth of knowledge about organization with the general public. On her Web site,
www.mrmservicesonline.com, anyone can sign up for a free, no obligation, twice monthly newsletter chock full of tips about filing, organization and time management.

            So, whether you need a rescue from your overwhelmed filing system, or you just want some quick organizational tips, contact Kathy Mann at www.mrmservicesonline.com or (205) 542-4077.

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