About Mitch Goldstone

Mitch Goldstone is president & CEO of ScanMyPhotos.com, the ecommerce photo digitization service, founded in 1990

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ScanMyPhotos urges photo scanning during #NPM National Preparedness Month

Posted on August 4, 2018 by

ScanMYPhotos Corporate Headquarters 2 300x225 - ScanMyPhotos urges photo scanning during #NPM National Preparedness MonthIn the United States, September is National Preparedness Month (NPM), sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security’s Ready Campaign in partnership with Citizen Corps and the Ad Council.


NPM is a nationwide effort to increase awareness for preparing and to effectively deal with emergencies and natural disasters.


It is designed to encourage Americans to take simple steps to prepare for emergencies in their homes, businesses, and communities.



Disasters don’t plan ahead. You can. Make an emergency plan today. www.ready.gov/make-a-plan…

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Companies across the nation, including ScanMyPhotos, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., have registered to participate in NPM. Each business is issuing an urgent recommendation to encourage people to take action and prepare for emergencies year-round.



In support of #NPM, you should also focus on protecting the irreplaceable items in your home

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“One of the most important items in every household are photographs. As the average household has about 5,500 analog photo snapshots, there is an urgency to preserve those generations of precious memories for today’s all-digital world. Photos must be protected from natural disasters,” says Mitch Goldstone, president, and CEO of ScanMyPhotos.com.


ScanMyPhotos.com is urging people to have their hard copy photos, slides and film negatives scanned and backed up now.



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5 Tips For a Successful Family Reunion

Posted on June 4, 2018 by

How to Host a Successful Family Gathering Begins with Gathering Everyone’s Decades-past Pictures to Share at the Reunion


OK. The date and location have been chosen, you have lots of volunteers for various committees, and the save-the-date cards have gone out. Before you work on the invitations, start planning for the 5 elements below that will help make your family reunion successful:
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Food

 

Like any large event with high expectations (weddings, Thanksgiving, July 4th picnic), the food can make or break your family reunion. Find out what allergies and dietary restrictions need to be accommodated before you start planning the menu with your committee (if it’s potluck), the caterer (if it’s not) or the restaurant or resort that is hosting your family.


These family reunion tips will help create a memorable and fun time for everyone

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Favors

 

You don’t have to design, order, and hand out matching t-shirts to everyone who attends, but it is a nice idea to create a favor that is tied into the reunion. A softcover book that contains the family tree, a photo of families from each branch, and their mailing address and phone numbers would be nice. You could also create a photo book using archived family photos.

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Unique Father’s Day Tech Gift To Digitize Pictures

Posted on May 20, 2018 by
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ScanMyPhotos.com E-Gift Card-Certificates are now available


The perfect gift so others can have their lifetime of photo memories digitally saved. Pictures store a vault of history that must be preserved.


ScanMyPhotos.com E-Gift Card-Certificates Now Available – Perfect Father’s Day gift

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fathersday2 300x200 - Unique Father's Day Tech Gift To Digitize Pictures You choose the amount from $25 to $500. Each is redeemable for our entire menu of online photo scanning services and products – including the special for buying two and getting an extra prepaid fill the box free (save $124).


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It takes a minute to order online and your recipients instantly receive an online secured access code and gift message from you via email.


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Have Tens of Thousands of Photos to Scan? ScanMyPhotos Enterprise Bulk Scanning for Business Has You Covered!

Posted on April 9, 2018 by

Stack of photos, bulk scanningSafeguarding the Past: Planning for a Company’s Future Digtal Archives


As an individual, you accumulate thousands of family photos over the years, snapping pictures of milestones and events, big and small. As our customers regularly tell us, it’s such a relief to have them scanned and saved digitally for future generations.
Well, large companies and organizations have the very same need.


They have their own stories, events, and milestones to preserve and share, but their photo collections include tens or hundreds of thousands of photos, 35mm slides and film negatives fading away from the ravages of time.. If you fall into that category, good news: We created our newest service, ScanMyPhotos.com Enterprise Bulk Scanning for Business, just for you.


This lost artwork (video from KTLA below) from Los Angeles’ history–discovered in the basement of the oldest television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA Television Channel 5, is but one example of the importance of digitally preserving your archives.



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