Is Your Business Disaster Proof?

When my client Sarah called on Tuesday earlier this week I was a little surprised, since her normal time is on Wednesday. Then when she told me she’d just packed her children and a few belongings into her Toyota Prius, it started to make sense.

Sarah was forced to evacuate her home in San Diego on Tuesday morning because of the wildfires closing in on her neighborhood. She was calling because she wasn’t going to be home for our scheduled call on Wednesday, much less she wasn’t sure she’d even have a home.

Sarah runs her business out of her home – and while she was worried about losing her home, she was even more concerned about how she was going to keep her business going. She had wisely grabbed her computer on the way out the door and was now out of harms way at a friends who had Internet access.

Is your business disaster proof?

What would you do if a disaster wiped out your place of business? Would you be able to be up and running within a day or two at a remote location?

Want to disaster proof your business? Use this link to find out how >>

I hope you never have to pack up all your belongings in a suitcase and leave your home or your business, but it happens more often than you think.

California has it’s share of wildfires, my daughter was forced to flee New Orleans half a dozen times during her four years of college at Tulane, my family was forced to evacuate our home here in coastal Connecticut in the bucket of a highway front loader when a December Noreaster flooded our neighborhood.

Making your business portable is a good idea whether you ever encounter a disaster or not. Last winter I set up my business so that I could spend every other week working from our ski home in Vermont. All I needed to do to pack up my business and run it from anywhere with a phone line and Internet access, was grab my laptop. Thanks to my marketing strategy, the Internet and two Virtual Assistants, (now three), my business is both disaster and vacation proof.

How can you make your business portable so you can run it from anywhere whether you fleeing a natural disaster or just going skiing like I do? Use this link to get the answer >>

No, this won’t work for everyone but you’d be amazed at how many businesses can be run just with a phone line and the Internet if you know how.

How to make your business portable?

1. Have a website that generates leads and use your follow-up emails to pre-sell prospects.

2. Outsource your administration and operations to a small handful of trusted employees around the country. If one person in your virtual organization loses power due to a storm, another one will be able to take over. I’ve got staff in Toronto, Texas and I’m here in Connecticut.

3. Put your agenda, calendar, contact list, etc online so even if you lost your computer and had to borrow one, you’d still be able to keep your business running.

Want to know a secret?

Setting up your business so its portable can not only give you more freedom to live the life you want but doing so can help you make more money with less effort.

Ready to get started? Use this system >>

Charlie
Small Business Marketing Ideas That Work