Small Business Disaster Plans
Small business owners have an enormous amount of responsibilities on their shoulders. Most don’t have the time to think about planning for a natural or man-made disaster. According to a recent poll by the National Federation of Independent Business, almost forty percent of small businesses experience disaster at some time. That statistic is broken down to ten percent man-made (broken water pipes, mold outbreaks, etc.) and thirty percent natural (flooding, hurricane etc.).
Document recovery experts, like Joe Perko, Director of Field Services with Rapid Refile, LLC agree that this is one of the most common shortfalls in business planning. “Although the experience of Katrina in New Orleans has motivated many companies and organizations in high-risk areas to develop disaster recovery plans, and to incorporate document salvaging as part of those plans, there remains a great number of people and businesses that have not formalized a response to potential property damaged and/or business interruptions” said Joe Perko in a recent interview.
Regardless of the time, it remains very necessary for small businesses to take some steps to ensure a disaster doesn’t take down their entire business. Developing a recovery plan does not have to be difficult, it just takes some time and a little forethought.
There are a number of reasons small business owners give for neglecting disaster planning.
1. Lack of Resources (staff, outside resources)
2. Limited Budget
3. Don’t see the need
The need is very clear. Small businesses that go through a disaster without proper recovery plans are far more likely to fail. The Association of Records Managers and Administrators estimates that over sixty percent of businesses fail within two years of experiencing a major disaster.
Developing a Disaster Recovery Plan
When developing a disaster recovery plan, you have a few options. You can use online resources to put together one on your own or you can search for a third party company that can help you. There are a number of disaster recovery companies that will help you plan for alternate work space, communication contingencies and computer storage and back-up in the event that flooding, a fire or other disaster destroys part or all of your business facility.
One of the most important and useful resources you can reach out to for disaster plan assistance is a document restoration company. These companies will assess your businesses’ document storage facilities and mechanisms and provide you with recommendations for how to better prepare for a water or fire disaster. Architects, doctor’s offices, lawyers, construction companies, tax preparers, and any other business using hardcopy or electronic records, x-rays, or pictures would benefit the greatest from consulting with such a company.
The importance of having a plan for document protection cannot be under-emphasized. “A strategic plan for recovering water or fire damaged auditable records, X-rays, blueprints, pictures and so on is necessary to ensure functionality, and even survival, after a disaster,” reminds Perko. “Whereas physical structures can be temporarily replaced by off-site locations or office trailers, the paper trail of open contracts, patient files, tax documents, etc., is the irreplaceable lifeblood of a business.”
Too often small businesses realize the importance of disaster recovery plans once it is too late. Take the time to do some research and develop a plan for your business so that it can exist for a long, healthy while.
~Ben Anton, 2008
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“how did you do the animations?” Dude, its Android, it has a native animation framework….
@whiteguysamurai full flash support is new for android 2, which hadn’t been released in june, and it is still in beta.
Business Daily expects a 1.5 million job loss from the Health Care alone….
Figure if you have 4 employee's and are mandated to pay insurance,add roughly $1600 a month in premiums if you do 75% cost share. Now add the surcharge 4 to 8%
add cap and trade costs in energy cost. Then Obama will let specifies tax cuts expire from Bush. Almost a 10% for your a "Evil"rich Business..
Thus gives two options.. substantial rise consumer prices or lay off 1 to 2 people
Not sure it is what you are looking for but we have a small business and part of our disaster recovery plan is an online backup program from
http://mozy.com/
I guess technically it is software but it isn't something you go to Best Buy and buy in a box.
looks cool
This country is in debt over $10,532,911,326,738.84 last I checked.
We need to get that under control and yes it will mean cutting jobs and programs that don't work. It is called reform. We need it. There is no point funding programs that don't work. The government has been living beyond its means for far too long.
The economy shouldn't rely on the government in the first place. That is not the purpose of our government. That is the purpose of a socialist government. Our economy is a free market capitalist economy based on the laissez-faire economic philosophy.
It was the government involvement that is at the root of the housing bubble. F'n May and F'n Mac were government sponsored enterprises.
For one we are not suffering from the dust bowl. Two government social programs didn't get us out of the depression World War II did that.
Raising taxes is liberal way of governance. More money for entitlements to buy their way into power. People are sick and tired of it. I know I am. There is a luxury subdivision not far from my home and it is stacked top to bottom with subsidized low income families. I've worked my ass off all of my life to have what I have and I can tell you now I will never ever be able to afford that type of housing, NEVER. When you do all the right things and you see crap like that and know YOU are the one paying for it, it boils your blood. The Dems get in and the first thing they start talking about it raising my taxes to pay for more useless BS programs. I can see the little money they do let me have flying right out of my pocket even as we speak.
No. While I think his plan is better than McCains, it will not solve the insanity where there are loads of uninsured Americans, though there will be less than there are now.
At present, American kids are more likely to die before the age of five compared to kids born in Western Countries with universal healthcare. The insane bit of that is that the USA spends more money on healthcare per person than any other nation on the planet.
Only Nader is pushing for universal healthcare. Obama is not.
Flash lite?
The snapdragon can do a full browser with full flash 10, that’s bullshit.
Ever see the movie, High Plains Drifter?
There is this scene were Verna says to Clint Eastwood "I knew you were cruel, but I didn't know how far you would go" To which Eastwood replies "You still don't"
You could check with the Better Business Bureau to
see if there are any complaints and check with your local City of Commerce to see if there has been any
complaints against the business. Then show this to your friend.
o.O that’s pretty good for a netbook/phone
Ist I have to say one thing….someone said we have to spend money. WE have never had a problem spending money..that is not the issue. The issue is that PEOPLE need to spend their money..until they are comfortable..we have jobs and businesses and people are confident…the government can spend money out the whazoo…it won't matter. YOU need to spend your money…so you dems who believe in the economy and in this bozo in office…spend your money and let's see how confident you are IN THAT!
IT also is that he isn't worried ENOUGH when he gives Brazil 2 Billon dollars for off shore drilling which gives them jobs and oil….why not US?
This green crap is just that…CRAP! we are on the lowest end of the scale in pollution….at 25 percent…China is at 99. Why are we wasting money on more green crap? Gore is making billions on this and since he invented the internet he had to have a new project and this is it.
He not only wants to be responsible for inventing the internet…but for saving the world too. Then what? Will he save outer space and the aliens? the man has imagination that is for sure!
the earth has been warming and cooling since it's birth. It is mostly caused by sun spot activity. It is not man made carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant..it is plant food…it sustains all life on earth because it helps produce oxygen by keeping green plants and trees alive. 90 percent of so called green house gases are not carbon dioxide…but water vapor!
So give us our jobs….and our drilling and let us be FREE and independent…but that is not in the socialist program….
Cap and trade will increase energy bills by at least 25 to 40 percent. Many businesses will go bankrupt and millions of jobs will be lost. Public schools and local government operating costs will skyrocket, focing great increases in property taxes.
This has been passed by congress and is on it's way to senate. It is a major fraud desined to rob money from U. S companies and citizesn and give it to our government, foreign governments and to the private perpetrators of this fraud..meaning al gore.
This green crap is just that…CRAP! we are on the lowest end of the scale in pollution….at 25 percent…China is at 99. Why are we wasting money on more green crap? Gore is making billions on this and since he invented the internet he had to have a new project and this is it.
He not only wants to be responsible for inventing the internet…but for saving the world too. Then what? Will he save outer space and the aliens? the man has imagination that is for sure!
the earth has been warming and cooling since it's birth. It is mostly caused by sun spot activity. It is not man made carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant..it is plant food…it sustains all life on earth because it helps produce oxygen by keeping green plants and trees alive. 90 percent of so called green house gases are not carbon dioxide…but water vapor!
So give us our jobs….and our drilling and let us be FREE and independent…but that is not in the socialist program….
We are at 25 percent of pollution and the rest of the world does not care….we cannot save the world…only ourselves. So if you believe in this…why isn't doesn't THIS government stop being cowards and tell other governments to have an honest discussion on what to do. But they won't do it…because other governments are busy building up their economy and world power while our government makes us sit on our hands and loan out 2 BILLION dollars to Brazil to do our dirty work for us ! We lose the jobs, our money and the independence.
We also have to get the illegal alien thing settled soon…
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.HTML
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts..CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.CNN.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML
9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC%20RI%20PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.HTML
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http:// tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/PDF/deportation.PDF
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .'
Verify at: http: // http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml < http://ww/ w.drdsk.com/articleshtml >
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.
What disaster was Collins software in?