Is Your Business Safe?

Written by Sue and Chuck DeFiore


Well, is it! Do you back up your files on a regular basis? Do you have a back up plan in place? What’s important to your business and what isn’t? What happens if you get hurt, who will run your business? Do you have customers come to your business? What if they get hurt, are you covered? What about allrepparttar equipment you have, is it covered?

These are all questions a home based business owner, (in fact, any business owner) should have answers to and plans in place for.

You must have a system in place to back up your files. Since most of us use computers today, be sure you back up at least once a week. If you really want to be efficient and make it easy on yourself, get a Maxtor hard drive withrepparttar 105215 one button back up feature. For less than $200, you can not afford to be without one if you have a lot of files. If you don’t have that many files then a Zip drive will suffice. We have an I-Omega that cost us only $70.

Ok, you say what should I back up? Anything that is important to you. Your customer database, templates you use on a consistent basis. If you are like us and sell e-manuals, and books, you need to have them backed up. We have all of our products backed up on disk, CD, and a mirror copy of our hard drive. We back up once a week. We userepparttar 105216 Maxtor drive with one button back up. However, if I am working on a project, I back it up every time I make a change. In fact, whenever I am working duringrepparttar 105217 day I use a working disk that I save to in addition to saving on my hard disk. When I save a document I am working on, I then go to save as and save it on my disk drive. This avoids not having an up to date document if my computer crashes. So your backup would consist of files you use a lot, customer database, your products, and anything else that is imperative to keeping your business up and running.

Now what do you do with these back ups. Well, if you are smart you have a Safe that is fireproof, and you put your disk and hard disk back ups inrepparttar 105218 Safe. When you do your weekly back ups you pull them out and just overwrite them. If you haven’t made any changes on your product disks then you don’t have to do them. You want to be sure your Safe is fireproof for at least 2 hours. We have a Sentry Safe. While not an inexpensive business expense, it is a very important one. Depending on how much you need to put in a Safe cost will vary. In addition to having back ups in your Safe, you should also have a set of back ups that are located off site. For example, a safety deposit box is a great place for back up copies, important papers etc.

How I Work At Home

Written by Paul Ellis


Usually I get a one hour nap inrepparttar afternoon, andI go to bed at about 8:30. This results in me awakening before 4:00 am, rested and ready for work! I get up quietly so as to not arouse my dear wife, and go torepparttar 105212 computer. Usually I start by readingrepparttar 105213 events ofrepparttar 105214 last 24 hours onrepparttar 105215 DEBKAfile website. (DEBKAfile is a news intelligence service located inrepparttar 105216 Middle East, and isrepparttar 105217 finest source of facts about events in Isreal, andrepparttar 105218 war in Iraq that I have found) after that I work on building my downline, largely by following Stone Evans "30 day plan". until about 9:00 am,

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