| Remember the old cliché "failing to plan equals | | | | business location? Maintain a listing of all employees |
| planning to fail?" Perhaps there is no truer adage | | | | that is regularly updated with all employee contact |
| when it comes to doing business. Yet in the past it | | | | information. |
| seems as though only large corporations and | | | | - Advising Clients/Customers - Do your customers |
| well-funded ventures properly and adequately plan in | | | | need to be notified if your business is not currently |
| the case of disaster. Data center readiness, sufficient | | | | open or has moved? Many businesses have too |
| remote backup solutions, and contingency plans are | | | | many customers to contact by phone, so try other |
| too expensive and laborious for small businesses to | | | | forms of communication, such as a mass e-mail or |
| maintain. | | | | through local media. |
| If you own a small business, there are a myriad of | | | | - Backup - Make sure you have remote backup to |
| items you should consider when developing a | | | | safeguard critical business data. If losing any |
| comprehensive emergency plan - here are just a few | | | | information that would prevent you from doing daily |
| of them. | | | | business, then it should be backed up. |
| - Relocation - In the event of an emergency that | | | | - Phone Lines - Once a temporary location has been |
| affects the actual structure (i.e. natural disaster), you | | | | established, make sure you've made plans to get |
| will need to have access to a temporary location and | | | | phone lines up and running as soon as possible in |
| facilities; a hub where you and your employees can | | | | order to continue business. Also take into |
| resume normal business activity for the time being. | | | | consideration other supplies you will need such as |
| - Communications - If something happens, how will | | | | furniture, fixtures, and equipments. |
| employees be notified and made aware of a new | | | | |