A disaster or disruption can affect your business at any time. What you decide to do once something happens will determine whether your business will reopen or close forever.

1. Barbara Goldberg – Business Operations Consultant
www.getbackontracknow.com
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904 610-2581

2. As a Small Business Owner, We Need
to Change Our Mindset
It’s not if a disaster or disruption will
affect our businesses, but when!

3. Did You Know…
Many businesses never entirely
recover after being affected by a
disaster or disruption.

4. Jersey Shore Before
and After Superstorm Sandy

5. Top Causes For Business Downtime
▪ Hardware Failure ▪ Human Error
▪ Software Failure ▪ Natural Disasters

6. Your Business Can Approach Disaster
Recovery Planning Like This

7. Or Like This
©Mike Minzes 2013

8. Deciding not to have a business
continuity/disaster recovery plan
can be the most costly decision
you’ll ever make for your business.

9. What’s In A Plan?
• Know what critical functions are needed to keep
your business running
• How are you going to keep in touch with
employees, vendors and customers
• Know your insurance information - Name of
insurance agency, type of policy, kind of coverage
do you have, how do you contact them
• What equipment will you need to run your
business from an alternate location

10. Be Prepared – Plan Ahead