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Write You - Preparation: Your Company's Best Defense in Case of Catastrophe
Lead management refers to the process by which a lead is created, qualified, analyzed, and distributed to sales and marketing divisions. Lead management is one if the most critical aspects in the success of sales; as such, best practices have been established for handling and converting leads into satisfied customers.The first step a business takes in managing a lead is to identify the prime leads and route them automatically to the appropriate entity; this might range from a direct sales representative to a channel partner. This is one of the most important aspects of lead management and time is of the essence: a lead should be thoroughly qualified by the time a sales repres
• Stock emergency supplies, including: flashlights, batteries, First Aid kits, tools, and food and water to use during periods of unexpected confinement at your business.
• Install flexible connectors to appliances and equipment fueled by natural gas. Consider installing shutters to protect windows from damage caused by debris blown by hurricanes, tornados or severe storms.
• Install automatic fire sprinklers on each floor of the business.
Business Continuity Resources
• Maintain a minimum supply of the goods, materials and equipment you would need for business continuity off-site.
• Be advised: most insurance policies do not cover earthquake and flood damage. Discuss business continuity insurance with your agent to cover business
There is an old saying in Spain: “To be a bullfighter, you must first learn to be like a bull.” You want to be a good fisherman, think like the fish. Then you will understand where the fishes normally like to hide so that you can cast your line or net at the right spot. In the medical context, the best way to learn about the disease is to learn to be the patient. Usually, the patient knows very well about the disease that is afflicting him. Besides researching about the disease, he will also strive to find a cure for the ailment as he is suffering from the pain of the disease.In business, a manager needs to be on the ground – talk and interact with the various p
What’s that, you say? Your business isn’t located in a city likely to be a target of either natural or manmade disasters. This may well be the case, but this doesn’t take in account that inexplicable chemical spill or train derailment that can happen on your doorstep or public utility failures, such as electrical power outages, brownouts or surges, which can unduly affect the daily operation of your business. Keep in mind, many nature disasters, such as blizzards, tornadoes and earthquakes, can strike with little or no advance warning.
So what’s a business owner to do? Well first, and foremost, you make sure your business has an up-to-date disaster plan. It’s been reported that as many as forty percent of small businesses fail to open their doors again after a major disaster. Many of these businesses were simply unprepared for a disaster; they hadn’t taken the time to prepare a backup plan to better insure the livelihoods of their employees or the continued satisfaction of their customer base.
When you begin to develop your company’s disaster preparedness plan, three areas should be given special consideration: human resources, physical resources, and business continuity. In devising a plan, as a business owner, you must carefully consider how a disaster might impact your employees, customers, the physical workplace itself, along with what procedures and policies would need to be in place to continue to conduct business if that disaster forces you to temporarily relocate to another site.
All Disaster Plans Should Consider the Following:
Human Resources
• Identify staff essential to your business keeping its doors open. Keep an updated list of their contact information: phone numbers (home, work, pager, cell) and e-mail addresses that can be made available from several locations (home, Internet, etc.). This information should be readily available to key staff members.
• If your business has voice mail, select one remote number on which you can record messages to be accessed by employees in case of emergencies. Make sure that your phones can be programmed to forward calls from the main business line(s). This allows to you program the phones to ring at another site if you cannot access your business. Make this number available to all employees.
• Keep copies of personnel, payroll, payables and receivables, and other essential records at an off-site location.
• Leave copies of keys and alarm code(s) with a trusted employee or friend encase you cannot get to your office quickly after an emergency,
Physical Resources
• Install emergency lights that turn on with power failures. Relatively inexpensive, they can be purchased at electrical and hardware supply retailers. Back up computer data frequently; keep a copy of the tape off site.
• Use UL-listed surge protectors and battery backup systems to provide added protection for sensitive equipment and help prevent computer crashes if the power fails.
• Purchase a NOAA Weather Radio with a tone alert feature. Keep it on and when the signal sounds, listen for information about severe weather and protective action to take.
• Stock emergency supplies, including: flashlights, batteries, First Aid kits, tools, and food and water to use during periods of unexpected confinement at your business.
• Install flexible connectors to appliances and equipment fueled by natural gas. Consider installing shutters to protect windows from damage caused by debris blown by hurricanes, tornados or severe storms.
• Install automatic fire sprinklers on each floor of the business.
Business Continuity Resources
• Maintain a minimum supply of the goods, materials and equipment you would need for business continuity off-site.
• Be advised: most insurance policies do not cover earthquake and flood damage. Discuss business continuity insurance with your agent to cover business
I'm convinced that asking the right questions is one of the most important skills you need to become a successful business person. Questions have the power to direct you or to distort you. The right kind of questions will direct you to success the wrong kind of questions will direct you to bankruptcy.Let me ask you a question, have you ever realized how often people ask questions? Why is that the case? Well, we usually ask questions when we need an answer. And we usually need answers when we want to make a decision.Every decision-making process can be described as a process of questions and answers.Our brain constantly asks questions. Every single moment our brain eval
So what’s a business owner to do? Well first, and foremost, you make sure your business has an up-to-date disaster plan. It’s been reported that as many as forty percent of small businesses fail to open their doors again after a major disaster. Many of these businesses were simply unprepared for a disaster; they hadn’t taken the time to prepare a backup plan to better insure the livelihoods of their employees or the continued satisfaction of their customer base.
When you begin to develop your company’s disaster preparedness plan, three areas should be given special consideration: human resources, physical resources, and business continuity. In devising a plan, as a business owner, you must carefully consider how a disaster might impact your employees, customers, the physical workplace itself, along with what procedures and policies would need to be in place to continue to conduct business if that disaster forces you to temporarily relocate to another site.
All Disaster Plans Should Consider the Following:
Human Resources
• Identify staff essential to your business keeping its doors open. Keep an updated list of their contact information: phone numbers (home, work, pager, cell) and e-mail addresses that can be made available from several locations (home, Internet, etc.). This information should be readily available to key staff members.
• If your business has voice mail, select one remote number on which you can record messages to be accessed by employees in case of emergencies. Make sure that your phones can be programmed to forward calls from the main business line(s). This allows to you program the phones to ring at another site if you cannot access your business. Make this number available to all employees.
• Keep copies of personnel, payroll, payables and receivables, and other essential records at an off-site location.
• Leave copies of keys and alarm code(s) with a trusted employee or friend encase you cannot get to your office quickly after an emergency,
Physical Resources
• Install emergency lights that turn on with power failures. Relatively inexpensive, they can be purchased at electrical and hardware supply retailers. Back up computer data frequently; keep a copy of the tape off site.
• Use UL-listed surge protectors and battery backup systems to provide added protection for sensitive equipment and help prevent computer crashes if the power fails.
• Purchase a NOAA Weather Radio with a tone alert feature. Keep it on and when the signal sounds, listen for information about severe weather and protective action to take.
• Stock emergency supplies, including: flashlights, batteries, First Aid kits, tools, and food and water to use during periods of unexpected confinement at your business.
• Install flexible connectors to appliances and equipment fueled by natural gas. Consider installing shutters to protect windows from damage caused by debris blown by hurricanes, tornados or severe storms.
• Install automatic fire sprinklers on each floor of the business.
Business Continuity Resources
• Maintain a minimum supply of the goods, materials and equipment you would need for business continuity off-site.
• Be advised: most insurance policies do not cover earthquake and flood damage. Discuss business continuity insurance with your agent to cover business
Whether you are a full time affiliate marketer or running a business, online or off. Your success is going to depend on the advertising you do.All successful business owners will tell you a huge amount of their time and/or budget goes into advertising. So to keep from wasting your valued time or your hard earned money, it only makes sense to make wise choices when you advertise.Fortunately for those advertising online there is a huge market of widely varied free promotion. Giving you much freedom to test which types, of ads as well as ad sites, work the best, before you have to pay anything out of pocket. Once you know what is working then you can make better choices i
All Disaster Plans Should Consider the Following:
Human Resources
• Identify staff essential to your business keeping its doors open. Keep an updated list of their contact information: phone numbers (home, work, pager, cell) and e-mail addresses that can be made available from several locations (home, Internet, etc.). This information should be readily available to key staff members.
• If your business has voice mail, select one remote number on which you can record messages to be accessed by employees in case of emergencies. Make sure that your phones can be programmed to forward calls from the main business line(s). This allows to you program the phones to ring at another site if you cannot access your business. Make this number available to all employees.
• Keep copies of personnel, payroll, payables and receivables, and other essential records at an off-site location.
• Leave copies of keys and alarm code(s) with a trusted employee or friend encase you cannot get to your office quickly after an emergency,
Physical Resources
• Install emergency lights that turn on with power failures. Relatively inexpensive, they can be purchased at electrical and hardware supply retailers. Back up computer data frequently; keep a copy of the tape off site.
• Use UL-listed surge protectors and battery backup systems to provide added protection for sensitive equipment and help prevent computer crashes if the power fails.
• Purchase a NOAA Weather Radio with a tone alert feature. Keep it on and when the signal sounds, listen for information about severe weather and protective action to take.
• Stock emergency supplies, including: flashlights, batteries, First Aid kits, tools, and food and water to use during periods of unexpected confinement at your business.
• Install flexible connectors to appliances and equipment fueled by natural gas. Consider installing shutters to protect windows from damage caused by debris blown by hurricanes, tornados or severe storms.
• Install automatic fire sprinklers on each floor of the business.
Business Continuity Resources
• Maintain a minimum supply of the goods, materials and equipment you would need for business continuity off-site.
• Be advised: most insurance policies do not cover earthquake and flood damage. Discuss business continuity insurance with your agent to cover business
Scene 1. A quick-serve restaurant, Anywhere, USA. Cashier (no eye contact with guest): For here or to go? Guest: Here. I’ll have a Burger Deal #1. [Wow. What a nice greeting.] Cashier: Okay. What kind of drink? Guest: Diet cola. [Why don’t they just let me do this myself? The cashier isn’t doing anything but pressing buttons.] Cashier: Want dessert? Guest: No thanks. [I don’t even know what they serve for dessert.] Cashier: $4.29 Guest: Thanks. [For letting me give you my money.]Scene 2. A quick-serve restaurant, Anywhere, USA. Cashier (smiling and looking guest in the eye): Welcome! Have you ever been here before? Guest: Ever
• Keep copies of personnel, payroll, payables and receivables, and other essential records at an off-site location.
• Leave copies of keys and alarm code(s) with a trusted employee or friend encase you cannot get to your office quickly after an emergency,
Physical Resources
• Install emergency lights that turn on with power failures. Relatively inexpensive, they can be purchased at electrical and hardware supply retailers. Back up computer data frequently; keep a copy of the tape off site.
• Use UL-listed surge protectors and battery backup systems to provide added protection for sensitive equipment and help prevent computer crashes if the power fails.
• Purchase a NOAA Weather Radio with a tone alert feature. Keep it on and when the signal sounds, listen for information about severe weather and protective action to take.
• Stock emergency supplies, including: flashlights, batteries, First Aid kits, tools, and food and water to use during periods of unexpected confinement at your business.
• Install flexible connectors to appliances and equipment fueled by natural gas. Consider installing shutters to protect windows from damage caused by debris blown by hurricanes, tornados or severe storms.
• Install automatic fire sprinklers on each floor of the business.
Business Continuity Resources
• Maintain a minimum supply of the goods, materials and equipment you would need for business continuity off-site.
• Be advised: most insurance policies do not cover earthquake and flood damage. Discuss business continuity insurance with your agent to cover business
There is much to say about posting resumes on the big job sites online. There are many positives and also negatives to doing this as well. Posting your resume is a way to get you exposure to recruiters and employers. There really isn't any specific criteria for posting your resume... Only get it out for everyone to see! The more you post, the more exposed your resume.The big job sites are a good source to post as well as the small ones because no matter the difference you are getting your resume exposed to the general public and increase your chances of getting the ideal career or job you seek faster. More is better... Post everywhere to be seen by recruiters and employers. Keep it on and when the signal sounds, listen for information about severe weather and protective action to take.
• Stock emergency supplies, including: flashlights, batteries, First Aid kits, tools, and food and water to use during periods of unexpected confinement at your business.
• Install flexible connectors to appliances and equipment fueled by natural gas. Consider installing shutters to protect windows from damage caused by debris blown by hurricanes, tornados or severe storms.
• Install automatic fire sprinklers on each floor of the business.
Business Continuity Resources
• Maintain a minimum supply of the goods, materials and equipment you would need for business continuity off-site.
• Be advised: most insurance policies do not cover earthquake and flood damage. Discuss business continuity insurance with your agent to cover business interruption losses.
• Know how to contact law enforcement and local offices of the American Red Cross, Federal Emergency Management Agency and other agencies that can assist during a crisis.
• Devise an external/public emergency communications plan that outlines how your business will communicate with the news media, customers, and vendors in the wake of a catastrophe.
• Contact vendors/suppliers to confirm their emergency response plan procedures. Line up alternate vendors for essential supplies and equipment. Have back-up equipment and know its availability during periods of crisis.
Your employees are just one in a line of several defense measures available to you. Everyone on your staff should be prepared for a disaster and know what to do if a disaster occurs. Several organizations including the American Red Cross, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Institute for Business and Home Safety, and the Small Business Administration can provide you useful information about how to stay safe in instances of disaster.
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