Small Business Information

Once, you dreamed of working at home. No commute, no boss breathing down your neck, no necktie, and no more boring staff meetings. Now, your business is so successful, you’re feeling a bit cramped in your home office. Do you make the move to an office offsite, or continue working at home? Experts say this decision is becoming more and more common with freelancers everywhere.

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One of the most profitable business plans you can make is the plan that prepares your business for surviving a disaster.  The Institute for Business and Home Safety, an insurance industry group organized to reduce deaths, injuries, property damage, economic losses and human suffering caused by natural disasters, estimates that as many as 25 percent of all businesses forced to close because of a disaster never reopen. Advance preparation for the possibility of disaster can help keep you out of that group.

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Fire, flood or earthquake can destroy critical business records in a flash. Because it can be difficult to keep a business going without these records, disaster planning experts recommend that back-ups be made of all critical business records and that these records be securely stored offsite.

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