Christian home business owners have an extra reason to take disaster preparation seriously: Your home is your office.
How prepared would you be if you were faced with the reality of a major natural disaster?
Here I will share with you some key things as a business owner so you’ll be prepared.
Disaster Preparation When Your Home is Your Office
I’m going to assume that you’ve already covered your bases from a strictly survival perspective for things like water and food. But hopefully this will help you be prepared from a business perspective.
- Records
I know record keeping is a pain, and too many home business owners don’t take it seriously enough.
You need to make sure that you have your estate planning taken care of. If you don’t have a Last Will and Testament and pertinent ancillary documents like a Medical Power of Attorney or document governing the Disposition of Remains, then you’re not taking care of your business or your family. If your compensation plan is worth the paper that it’s written on, you should be building a residual income that is something you can will to your children and grandchildren. So make sure that you have your estate planning in place and the original documents are in your safe keeping with copies in the hands of your attorney.
Whether you survive a disaster or not, how would you reconstruct your tax records if they washed away in a flood? Identity theft issues come to mind if you lose control of those records, too.
Similarly, do you maintain client records? Hopefully your primary company serves as a record keeper for you, and hopefully you don’t sell any items off your shelf without drop shipping those items back to you. And hopefully you do not keep original paperwork with your clients most confidential information.
Are you backing up your computer(s) on thumb drives, especially key records not readily portable? This should be a priority.
Another priority is usernames and passwords to key oneline sites. If you maintain those in one place, you can access your accounts wherever you are.
The category of records most people forget? Your identity records and property records, including birth certificate, baptismal certificate, marriage certificate, passport, original Social Security card, original deeds, car titles, etc. These are as key to your business as any of the above. They prove who you are and what you own and are not easily replaced in an emergency.
If you’ve got all your records in order, though, the follow-through step is keeping them SAFE.
All records should be maintained in a fireproof and waterproof portable chest. There are several on the market. Check out different ones to find what works for you, but I like this one.
Finally, keep rotating records in the chest as necessary so you can grab and go and know you have everything current.
- Power for Your Phone and Laptop/Tablet
We’re lucky.
Home business owners can do business pretty much anywhere we have a phone or laptop.
But you need power for those when you have no electricity.
One solution popular today is a generator, whether solar or not. Those are great if you’re staying place and have either sufficient fuel or sunshine.
My answer for that problem, though, is to stock multiple portable car jump starters that double as chargers for phones, laptops, and any other electricity-driven device. It can run anything that plugs in and are, as the name implies, totally portable if you’re on the move.
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