Disaster Preparation and Recovery

January 26, 2010

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SBA’s disaster recovery program helped Mainstream Global, Inc., get back in business following a flood. Are you prepared? Do you have a preparedness plan to get your business up and running should disaster strike? Will your plan really protect your small business in 2010 should a disaster occur?

Enjoy these informative videos from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and remember SCORE can be your free coach or mentor in helping you complete a disaster preparedness plan.

Disaster Preparation and Recovery

Advice from an Expert

Look around the office, what would you do if it disappeared?

Data backup, synchronization, providing employees with laptops

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For expert help and advice on disaster preparation and recovery, contact SCORE by clicking the link on the right to the office nearest you or click here to request free face to face counseling and or mentoring.

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Filed under: Information Technology,Management,SBA,Strategies for Growth Series,Turnaround

Tags: backup plan, business data, computer virus, data backup, data recovery, SBA, small business administration

4 Comments Leave a Comment

1. Sarah Kaye | January 27, 2010 at 2:52 pm

This information is very interesting and helpful. We are also trying to educate people about the importance of data storage and security. I will put a link to this article on our company websites.
2. SCORE Minnesota | January 27, 2010 at 3:05 pm

Thank you, Sarah, for visiting our blog, leaving a comment and linking to us. We can use all the help we can get to make our new blog popular with the small business owners statewide that we want to help. Thanks, again.

Mike Clough
3. Jason Paterson | January 29, 2010 at 8:27 am

Disaster Recovery/Protection should be on the radar for every type of business regardless of the size or industry type.

What companies don’t realize is that in many cases a sprinkler system is directly overhead suppossedly protecting of all of their important business records (stored in paper). A disatser could even be in the form of a faulty sprinkler system.

We work with businesses to provide an easy and affordable way in which to store digital records instead of paper files. The storage system is hosted in a secure, off-site data center and is backedup in the event of a fire, flood, tornado, etc.
4. Virgil Dissmeyer | January 30, 2010 at 5:44 pm

I operated a Disaster Planning and Recovery small business for 10 years after retiring. These videos are very good. If a person has specific questions about the process, I may be able to recall my approach from 1984 to 94. My clients were generally large financial institutions starting with the Norwest Bank of Minneapolis that lost its 18 floor building on Thanksgiving Day 1982. The bank was bank and running at “almost’ normal on Monday morning. The video did not mention the need for a Crisis Center to manage the recovery, which includes space, insurance, relocation, reequipping, etc. This is a deep and broad topic and once you have a good plan you can use it for hostage situations, natural disasters, product recalls, etc.

Virgil Dissmeyer
SCORE Minneapolis

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Small Business Tax Help

New 2011 Income Tax Webinar

SCORE Minneapolis has just released the 2011 version of “Income Taxes for Small Businesses”. For new entrepreneurs it will help take the mystery out of taxes! The webinar covers two broad topics:

First, the Form 1040, Schedule C Profit and Loss for a Business. It discusses all of the unusual items an entrepreneur may encounter as they prepare for their April 15 tax filing date, including use of personal cars and home office expenses, expensing capital equipment cost versus depreciation, independent contractors, etc.

Second, it covers the business owner’s personal Form 1040 by integrating the Schedule C. The business is made aware of their options for Self-Employed Retirement Plans and Health Insurance coverage, plus Self-Employed taxes for Social Security and Medicare.

This sixty-six minute discussion will not make you a tax expert, but will let you approach taxes with a level of knowledge needed to take advantage of deductions available to you. It also points out areas where your accountant can be of help.

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