What if You Are Forced to Press Pause?

In a time when we rely so heavily on technology, what would you do if one day you woke up to not having access to all the familiar "tools" to run your business, even simple things such as your computer?  In a nutshell, you’d be forced to press the "pause button" – just as I am today!  It appears my system was overtaken by something bigger than what my skills could eliminate, so off to the "computer whiz" shop it went.  I am borrowing my husband’s "clunker" this morning until he needs it.

While I won’t be able to run my business today and possibly tomorrow "as usual", it will give me an opportunity to catch up on other types of business activities that I tend to put off such as filing, and possibly reading the last couple of issues of Success magazine!  (Yes, I am that far behind).  Meanwhile, here are some items for you to think about doing, so an event like this doesn’t turn catastrophic.

1.  Perform Regular System Backups – I cannot stress this enough.  It will make a system "hiccup" or hard drive failure much less stressful when you know all of your files can be retrieved.  Either back them up on a disc, a thumb drive, or as I do, on an external hard drive.  This is the easiest because continue reading »

Right Time to Start a Business

Sometimes others can say it best and are worth quoting. Here’s something from Seth Godin on the Right Time to Start a Business:

• "Whenever a business cycle starts to falter, the media start wringing their hands. Then big businesses do, then freelancers, entrepreneurs, and soon everyone is keening.
• "People and organizations that have no real financial stress start to pull back, ‘because it’s prudent.’ Now is not the time, they say.
• "Growth is frightening for a lot of people. It brings change and the opportunity for public failure. So if continue reading »