Protect your business from disaster

Shortly after college I temped in the customer service office of a business in Philadelphia, and one of the other agents was a sweet down to earth woman from South Philly who would sometimes say “Cover your butt or have none!”  It stuck with me after decades, so much so that I almost used it as the title for this post.  But I value decorum too, so we’ll go with “protecting your business from disaster” instead!

My old coworker had a point: we must take measures to protect ourselves and our businesses.  As a bicyclist who has been through a significant accident I can tell you that it takes very little time for disaster to strike, and the time to prepare for it is before it happens.  You probably won’t have time once that figurative boulder is rolling down the hill towards you.

But I think it is important to think briefly about the last part of my friend’s adage too: “…or have none!”  I suspect that we all have a sense that we need to protect ourselves.  What I feel I sometimes forget is that the stakes can be very high—even the business itself might be on the line with one damaging incident.

Then, like the Boy Scouts motto says, how can we “be prepared?”  I go through the steps to plan and prepare for potential catastrophes our businesses might encounter as we go through our entrepreneurial journeys together in this next video.

Can we stop every disaster?  Of course not.  But there are simple, effective, and prudent actions we can take today to minimize risk and damage.

In this video I talk about identifying risks in our businesses and what steps we can take so that we are protected as much as possible.

I also have a downloadable ideas guide, just like the one I use in the video, to help you protect your business.  Fill in the request form below the video and I’ll send you the download link to get it.

Bonus! We’ve got a snazzy infographic to go with this post!