What is the weakest link in your business?

Let’s face it, we all get complacent after a while regarding safety, or the “points of failure” = POF.
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Let's explore this a bit.

Those critical things that we all depend on to run our business, and if they were suddenly not available, being robbed or broken, it would take a lot of time, money, and effort to recover use of them.

This could be a place, a piece of equipment, a vendor or another person. You rely on “it”. And if you don’t address one of those POFs it could be a challenging time for you to recover from the consequences, it probably wouldn't put you out of business but definitely hinder you.

The most “precious” equipment for most business owners is their computer and it’s therefore the number one danger zone.

You probably have a backup of your data, so far you’ve always been fine, so everything is good – kind of – think about it, if you had a backup but your computer itself were to break down, how long would it take to get all the data from your backup to your new, still to be bought and set up, computer?

Picture the process (I know it looks like a nightmare!):

• You have to stop working.
• You go to the store and buy a computer or buy it online and wait (patiently) for it to arrive.
• You check that for all your applications there is a CD (are there still CDs out there?).
• You spend hours downloading all your apps from the cloud.
• You hunt for activation keys, serial numbers, and passwords that you need to activate your software.
• You download and install many plugins for your browsers.
• You spend time on the web to find the drivers for your printer or any other hardware that you use, to install them.
• You hunt panic-ridden around for the passwords that your operating system might or might not have remembered for you.
• You restore your data in the hope that your backup software was correctly configured.
• You re-install your much-needed anti-virus software.
• You make adjustments and tweaks to the different software applications so everything is equal or even better than before – which can take from a few weeks to a few months.

Or you pay someone to do it.

That could be very expensive, and they might not know exactly what you need or want.

Now imagine the process if you had a second computer that serves as a backup:

- You stop working.
- You move over to the other computer.
- You start working again.

Voila!

For me, it’s a no-brainer to have a second computer. If you have all your data stored in the cloud then the only thing you would need to wait a few minutes for would be the syncing of your data from Dropbox, for the work done that day.

What is your hourly rate? 

How much time or money would the first scenario take?
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Can you afford to NOT have a second computer?

Here are three things I could help you with:

1. Find your weakest link
2. Explore solutions or possible solutions for issues in your business processes.
3. And of course proofread anything you need to get out "into the world"!

Contact Me Now!