Surviving a Business Disaster

43% Of Business Never Reopen After A Disaster

It takes a burglar less than 2 minutes to destroy your business. It takes a fire less than 15 minutes to consume your equipment. It takes three days of lost income to cripple a business. Are you prepared to lose everything including your INCOME? You can’t afford not to have a Business Disaster plan. This step-by-step disaster planning kit is exclusive to the Janitorial Industry and is packed with easy steps to help protect your business! 

Disaster Recovery Plan. Such a scary statement. Planning for a disaster is never a fun exercise to take on - not to mention in today's economy when time is a valuable asset in generating new business, However, from time to time you must stop and think about what you would do if you lost everything tomorrow. Could you still collect a pay check? Could you still pay your employees? How would you rebuild your supplies? What if you lost all your data to a virus or a thief?

Disaster Recovery Plans are more than just Hurricanes and Floods. It's about life's little emergencies that are never planned. A prime example was a small business in North Carolina that had standard business insurance but passed on the business interruption insurance. Overnight his business was robbed. They took all three of his computers and trashed the office. On one of those computers was his client calendar. Without a clue what clients were to be serviced, he sent his crews home. For nearly three weeks he had zero income coming in. His data was "backed up" but he had never gone through the process of restoring it on a new computer. He spent nearly $800 to have a computer tech retrieve his data only to learn that his calendar in MS Outlook was never part of the backup service, neither were emails, all of his auto-generated passwords for websites or any of his bookmarks.

His office staff began the painstaking task of rebuilding the business nearly four weeks after the burglary. Not only did he not collect a paycheck, his crews moved on to other businesses and some of his clients found an alternative service. Every business in the US is at risk of failing however failing because of a disaster can be prevented.

My name is Amber Guy and I have seen first hand how disasters can destroy businesses. As a former FEMA Public Affairs Officer you can't afford not to be prepared. Don't let your business fail due to disaster. Take the time to create a business disaster plan. Don't know where to start? Cleaning Business Consulting Group has the answer.

Sharon and I joined to put together the first disaster preparedness plan specifically for the Janitorial Industry. No technical jargon here, just down to the nuts and bolts of a good, solid business disaster plan. Everything you need is packaged in a complete kit including all the forms, worksheets and template disaster plan. In addition, all forms and worksheets are provided in Excel and MS Word format for easy customization. Coast to Coast, City to City, businesses nationwide are at risk of losing everything in the blink of an eye. You've waited long enough. Take the time to create a disaster plan.

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