How to plan for business emergency series

This article first appeared in The Remodelers Journal.

You have set up your business to be successful—you have a strategic plan, you create a yearly budget, you’ve found your marketing niche. But what happens when the unexpected occurs—a flooded office, a computer system crash or worse, you, the company owner, is incapacitated?

How do you set up your company for survival under not-so-normal circumstances?

This series examines what happens to one company that’s disrupted due to flooding, a company’s overall emergency manual and how a one-man shop might prep for the owner’s sudden incapacitation.

• Double-check your back-up scheme
• Create a manual
• A “postmortem” checklist