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What if you showed up one day and your online business was gone? What then?

by Samuel Adams
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Do you have a backup plan for when and/or if your online business is gone? What if one day you logged in and could not access your blog or forum due to hacking or some other malfunction with your host? This is not just about backing up your databases daily. Do you have a solid plan in place that would allow you to replicate everything you have done so far to get back to the spot you are at now?
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  • Profile picture of the author svetod
    In IM one should always know that tomorrow it can all be gone in a second, so good question!
    Yet I don't really have a backup plan on what exactly I would do in that case.
    I've learned the hard way what this feels like already, when I was banned from Google couple of years ago, but I also learned that with networking and asking the right people for help, everything can be built from scratch you can make great money again.
    Also, even if this is IM, you build contacts with real people along the way. So if you're always genuine and professional with others, contacts are something that stays even if your business is gone!

    Cheers

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    • Profile picture of the author Angshuman Dutta
      That's the problem with an online business or any business for that matter. It's so vulnerable to so many different elements. Even if you have a brick and mortar business, it can get hit by a storm or fire. Whatever happens you have to put it back together and face the music.

      A 9-5 job is vulonerable too, but I guess the vulnerability is a little less (that depends on so many factors though).

      I've had several sites hacked and also lost a lot of money over a business licence legal issue, but at the end of the day I guess you have to have an "emergency fund" that can keep you afloat should things go wrong. That fund will give you some time to build it back together brick by brick.
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  • Profile picture of the author cianci1129
    This is why it's important to diversify your income streams.

    Never put all your eggs in one basket. Spread them out so if one gets hit, there's still a bunch more.
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  • Profile picture of the author greenowl123
    As long as I have my list of subscribers backed up and saved in several different places, everything else can be re-built. I would still know how to get traffic from advertising online and offline, get new subscribers, how to write half-way decent copy, still know the same people who can help me do things that I am not very good at (techie things, logo design, ebook covers, etc.)... so all would not be lost.

    I would also still have the 2 apartments I have bought/built with my I.M. earnings so at least I would not be living in the street.

    I guess the most important thing is to save your list of subscribers in at least 3 different places. You can still continue your relationship with them, give them value, and make sales.
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