One can never over-prepare for untoward incidents that might ruin a business anytime. This is the very reason I never get tired of absorbing whatever information that I can get from articles that discuss ways to surmount emergency situations such as FreelanceFolder's How Fast Can You Get Back to Doing Business .

Who knows when a businessman can get sick or when your tools will die on you.

Now for those who most of the time relies on technology to maintain his or her business, like me, it won't hurt to be again reminded oftips on preparing for emergencies. But really, do you know how much trouble you'll overcome before you can post the "business as usual" sign again? For an estimate, according to the Freelance Folder article, you can start by foreseeing how much time, money, and effort you need to spend in getting these tools back up and running again.

The Big Three: What You Need To Prepare For

There are three things that slow you down when it comes to getting back in business after an unrecoverable computer crash (or the dreaded laptop theft):

1. Replacing the computer
2. Setting up all your software and settings (again!)
3. Getting your data back on the machine