{"id":1974,"date":"2015-02-06T18:05:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2015-02-06T18:05:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:05:32","slug":"open-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/open-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Open for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/natural-disasters-and-business-infographic-2015-2\">article in Business Insider<\/a> about the challenges natural disasters create for many businesses. \u00a0One in four small to medium sized businesses will not reopen after a major storm. \u00a0Small businesses which have to close after a storm lose $3,000\/day.<\/p>\n<p>The intent of the article was to help point out the need for businesses to do develop a recovery plan and have business interruption insurance. \u00a0Both of these are wise decisions but I think there is an even more important hidden message&#8230;opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>By pre-planning and taking proactive measures your business could actually stand to prosper when the next major storm hits your area. \u00a0If your competitors close due to lack of power, flood waters or restriction of access to their place of business you could stand to prosper if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have a generator for emergency power<\/li>\n<li>You have diking material ready to divert flood waters elsewhere<\/li>\n<li>You have an alternative temporary location to open shop<\/li>\n<li>You have the ability to offer delivery or remote service instead of onsite<\/li>\n<li>You have the ability to let people know you are still open for business<\/li>\n<li>Your vendors are prepared to support you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s no mystery what types of events can impact your place of business. \u00a0You have no control over when they might happen. You do have control over taking the next step so you can be <em>Open for Business<\/em> when it happens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To discuss how I might help your business before the next storm, please email <strong><a href=\"mailto:abetteremergency@gmail.com?subject=Contact via A Better Emergency\">abetteremergency@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an article in Business Insider about the challenges natural disasters create for many businesses. \u00a0One in four small to medium sized businesses will not reopen after a  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[11,26,28,29,33,36,49,56,63,64,81,82,84,93,95,98],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-best-practices","tag-disaster","tag-disaster-response","tag-disasters","tag-earthquake","tag-emergency-management","tag-hospitals","tag-incident-response","tag-media","tag-mobile","tag-preparedness","tag-protection","tag-public-safety","tag-shelters","tag-social-media","tag-texting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}