June 9th, 2009
A Fire Destroyed My Office. Use DropBox to Power Through Disasters
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Prevent your business from “going up in smoke”.
Here’s a personal story that reveals at least one tool you
should implement today to keep you, your family, and
ultimately business safe in the event of a disaster.
On Christmas Eve 2006, my house was destroyed.
All of my important business documents and personal
photos were destroyed in 20 minutes by a fire caused
from a roommate who simply forgot he left the stove
on before stepping out.
If you’ve ever had a fire or known someone who has,
it’s pretty bad stuff…
What the flames don’t destroy, the smoke, ash, and high
pressure water from the fireman will.
Then there’s the aftermath.
Picking through debris for valuables, the displacement
of being homeless, and the fact that your business is
pretty much “closed till further notice”.
Let me tell you, “IT SUCKS”.
You as a self employed person like me, don’t want this
and I can testify to you right here, the fastest way to
recovery is getting back to work.
The problem is…
If your computer is melted, your files are burned, and
all your passwords are “up in smoke”, where do you
start?
I wished I had this then.
So the other day I found a service I’m about to share
with you which would have allowed me to get back to
work ASAP, and would have saved me 2 months of
recovery time and a few gray hairs (no joke).
To see what a fire does to a home based business and
gain access to this FREE service, watch the video I
just created for you here.
Then Click the link below to get your FREE 2GB account
with DropBox and a bonus for using this link you’ll also
get an additional 250MB free.
Your Friend,
Justin
PS: Like most things in life it’s way more expensive to
be reactive than it is to be proactive. I think that’s how
the saying below came about.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
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June 10th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
This “seems” like a good idea. However, if you read the Term they are saying you agree to give them access to all of your files. Idon’t think so!
June 16th, 2009 at 12:47 am
I use DropBox for my company, what a great product. That’s kind of scary though, they can view all my files??
June 17th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I would worry too much about the “file access thing” that is really more paranoia than anything. I’m sure that have plenty of things to do other than snoop around.
Plus they are funded by some great and well known venture capitalists who didn’t invent $1,000,000’s to later be dragged into the media over “privacy breaches” and see there investment go up in flames.
The privacy is issue in my opinion is a moot point compared to the utility the service offers.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Can you install a contact management program that allows multiple access by team members?
June 17th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Hey Wayne, yes you can. I know of a few.
http://www.patzaby.com has an advanced version of his software that let’s use aSQL (ask them about that if you don’t know what it means), topproducer lets you do this, and finally there’s one that slips my mind at the moment that use’s “filemaker” as the back end and is for teams as well.
here’s a link to a matrix of CRM products for RE.
http://www.garydavidhall.com/
June 17th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Agent Office is the one we would be using. Do you know if it will work on DropBox?
June 18th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Hey wayne, they are mutually exclusive programs, meaning that you would use the CRM functionality of agentOffice to keep listing, todo’s and contact info one, and then would use separately (they are not tied into one another) DropBox to store your marketing templates, scanned documents, any other material for you team/business which you’d normally store on a desktop hard drive.