On Friday, I had a terrible experience. My hard drive crashed and I lost a lot of important stuff (especially videos).

I've been working on a number of things behind the scenes and a majority of my recent work is all GONE.

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So, in this episode, I decide to address ways of protecting your Online Business from encountering the kind of problems that I'm dealing with now.

But before getting to that, I deal with a comment from John from AskJohnEnglish.com. John gives his opinion on why we shouldn't rely on any one source (i.e. Google) for traffic, or income.

Protect your Online Business from Disaster

I firmly agree with what John has to say. I give a few stories about my experiences with relying on one traffic source.

John and I also share our experiences with being banned from Google Adsense (seemingly for life). It's a very interesting story, so make sure to listen in.

For protecting your Online Business, here are the resources I recommend:

  • Evernote: This is the program I use for all of my documents. Instead of just using Microsoft Word, I write it into Evernote, and that syncs my documents on all of my Computers (Macs and PC) and my iPhone.
  • Google Docs: Google docs is another one I use for documents, especially documents that I need to share with others (i.e. my outsourcers). Everything is stored on the Google Servers, which allows you to access it from anywhere.
  • Lastpass and 1 Password: I personally use Lastpass to generate and manage all of my passwords for all of the different websites I use. No longer do I memorize passwords. They are encrypted and stored on the lastpass server. 1 Password is similar to lasspass, but allows you to store your passwords locally (on your computer).
  • Online Backup systems – Carbonite, Sugarsync, Crashplan: These are programs that allow you to backup your computer online. I've been using Sugarsync, but they only allow you to backup a certain amount of data. I've just recently started looking into Carbonite and Crashplan, as they allow you to backup an unlimited amount of data. I finally decided to go with Crashplan, because they also allow you to backup your computers on other computers, external hard drives AND they can send you a hard drive to store your stuff on and send back to them to jump start your initial backup. Those points convinced me to go with crashplan.

Hopefully these resources will make it so that you never run into the problem I ran into this weekend, because it CAN be quite devastating.

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Take care, and God Bless!

– Leslie Samuel

About the Author Leslie Samuel


Leslie Samuel a business coach for high-performing entrepreneurs. As the host of the Leslie Samuel Show, he teaches how to build an online business. "Changing the world one post at a time” is the mission he strives towards. As a former university professor, he has a passion for education. He's the founder of Interactive Biology, a blog and YouTube channel dedicated to making biology fun for students and teachers. As the head of training for the Social Media Marketing Society, he helps social media marketers get the training they need to stay on the leading edge of social media.

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