I don't think any of us would want to say that to a client. As my next penny pinching tip to Realtors and Fellow Business Owners I'm offering something better than Aspirin when your computer crashes.
Although you may have your virus protection, firewall installed, spy-ware program watching vigilantly it is a sad fact that your computer will fail. Not IF but when it fails the scenario will play out like this
You're right in the middle of doing business whether it be creating docs for a client or drafting a contract or anything really important. After you get that adrenalin rush and then that sick sinking feeling in your stomach you realize that you are up a creek without so much as a spoon to paddle with. Even worse in our digital age you've lost precious family pictures on your hard drive. Poof... they're gone forever.
If you have had this to you or fear that it will eventually happen to you then you owe it to yourself to start backing up your drive offline... as in nowhere in your house. Disks will fail, CD/DVDs can be scratched by the kids using them for coasters.
Would you believe that there is a free service for that? It's called Mozy. For absolutely $0 per month you can back up 2 gigabytes of data. Click here for more information on MozyFree.
Now if you are like most of us you may have just a wee bit over 2 Gig. In that case you'll want to take advantage of MozyHome that offers unlimited amount of backup. I've personally been using this service for several months now and I have over a terrabyte of storage on my systems. Click here for more information on MozyHome.
If you are a broker and want to make sure all of your Agents or Loan Officers have backups of their laptops then you may want to take advantage of MozyPro. Click here for more information on MozyPro.
In conclusion, in today's business environment can you really afford NOT to back up your data? ummmm I didn't think so. Until my next installment safe computing and happy Closings!
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