Saturday, July 23, 2011

Disaster ALWAYS Strikes When You're NOT Ready

WE in OBS have been having a discussion for the last 2-3 weeks about emergency preparedness. Some of it revolved around the wild weather a lot of us experienced this last couple of months. Some of it revolved around 3-4 members who had folks in their family pass away unexpectedly and some of it revolved around a couple of us who had surgery - some scheduled or elective and some not.

So... I decided to share some resources with you over the next few weeks (days/months/years).

First of all, look around. Are you an eBay or eCommerce seller?? So who that you trust*, (* important qualification there...TRUST)has your passwords and ids and can step in and handle things at least thru a temporary shutdown, if, in the daze of heat exhaustion or flood of spring snow melt, you step out in front of a bus and can't take care of business yourself??

I had my 2nd total knee replacement in June. My husband ran things for a week..(well really more cause I came home with strep throat and didn't realize it for 2 weeks.). BUT, for reasons I'm not going to discuss, he only had the eBay/Paypal portion of my empire to deal with. I shut down Amazon, eCrater, Addoway and Bonanza for 3 weeks.. (means no $$ coming in but no problems either)

My son had my password code sheet with ALL the other membership sites, selling venues, mailing lists and "recreational stuff" like podcast signons for Talkshoe etc.

WHO HAS YOUR BACK??? find and train someone you trust..your spouse, your adult (over 15 ? child) your sister/brother/mother, bff,

HERE is a FEMA Guide To Emergency Preparedness to get you started


And here's a blog post about some folks who went thru a "weather-related" disaster of sorts but who used the lemons of bad weather to make lemonade with their customers orders...(ok that's stretching the analogy to the breaking point but read it anyway...it's really interesting...besides they give good buys!)

BUBBLEFASTNEWSLETTER

And if you drop by their store and buy something - tell them you want the OBS discount! LOL (HI MARK and ROBYN)

4 comments:

mymomsbooks said...

Lets just say I better stay healthy and safe cause......help the poor soul who has to run the empire web I have wove. Excellent advice from our OBS leader!

Meryl said...

A have this thought in the back of my mind. I think, if hubby can remember his, he should be able to remember mine. :-)

Great article!

Meryl
http://elisia.ecrater.com
http://elisia.blujay.com
and others.

Shell Wooley said...

The best "helper" I have found to remember passwords etc. is lastpass. It is a free on-line password saver that is fantastic!
What I like the most about it is it is secure but yet VERY easy to use.
In the case of an emergency ANYONE you elect, from any PLACE, can access your account with a single password.
It is encrypted and very secure.

The DSRS of our lives said...

Just make sure you "elect" someone Shell. It's the "middle of the night" emergency that screws up everything.

Beth
Depression Glass Warehouse