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	Data is more important than cash Fire, air, water, earth, and then mean-spirited people threaten our lives and our business. Suzanna was not smiling when she lost everything to a hard-drive crash. The World: In a world where cash is king (and has been throughout the millennia), this title sounds silly. But something profound has happened with the advent of computers. Within a few years our busineses, every equation and process that gives order to our day and every relation that defines its history, has been detailed and stored in a computer. It represents 1000s of hours of work. It's so unique, recreating it would be debilitating. One of the biggest problems in small business today is that we underestimate the value of that data and we have trouble believing anything can happen until it does. And, it will. From viruses to automated internet attacks to outright theft and natural disasters, the cost of these issues in lost information and lost time sometimes is the business itself. Most of us know we need to take a few steps to secure our data but simply do not know where to start. This episode of the show is a 1-2-3. Please, bookmark the Overview page and have somebody in your business become an expert. If you are a sole proprietor, you'll just have to do it! Prior homepage On Broadband? more... Small Business 2000 Index 1. Sustainable Businesses Profiled on Small Business School 2. Good Businesses are invited to register at Small Business School 3. Businesses with Deep Integrity, all part of the Small Business School mission 4. Principles for a lifetime and beyond 5. 2007: The future of television Watch television that teaches Key Ideas from this Episode 1. Adopt A White Hat Position 2. Think of Data As Cold Hard Cash 3. Prepare For The Worst 4. Hire The Experts 5. Embrace The Connected World 6. Appoint Your Own Security Guru 7. Keep Creeps Out And Employees In 8. Inform Yourself 9. Take Updates and Patches 10. Upgrade Every Three Years 11. Stand On All Four Legs Join your local station Each episode is the face of small business. Your local station really-really needs you: Your local public television station is there to serve you. Join your station (get $1000 together from employees, suppliers, and customers) and be part of the Producers Club. We are inviting all our local stations (at least 100 of them) to produce 13 local episodes per year. The best of those 1300 will air nationally and globally. Television will only change when there is more competitive pressure from shows that inform and inspire us to be more than we have been. We believe by meeting the founders and owners of very successful small business -- discovering their humanity and their tenacity -- we are each able to say, "I can do that!" We'll think more deeply about our own talents and gifts and about our own generosity within our community! more... Our common future » Become a Producer Club member » $400M: Help Keep your Station Alive » $9B: Help Keep your Business Alive » Research the site by state: » By Business, Industry, Owner, State » By Diversity, Families, and Women » Go to the next episode!

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