Episode 43
The 911 Show
July 1, 2016 · Mike Murphy
Ep43: THE 911 SHOW The Podcaster’s Emergency Toolkit Episode Summary: 5 ways for you to prepare yourself and your business for unexpected events or even emergencies.
Episode Summary: The Podcaster’s Emergency Toolkit — 5 areas to prepare yourself and your one-man-band business for unexpected events, from gear security to a real backup strategy.
What You’ll Learn
- 5 areas every one-man-band business should have an emergency plan for
- A real 3-step backup strategy: cloud, local, and off-site
- How to tell if someone on Snapchat follows back
- Why a rainy-day fund matters enough to batch-record episodes around it
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Ask Mike Anything: Does Someone Follow You Back on Snapchat?
Question: Is there a way to tell if someone being followed on Snapchat is following back?
Answer: Yes, two tells: 1) if a Chat option appears when flipping up from someone’s story, they’re following back; 2) a visible SnapScore on their profile also confirms it.
Follow along: mikemurphybts on Snapchat.
The Emergency Toolkit: 5 Areas to Prepare
- Protecting your gear & security
- Backup plan
- Asset management / inventory
- Password management
- Banking
1. Security
The Canary Surveillance Camera and Mr. Beams Motion Detector LED Lights.
2. Backup Plan
Step 1: start with Google Drive and Dropbox for documents and small essentials carried around for years — tax records, PDFs, driver’s license, passport, health insurance card.
Step 2: two local external hard drives, with Time Machine running on one of them. LaCie and Other World Computing are favorites; Western Digital and G-Technology drives have also worked well.
Step 3: cloud storage via Backblaze. Other cloud storage options: Crashplan, Carbonite.
3. Inventory (Asset Management)
The Sortly iPhone app.
4. Password Management
5. Banking
A rainy-day savings plan, and batch-recording episodes ahead of time as a buffer against the unexpected.