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Small Business: Disaster planning, recovery

Being able to respond quickly post-disaster and communicate

Photo credit: Heather Walsh | Being able to respond quickly post-disaster and communicate to your customers, employees and other key stakeholders is critical for those looking to rebuild and get back in business, say experts. Spage's Pharmacy opened for business using a lantern and shared a generator after superstorm Sandy took out power at its St. James address. (Nov. 3, 2012)

Jamie Herzlich

Newsday columnist Jamie Herzlich Jamie Herzlich

Herzlich writes the Small Business column in Newsday.

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Disaster can strike a business at any moment.

It doesn't necessarily take a hurricane to cause a major business disruption.

Being able to respond quickly post-disaster and communicate to your customers, employees and other key stakeholders is critical for those looking to rebuild and get back in business, say experts.

You need to have a plan, explains Terrence Flood, co-principal...

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