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Disaster Planning and Recovery

News, features and how-tos from DMIA publications, links and networking with distributors who have experience with this topic.

  • "Drafting a Contingency Plan"
    IMR, October 15, 2005

  • "Hurricane Aftermath: A Look at Business for One Baton Rouge Company"
    IMR, September 15, 2005

  • "A Prescription for the Unexpected"
    Print Solutions, December 2004

  • "Regrouping After Business Losses"
    IMR, June 15, 2004

  • "A Proactive Approach to Crisis Management"
    IMR, March 15, 2004

  • "After the Ashes: The Perseverance of Vanguard Direct"
    As Ground Zero smoldered, Vanguard showed its mettle. The firm lost its home on Sept. 11,
    but not its heart.
    Print Solutions, September 2002

  • "What to Do When Disaster Strikes"
    IMR, September 28, 1998

  • "Employees Rescue Flooded Forms Companies"
    How Reno, Nevada, forms companies stayed in business during a flood.
    IMR, Januaury 20, 1997

  • "Lessons about Business Destruction"
    Written by an executive of Paper Systems Inc., this article explains how the company recovered from a tornado at one of its plants.
    Print Solutions Magazine, July 1993

  • "Preparing for Disaster"
    How Custom Business Forms recovered from a fire.
    IMR, April 21, 1997

  • "Preparing for Disaster"
    Tips from the president of Belknap Business Forms following a 1995 fire that destroyed plant.
    IMR, Octtober 2, 1995

  • Useful Web Site
    Small Business Administration Disaster Assistance Information
    Includes tips on preparing for a disaster, information on federal flood insurance, details on SBA disaster loans and more.

  • Help from DMIA

    1. Click on Distributor Networking Search.

    2. Click on "Search all 101 Questions." This loads all of the questions from the Networking survey. Press Ctrl+F. This brings up a text search box. Type "disaster" and click on "Find Next." You'll find two questions--Numbers 87 and 88-- with the word "disaster" as follows:
      87. Has your office ever been damaged by fire, flood or other natural disaster?
      88. Does your firm have a disaster recovery plan?

    3. When you click on the box next to Question 88, a check mark appears. Click on the "Submit Search" button to find a list of everyone in the database who has answered "yes" to that question. We get 116 responses. Let's narrow it down and get only those companies who are D4s and above--those companies with annual sales volumes of $2.5 million or more. We do this by clicking on all the company size boxes from D4 to D10 at the top of the page. This narrows the responses to 58. If we wanted results of D4s and D5s only (from $2.5 million to $12 million in sales), we would click only on those boxes. (To remove a check mark from a box, click on it again.) This narrows the responses to 23.

    4. The responses show us the company name, size, city and state, email address and phone number. By clicking on the company name, we can see the company's address, contact name, fax and toll free numbers, web address and email address.