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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 Learn5 areas every one-man-band business should have an emergency plan forA real 3-step backup strategy: cloud, local, and off-siteHow to tell if someone on Snapchat follows backWhy a rainy-day fund matters enough to batch-record episodes around itFailing 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 PrepareProtecting your gear & securityBackup planAsset management / inventoryPassword managementBanking1. SecurityThe Canary Surveillance Camera and Mr. Beams Motion Detector LED Lights.2. Backup PlanStep 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 Management1Password or LastPass.5. BankingA rainy-day savings plan, and batch-recording episodes ahead of time as a buffer against the unexpected.Show Notes & LinksSnapchat: mikemurphybts The Canary Surveillance Camera Mr. Beams Motion Detector LED Lights Backblaze Crashplan Carbonite Sortly 1Password LastPassRead the complete show notes and resources on mikemurphy.ai.Support the showSubscribe To Weekly Newsletter:AI UnpluggedConnect With Me🌐 Website📧 Newsletter🎥 YouTube🐦 X💼 LinkedInComments, Questions & Feedback: [email protected]