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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 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 1Password or LastPass. 5. Banking A rainy-day savings plan, and batch-recording episodes ahead of time as a buffer against the unexpected. Show Notes & Links Snapchat: mikemurphybts The Canary Surveillance Camera Mr. Beams Motion Detector LED Lights Backblaze Crashplan Carbonite Sortly 1Password LastPass Read the complete show notes and resources on mikemurphy.ai. Support the show Subscribe To Weekly Newsletter: AI Unplugged Connect With Me 🌐 Website 📧 Newsletter 🎥 YouTube 🐦 X 💼 LinkedIn Comments, Questions & Feedback: [email protected]