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Questions to Ask About How You’ll Continue Print & Mail Operations Feel confident in your print and mail business continuity plan? Most businesses have a plan, but that doesn’t mean it’s an effective one. And having one that is formalized isn’t a given. A recent survey found that 40% of companies do not have [...]

Why It Will Cost You Business continuity plans aren’t an option, they are a necessity. If something happens to halt operations, you need to be up and running as quickly as possible. Most plans focus on critical core functions. Your step-by-step plan covers the details of how to quickly resume your most important operations. [...]

No company ever wants to face a disaster, especially in relation to mission-critical customer communications. As much as you may do everything in your power to prevent something, there’s too much outside your control. You must be prepared should you be unable to print and mail customer communications. Being prepared with a business continuity [...]

Several critical print and mail vendors talk about disaster recovery (DR) for their customers by emphasizing the disaster recovery “plan”. While there is no question that having a plan is vital to being prepared in the event of a disaster, the plan is table stakes. Too often, developing the plan is a “check-the-box” exercise [...]

Mistakes grant you the opportunity to learn. But you don’t have to actually make the mistakes to learn from them. This is especially important in business continuity planning. If you correct the mistakes now, instead of when an actual disaster occurs, you’ll be better prepared. Having a business continuity plan for customer communications isn’t [...]

And the Answers You’ll Want to Hear When partnering with a customer communications business continuity provider, there are lots of questions to ask. Beyond the basics of equipment and capacity, many other critical questions remain. And, what’s even more important than the questions are the answers you should expect. If you are unsure about [...]

No company wants to plan for a disaster; what they should plan for is business continuity. While disaster recovery and business continuity are used interchangeably, there is a difference. The focus of business continuity is about keeping operations uninterrupted. Interruptions could be from a variety of sources, not just disasters. There are also other [...]