What’s Your Plan B?
March 7, 2010
Let me start off by giving a ginormous THANK YOU to everyone for being so patient over the last week with the website! As many of you who follow our updates on Facebook and Twitter already know VAsolutionsNOW’s website was hacked into and was reported as a attack site. Now this is plain jibber jabber to me, I simply do not understand why / how this happened.. but it did, and wa-la it’s fixed!
The last week and a half have been so incredibly hectic between trying to figure out what having a website that I’ve dedicated days to building become an attack site and battle the loss of power and internet connection. For those who were watching the news Friday February 26th, New Hampshire was beaten down by a wind storm. Not just one of those 
light breezes that I constantly pray for in 90 degree heat, NO! This was like the Big Bad Wolf vs Three Little Piggies.. only the wolf must have been confused and took out this state by accident. Naturally I panicked when I woke up to no power, but that was not what concerned me. Having no power was the least of my worries… it was having no internet that nearly knocked me over. My power can easily be restored with generators, but my internet?!! Take my right arm but not my internet connection!!
Being a Virtual Assistant means having to rely on internet I’d say about 80% of the time, depending on the task of course. I packed up everything I needed to and drove till I found a internet cafe open and continued my daily duties. Problem solved.
We eventually got our power and cable services working and lived happily ever after.
Believe me when I say I did by fair share of rubbing my ears while saying “Goosfraba”. Did it work? Not really, but it had me giggling. Laughter really is the best medicine!
The moral of today’s story is what would you do if something prevented you from completing your businesses tasks? Would you throw down your arms and say “Oh well, guess I can’t help so and so today, or I can’t blog today.. or this or that” or would you look for a solution to make sure that your needs are taken care of?
Having a Virtual Assistant who is dedicated to taking on any battle, at any time, and under any conditions might come in handy for days that you might not be able to escape. It’s always good to have security and a back up plan just in case something drastic does happen.
