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When One Person or One Location Is Your Weak Spot: A 10-Minute Reality Check
Over the past two briefs, we’ve looked at outages, missed deliveries, and payment-related disruptions. There is one more pattern I see over and over again when I talk with owners: how much of the business rests on one person, one process, or one fragile routine. Nothing is “wrong” until that person is out or that routine breaks, and then everything stops. In Greater East Montgomery County, many businesses run lean. That’s part of what makes them agile, but it also creates hidden weak spots. This edition
News Release: 11/26/2025
Finish the Year Strong: Family, Fun, and Smart Real Estate Moves The holidays are here! Between Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year celebrations, life can get busy—but it’s also the perfect time to pause, enjoy family, and plan for a fantastic year ahead. What’s Happening in the Market East Montgomery County’s real estate market is lively! Homes and commercial properties are moving, and year-end is a great time to explore opportunities. Whether you’re thinking about buying, selling, or investing, a
When the Internet Blinks: What the Cloudflare Outage Means for Greater East Montgomery Businesses
At some point this year, your technology is going to fail you; probably more than once. A recent survey found that small businesses lose over 98 hours a year, roughly 12 working days, to slow internet, clunky devices, and other technology issues that derail normal work. That is more than two full work-weeks gone, just fighting tools that are supposed to help you. Last week we looked at payment interruptions and scams. This week, I want to focus on one piece of that bigger technology story: the internet
When Getting Paid Goes Wrong: Payments, Scams, and a 10-Minute Safety Check
The reality hasn’t changed: almost every serious business will face at least one major disruption in its lifetime. What does change is the shape of that disruption. Last week we looked at outages and missed deliveries. This week, I want to focus on something less visible but just as damaging: disruptions and scams that interfere with how your business gets paid. In our area, most owners depend on a handful of tools—card terminals, online payment portals, emailed invoices, and bank transfers. When those
This Week’s Resilience Brief: Two Risks to Watch + One Action to Take
Short, plain-English steps to cut your business's downtime; plus a two-minute mini-assessment and a personal fix.Two Risks to Watch + One Action to Take In our area (GEMCC), about nine out of ten businesses will face a major disruption over a 25-year run. Closures usually aren’t about bad luck—they follow basic gaps: unclear roles, no rehearsal, and thin vendor coordination. This week: two risks to watch and one 10-minute action to cut downtime. Risk #1 — Weather triggered outages Short, fast storms