Who's minding the e-shop?: Planning for Emergencies

[mandy]

Ben Cohen was rushed to hospital last month, and spent his recuperation period worrying about the management of his business

One of the greatest joys of being a small businessman is the freedom to dictate your own working hours, holidays and working arrangement. But this freedom is deceptive.

You may be free from the joys (or otherwise) of having a boss, someone who you need to square off everything with, but you are not really free at all. You become a slave to the business, it becomes your master (or mistress), you become addicted to serving this faceless monster. When you are parted, you even suffer withdrawal symptoms.

Of late, I've been very busy setting up my latest dot.com venture...

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