How to operate your business in a power outage
We all need electricity and internet to sell on amazon. So what do you do when there is no power and no internet. Well, I’m about to go into my third outage of both services today within the last two years. Just wanted to give some advice for those who might face the same predicament… Here’s what you need:
-Freaking generator (1000 watt) should do.
-unlimited Gasoline
-capable phone that has ability of being used as a mifi hotspot
-keep Extra time to process orders.
-extra Patience
-duh, Extension cords
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why not just to enjoy digital vacations?
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Just blow out the candle and go to sleep… Enjoy the rest while it lasts…
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Cause amazon doesn’t care if the power goes out. They still require packages to be shipped.
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If you want to downsize a Surface go, and small solar panel inverter with a UPS battery back-up for thermal label printer, and a back-up satellite internet service would be sufficient.
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Power tends to go out here once a year or so, and our area can be out for as long as a week, but I have seen two weeks
…and I like to just run the whole place on a 3500 watt generator converted to propane
-that has a couple of 100 pound tanks stashed next to it.
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I don’t live in a forest …I live downtown. Actually less than a mile from the electric company’s HQ …and their power never goes out while ours is usually last to be fixed.
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@CalliopeDesigns, great topic and particularly relevant for Sellers in CA now experiencing planned outages due to geberal weather conditions and, um, utility issues.
And you’re correct–it’s one thing if there’s a specific weather or emergency event but quite another when you know it’s coming.
I would also recommend:
- adjusting handling time
- definitely keeping SFP off
- checking with carriers to see how/where they are affected
- keeping your car fueled up for package transport if needed
- if you don’t have a car, creating a reliable transportation back-up plan for packages, if needed
- evaluating your product’s storage needs in terms of temperature and light, and planning accordingly
- reviewing your print capabilities
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I used an inverter hooked up to the car battery, then extension cords to power the laptop, modem and printer.
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I would put my account in vacation mode.
But I can because this is a hobby.
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I live in CA, and it is only the for profit companies that are doing the black outs, because paying out dividends was more important then clearly and maintaining right of ways.
Our gasp, socialist, muni owned utility just announced they have NO PLANS for planned outages, because… surprise, they actually took into account that SoCal catches on fire every summer or fall, and didn’t wait 100 years to upgrade towers. The tower that caused the Paradise fire dated back to 1920.
