Tips for small business owners on preparing for the worst

A series of free hour-long webinars focusing on helping small business owners prepare in the event of a natural or man-made disaster begin today.

This afternoon’s webinar starts at 2 p.m. and is  titled “Starting Fresh — Assessing Risk & Threats to your Business in 2011.”

You can register for today’s webinar here.

The U.S. Small Business Administration is partnering with Agility Recovery Solutions to provide these webinars throughout the year.

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Dates and topics for upcoming free webinars are as follows:

Feb. 15 – “Disaster Recovery Year in Review” March 15 – “SBA Disaster Assistance” April 19 – “Leading with resiliency during a disaster” May 17 – “Crisis Communications Planning” June 21 – “Hurricane Season preparation” July 19 – “Disaster recovery best practices” Aug. 16 – “Social media and disaster recovery”

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