- 23. Back up.
Don’t leave your data at risk. Businesses don’t have the luxury of losing information, whether it’s this month’s sales report on a USB drive or a year’s worth of data on a damaged laptop. Invest in a cloud-based storage service such as SugarSync, Dropbox, or Egnyte. These services allow you to automatically save files in a private, encrypted database that you can access across multiple platforms online.