If you are in business for yourself you will already understand the importance of networking and contacts. These days we use our mobile telephones as electronic personal assistants to store all of these vital business contact details, to do lists, appointments and reminders. But do we ensure that this valuable and essential business data is actually backed up in case our phones are lost?

It has been estimated that fewer than 15% of mobile telephone users actually backup their data in case of loss or damage. Why not a take a few moments now to consider what would be the impact of your losing all of the business contacts you have on your mobile phone. Think about whether you have these details stored elsewhere?

These days I don’t take any risks and backup my telephone data every day. But this is a relatively new routine for me that I established after having lost my mobile phone while hiking one weekend. The business impact of this loss was huge. I’d built up a whole load of valuable business contact details on my cell phone. My business was seriously impacted by this loss. That’s why, these days, I synchronize my cell phone and computer every day. And I have my phone covered with mobile phone insurance to pay for a replacement the next time I lose it, which is bound to happen sooner or later.

If you are now worried about how to back up your phone data it should simply be a matter of taking a look at the applications that came with your phone. Most up to day mobile phones come with a range of computer applications that will include the facility to sync data with the computer. If, or when, you lose or replace your cell phone it should be a simple task to re-sync with the data copied to your computer.

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